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"I learned how to eat healthy," said 11-year-old Cedrick Edwards. Cedrick was among 70 fifth-graders from the Wynnton Academy who spent Tuesday at Wynnton United Methodist Church learning about nutrition and exercise. This was the third year for the Junior League of Columbus' Kids in the Kitchen program, which is part of an international project from Junior Leagues International Inc., to educate children...
April 1, 2009
NEW YORK - Fashion is the last thing on Donna Karan's mind at the moment. When she says the designer's role is "not only to dress people but to address them as well," it is clear she will not be chatting about her latest wardrobe creations. A longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation, she has contributed $850,000 to the Beth Israel Medical Center to bring yoga therapy and a new kind of caregiving...
March 31, 2009
OTTAWA, Apr 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume certain brands of smoked salmon and lox due to possible bacterial contamination. The manufacturer, Niagara Smoked Fish Ltd. of Mississauga, Ontario, said the products - distributed in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta - might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall includes Strubs-brand...
March 31, 2009
Pedro Zamora's 1994 appearance on MTV reality show The Real World was a landmark media event: the first openly HIV-positive gay man on a nationwide TV series. Fifteen years later, Zamora's reality TV appearance and short life are now the basis for a scripted MTV biopic, Pedro, airing tonight (8 ET/PT). Zamora, who died at 22 just as Real World: San Francisco ended, was a teen when he learned he was...
March 31, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - New York City smokers will soon pay $9 or more for a pack of cigarettes, or about $275 a month for those smoking a pack a day, health officials said. City health department officials estimate the 62-cent federal excise tax increase, which goes into effect Wednesday, will prompt about 20,000 adult New Yorkers to quit smoking - a response that would prevent more...
March 31, 2009
Combining an anti-plaque forming drug with aspirin could cut the risk of strokes and heart attacks by more than 20 percent, a new study said Tuesday. Plavix, known under the generic name of clopidogrel, is used to stop the platelets in blood from coagulating and forming clots. Researchers combined it with aspirin, in clinical trials known as ACTIVE-A of 7,554 patients, to show that it could help patients...
March 31, 2009
Cologne, Germany (dpa) - Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral infection, it can have deadly consequences. It's advisable to three or four days pass before resuming your workout routine. The condition, myocarditis, slows down the return to the gym. The heart muscle tissue can become infected "more often than you'd think," says Hans-Georg Predel, head of...
March 31, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists say they've demonstrated an economic benefit to the diagnosis of celiac disease in a managed care U.S. population. The researchers at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center said they determined increased awareness and diagnosis of celiac disease would benefit not only patients, but also would reduce health care...
March 31, 2009
ORLANDO - A once-a-day polypill that combines aspirin, blood-pressure and cholesterol drugs sharply reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, potentially offering an inexpensive way to save millions of lives, researchers reported Monday. The experimental five-drug combination proved about as safe and effective as each drug given alone. It cut a patient's risk of heart attack by 62% and stroke by...
March 31, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Parents who smoke should think seriously about the impact their death would have on their children, a media campaign by New York City health officials says. About 400,000 New York City adult smokers live with a child. Smoking takes the lives of 8,000 adults each year in the city, many of whom leave children behind, the ad campaign says. The television ad features...
March 30, 2009
WASHINGTON - In its most sweeping effort to determine whether toxic chemicals permeate the air schoolchildren breathe, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce plans today to monitor the air outside 62 schools in 22 states. Texas and Ohio have the most schools on the list, with seven each; Pennsylvania has six. The plan will cost about $2.25 million and includes taking samples outside...
March 30, 2009
Frequent flier John DiScala says his heart began to race and his stomach turned when he heard that a US Airways plane had plunged into the Hudson River in January. After learning everyone on board survived, his eyes welled with tears. The US Airways "Miracle on the Hudson" was a frightening reminder to DiScala of two emergency landings he was involved in within nine days two years ago. "The cabin got...
March 30, 2009
A California company is recalling 2 million pounds of pistachios distributed nationwide after testing found them to be contaminated with salmonella. The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to avoid eating all pistachios and foods containing them until it can confirm which pistachios might be affected. David Acheson, FDA associate commissioner for foods, says there have been no illnesses...
March 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Mar 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Improvements in prevention, early detection and treatment have greatly reduced the death toll from colon cancer, a U.S. researcher says. "While colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States, it is the most preventable major cancer," Dr. Randolph Hecht of the University of California, Los Angeles, says in a statement....
March 30, 2009
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Mar 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Caffeine-naive individuals and habitual users have the same amount of reduction in pain during exercise after caffeine consumption, U.S. researchers say. University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl said the study's 25 participants were fit, college-age males divided into two distinct groups - subjects whose everyday...
March 30, 2009
Taking supplements of Omega-3, the fatty acids found in fish, showed no added benefits for heart attack patients, a German study found Monday, contradicting previous research. "The OMEGA trial found no significant differences in the rates of heart attack, stroke, sudden cardiac death or death from any cause among patients assigned to guidelines-based optimal medical care alone or optimal medical care...
March 30, 2009
BOSTON, Mar 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical researchers say the positive effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in treating brain tumors appears to result from edema reduction. The Massachusetts General Hospital scientists said the reduction in size of the brain tumors, called glioblastomas, appears to result primarily from reduction of the swelling of brain tissue and not from any direct anti-tumor...
March 30, 2009
GOTHENBURG , Sweden, Mar 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - About 5 percent of those with eczema were allergic to the air oxidized form of a popular shampoo and soap fragrance, a researcher in Sweden said. Dermatologist Johanna Brared Christensson said considerably more people than previously believed are allergic to the most common fragrance ingredient - linalool - used in shampoos, conditioners and soap....
March 30, 2009
Hamburg (dpa) - Diabetics are not only at higher risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, they are also more susceptible to diseases of the eyes, kidneys and nervous system. But in cases where blood-sugar levels are well controlled, and blood pressure and blood fat levels reduced, the risk is lower, according to Jens Kroeger from Germany's Centre for Diabetology in Hamburg. Writing in the health...
March 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Mar 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children in many California elementary schools are at risk of diseases like measles because schoolmates have not been vaccinated, health officials say. The Los Angeles Times analyzed state data and reported that parents who opt out of state-mandated vaccinations are concentrated in high-income areas. The schools with high percentages of unvaccinated children,...
March 30, 2009
Not long ago, when infectious-disease specialist Connie Price saw a patient hospitalized with flu at Denver Health Medical Center, she had a powerful weapon at hand: a drug that could shorten the course of the illness and lessen its misery. Now, the strength of that weapon, Tamiflu, has been undermined by a widely circulating flu strain, type A H1N1, that has developed the ability to resist the drug....
March 30, 2009
Berlin (dpa) - Vaccinations can alleviate the symptoms of hay fever when conventional methods such as nasal sprays, eye drops and antihistamines fail, according to Germany's Berlin-based Professional Association of Dermatologists. This form of treatment is called immunotherapy and should be initiated weeks in advance of pollination. Those who are allergic to the pollen of the hazel and alder trees...
March 29, 2009
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Mar 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Video games that involve high levels of action - such as first-person-shooter games - increase a player's real-world vision, a U.S. researcher found. Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester said the ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray has long been thought to be an attribute of the human visual system that cannot be improved....
March 29, 2009
The way Carolyn Thurmond figures it, she lost almost 30 pounds in five months, and she spent less than $1 a day to do it. Thurmond, 42, who home-schools her three children in Advance, N.C., weighed 192 pounds in December 2007 and was having foot problems, heart palpitations and frequent fatigue. She saw a photo of herself and says: "I was horrified. I looked like someone blew me up. My face looked...
March 29, 2009
Munich (dpa) - Extra-strong ultraviolet (UV) light rays are best avoided during pregnancy, according to an association of German doctors. Pregnant women should pay particularly close attention to the duration and strength of UV rays in tanning studios, the BVF Professional Association of Gynaecologists advises. Due to the extra hormones in their system, pregnant women sometimes report that their skin...
March 29, 2009
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