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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
Business groups reacted warily Sunday to the Senate's first stab at overhauling the nation's health care system, a rift that could complicate President Obama's goal of achieving bipartisan support for his top domestic priority. Meanwhile, a key Republican in the health care debate said via Twitter on Sunday that he thought Obama had "nerve" to pressure Congress for quick action while he was traveling...
June 8, 2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jun 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A national advertising campaign successfully encouraged parents to initiate conversations about sex and abstinence with their children, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the June issue of Journal of Adolescent Health, found four weeks after exposure to the ad campaign, fathers initiated more conversations with their children about...
June 8, 2009
Eric Wolbert has been a nonsmoker for 30 days. He quit his pack-a-day habit because he's watched cigarettes hurt too many people, including his grandparents, who died of lung cancer, he said. Plus, smoking's getting too expensive. "You can't find a pack that costs less than $4 anymore, and those are nasty ones," said Wolbert, 36, of Waterloo. "Right there, that's $2,200 a year up in smoke." Wolbert...
June 7, 2009
Challenges are landing fast and furious on Capitol Hill. So Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, feels he has to arrive at the top of his game every day. And Ryan says he has found a way to do that: He meditates for at least 45 minutes before leaving home. Ryan, 35, sits on a floor cushion, closes his eyes, focuses on his breath and tries to detach from any thoughts, just observing them like clouds moving across...
June 7, 2009
Eleven coal waste and ash dumps in seven Georgia counties, including Cobb, pose a much higher risk of cancer and other health problems to people living nearby than was previously thought, according to two environmental groups that reviewed federal Environmental Protection Agency records. "Can living next to one of these dump sites increase your risk of getting cancer or other diseases?" said Eric Schaeffer,...
June 7, 2009
ATLANTA - When he takes the helm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Dr. Thomas Frieden will bring a solid record of success - and controversy. Some health experts believe Frieden will bring his aggressive approach to promoting public health to the national scene, where his stands on condom distribution, needle exchange programs for drug users, and smoking and diet restrictions...
June 7, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A plan drafted by ailing U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is the most liberal approach to healthcare reform being discussed in Congress, sources said. The 170-page plan would add costs to employers and create a new program for millions of people with disabilities, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The plan requires businesses to provide insurance for...
June 7, 2009
Ebony Lugo, 23, a switchboard operator at a college in New York City, turned her weight-loss journey into a savings plan. She has lost 48 pounds over the past year and slashed her food budget by more than half. She weighs 157 pounds, down from a high of 205. Lugo used to eat out several times a day but now cooks healthful meals at home and packs her lunch, saving several hundred dollars a month and...
June 6, 2009
BALTIMORE, Jun 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Uncorrected vision - usually treated with an eye exam and glasses - costs $269 billion annually in lost productivity worldwide, U.S. researchers said. The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, was conducted by researchers from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health in Baltimore, Australia's International Center...
June 6, 2009
Brittany Dvorak is a pretty normal 14-year-old - she loves to play sports, spend time with friends and go shopping. She's a little nervous about starting at Red River High School this fall because there will be so many new kids, but she loves school and wants to go into interior decorating or sports medicine at UND. But there is one thing that sometimes makes it hard for her to do the things other...
June 6, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An analysis of the U.S. swine flu outbreak found stockpiling medication paid off, but keeping sick children and workers home problematic, researchers said. The report, by the Trust for America's Health, the Center for Biosecurity and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reviewed lessons learned from the response to the H1N1 flu outbreak. "H1N1 is a real-world...
June 5, 2009
SEOUL, Jun 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Heavy drinking and adoption of a western-style diet have made hemorrhoids the leading cause of hospitalization in South Korea, doctors said. Cataracts, natural childbirth, pneumonia and gastroenteritis, in that order, followed hemorrhoids as the leading causes of hospitalization in South Korea during the first quarter of 2009, the Health Insurance Review and Assessments...
June 5, 2009
SANTA FE, N.M., Jun 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An 8-year-old boy from Santa Fe County, N.M., has died from the bubonic plague and his 10-year-old sister is undergoing treatment, health officials say. The New Mexico Department of Health says these are the first human plague cases this year in the United States. New Mexico's last plague death was in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, in 2007....
June 5, 2009
US deaths linked to the swine flu virus have risen to 27, with most of the country now hit by the outbreak health officials said on Friday. The Center for Disease Control reported it had seen at least 17 fatalities and a total of 13,271 cases spanning the length and breath of the country. All fifty states as well as two territories have now reported cases of the A(H1N1) virus. The Midwestern state...
June 5, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An analysis of the U.S. swine flu outbreak found stockpiling medication paid off, but keeping sick children and workers home problematic, researchers said. The report, by the Trust for America's Health, the Center for Biosecurity and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reviewed lessons learned from the response to the H1N1 flu outbreak. "H1N1 is a real-world...
June 5, 2009
A University of Oklahoma researcher might have found a link between taking vitamin C with insulin and stopping blood vessel damage caused by type 1 diabetes. "We know that when the glucose is under control, the organs that have been damaged by high glucose take 10 to 12 years to get back," said principal researcher Dr. Michael Ihnat, a pharmacologist at the OU College of Medicine Department of Cell...
June 5, 2009
Jun. 5 - The cost of health care continues to burden Americans in alarming numbers, with 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies in 2007 blamed on unaffordable medical bills, according to Harvard and Ohio University researchers. What's more, three-fourths of those debtors had health insurance, according to a study to be published in August in the American Journal of Medicine. The study notes that more...
June 5, 2009
Busy with other chores, Kathryn Pauley asked her 16-year-old to pick up younger daughter Cheyenne's seizure medicine at a pharmacy. To her surprise, Pauley found a generic drug, not Lamictal, a brand-name drug that had effectively controlled most of Cheyenne's seizures. In the next week, Cheyenne, 11, had 21 seizures - many more than usual. The switch occurred even though Cheyenne's doctor had written...
June 4, 2009
A mysterious disease that has killed a million bats in nine states is headed toward Kentucky caves that hold three endangered species of the flying mammals, lawmakers in Washington were told Thursday. "It is reasonable to expect that in the next three years or less, these key populations will be affected," Merlin Tuttle, founder of the Austin, Texas-based Bat Conservation International, told two subcommittees...
June 4, 2009
Every week, Montgomery AIDS Outreach hands out up to 200 condoms. They give them away across the counter in brown paper bags - often to prostitutes who walk over from nearby truck stops on South Boulevard right off Interstate 65. Tommy Chavis, an educator with the outreach organization, said he's glad they come in for the condoms. "If anyone needs them, then they do," he said. He knows that prostitutes...
June 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Thursday that he disagreed with a major proposal President Obama advanced this week to help trim health care costs. Obama wants to give a little-known panel, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, more power to come up with recommendations to control costs in the government's Medicare program. Congress then would be required to vote on those recommendations...
June 4, 2009
At least a dozen groups are holding meetings in the Charlotte area Saturday or in the next month as part of a grassroots effort to push for health care reform. "Our representatives need to know we want real change, not the same old system," said Virginia Sullivan, a retired Charlotte nurse, in her online invitation at the Organizing for America Web site, www.barackobama.com. Sullivan's "snack and wine"...
June 4, 2009
At least a dozen groups are holding meetings in the Charlotte area Saturday or in the next month as part of a grassroots effort to push for health care reform. "Our representatives need to know we want real change, not the same old system," said Virginia Sullivan, a retired Charlotte nurse, in her online invitation at the Organizing for America Web site, www.barackobama.com. Sullivan's "snack and wine"...
June 4, 2009
Women are pretty good about avoiding substance abuse while pregnant, but a new report suggests that their alcohol use remains high and that many resume drinking, smoking and using marijuana within three months of their baby's arrival. The National Survey of Drug Use and Health shows that fewer women drank the closer they got to their delivery date. But 19% still used alcohol in the first trimester,...
June 3, 2009
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