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NEW YORK, May 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - At least four inmates in the New York City jail on Rikers Island have been diagnosed with swine flu, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday. The mayor said another four inmates may have the virus, WCBS-TV reported. "Correction and health officials are monitoring the situation and preparing to implement additional health screening and where needed, isolation of...
May 19, 2009
If you're a parent, you know taking care of kids is important work. You're helping to shape the next generation. But, have you ever fantasized about running away from home? Carpooling, soccer practice, and laundry can leave moms and dads feeling tired, frustrated, and somewhat trapped. It's normal to think about escaping for a little rest. You might fantasize about driving to the next town for a three-day...
May 19, 2009
May 20 - Dr. Les Timm, a prosthodonist at Gundersen Lutheran, spends a lot of time fixing denture problems. A common problem Timm sees is the damage to tissues when people use too much denture cream, but he now has another reason for patients to curb their use of these adhesives. A study by Mayo Clinic and other institutions raises the possibility that too much denture cream increases the zinc concentration...
May 19, 2009
May 20 - It wasn't weather or roads that stopped an Altoona family from seeing their son graduate Friday from St. Lawrence Seminary High School. It was the swine flu. After the eastern Wisconsin boarding school got confirmation of two cases Thursday of the H1N1 influenza and other students exhibited flu-like symptoms, campus leaders agreed to close graduation to visitors to prevent spreading the illness....
May 19, 2009
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. is teaming with families and local health organizations to "Ring the Alarm" against childhood obesity. The group will hold an awareness event at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 30, at B.C. Franklin Park, 1818 E. Virgin St. The event is free, and refreshments will be served. The American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the Tulsa City-County Health Department,...
May 19, 2009
With more female veterans returning home from military duties, the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center is putting greater emphasis on their outpatient women's clinic. U.S. Army veteran Aleatha Franco, 39, said she was a patient there for six years before she recently moved to McAlester. "It's a really good facility, especially for women with post-traumatic stress disorder," she said. "For women who...
May 19, 2009
A chemical found in green tea helps inhibit sexual transmission of the virus which causes AIDS, said a study Tuesday that recommends using the compound in vaginal creams to supplement antiretrovirals. Medical experts at Germany's University of Heidelberg said the compound could be a low-cost arrow in the quiver of medical weapons to fight the spread of HIV in research-poor countries. The researchers...
May 19, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Obese patients with established heart disease do better and tend to live longer than leaner patients with the same severity of disease, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Carl Lavie, medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, says the obesity paradox in patients with cardiovascular disease, which was first...
May 19, 2009
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Forty countries have officially reported 9,830 cases of H1N1 flu, including 79 deaths, the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday. The H1N1 flu, formerly known as swine flu, presented mainly mild cases outside the outbreak in Mexico, said Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO director general when addressing the 62nd World Health Assembly...
May 19, 2009
May 19 - "What did you say?" "Excuse me?" "Could you repeat that, please?" If bad listening habits don't change, increasingly younger people will be the ones regularly asking those questions, said Dr. Rick Love, a Montgomery physician. "I think everyone should be concerned," said Love, CEO of Otolaryngology Associates and Audiology Associates in Montgomery. He currently can be heard on local radio...
May 19, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that her country has not yet placed an order for a vaccine against the new A(H1N1) virus. The vaccine is still in the process of being developed. "We don't know enough about the strain," Kathleen Sebelius told reporters in Geneva. She said they were still gathering information on the virus and once that was completed...
May 18, 2009
Children with disabilities are being secluded from classmates and restrained against their will to control their behavior, an investigative report finds - interventions that have led to harm and, in rare cases, deaths. In many cases, the restraints happen even when students aren't physically aggressive or dangerous, the report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. It's being released...
May 18, 2009
NEW YORK, May 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Ear wax helps avoid otitis externa - swimmer's ear - a U.S. doctor says. Dr. Ian Storper of the New York -Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center explains swimmer's ear is actually an inflammation of the external ear canal and the wax producing - cerumen - glands that it lines. The root of the problem is an absence of ear wax which protects...
May 18, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore., May 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The American Pain Society has issued new clinical guidelines for low-back pain, emphasizing the use of non-invasive therapy versus interventional procedures. The new guidelines that also call for shared decision-making between provider and patient are based on an extensive review of existing research. The society said the guidelines provide clinicians...
May 18, 2009
NEW YORK, May 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People with conditions such as diabetes, emphysema and asthma who have been exposed to someone with flu should see a doctor, New York health officials advise. "Flu spreads, and that is what the H1N1 virus is doing. While the symptoms of H1N1 (swine origin) flu seem to resemble those of seasonal flu so far, the H1N1 virus appears to be spreading more rapidly...
May 18, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama will announce today that the health care industry will try to cut $2 trillion in expenses over the next decade to slow the rising cost of medical care, two White House officials familiar with the plan said. If successful, the cuts could help reduce costs for families and provide money for an expansion of health care coverage backed by Obama and some Democrats in Congress,...
May 18, 2009
BOSTON, May 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists say they've found environmental improvements can strengthen the physiological process of wound healing. Researchers from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Shriners Hospital found giving rats living in isolation the opportunity to build nests led to faster and more complete...
May 18, 2009
One word sums up Jodi Jaskiewicz's job search. "Tough," said the 45-year-old Bay City resident, who is looking for a job in the construction industry. "Very tough." It began six months ago when her employer downsized. Since then, she's scoured online ads, applied for jobs, made follow-up calls, attended job fairs, gone on interviews and tried her best to plot a future. The emotional drain has changed...
May 17, 2009
May 18 - For years, school systems across the nation dropped the arts to concentrate on getting struggling students to pass tests in reading and math. Yet now, a growing body of brain research suggests that teaching the arts may be good for students across all disciplines. Scientists are now looking at, for instance, whether students at an arts high school who study music or drawing have brains that...
May 17, 2009
May 17 - Drinking cold beverages out of polycarbonate bottles significantly increases the concentration of bisphenol A found in a the body. Researchers from Harvard University and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 70% increase in the amount of BPA detected in the urine of college students who drank from plastic bottles made with BPA. The study was published in Environmental...
May 17, 2009
FACTS Annual costs for chronic diseases in the U.S. is big money: -$117 billion for obesity -$73.4 billion for high blood pressure -$448 billion for heart disease and strokes -$50 billion for weight-loss aids, diet foods, supplements, and weight-loss medications - and obesity is still increasing 79 percent likelihood exists that an overweight child will become an overweight adult. 75 percent of adults...
May 17, 2009
If you're a parent, you know taking care of kids is important work. You're helping to shape the next generation. But, have you ever fantasized about running away from home? Carpooling, soccer practice, and laundry can leave moms and dads feeling tired, frustrated, and somewhat trapped. It's normal to think about escaping for a little rest. You might fantasize about driving to the next town for a three-day...
May 17, 2009
The cliffhanger ending on Thursday's season finale of Grey's Anatomy left fans worrying that one of the show's main characters, surgeon Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, had died after having surgery to remove a brain tumor. Yet some doctors and cancer survivors say they're more worried that the popular ABC series has been dispensing inaccurate information about treatment options. The two-hour broadcast depicted...
May 17, 2009
NEW YORK, May 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A New York City educator hospitalized with swine flu died Sunday, a hospital official said, though he would not say whether the virus contributed to his death. A spokesman for Flushing Hospital said Mitchell Weiner, 55, assistant principal at Intermediate School 238 in Queens, had died, the report said. The spokesman would not say whether the H1N1, commonly...
May 17, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The new swine flu virus is helping to extend this year's flu season at a time when it would normally be winding down, U.S. health officials say. Daniel Jernigan of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Saturday's Washington Post that normally by mid-May the winter flu season is nearly over, but not this year, as the new swine flu virus...
May 17, 2009
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