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ORLANDO - A once-a-day polypill that combines aspirin, blood-pressure and cholesterol drugs sharply reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, potentially offering an inexpensive way to save millions of lives, researchers reported Monday. The experimental five-drug combination proved about as safe and effective as each drug given alone. It cut a patient's risk of heart attack by 62% and stroke by...
May 13, 2009
Cheerios, a drug? Seems far-fetched, yet federal regulators are warning makers of America's No. 1 breakfast cereal to tone down the health claims - or Cheerios "may not be legally marketed ... without an approved new drug application." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the warning to Golden Valley-based General Mills in a letter released Tuesday. At issue are such bold claims as, "You can...
May 13, 2009
May 13 - Nearly one in four Berks County adults - some 77,000 people - smokes. In the past year, more than 62 percent of them were advised by a health professional to quit. That was just the tip of the health-data iceberg presented Tuesday in the Goggleworks to nearly 30 representatives of local health and humanservices agencies. Information on smoking, obesity, diabetes, stress, health screenings,...
May 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - After weeks of discussing ways to provide health care to the uninsured, Congress is beginning the difficult task of finding a way to pay for it. Lawmakers are considering a broad range of ideas - including a federal tax on sugary sodas - but a key Senate committee focused Tuesday on a proposal to tax health insurance that millions of workers get through their employers. "I don't think...
May 12, 2009
Cheerios, a drug? Seems far-fetched, yet federal regulators are warning makers of America's No. 1 breakfast cereal to tone down the health claims - or Cheerios "may not be legally marketed ... without an approved new drug application." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the warning to Golden Valley-based General Mills in a letter released Tuesday. At issue are such bold claims as, "You can...
May 12, 2009
I have been in a relationship now for almost 25 years. In fact, the silver anniversary is coming up this November. But it's time for me to confess that I have not always been faithful. I have strayed on occasion. I have gone where I should not have gone. Not only that, I enjoyed it immensely. I eat bad things. For 25 years, I have lived with an epidemiologist who watches what he eats. Daily. The bigger...
May 12, 2009
Pregnant women are especially at risk for complications from the H1N1 flu virus and shouldn't hesitate to use antiviral drugs if they even think they might be infected, doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say. Health officials are investigating 20 cases of infected pregnant women, several of whom had severe complications, says the CDC's Anne Schuchat. One of those pregnant woman...
May 12, 2009
NEW YORK, May 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Film actress Hilary Duff will take part in a ceremony commemorating the 24th annual AIDS Walk New York, organizers said Tuesday. Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Walk New York announced that at dusk Thursday, the world-famous spire of the Empire State Building will glow red to kick off the AIDS Walk weekend. Duff will lead a lighting ceremony Thursday afternoon,...
May 12, 2009
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - If used properly, vibration plate exercise machines may help people lose weight and reduce belly fat, researchers in Belgium said. Dirk Vissers, a physiotherapist at the Artesis University College and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, said overweight or obese people who regularly used the equipment in combination with a calorie restricted...
May 12, 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 12, 2009
NEW YORK, May 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. review of studies found that nearly 1 in 12 people exposed to terrorism report increased use and misuse of alcohol, researchers said. Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor combined data from 31 studies conducted in the aftermath of such incidents as the terrorist attacks...
May 12, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the seizure of more than 23,300 bottles of dietary supplement products because of a safety risk. The federal agency said the supplements, worth about $1.3 million, would be destroyed because they contain unapproved food additives and-or new dietary ingredients for which there is inadequate information to assure...
May 12, 2009
Development of a swine flu vaccine was partly triggered by evidence that seasonal influenza strains are developing resistance to Tamiflu, a World Health Organisation expert said Tuesday. Nikki Shindo said relatively high rates of hospitalisation for swine flu in the United States and Mexico "rightly" prompted vaccine development "because we are also facing the risk of having resistant viruses." "Last...
May 12, 2009
NEW YORK - After studying the menu at the Gramercy Tavern, a Manhattan restaurant featuring "New American cuisine," writer Mark Kurlansky says, "Nothing screams out '1942,' which may not be a bad thing." There's no Mississippi molasses pie. No Montana fried beaver tail. No Long Island rabbit stew or Nebraska pig fries. But thanks to writers such as Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston, descriptions...
May 11, 2009
Take a tiny coffee stirrer off the table, Donna Ray-Reifler told the luncheon guests. Put it in your mouth. Hold your nose shut. Now breathe in - and realize that having access to only a thin stream of air is what an asthma attack feels like. "It's a frightening feeling, isn't it?" she asked as several dozen people struggled to inhale. "Imagine being a child and waking up in the middle of the night...
May 11, 2009
Jackie Dean has been driving the city's recycling truck for several years and, while residents are mostly pleased when bottles, cans, papers and other recyclables are collected, Mr. Dean said he had never received a reception like the one he got last week. "When I was pulling out with the truck, a woman stopped her car to let me go ahead of her and she's pointing at the truck and she's giving me the...
May 11, 2009
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Coronary artery bypass patients' health improves with exercise, researchers in Poland said. Dr. Tomasz Mikulski and colleagues at the Medical Research Centre in Warsaw, Poland, found six weeks of aerobic training using a cycloergometer - a static bike whose pedal load can be set and user performance measured - improved the physical capacity of patients...
May 11, 2009
A group of young musicians from Boston came to Costa Rica last month to share their talents and connect with people here through music. But they left with a little more than they bargained for. The Health Ministry received a letter on Saturday from the Boston group, Canta Mundi, informing them that three of the students were found carrying the H1N1 influenza virus. They are in "good condition" according...
May 11, 2009
President Obama's new budget would eliminate most money for abstinence-only sex education and shift it to teen pregnancy prevention - a U-turn in what has been more than a decade of sex education policy in the USA. The proposed budget, which was sent to Congress on Thursday, "reflects the research," says Melody Barnes, director of the team that coordinates White House domestic policy. "In any area...
May 11, 2009
NEW YORK, May 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Two U.S. ophthalmologists say wearing protective sunglasses helps preserve eye health. Dr. Donald J. D'Amico and Dr. Stephen Trokel, both of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, warn overexposure to the sun can not only cause skin cancer of the eyelids, but cornea sunburn and vision-blocking tissue growth. It has also been implicated...
May 11, 2009
HERNING, Denmark, Apr 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Repeatedly going to work when ill significantly boosts the chances of having to take long-term sick leave later, researchers in Denmark found. The researchers at Herning Hospital in Denmark randomly selected almost 12,000 Danes of working age who had been in continuous employment for at least one year, to answer questions on their attitudes toward work,...
May 11, 2009
ATLANTA, Apr 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - There have been no U.S swine flu fatalities so far, but since January more than 13,000 people have died of complications from seasonal flu, officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report said no fewer than 800 flu-related deaths were reported in any week between Jan. 1-April 18, the most recent week for which figures were available,...
May 11, 2009
BOSTON, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Workers with no pre-existing health conditions increased their odds of a new health condition by 83 percent after jobs loss, U.S. researchers found. Kate Strully, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, said even if someone finds a job quickly, there is an increased risk of developing a new health problem...
May 11, 2009
BALTIMORE, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Three-day-old broccoli sprouts suppress Helicobacter pylori - a cause of infections and a major cause of stomach cancer - U.S. researchers said. Jed Fahey of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore said the cancer-protective effects of sulforaphane, a phytochemical from broccoli, have been known for almost two decades, but this is the first study...
May 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Consuming 4,000 milligrams or more of sodium in a single meal - many restaurant meals exceed this amount - can present a heart risk, U.S. food advocates say. Researchers at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington examined 17 chains and found 85 out of 102 meals had more than one day's worth of sodium, and some had more than four days'...
May 11, 2009
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