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Giving children more opportunities for physical education in school may not increase their overall activity level or be effective in reducing childhood obesity rates, a new study suggests. According to researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the United Kingdom, children will compensate for the amount of phys ed they get in school by increasing or decreasing the amount of exercise they get after...
June 10, 2009
CHICAGO, Jun 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Alzheimer's disease may be associated with an increased risk of death among both white and African-American older adults, U.S. researchers said. Lead author Robert Wilson of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago said data from two earlier national surveys have suggested that life expectancy among patients with Alzheimer's...
June 10, 2009
Though health officials say the swine flu outbreak appears relatively mild, some medical experts say the USA is unprepared in many ways to handle a severe pandemic. States, cities and public health agencies have made enormous progress in preparing for health crises such as bioterrorism and a flu pandemic since the anthrax attacks in 2001, says Neal Cohen of Hunter College's School of Urban Public Health,...
June 10, 2009
LUGANO, Switzerland, May 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Women are more likely to develop lung cancer from smoking than men, contracting the disease at younger ages, a Swiss study has determined. A study performed at the St. Gallen Canton Hospital found that female smokers tended to develop lung cancer at a younger age than men, even if they had smoked fewer cigarettes, the British tabloid The Daily Mail...
June 10, 2009
Jun. 10 - MOULTRIE - A summer nutritional program that served more than 40,000 meals last year is on track to surpass that number. The summer feeding program, which has drawn a number of detractors as well as defenders in The Observer's Rant & Rave section, provides meals to all children 18 and under at no cost. It is operated by the Colquitt County School System's School Nutrition Department. For...
June 9, 2009
Jun. 10 - Retirement-age people who had higher status jobs tend to have less hypertension than those who worked in lower status occupations, according to a UC Davis researcher. "For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that the people at the top would be more likely to have hypertension, but just the opposite is true," said Paul Leigh, UC Davis professor with the Department of Public Sciences....
June 9, 2009
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) MINNEAPOLIS - Once a day, Matthew Hudson takes a square of chocolate mixed with green-tea extract and lets it dissolve in his mouth. Hudson, who has leukemia, is skeptical of natural therapies. But he has been taking the concoction for more than three years, ever since his doctor at the Mayo Clinic suggested it. "My disease has not progressed since I've been taking...
June 9, 2009
Jun. 10 - Mabel Klimpen lived for more than 90 years without cancer. Then the La Crosse woman was diagnosed with ear cancer in 2003 and had a recurrence three years later. Today, at age 100, Klimpen is going strong, still living in her own home and baking rhubarb pies. Klimpen was among hundreds of cancer survivors at the 18th annual Celebrate Life! event sponsored by Gundersen Lutheran and Franciscan...
June 9, 2009
The answer to managing nagging back pain might prove counterintuitive: A new study suggests pushing those sore muscles with weight training and improving overall body strength could help, researchers say. Weightlifting enhanced quality of life for back-pain patients by as much as 28%, says a study done at the University of Alberta and presented at the American College of Sports Medicine. More frequent...
June 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The International Conference on Concussion in Sports says children and teens require different treatment for concussions than adults, a U.S. researcher says. The guidelines, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, say children and teens must be strictly monitored and activities restricted - no return to the field of play, no return to school...
June 9, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Jun 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Screening adults for diabetes could result in significant cost savings for healthcare systems, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Lawrence S. Phillips of Emory University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine in Atlanta said his research team screened 1,259 adults who had never been diagnosed with diabetes. "The economic costs of diabetes threaten the financial...
June 9, 2009
A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a second child, ABC News reported on its website Tuesday. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy, attracted worldwide headlines last year after revealing his pregnancy. The 35-year-old gave birth to a baby girl...
June 9, 2009
NEW YORK, Jun 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teenagers required to be in bed by 10 p.m. on school nights are less likely to be depressed or suicidal, U.S. sleep researchers said. Of those interviewed for a study, teenagers allowed to remain up till midnight or later on week nights were 42 percent more likely to be depressed than teens whose parents ordered them to bed by 10 p.m, said James Gangwisch, a...
June 9, 2009
San Francisco (dpa) - With the huge rise in the number of homes with personal computers over the last decade, it's not surprising that a new US report has found a seven-fold increase in the number of computer-related injuries over the period of 13 years. But what is surprising is that the largest group of victims are not home office workers suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, avid gamers with sore...
June 9, 2009
Jun. 8 - As day camps, overnight camps and other summer programs for children get under way this week, health officials are hoping the outdoor fun will help curb the spread of H1N1 swine flu. While the programs raise the same concern as schools - children in close proximity - the virus will not spread as easily outside, said Salt Lake Valley Health Department Director Gary Edwards. Still, he urges...
June 9, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that it was nearing the point where it would declare a global pandemic of the A(H1N1) influenza virus. "We are moving towards, more or less, a pandemic situation," Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's director of health security, said - adding that this would refer to an increased geographic reach of the virus, rather than an increase in severity....
June 9, 2009
Jun. 9 - DURHAM - Duke audiologist Molly Justus looked like a recording studio engineer as she adjusted a 16-band equalizer designed to improve the performance of Joan Ernst's cochlear implant, a high-tech hearing device inside her ear. Justus was aiming to make what Ernst heard through the computerized device resemble as closely as possible the nuanced notes that used to come through her trained musician's...
June 8, 2009
Mosquito populations are flourishing in Union County this year, and the chances of humans being infected with West Nile virus are up accordingly. Vector Control Program Director Kelly Beehler said Wednesday the sudden onset of hot weather this spring created conditions favorable to large hatchings of mosquitoes, which spread the virus to humans. "The heat we've gotten over the last few weeks combined...
June 8, 2009
ATHENS, Ga., Jun 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists have created the first model of the avian influenza viruses that takes into account both direct and indirect transmission among birds. University of Georgia researchers said their model has the potential to shed new light on how outbreaks begin in wild bird populations. "The environmental transmission of avian influenza among birds is quite...
June 8, 2009
TORONTO - Computers have long been linked to repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome, but the equipment is increasingly being blamed for other physical harms, especially among young children. A U.S. study shows that the number of people seeking emergency treatment for cuts, bruises, strains and head injuries from computer-related mishaps has soared over the last decade or so. In fact,...
June 8, 2009
The public's perception about diabetes may be a little off, suggest medical experts looking at the blitz of media coverage about Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who has the disease. Shortly before the announcement May 26 that federal appeals court Judge Sotomayor, 54, who was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 8, would be President Obama's pick for the next Supreme Court justice, articles...
June 8, 2009
Teens whose parents let them stay up after midnight on weeknights have a much higher chance of being depressed or suicidal than teens whose parents enforce an earlier bedtime, says research being presented today at a national sleep conference. The findings are the first to examine bedtimes' effects on kids' mental health - and the results are noteworthy. Middle and high schoolers whose parents don't...
June 8, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The 15-year-old daughter of Montel Williams is featured in a television ad urging that vegetarian options be offered in U.S. public schools. In the TV commercial, Wyntergrace Williams urges Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Act to include meatless meals. "Some of us don't eat right," Wyntergrace says in the commercial. "Fast food, junk food - sometimes,...
June 8, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The 15-year-old daughter of Montel Williams is featured in a television ad urging that vegetarian options be offered in U.S. public schools. In the TV commercial, Wyntergrace Williams urges Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Act to include meatless meals. "Some of us don't eat right," Wyntergrace says in the commercial. "Fast food, junk food - sometimes,...
June 8, 2009
SEATTLE, Jun 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Television watching may determine a person's bedtime and this may contribute to not getting enough sleep and a chronic sleep debt, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Mathias Basner and David F. Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia said the study included data from 21,475 people aged 15 or older who completed the American Time Use...
June 8, 2009
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