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Cyndi Raskin had never thought much about the chemicals in her cleaning supplies until three years ago. Raskin was bathing baby Emilie, who playfully snatched the washcloth and began cleaning both her tub and herself. That led Raskin to worry about the residue left behind by her cleaning supplies: Was her daughter rubbing scouring powder into her skin? Was she bathing in a chemical soup? Raskin, 35,...
April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it will fund a dozen proposals to help advance U.S. astronaut health and performance. NASA's Human Research Program and the space agency-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute of Houston said the selected proposals, involving 11 institutions in eight states, will receive nearly $16 million...
April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it will fund a dozen proposals to help advance U.S. astronaut health and performance. NASA's Human Research Program and the space agency-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute of Houston said the selected proposals, involving 11 institutions in eight states, will receive nearly $16 million...
April 21, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. government scientist says job-related vibrations can result in biological injuries including vascular dysfunction that can cause loss of dexterity. Kristine Krajnak of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and her colleagues conducted what they say was the first study to directly link the different physical responses of tissue to...
April 21, 2009
ROCKVILLE, Md., Apr 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. TV and movie star Fran Dresher is urging patients in a public service announcement to ask their health professionals questions. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and The Advertising Council ads feature people asking questions in everyday situations - such as in a restaurant -...
April 21, 2009
ABINGDON, Va. Debby Smith spent four years serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and 25 years working as an accountant before she found out she had cancer - and now she can't get health insurance. "Since ... I can't work, of course, I don't have health insurance, which means I have to pay out of pocket for ... all my prescriptions and all my doctor visits and everything, and if you don't work it's hard...
April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. congressional Democrats are being warned to stand firm as they begin work to reform the nation's $2.2 trillion healthcare system. More than 70 House Democrats recently told party leaders they won't support a broad healthcare reform bill that doesn't include offering consumers a government-sponsored policy, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. In addition,...
April 21, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. For nearly a day after a car slammed into bicyclist Kris Gulden, sending her flying over its hood, her hospital chart referred to her as "Delta Doe." She had not been carrying an ID, and all she could tell doctors and nurses was that her name was Kris and that she had a headache. She knows this only because someone told her about it later. She has no memory of the time between when...
April 21, 2009
Postmenopausal women who have breastfed a child have a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke and cardiovascular disease, a study released Tuesday found. The study of 139,681 postmenopausal women found that those participants who breastfed for at least one month had lower blood pressure, better cholesterol and less frequent diabetes, all known factors for cardiovascular risk, according to the study in...
April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it will fund a dozen proposals to help advance U.S. astronaut health and performance. NASA's Human Research Program and the space agency-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute of Houston said the selected proposals, involving 11 institutions in eight states, will receive nearly $16 million...
April 20, 2009
About 5.6 million Americans have some degree of paralysis - far more than previously thought, according to the findings of a telephone survey released today by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The 2008 survey of more than 33,000 U.S. households defined paralysis as "a central nervous system disorder resulting in difficulty or inability to move" arms or legs. Mobility problems from muscular...
April 20, 2009
With his family by his side and a black Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar in hand, 14-year-old Kash Clark is continuing his fight for life the same way he began it: keeping the sour notes in check. The Bixby home-schooled student who loves animals and would like to start his own band was diagnosed in November with acute mye-loid leukemia, a form of cancer that rarely strikes children. The most important...
April 20, 2009
Dr. Michael Armentano says an important part of his job is educating others about naturopathic care, his discipline that focuses on supporting the body's natural healing ability. "When I see a patient, I am generally, as a naturopath, trying to figure out what is blocking their vital force," Armentano says, adding that life energy can be called different things, such as chi or prana, depending on the...
April 20, 2009
BOSTON, Apr 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Universal healthcare coverage may reduce numerous types of health disparities in the general population, officials of a U.S. non-profit group said. J. Michael McWilliams and colleagues at Harvard University in Boston reviewed health data from more than 6,000 people ages 40-85 with diabetes, high-blood pressure and high cholesterol. The study, published in the...
April 20, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Consumers may want to see healthier food items available but that does not mean they will choose them, U.S. researchers said. Study authors Keith Wilcox of City University of New York, Beth Vallen of Loyola College, Lauren Block of City University of New York and Gavan J. Fitzsimons of Duke University said more restaurants and vending machines offer healthy...
April 20, 2009
CHICAGO, Apr 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The "windmill" pitching motion may explain the high incidence of anterior shoulder pain seen in female softball players, U.S. researchers said. "The conventional belief has been that the underhand throwing motion of softball places little stress on the arm," lead author Dr. Nikhil Verma of the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago said in a statement. "But...
April 20, 2009
Kelle Shugrue's 7-year-old son eats fresh fruit and vegetables at his public school, rides his bike along neighborhood paths and walked to school last week as part of a community effort to get kids moving. The Shugrue family lives in Somerville, Mass., a Boston suburb hailed by health advocates for its seven-year investment in programs fighting childhood obesity and encouraging healthful living. The...
April 20, 2009
HALLE, Germany, Apr 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - German scientists say they have determined the reason transplanted liver cells don't proliferate as well in older recipients as they do in younger ones. Researchers at Germany's Martin Luther University said they determined that while the age of the donor makes no difference, the age of the recipient is significantly important - and many humans requiring...
April 20, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Omega three fatty acids protect brain cells by preventing the misfolding of a protein from a gene mutation in Parkinson's disease, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Nicolas Bazan of Louisiana State University and colleagues developed a cell model with a mutation of the Ataxin-1 gene. The defective Ataxin-1 gene induced the misfolding of the protein produced by...
April 20, 2009
When John Goan picks up cancer patients, he's doing more than giving them a ride to treatment. Goan, himself a 13-year survivor of colon cancer, also tries to give them some encouragement. "Some types of cancer, you know their chances are not good; most of the time, they know that, too," Goan said. "But there are 12 million to 14 million cancer survivors out here. There's hope for any of them." Goan,...
April 19, 2009
James Reaves, 73, learned in the 1970s that he is diabetic. The retired postal worker first turned to medication to control the disease that afflicts 25 percent of African-Americans between the ages of 65 and 74. Reaves, a self-described "exercise freak" - he has an exercise bike and universal weight machine posted on his front porch - later turned to eating healthier and an intense regimen of physical...
April 19, 2009
When Debra Tansey lost her management job last year, her insurance disappeared with it. The Chesapeake woman did what a lot of people in her position do: "I started backing off my medications." First she tried reducing the dosage to make the pills last longer. Then she stopped taking some entirely - a prescription for an ulcer, an antidepressant, and a couple of pain relievers for chronic shoulder...
April 19, 2009
Apr. 20 - Court officials want the public to save time by going online. You can pay traffic tickets, postpone jury duty and check the time and place of a hearing on the Stanislaus County Superior Court's Web site, which is available in English or Spanish at www.stanct.org. The court also has a Self Help Center that offers free legal help in divorce and child custody arrangements, landlord-tenant disputes...
April 19, 2009
During ALS Awareness Month, The ALS Association's "ALS Across America" campaign will recognize people throughout the U.S. living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for their courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease. The campaign shines the spotlight on men and women from all walks of life who despite having the progressive, neurodegenerative disease - which on average has a survival rate of two...
April 19, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Smoke particulates from tobacco, cooking oil and wood fires affect cardiovascular function after as little as 10 minutes of exposure, U.S. researchers say. "I was surprised we got statistically significant results with this low level of exposure," Joyce Evans of the University of Kentucky in Lexington said in a statement. "If we can detect these effects...
April 19, 2009
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