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The French health ministry on Monday said it hoped to recruit as many as half a million people in France in the world's largest Internet-based survey into eating habits. The "NutriNetSante" (NutriNetHealth) study is exceptional in scope. The goal is for volunteers to provide online information about their weight and eating habits over five years, updating the details once a month - an exercise that...
May 11, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A woman's poor self image can take a toll on her health but U.S. researchers say an extremely good body image can also take its toll on a woman's health. Dr. Marisa Rose of the Temple University School of Medicine studied the body image perceptions of 81 underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese women in the Philadelphia area. The study, published...
May 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Both supporters and critics of a U.S. Senate bill to regulate the manufacture and marketing of cigarettes say the measure is likely to pass. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a version of the tobacco regulation bill and it has been put onto a fast track in the Senate for this week, where analysts say it has a filibuster-proof number of senators...
May 10, 2009
Washington (dpa) - John Hamaski tried a lot of things to lose weight but nothing really worked. The 38-year-old lawyer from San Francisco began several diets and enlisted in a gym. "It didn't work, I just stayed fat." Hamaski, who is about five feet tall and weighs 187 pounds, suffered from obesity. What saved Hamaski just in time was Fatbet.net. In February he and five friends bet on losing 22 pounds...
May 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The H1N1 flu virus, now appearing to be in remission, may return this winter in a newer and more dangerous form, some U.S. medical experts say. Health officials are deciding now how to protect people should the H1N1 virus make a reappearance during influenza season, which starts in late November - even though some experts say it appears the current strain...
May 10, 2009
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The overwhelming majority of U.S. women are either uninsured or underinsured for health costs and have medical debt problems, a report says. The report by the Commonwealth Fund says seven of 10 working-age women - or an estimated 64 million women - have no medical insurance coverage or inadequate coverage. The study, "Women at Risk: Why Many Women Are Forgoing...
May 10, 2009
In January, when consumers were looking for frequent updates on tainted peanut butter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a Twitter feed, CDCEmergency. By late April, a modest 2,500 people followed it. Then the world turned its attention to the much more frightening prospect of swine flu. As anxiety about this pandemic disease rose precipitously so did the number of followers on...
May 10, 2009
Two years ago, Megan Webster ran in her first Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure - three days after her second chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. "My husband and I ran together, and I remember we kept seeing so many people who looked so sick," she said. "But that was partly out of our fear, because this time we were saying, 'Look at all these healthy people!' I've felt stronger each time." Webster,...
May 10, 2009
May 11 - YAKIMA, Wash. Krista Pusch was crowd surfing at a rock concert recently - passed overhead from person to person - when she was dropped on asphalt. The resulting back pain sent her to the doctor, who ordered a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Pusch, 23, of Mattawa was a little nervous at the thought of being enclosed in a dark tube with no way out. But...
May 10, 2009
Jane Doyle, 40, of Dublin, Ohio, says she gained a lot of weight in her 30s because she ate "whatever wasn't nailed down" during two pregnancies and afterward. "I gained 60 pounds with my first pregnancy," she says. "I couldn't get enough of Peanut Buster parfaits, which are 700 calories each, from Dairy Queen. I must have eaten 60 of them when I was pregnant. I knew every Dairy Queen in six counties....
May 10, 2009
It's the magic of ballet: dancers look graceful when they leap and twirl - their bodies poetic - as if they float without effort. But the apparent ease of movement is a cruel illusion, and dancers must pay the price. This week as Atlanta Ballet takes the stage for "Don Quixote" at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, dancers will have suffered the usual muscle strains and joint pains, out-of-alignment...
May 10, 2009
May 10 - Millions of children and adults have asthma, the most common form of lung disease. The problem is medical experts know there is no one trigger or cause for asthma, said Dr. Todd Mahr, Gundersen Lutheran pediatric allergist and asthma specialist. Asthma is characterized by excessive sensitivity of the lungs to various stimuli. Triggers range from viral infections to allergies, to irritating...
May 10, 2009
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants the feds to test commonly used baby shampoos and cosmetics, after a study revealed that many popular brand-name items contain cancer-causing substances. "It's important to me because I'm a mom with two young kids," the state's junior senator told The Post. "When I read this report, it basically talked about products that I have in my bathroom and I've been using for years."...
May 10, 2009
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants the feds to test commonly used baby shampoos and cosmetics, after a study revealed that many popular brand-name items contain cancer-causing substances. "It's important to me because I'm a mom with two young kids," the state's junior senator told The Post. "When I read this report, it basically talked about products that I have in my bathroom and I've been using for years."...
May 10, 2009
Some states are moving to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes in response to the Obama administration's decision to limit prosecutions of sick people or caregivers who use or dispense the drug. Attorney General Eric Holder said last week that his agents will seek criminal charges only when both state and U.S. laws are violated. That signaled a shift from the Bush administration, whose...
May 10, 2009
Some states are moving to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes in response to the Obama administration's decision to limit prosecutions of sick people or caregivers who use or dispense the drug. Attorney General Eric Holder said last week that his agents will seek criminal charges only when both state and U.S. laws are violated. That signaled a shift from the Bush administration, whose...
May 10, 2009
May 10 - LENOIR CITY - Melanie and Tim Smith had been in the drugstore only a few minutes when they realized something was missing. Tanner, their 8-year-old severely autistic son, wasn't his usual hyperactive self. While the couple did their shopping, the Loudon Elementary School pupil remained sprawled on the floor with his toys, his new service dog at his side. The dog's name is Tug. He's a Newfoundland-collie...
May 10, 2009
The week that began with hand-wringing about the threat posed by swine flu ended with less worry but more hand-washing. There was good news, as federal health officials said the swine flu seemed no more of a threat than seasonal flu. But enough questions remained about the virus that people continued taking precautions. Meanwhile, the week brought to metro Atlanta new victims, a local school closing...
May 9, 2009
May 10 - Millions of children and adults have asthma, the most common form of lung disease. The problem is medical experts know there is no one trigger or cause for asthma, said Dr. Todd Mahr, Gundersen Lutheran pediatric allergist and asthma specialist. Asthma is characterized by excessive sensitivity of the lungs to various stimuli. Triggers range from viral infections to allergies, to irritating...
May 9, 2009
It's the magic of ballet: dancers look graceful when they leap and twirl - their bodies poetic - as if they float without effort. But the apparent ease of movement is a cruel illusion, and dancers must pay the price. This week as Atlanta Ballet takes the stage for "Don Quixote" at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, dancers will have suffered the usual muscle strains and joint pains, out-of-alignment...
May 9, 2009
BALTIMORE, May 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children exposed to cigarette smoke have lower levels of anti-oxidants, which help the body defend against biological stresses, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York looked at the levels of anti-oxidants vs. the amount of smoke exposure in more than 2,000 children and teens ages 6 and 18 in the 2003-2004...
May 8, 2009
BOSTON, May 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children, especially girls, who can stay focused and don't sweat the small stuff have a better shot at good health in adulthood, U.S. researchers said. The study, published in the journal Health Psychology, found that for all the participants, superior attention spans and having a more positive outlook in youth affected health the most. "Certain characteristics...
May 8, 2009
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Scheduling more physical education time in school does not mean children will become more fit, say researchers in Britain. The researchers, who presented their findings at the European Congress on Obesity in Amsterdam, said students who got more exercise at school compensated by doing less at home, and those who got little gym at school made up...
May 8, 2009
MONTREAL, May 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian researchers say a simple, automated monitoring system helped lower patients' blood pressure. The study, published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, found those in the intervention group showed an average reduction of 11.9 millimeters of mercury in systolic blood pressure and 6.6 mm Hg in diastolic pressure versus the control group's...
May 8, 2009
May 8 - SACRAMENTO - Decisions made at home and at City Hall will determine the Central Valley's health care fate more than those made in hospitals or at the doctor's office, a medical visionary said Thursday. Health care providers, after all, try to fix problems that might never develop if parents teach good nutrition and if government leaders arrange communities to avoid excessive driving, said Dr....
May 8, 2009
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