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EL PASO, Texas, Feb 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - One-third of El Paso, Texas, residents cross the Texas-Mexico border to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for medication and healthcare services, researchers said. Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health El Paso Regional campus found cross-border medication shopping and medical attention can present health dangers - including medications laced...
February 22, 2009
NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The sickest workers claiming ailments caused by the cleanup of the World Trade Center will be the first to have their cases heard in court, a U.S. judge says. The first 30 trials are to begin May 17, 2010, said U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. "Their cases deserved to be tried first, for if they were to prevail, they have the greatest need for a monetary...
February 22, 2009
Feb. 22 - Bob Svangren didn't know how he would pay for the costly medication he needed after he was diagnosed with diabetes nearly three years ago. The Kennewick man doesn't have health insurance, and his insulin can cost $250 a month, he said. But when Svangren started going to Kennewick's Grace Clinic, the staff there told him about drug manufacturer prescription assistance plans that provide free...
February 22, 2009
Feb. 22 - A local youth coalition is hoping a Web site will inspire the estimated 16 percent of Pima County youths who are smokers to give their habit a second thought. Nearly 200 teens who are part of a county tobacco-prevention program are expected to promote www.venomocity.com around Tucson, including at tonight's Slow Jams Live concert at the Tucson Convention Center and at this week's annual Tucson...
February 22, 2009
Feb. 22 - Financial problems are said to be at the heart of most divorce. But even with the economy in a downward spiral, a divorcing couple's dwindling bank account may not be its only - or even largest - problem. When a marriage breaks apart, the couple's children may fall apart, too - academically, socially and emotionally - health officials say. Divorce provided a subtext in the recent debate over...
February 22, 2009
ATLANTA, Feb 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Young U.S. adults face obesity, high injury rates and lack of insurance coverage compared with older adults, health officials said. "Health, United States: 2008" is the 32nd annual edition of the report prepared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. It includes a compilation of health data from a number of sources...
February 22, 2009
Feb. 22 - Dallas Stars forward Toby Petersen is a 30-year-old journeyman. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Clarke, 59, doesn't know Petersen but feels a kinship to him. Both have diabetes. An estimated 23 million Americans have the potentially body-ravaging disease, but only a handful have combated it while playing the punishing sport of professional hockey. Medical advances have made managing diabetes easier...
February 22, 2009
With a crippled economy forcing millions of cash-strapped Americans to entertain themselves at home, it's not surprising that one particular product is seeing a sales increase - condoms. While car purchases plummeted and designer clothes mostly stayed on the racks, sales of condoms in the U.S. rose 5% in the fourth quarter of 2008, and 6% in January vs. the same time periods the previous year, The...
February 21, 2009
With a crippled economy forcing millions of cash-strapped Americans to entertain themselves at home, it's not surprising that one particular product is seeing a sales increase - condoms. While car purchases plummeted and designer clothes mostly stayed on the racks, sales of condoms in the U.S. rose 5% in the fourth quarter of 2008, and 6% in January vs. the same time periods the previous year, The...
February 21, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say they've found mercury in samples of high fructose corn syrup and more than a dozen products containing the sweetener. A study published in the journal Environmental Health found mercury in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of high fructose corn syrup. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found mercury...
February 21, 2009
BISMARCK, N.D., Feb 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - North Dakota's House of Representatives has passed a bill effectively outlawing abortion in the state. The House-approved legislation declares that a fertilized egg has all the rights of any person, KXMC-TV of Minot, N.D., reported Wednesday. Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, has unsuccessfully sponsored other bills banning abortion in previous legislative sessions....
February 21, 2009
NORWICH, England, Feb 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People with unhealthy lifestyles have double the risk of stroke than those who eat and drink sensibly, don't smoke and exercise, a British study found. The study involved 20,040 men and women in Britain ages 40-79, who were taking part in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer Study. From 1993-97, participants completed a detailed health...
February 20, 2009
KINGSTON, Ontario, Feb 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Infection prevention and control resources in Canadian nursing homes fall short of recommended standards, a Queen's University study shows. Study leader Dr. Dick Zoutman, medical director of infection prevention and control at Kingston General Hospital and Providence Care, said the national survey of 488 facilities is the first comprehensive examination...
February 20, 2009
The incidence of strokes in low- and middle-income countries has doubled since 1970, surpassing for the first time the rate in rich nations, down by 40 percent over the same period, report two studies released Friday. The research also reveals huge gaps in stroke-related mortality: in Russia, for example, the condition is nearly ten times more deadly than in Canada, France, the United States or Israel....
February 20, 2009
LEADING an unhealthy lifestyle more than doubles the risk of stroke, experts warned today following a study on more 20,000 people. Researchers found that people who drank too much alcohol, ate too few fruit and vegetables, took little exercise and smoked were far more likely to suffer a stroke. Men and women aged 40 to 79 with no known history of stroke were recruited for the study, carried out in...
February 20, 2009
People with early Alzheimer's disease, though often very functional in many areas of life, may not be as competent behind the wheel of a car as those without the memory-damaging disease. "Our research indicates that even among people who have early, mild cases of cognitive decline, there is an immediate drop-off in driving skills," says study author Jeffrey Dawson, an associate professor of biostatistics...
February 20, 2009
Someday soon, your grocery shopping list could look like this: Breakfast cereal - 40 points or higher. Fish - At least 80 points. Cookies - Anything over 10 points OK. The numbers, which can range from 1 to 100, are nutritional value scores calculated on a new scale that the Rotterdam-based Price Chopper supermarket chain is introducing in all 117 of its stores. The idea, say Price Chopper officials,...
February 20, 2009
The acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that comments by President Barack Obama have encouraged him to believe that science will play a major role in crafting policy on public health. "It was very exciting to hear President Obama say that science will have a seat at the policy table," said Dr. Richard Besser, who has been the CDC's acting director for a month....
February 19, 2009
BOULDER, Colo., Feb 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teenagers who receive pressure from peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods turn them up higher, U.S. researchers found. University of Colorado at Boulder audiologist and doctoral candidate Cory Portnuff, who headed the study in conjunction with associate professor Kathryn Arehart and Brian Fligor of Children's Hospital Boston, found teenage...
February 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The laws of a majority of U.S. states do not interfere with federal HIV testing guidelines, a researcher said. Laws in 34 states and the District of Columbia are consistent with or do not affect the recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which make it routine - unless they "opt-out" - for patients age 13 to 64 in all...
February 19, 2009
SEATTLE, Feb 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Anti-social behavior among girls and anxiety among both sexes predicted depression in early adolescence, U.S. researchers found. University of Washington social scientists tracked first- and second-graders for seven years and found that surprisingly, early signs of depression were not predictive of adolescent depression. "Anti-social behavior has typically been...
February 19, 2009
Children of parents with Alzheimer's disease can develop memory problems in their 50s or even younger - much earlier than previously thought - according to a large study released Wednesday by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine. The study subjects, who carried a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's, performed worse in memory tests, on average, than other middle-aged people who had the...
February 19, 2009
Children of parents with Alzheimer's disease can develop memory problems in their 50s or even younger - much earlier than previously thought - according to a large study released Wednesday by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine. The study subjects, who carried a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's, performed worse in memory tests, on average, than other middle-aged people who had the...
February 19, 2009
A teaspoon of moistened sugar under the tongue could save the lives of thousands of children suffering from hypoglycaemia caused by malaria, a researcher who conducted clinical trials said Thursday. Malaria claims more than a million lives a year - 800,000 of them African children aged under five - and sickens hundreds of millions more, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The rapid drop...
February 19, 2009
Young adults today aren't any healthier than 10 to 15 years ago, and in some cases - obesity, for one - they are significantly less so, says a federal report on the nation's health released Wednesday. The annual report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, is based on the most recent data available from a variety of health sources. It covers health issues across ages and includes for the...
February 19, 2009
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