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The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending consumers not eat raw alfalfa sprouts until further notice because the crunchy greens have been linked to a salmonella outbreak in six states. Officials believe infected seeds are the source of the outbreak. The warning does not include bean sprouts or other types of sprouts. There have been 31 cases...
April 27, 2009
Mark Dumoff believes if patients like their doctors, they'll be more inclined to listen to them, follow their directions, get better or stay healthy and keep health care costs down. Dumoff was so convinced of this after a frustrating experience hunting for a specialist for his sick father that he started DocInsight in November 2005. His goal was to build a database of physicians to help patients find...
April 26, 2009
Sydney (dpa) - Wearing a surgical mask is a cheap and effective way of keeping out contagious diseases like swine flu, an Australian researcher said Monday. "Masks play an important role in reducing transmission if they are worn properly," said Raina MacIntyre, head of the University of New South Wales school of public health and community medicine. "In a crisis, vaccine development is likely to be...
April 26, 2009
Hanging on to one's sense of humor during times of serious illness is a tall order, but Barbara Connolly managed to keep hers during a recent battle with breast cancer. "Going through it, you need a sense of humor, because it's such a horrible experience," she said. "Keeping it happy and comical keeps it a little more positive." Today, Ms. Connolly is cancer-free and a dedicated advocate for the cause....
April 26, 2009
Apr. 27 - As reports of swine flu cases accelerated worldwide, Sacramento County public health and church officials temporarily closed a Catholic school in Fair Oaks on Sunday because a student there is ill with what may be the new strain of influenza. Local testing showed the ailing teenager from St. Mel School didn't have a standard flu strain, so samples were sent to the Centers for Disease Control...
April 26, 2009
The European Union on Monday called for urgent talks to confront the threat posed by swine flu as Europe's first case emerged in Spain. The 27-nation EU warned against non-essential travel to areas where the virus, emanating from Mexico, has surfaced, while Russia began airport checks and Poland tightened border controls to try to hold the disease at bay. Tour groups too began cancelling trips to Mexico....
April 26, 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."...
April 26, 2009
Aaah, retirement. Time to catch up on reading. Time to work on the golf swing. Time to clean out that horrible closet and rearrange the kitchen cupboards. Time ... time ... time. Hmm. Now what? Retirement can be the best of times or the worst of times. What can make the difference, says psychologist Nancy Schlossberg, is planning. Most people who plan for retirement focus only on their financial portfolio,...
April 26, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Sunday it has declared a public health emergency in a bid to stop the spread of a swine flu virus. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said at a White House press conference she made the declaration to free up funds to fight the virus' spread, adding the government has moved to release one-quarter of its stockpile...
April 26, 2009
ATLANTA, Apr 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Federal health officials have confirmed 11 human cases of swine flu in the United States - seven in California, two in Texas and two in Kansas. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said they have deployed seven epidemiologists to San Diego County and Imperial County, Calif., and one senior medical officer to Texas to provide...
April 26, 2009
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - The birds and the bees may be universal, but what schoolchildren learn about their sexuality is not. And it may again be up for debate. This spring, Congress will consider whether to curtail its support of abstinence-only lessons. That, coupled with a recent uptick in U.S. teen pregnancies and new research that suggests abstinence-only programs are not as effective as...
April 26, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A grape-enriched diet may help prevent the downhill sequence of heart failure brought on by years of high blood pressure, U.S. researchers suggest. E. Mitchell Seymour, whose study was part of his doctoral work in nutrition science at Michigan State University, said all the rats his team used were from a research breed that develops high blood pressure when...
April 25, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A grape-enriched diet may help prevent the downhill sequence of heart failure brought on by years of high blood pressure, U.S. researchers suggest. E. Mitchell Seymour, whose study was part of his doctoral work in nutrition science at Michigan State University, said all the rats his team used were from a research breed that develops high blood pressure when...
April 25, 2009
QUEBEC CITY, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People who sleep too much or not enough are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance, Canadian researchers said. The findings, published online in the journal Sleep Medicine, found that the risk is 2 1/2 times higher for people who sleep less than seven hours or more than eight hours a night. Jean-Philippe Chaput, Angelo...
April 25, 2009
Mexico City/Geneva (dpa) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva warned Saturday that the swine influenza in Mexico which has claimed at least 62 lives could spread to pandemic proportions. WHO director-general Margaret Chan called the outbreak a "serious situation" which was being watched closely. The WHO, reviewing developments, may be having to raise the level of its alert warning later...
April 25, 2009
Hundreds are expected to turn out tonight for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at Freedom High School. The event will take place on the football field at the school and kicks off at 6 p.m. with a survivor's lap, said Laura Harvey, who heads up Relay for Life events in Burke County. The luminaria ceremony starts at 8 p.m. today and the events ends at 8 a.m. Saturday. Entertainment will be...
April 24, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study indicates chewing gum can have a positive effect on teenagers' academic performance. Previous research conducted in a laboratory setting showed gum chewing can help reduce stress, improve alertness and relieve anxiety. Study leader Craig A. Johnston of the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston said the...
April 24, 2009
New York (dpa) - Every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of malaria, and ending the scourge of the preventable disease is a major development priority, the United Nations Childrens Fund said Friday. Despite substantial progress in the fight against malaria, especially the increased distribution of insecticide-treated nets, the disease still kills an estimated 1 million people every year,...
April 24, 2009
US health officials have diagnosed another case of human swine flu in the United States, bringing the number of people who contracted the illness to eight, the head of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Friday. On Thursday "we reported a total of seven cases in the United States," Dr Richard Bresser said on a telephone news conference. "Today we have one additional case in California, bringing...
April 24, 2009
Sue Yudysky sensed that there was more to her husband's forgetfulness when it took him an hour one day to tie his tie. "I thought, he is serious," Yudysky, 79, said of her husband, Walter "Waddy" Yudysky, 84. "He can't tie his tie," she said. For Waddy Yudysky, who was diagnosed with dementia nearly two years ago, it started with him wondering what he had done with his keys, Sue Yudysky said of her...
April 24, 2009
Actor Ashton Kutcher has pledged to donate 100,000 dollars he won in a bet with television network CNN to help fight the spread of malaria, the UN Children's Fund said Friday. Kutcher, who is a vocal advocate for the eradication of malaria, won the money from CNN after the actor laid down a challenge to the global network several weeks ago, saying that his Twitter social networking account would have...
April 23, 2009
Tony McEachern loves to give. After five surgeries for brain cancer and years of chemotherapy, he's still in the mood to help others. So, after he participates in Saturday's Angels Among Us 5K and Family Fun Walk at Duke University, he will keep right on walking - from Durham to Sarasota, Fla. It's his way of trying to raise as much money as possible for Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center,...
April 23, 2009
Apr. 24 - Executives at Owensboro Medical Health System have been talking about the challenges of the increased demand for local health care services and the implications of a nursing shortage since they announced plans for a new hospital in 2006. Vicki Stogsdill, OMHS's vice president of nursing, dug deeper into the demographics Thursday in a presentation to the Regional Alliance for Education to...
April 23, 2009
Everything we know, we learned from Men's Health, and the magazine reports that pork rinds top the list of "Top 5 Junk Foods That Are Good for You." Take our quiz about "the other crunchy white snack food," rival of the beloved potato chip. 1. Which of the following junk foods failed to make the top five on the Men's Health list: a) chocolate bars b) sour cream c) beef jerky d) corn chips e) alcohol...
April 23, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Childhood asthma rates could increase as much as 30 percent with exposure to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution, a California study suggests. The study, published in the journal of Environmental Health Perspectives, is the latest to come from the Southern California Children's Health Study, a project pioneered by the Air Resources Board in the...
April 23, 2009
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