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In 1943, in a time of war, Eleanor Roosevelt planted a victory garden on the White House lawn. On Friday, as America fights obesity and unhealthful eating habits, Michelle Obama will begin to plant an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn. While the garden will provide food for the first family, the White House staff and important dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be...
March 19, 2009
Black adults in the United States developed heart failure at a startling rate 20 times higher than did whites, even dying of it decades before the condition typically strikes whites, in a large study of the causes of heart disease, according to researchers. Heart failure typically occurs in the elderly and is rare in young adults. Researchers did not expect to see much of it among the 5,115 young blacks...
March 19, 2009
CHICAGO, Mar 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Food prices can affect weight outcomes and pricing interventions can have a significant effect on obesity rates, U.S. researchers said. Lisa Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka of the University of Illinois at Chicago assessed research published between 1990-2008 that involved weight and body mass index in combination with pricing and taxes. The study, published in...
March 19, 2009
The needle stick "didn't hurt at all," Tulsa County Detention Officer Joseph Meyer said. And the rapid glucose test told him that he isn't one of roughly 6 million Americans walking around with undetected diabetes. "I can see why it would be important," he said. "My wife's grandma just passed away, and she had it. I've seen the bad effects of it." The American Diabetes Association of Eastern Ok- lahoma...
March 18, 2009
PRINCETON, N.J., Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Heart failure affects African-Americans in their 30s and 40s at the same rate as Caucasians in their 50 and 60s, U.S. researchers have found. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found 1 in 100 African-American men and women developed heart failure at an average age of 39 - 20 times the rate in Caucasians. Heart failure in African-Americans...
March 18, 2009
The USA's banner year for babies in 2007 set a record of 4.31 million - and was driven in large part by growing numbers of unmarried adult women giving birth, new government data show. Childbearing by unmarried women reached "historic levels," the report says, to an estimated 1.7 million, or 40% of all births. There were increases in the birth rate and the proportion of births as well as an increase...
March 18, 2009
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Mar 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A tattoo parlor and a regional government outside Toronto have been named in a $20 million class action lawsuit for possibly endangering clients. Lawyer Todd McCarthy said the suit alleges the MoonShin Tattoo and piercing shop in Mississauga, which borders Toronto to the west, was lax in keeping records of sterilizing equipment use and maintenance...
March 18, 2009
OXFORD, England, Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Severe obesity can shorten a life by up to 10 years - comparable with the effects of lifelong smoking, British researchers said. A review of nearly 60 long-term studies involving almost 1 million people worldwide, led by researchers at the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, found moderate obesity shortens life expectancy by up to 4 years....
March 18, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The New York Yankees announced Wednesday the new Yankee Stadium will become the first antimicrobial facility in Major League Baseball. CSG, a provider of antimicrobial products, treatments and services, will treat the baseball stadium using the Sports Antimicrobial System, team officials said. The system is a comprehensive process that kills illness-causing...
March 18, 2009
CHICAGO, Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A new generation vaccine has big benefits beyond eliminating the "ouch!" factor, say U.S. researchers working on a vaccine delivered via a smoothie. Mansour Mohamadzadeh of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago have developed a new oral vaccine using probiotics, the healthy bacteria found in dairy products such as yogurt and cheese....
March 18, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've identified criteria that, when combined with kidney function measures, could create a risk score for heart-kidney transplants. Dr. Mark Russo of Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who led the study, said such a risk score could help identify patients who are likely to receive a survival benefit from...
March 18, 2009
BRASILIA, Brazil, Mar 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teenage girls have alarmingly high rates of sexually transmitted infections, largely undetected by recommended screening guidelines, Brazilian researchers say. Maria de Fatima C. Alves and a team of researchers at the Federal Universities of Goias and Minas Gerais and the Family Health Program in Brazil investigated chlamydia and gonorrhea infections...
March 18, 2009
LA HABRA, Calif., Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Two of the Nadya Suleman's octuplets arrived at their La Habra, Calif., home after being discharged from the hospital, where six babies remain. Noah Angel and Isaiah Angel arrived at their home Tuesday night, driven in a sport utility vehicle that moved slowly through a crowd of onlookers before it reached the house, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday....
March 18, 2009
Natasha Richardson's tragic ski accident should remind everyone to strap on a helmet before setting foot on snow, industry experts said yesterday. Richardson wasn't wearing a helmet when she fell during a private lesson on the bunny slope of a Canadian ski resort Monday. "I don't know if there's a solid argument against wearing one," said Troy Hawks of the trade group the National Ski Areas Association....
March 17, 2009
WASHINGTON, Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Three U.S. House of Representatives committee chairman say they will work together to pass healthcare reform advanced by U.S. President Barack Obama. Democrats George Miller and Henry Waxman of California and Charles Rangel of New York have written to Obama saying similar legislation would be brought to each committee, adding, "We intend to work from a single...
March 17, 2009
Mar. 18 - Is Jerry Lewis, the godfather of telethons, in danger of being replaced by a father and son operating out of a spare bedroom with an Apple computer? Jay (the son) and Jack Gladfelter may not be quite ready to unseat Lewis, now in his 44th year with the telethon that benefits muscular dystrophy. But they are hoping to capitalize on the success of their 3-year-old "The Lost Podcast with Jay...
March 17, 2009
URBANA , Ill., Mar 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study financed by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association suggests dieters can lose more fat by choosing protein over carbohydrates. Donald Layman, professor emeritus of nutrition at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, said dieters who eat too many carbohydrates often end up battling snack cravings, the Champaign News-Gazette reported Monday....
March 17, 2009
When Kevin Lebret-White's oncologist examined him in December 2006, the prognosis was not good. The then-36-year-old Wellpinit, Wash., elementary school teacher was told that his colorectal cancer had metastasized and, at best, he had two years to live. "I thought about my wife and my two daughters," Lebret-White recalls. "How would I take care of them financially? I thought about all the great days...
March 17, 2009
Strong religious faith can comfort people who are dying of cancer, allowing patients to find meaning in their suffering and easing their passage from life. But faith can be a "double-edged sword," says nurse Carol Taylor, director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University. Some terminally ill patients latch on to stories of biblical miracles, hoping to be cured, instead of using...
March 17, 2009
HOUSTON, Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A University of Houston sociologist says the obesity "epidemic" may be overstated and more of a moral panic. Assistant sociology professor Samantha Kwan says the term obesity - constructed by the medical community and the use of Body Mass Index as the main factor to define obesity - has resulted in the media greatly overstating the rise of the condition. "This...
March 17, 2009
VATICAN CITY, Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pope Benedict XVI landed Tuesday in Cameroon after telling reporters on the plane that condoms will not "overcome" AIDS. The weeklong trip to Cameroon and Angola is the pope's first to the continent since he began his reign four years ago, The Telegraph reported. It comes at a time when Africans are an increasingly important part of the Roman Catholic Church....
March 17, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Mar 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The stress of first love, first break up, gossip, exams and fights with parents can impact teens' health when they become adults, U.S. researchers said. Andrew J. Fuligni of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues report that in a study of otherwise healthy, normal teens who self-reported various negative interpersonal interactions, researchers...
March 16, 2009
ROCKVILLE, Md., Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Aspirin used to prevent heart attacks or strokes may have different benefits and downsides in men and women, a U.S. task force said. The new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force - an independent panel of experts - do not apply to people who have already had a heart attack or stroke. The recommendations, published in the Annals...
March 16, 2009
WASHINGTON, Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The number of adolescents ages 12-17 who inhale household items such as glue, shoe polish, lighter fluid and spray paint, has declined, U.S. officials said. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health defines inhalants as "liquids, sprays, and gases that people sniff or inhale to get high or to make them feel good." In 2007, almost 1 million teens - a 3.9...
March 16, 2009
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Sayed Rahman, a student from Bangladesh, has learned that health care in the USA can be expensive. He has had to pay high fees, sometimes $500, he says, to see a doctor when he is sick. "Health care is a big thing," says Rahman, 21, as he looks over a pamphlet for low-cost health insurance at a health care fair last month at Pimmit Hills High School, an alternative school for recent...
March 16, 2009
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