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Despite major medical advances, the everyday athlete won't be on a Lance-like timetable for recovery
Apr. 7 - You fall off your bike and break your collarbone, and your doctor tells you to stay off the bike for six to eight weeks. Lance Armstrong falls and breaks his collarbone in several places, and he's back in the saddle in a couple of weeks. You stub your big toe shuffling around the house early one morning, and the persistent pain has you hobbling for weeks. UNC point guard Ty Lawson jams his...
April 6, 2009
Imagine full access to your medical records on a secure Internet site, rather than pleading for copies of paper records from your physician's office. Under a new patient-centered health care network coming to Tulsa, that scenario is likely, say University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine physicians. IBM has selected the school as a partner in developing a groundbreaking patient-centered health...
April 6, 2009
WASHINGTON - The blank wall behind the receptionists' desk stands as a symbol of efficiency in Peter Basch's bustling office. A dozen years ago, Basch and his fellow doctors went paperless and ditched the stacks of patients' charts that stood there. An early entry into the world of electronic medical records, Basch is an enthusiastic supporter. "It allows our staff and physicians to be far more organized,"...
April 6, 2009
MIAMI, Apr 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women with periodontal disease face an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes, U.S. researchers found. Study leader Dr. Ananda P. Dasanayake of New York University College of Dentistry, in collaboration with the faculty of dental sciences at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, compared pregnant women who had smoked and drunk alcohol with...
April 6, 2009
Carrying too much weight appears to be associated with a common sleep problem. A study in this week's Neurology reports that being obese may increase the risk of restless legs syndrome, says author Xiang Gao, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Restless legs syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by burning and creeping feelings in the legs and an uncontrollable urge to...
April 6, 2009
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Men who were large during their 20s face an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, or abnormal heart rhythm, as they age, Swedish researchers say. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden say the study was initiated in 1970 and involved more than 7,000 men living in Gothenburg ages 45-55, who were examined and...
April 6, 2009
MIAMI, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The more stressed parents are, the more likely their children are to have tooth decay, researchers at Ohio State University have found. Dr. Dennis A. Burns and colleagues examined the stress levels of parents whose young children either had no cavities or so many cavities that the children had receive anesthesia before undergoing dental treatment. The researchers...
April 6, 2009
MELBOURNE, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Australian researchers say babies born to a mother who smokes are more likely to be slower to wake and this may explain sudden infant death syndrome. Rosemary Horne and doctoral student Heidi Richardson of Monash University compared babies of mothers who smoked both during the pregnancy and after the baby was born with babies who lived in a smoke-free environment....
April 6, 2009
MIAMI, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Sipping on sports drinks all day may provide an energy boost, but can also result in tooth erosion and hypersensitivity, U.S. researchers said. New York University dental researchers found that prolonged consumption of sports drinks may be linked to a condition known as erosive tooth wear, in which acids eat away the tooth's smooth hard enamel coating and trickle...
April 6, 2009
Apr 05, 2009 (WENN via COMTEX) - GWYNETH PALTROW has come under fire from health experts after she warned shampoo could be linked to cancer. Writing on her website goop.com, The Shakespeare in Love star explains her concerns arose after she read research about what she calls "environmental toxins", which are found in products such as shampoo and lotion. Paltrow claims that these toxins could be linked...
April 6, 2009
Apr 05, 2009 (WENN via COMTEX) - GWYNETH PALTROW has come under fire from health experts after she warned shampoo could be linked to cancer. Writing on her website goop.com, The Shakespeare in Love star explains her concerns arose after she read research about what she calls "environmental toxins", which are found in products such as shampoo and lotion. Paltrow claims that these toxins could be linked...
April 5, 2009
Parents are cutting back on a lot - even circumcision. The $300 average cost for a newborn is too high for many. "The $300 is a luxury," Dr. Andrew Freedman, director of pediatric urology at LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, told Newsweek. "For many, [it] is insurmountable." A UCLA report says rates are 24 percent lower in states where Medicaid doesn't cover the procedure. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings,...
April 5, 2009
These schoolkids are allowed to watch TV in gym class and call it exercise. That's because the students at five city middle schools are piloting a video-game fitness program that could make TV screens as integral to gym as soccer nets and dodgeballs. The program, which includes aerobics, yoga and balance-based games using Nintendo Wii Fit consoles, is the latest attempt by school officials to see if...
April 5, 2009
It will be no easy task, but sisters Erin and Bethany Wilson will be biking across the county this summer to raise money for cancer research. The Wilsons are planning to do the 4,300 mile ride from early June through late August - starting in San Francisco and ending Miami - to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. They are making the trek in honor of their grandfather, who died a few years...
April 5, 2009
FACTS More than 50 percent of adults do not get enough exercise, and 24 percent are not physically active at all. More than 18 percent of children and 66 percent of adults are overweight, with 32.9 percent being obese. 1 death occurs every 36 seconds from heart disease and strokes. 1 in 3 American adults has high blood pressure. Over 100 million adults have above normal or high cholesterol levels....
April 5, 2009
It was a nasty head cold that sent Kerry Parham to Cinagro's, a health food store in suburban Cleveland, for an $8 bottle of herbal supplements. "If I had a job with health insurance, I probably would have gone to see a doctor by now," said Ms. Parham, 39, who lost her clerical job at American Greetings, the greeting-card company, a while back. "But instead, I'm here buying echinacea. I hope it works."...
April 5, 2009
Kate Whitaker, 21, didn't gain the Freshman 15 during her first year in college. Instead, by the time the second semester started, she was just a few pounds away from the Freshman 25. Fatty dorm meals and fast food wreaked havoc with her weight. But she turned her diet around and lost about 40 pounds over two years by eating bargain-basement foods, including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, diet...
April 5, 2009
LONDON, Apr 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Making five lifestyle changes could substantially reduce the rate of colorectal cancer in Britain - particularly among men - researchers said. Donald Maxwell Parkin of Cancer Research United Kingdom Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics, and Statistics in London said the researchers sought to estimate how recommended lifestyle changes could affect the predicted...
April 5, 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Apr 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Fast growing South Florida pain clinics are actually "pill mills" where doctors sell narcotics such as OxyContin to 65 patients per day or more, police say. Broward County alone has 89 pain clinics, while the number of the clinics in South Florida - many located in strip malls and office parks - has risen from 60 to 150 in the past year, the Miami...
April 5, 2009
Berlin (dpa) - Stress is almost guaranteed when flying with a baby. But many parents find the hunt for a child safety seat, acceptable to international airlines and in compliance with various government guidelines, even more stressful. Making the wrong choice can mean reserving a seat, buying or renting a safety seat and then learning just before takeoff that the seat does not pass muster. But not...
April 5, 2009
Berlin (dpa) - Stress is almost guaranteed when flying with a baby. But many parents find the hunt for a child safety seat, acceptable to international airlines and in compliance with various government guidelines, even more stressful. Making the wrong choice can mean reserving a seat, buying or renting a safety seat and then learning just before takeoff that the seat does not pass muster. But not...
April 5, 2009
LONDON, Apr 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Doctors in Britain say a U.S. woman nearly lost a leg as a result of a blood clot caused by her grapefruit diet and her contraceptive pills. Hematologist Dr. Trevor Baglin of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge said the unidentified 42-year-old woman's grapefruit diet appears to have interacted with the contraceptive, causing a blood clot to develop in her left...
April 4, 2009
Apr. 5 - It's not a skill that comes naturally, telling a man he has cancer or a woman that her grandson has drowned. Doctors enter their profession to help and to heal, but they often face a less glorious and grittier job: delivering bad news. For decades, little attention was given to how to perform that task well. But now medical schools and physicians are spending time pondering and practicing...
April 4, 2009
At Hanna's Mideastern Restaurant and Market on Lake Avenue, pistachio addicts can choose: There's a glass canister filled with pistachios from Turkey, another with nuts from California. Lately, store owner John Hanna said, the imports from Turkey have been his customers' favorites. "They taste better," he said Tuesday. But for the next few days, taste won't be the only consideration steering people...
April 4, 2009
A degenerative disease may have stolen Harold Johnson's voice, but not his joy of life. Johnson learned he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in November 2007. Since then, he's gone skydiving and driven a race car at 180 mph. He works out at the gym, plays golf, and cheers on the Greensboro Grasshoppers and his beloved Georgia Bulldogs. He regularly attends Summit Rotary Club meetings, communicating...
April 3, 2009
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