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Geneva (dpa) - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 985 officially reported cases of the influenza A (H1N1) infection in 20 countries. Mexico, the UN health agency said, has reported 590 laboratory confirmed cases, including 25 deaths. The United States had 226 confirmed cases, including one death, while Canada reported 85 infections. Elsewhere in Latin America, El Salvador reported two cases...
May 3, 2009
Mitchell Krzyzek, 34, of Seekonk, Mass., remembers the day he decided to lose his extra weight once and for all. It was Dec. 30, 2007, and he and his wife were at home eating takeout food from Wendy's. "I bought a Baconator, large fries and large fruit punch. "After the meal I felt so lethargic. I thought: 'I've had enough. I have to get this weight off and keep it off.' " At 6-foot-5, Krzyzek weighed...
May 3, 2009
The H1N1 virus has spread throughout most of the country, and health officials said Sunday that they expect more severe cases and deaths from what's commonly called swine flu. Doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expressed caution about the outbreak even as Mexican health officials said that the new flu strain appears to have peaked, with fewer cases overall and fewer people...
May 3, 2009
NEW YORK, May 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The annual Cinco de Mayo event in New York that draws thousands of people has been canceled amid concerns about the swine flu epidemic, organizers say. The New York Daily News said while Sunday's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park event was canceled, Asociacion Tepeyac was given permission to hold its Cinco de Mayo parade in New York the same day. "The city gave us...
May 3, 2009
US health authorities said Sunday swine flu was now present in more than half the nation's states with 226 confirmed infections in 30 states. There remains only one death in the United States so far, a Mexican toddler who was visiting relatives in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. jit/mac Health-flu-US-cases AFP 031530 GMT 05 09 COPYRIGHT 2002 Agence France-Presse. All rights...
May 3, 2009
CHICAGO, May 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health experts say the "worried well" are overburdening many U.S. hospitals with imagined symptoms of the H1N1 virus commonly known as swine flu. Among them is the emergency department at Chicago Children's Memorial Hospital, which more than doubled its average number of patients last week, CNN reported Sunday. "It was a lot of 'worried well' people," said Cathleen...
May 2, 2009
Stockholm/Geneva (dpa) - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union has now risen to 49, spread over about half a dozen countries, EU health officials reported Sunday. The EU's centre for disease control ECDC in Stockholm said ten new confirmed cases had been reported in Germany, Spain, Ireland and Italy, in addition to nine new suspected cases in Britain and Portugal. The EU...
May 2, 2009
ATLANTA, May 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has dispensed strategic supplies to all 50 U.S. states in response to the growing swine flu outbreak. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency said on its Web site Saturday the supplies given to all states and territories comes from the CDC Strategic National Stockpile division. In addition,...
May 2, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, have introduced legislation requiring nutrition standards for food sold in school vending machines. "In all but a handful of cities and states, junk food is still out of control in schools," Margo G. Wootan, nutrition policy director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a statement....
May 1, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health and safety officials across the United States are beefing up their plans to address the outbreak of H1N1, or swine flu, officials said. All states report increasing surveillance of people with flu-like symptoms at hospitals, Stateline.org reported Thursday. Individual schools have closed in states from California and Ohio to New York and South Carolina,...
May 1, 2009
MOORESVILLE Jose Miranda has diabetes and kidney failure, but he considered himself lucky entering the free health care clinic in downtown Mooresville on Friday. The doctor checking his heart rate, after all, was one of America's most famous physicians. "Your heart sounds great!" Dr. Mehmet Oz told the Mooresville man. "You don't have any evidence that you have blockage in those arteries." "I am very...
May 1, 2009
Key Lime Mousse Pie with just 88 calories and 6 grams of fiber. Chicken nuggets made with crushed barbecue chips. Faux-fried zucchini with 9 grams of fiber and only 1/2 gram of fat. These are just a sampling of the low-fat, low-calorie and high- fiber recipes found in Lisa Lillien's second cookbook, "Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200" (St. Martin's Griffin, $19.95). In 2004, Lillien started Hungry Girl, a...
May 1, 2009
BALTIMORE, May 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Folic acid, known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects, may also suppress allergic reactions, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore and colleagues said that they have found a link between folate levels and inflammation-mediated diseases, including heart disease. The researcher reviewed the medical records...
May 1, 2009
Mexico City (dpa) - The new variant of influenza, A(H1N1), which has killed 15 people in Mexico and one in the United States, is less lethal than bird flu and SARS that have killed more than 1,000 people in Asia since 2003, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Friday. "Fortunately the virus is not so aggressive," Cordova Villalobos said. "It is not as lethal as the case of bird...
May 1, 2009
When Walnutport-native Maureen McGowan told her family and closest friends she was diagnosed with cancer, the response for support was universal: "People would say, 'I wish there was something I could do.' " Now, she says, she knows exactly how they felt. Just a few months after her last round of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin Lymphoma, she learned her brother, Don McGowan, was diagnosed with another...
May 1, 2009
Nothing is healthier for you than whole wheat, right? Well, some say that Kamut, a distant relative of durum wheat, is an even better alternative. Take our quiz about this ancient grain: 1. True or false: Kamut is nearly three times the size of wheat kernels and contains about 30 percent more protein, as well as 65 percent more amino acids. 2. Kamut has an interesting "genesis" story in the Western...
May 1, 2009
May 1 - DECATUR - Wash your hands. Wash your hands. That can be the first cure in preventing so many of these pandemic diseases, especially the rapidly spreading swine flu, said Dr. Michael Greger, director of public health and animal agriculture with the Humane Society of the United States. "This age of commercial global airline travel has aided to how rapid these viruses have spread around the world....
May 1, 2009
The swine flu outbreak should not stop people from flying or using mass transit unless they have flu-like symptoms, the nation's top health official said Thursday. "I think flying is safe," said Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Going on the subway is safe. People should go out and live their lives." Only people who have flu-like symptoms such as...
May 1, 2009
THIS one's a match made in talk-show heaven. "Maury" is teaming with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen And Unplanned Pregnancy in an effort to help raise awareness of this alarming problem - even if it puts the show out of business. And who knows better than Maury Povich - who has carved a unique niche with its highly rated episodes on "Who's the Daddy?" paternity-tests shows. "We approached them...
April 30, 2009
Melinda Tillman, Kelly Schramm and Vanessa Hotchkiss didn't know each other until meeting through an online support group. Their children - Scott Tillman, 6, Gabriel Schramm, 4, and Noah Hotchkiss, who is almost 2 - had strokes either in the womb or at birth. "It was scary," said Melinda Tillman, whose first-born child was flown by helicopter from one Minnesota hospital to another after his tiny body...
April 30, 2009
If you're like many women, you may be reluctant to take hormones during the menopausal years because past studies seemed to recommend against it. However, a more recent assessment of the data from the Women's Health Initiative was more favorable: It suggested that hormone replacement for younger women, ages 50-59, may not pose the cardiovascular risk that it does for older women. Women in this age...
April 30, 2009
Abby Winthrop is a walking, talking reason the community should support an American Heart Association event this weekend. Abby, who has congenital heart disease, will be the keynote speaker during the 34th annual Iredell County Heart Ball. The theme of this year's event, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Statesville Country Club, is "Paint the Town Red." The gala is a fundraising event for the...
April 30, 2009
Drinking up to half a glass of wine per day can help you live up to five years longer - at least for men, according to a study published Thursday. The impact also depends on the exact amount drunk - more than half a glass starts bringing life expectancy down again, according to researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. "Drinking wine was strongly associated with a lower risk of dying...
April 30, 2009
Children's fears are likely to rise along with the confirmed cases of swine flu, but parents can help kids feel safe despite the scary news, mental health experts say. "A fire or hurricane happens, and it's over. But a biological event like this is hard for kids to understand. It's invisible and can be very frightening," says Harold Koplewicz, a child psychiatrist and director of the New York University...
April 29, 2009
As the number of swine flu cases grows, President Obama called on Americans Wednesday to help halt the disease's spread by remembering to wash their hands. With so much high-tech medicine available, some may wonder how such a simple step could help. Yet health experts say that basic hygiene is not only more effective, but also more practical. "Simple, common-sense precautionary measures such as hand-washing...
April 29, 2009
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