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GENEVA - Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday. The UN agency urged governments to make people more aware of the health consequences of smoking. It said most countries still do not warn consumers of the risks on packages of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco. "Health warnings on...
May 28, 2009
YARDLEY, Pa., May 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Intoxication is not always obvious, experts at an independently-owned U.S. consulting firm say. The review, scheduled to be published in September's Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, says "obvious intoxication" as defined in some courts is not always the same as "visible intoxication." "While most people would use these terms interchangeably...
May 28, 2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Private well water in the United States should be tested annually - and in some cases more often than that - the American Academy of Pediatrics advises. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, took a lead role in working with the AAP to develop the recommendations...
May 28, 2009
May 28 - For many women the arrival of swimsuit season is a cringe-worthy thought. While the gym is always an option, there are other efficient (not to mention money-saving) ways to shave off calories and tone muscle. Here are tips from local personal trainers. Watch portion sizes. "A small saucer size (of food) is actually good five times a day," said Mark Douglas, a personal trainer and owner of...
May 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - Telling a pregnant woman to eat for two is bad advice, especially if the mother-to-be is overweight or obese, a blue-ribbon panel of health experts cautioned Thursday. The number of seriously overweight women of child-bearing age is increasing, panelists said, and excessive weight gain leads to an increased likelihood of cesarean sections and retaining the weight added during pregnancy....
May 28, 2009
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, May 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Elderly people with impaired appetite are more likely to die sooner, researchers in Israel said. The study, published in the May issue of the Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, demonstrated a link between the Daily Activity Energy Expenditure - an accurate measurement of total physical activity, appetite and mortality among well functioning long-term...
May 28, 2009
One of the upsides of leaving professional ice hockey would be to live a normal life, Keith Primeau said when he retired three years ago as captain of the Philadelphia Flyers. He had lingering brain damage after multiple concussions while playing center for 15 years and could not pass the team physical. Now Primeau, 37, is coaching kids and studying for a college degree but says his life is still not...
May 28, 2009
Older people may have some kind of immunity to swine flu, US health officials said Thursday, as the number of confirmed and suspected cases of H1N1 virus rose again around the country. A study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than 64 percent of US infections have occurred among patients between the ages of five and 24, with just one percent of flu victims aged...
May 28, 2009
Older people may have some kind of immunity to swine flu, US health officials said Thursday, as the number of confirmed and suspected cases of H1N1 virus rose again around the country. A study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than 64 percent of US infections have occurred among patients between the ages of five and 24, with just one percent of flu victims aged...
May 28, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A second Illinois resident has died after contracting H1N1 flu, the state Department of Public Health reported. Illinois state health Director Dr. Damon T. Arnold said the person who died was a suburban Cook County resident who had other significant medical conditions that increased vulnerability to the H1N1 virus, the department said Wednesday in...
May 27, 2009
May 28 - For many women the arrival of swimsuit season is a cringe-worthy thought. While the gym is always an option, there are other efficient (not to mention money-saving) ways to shave off calories and tone muscle. Here are tips from local personal trainers. Watch portion sizes. "A small saucer size (of food) is actually good five times a day," said Mark Douglas, a personal trainer and owner of...
May 27, 2009
One by one or in little knots the women arrive, carrying photographs or funeral programs, and settle in chairs gathered in an arc around Marilyn Washington Harris, whose son Khadafy was killed more than eight years ago. They come to the monthly support group formed by Harris to share their tears and anguish over the violent death of a son or daughter, husband or uncle; to be told it's OK to feel the...
May 27, 2009
Pueblo County still hasn't had a case of swine flu, but the county's chief medical officer said her agency's response was "probably the best exercise that could have occurred." Dr. Christine Nevin-Woods, executive director of the Pueblo City-County Health Department, told the health board Wednesday that the department expects to conduct a mass vaccination program in the fall. Public health officials...
May 27, 2009
Leslie Clark and her husband have been trying to communicate with their autistic 7-year-old son, JW, for years, but until last month, the closest they got was rudimentary sign language. He's "a little bit of a mini-genius," Clark says, but like many autistic children, JW doesn't speak at all. Desperate to communicate with him, she considered buying a specialized device like the ones at his elementary...
May 27, 2009
Doctors have warned about the risks from "energy" chewing gum, citing the case of a 13-year-old boy who became moody and listless from caffeine intoxication. The report, published in Friday's issue of The Lancet, recounts how parents took the teen to the emergency department of Naples' Monaldi hospital after he had become strangely aggressive and agitated at school. The boy also complained of abdominal...
May 27, 2009
EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An Indiana man died of an apparent spider bite, officials say. The Evansville (Ind.) Courier-Press reported Wednesday that 42-year-old Keith Reed was found dead in bed in his Evansville home Monday morning. He had a bite on his leg consistent with that of a brown recluse spider, said Vanderburgh County Coroner Annie Groves. The newspaper reported Reed...
May 27, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An editorial in the journal PLos Medicine calls for U.S. political and religious leaders to realign research and policy for improved sexual health. "There are 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases each year in the United States, at an estimated cost of $15.9 billion annually to the healthcare system," the editorial said. "Sexual health...
May 27, 2009
Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General Mills are anything to go by, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. "Based on claims made on your product's label, we have determined that your Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug," the FDA said in a letter to General...
May 27, 2009
Tough economic times can be particularly devastating to one's emotional and mental well-being, oftentimes triggering depression, according to United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many reach for comfort foods, such as chips, cookies and chocolates, to survive the turmoil, but the Mental Health Foundation found that daily exercise and healthy eating are part of a successful plan for...
May 26, 2009
Many fans of video games say they're addictive. But are they worth dying for? After Hurricane Ike hit Texas last September, many people fired up gasoline-powered generators not to turn on their lights or refrigerators but to play video games, a study in today's Pediatrics says. Running a generator in a garage - a common mistake after storms - can cause a dangerous buildup of carbon monoxide, a colorless,...
May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Uncertainty over how U.S. antitrust laws would apply is blocking efforts by healthcare providers to work together to reduce costs, legal experts say. For hospitals and other providers to work more closely together to wring the trillions of dollars of savings for which President Barack Obama is looking will take them into gray areas of antitrust laws, The...
May 26, 2009
When actress Kirstie Alley went public with the fact that she has regained all the weight she lost so publicly several years ago, many people who have been yo-yo dieters saw themselves in her story. The fact that celebrities such as Alley and Oprah Winfrey, who have financial resources most Americans don't have, still can't lose weight and keep it off shows what a formidable challenge it is, says psychologist...
May 26, 2009
The nation's epidemic of new H1N1 flu may have peaked except in New York, New Jersey and New England, a leading federal health expert said Tuesday. "In the country as a whole, influenza is starting to decrease," says Ann Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency has tallied 6,764 confirmed or probable cases and 10 deaths nationwide, Schuchat says, more than half of the...
May 26, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A meta-analysis found people who have diabetes but maintain low blood-sugar levels are at less risk for heart attacks, researchers in Britain say. Dr. Kausik Ray of the University of Cambridge and colleagues said the meta-analysis pooled information from five large trials. The study, published in The Lancet, determined there was a 17 percent reduction...
May 26, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, May 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Many people misjudge their actual degree of cancer risk and as a result their true need for prevention, U.S. researchers said. The research study evaluated 398 individuals from 278 families enrolled over nine years in the Gastrointestinal Tumor Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. "The goal of our study was to improve how...
May 26, 2009
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