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BALTIMORE, Feb 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Volunteers who tutored children burned twice as many calories as non-volunteers, U.S. researchers said. The study, published in Journals of Gerontology, found the volunteers had double the level of activity doing household chores, exercising or recreating than that of non-volunteers. The researchers surveyed and collected medical information for 71 Experience...
February 11, 2009
Feb. 11 - Utah's Latina teens have an alarmingly high birth rate: They are nearly four times more likely than other 15- to 17-year-olds to have a baby. The Utah Department of Health is releasing the report on Latino health disparities today as part of a series exploring the challenges facing Utah minorities. It shows that while nearly 18 of every 1,000 girls ages 15 to 17 in the general Utah population...
February 11, 2009
Feb. 11 - Nearly all women have a drawer full of cosmetic products to brighten their faces, cover blemishes, spruce hair, close pores and moisturize their skin. In fact, according to the Mexican Dermatology Board, a typical Mexican woman uses nine separate beauty products with 126 different chemical elements as part of her daily grooming routines. But because many products are not required to be tested...
February 10, 2009
Patient treatment could be restricted and health-care rationed under a provision in the economic-stimulus legislation, critics say. A $3 billion Health Information Technology system included in the bill calls for all Americans' medical records to be computerized by 2014. President Obama says the plan will help bolster medical care, reduce errors and cut costs. But critics see it as a power grab advancing...
February 10, 2009
WASHINGTON, Feb 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Defense Department report suggests U.S. troops are gaining weight under the stress of combat deployments. The study, published in the department's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, says nearly one in 20 servicemen are diagnosed as clinically overweight, USA Today reported Tuesday. Stress and return from combat deployment were cited as the most frequent...
February 10, 2009
HOUSTON, Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. health educator advises giving the gift of cancer prevention - dark chocolate on Valentine's Day. Sally Scroggs of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention Center in Houston also advises adding a special message in the card noting dark chocolate may aid in cancer prevention. "Dark chocolate has a higher percentage of healthy...
February 10, 2009
TORONTO, Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian researchers have added worrying about the troubled economy to the list of things that can trigger flare-ups of the chronic skin condition eczema. Emotional factors - including stress - were reported to be the most common cause of flare-ups in three out of four eczema sufferers, a Canadian survey indicates. The Eczema Awareness, Support and Education...
February 10, 2009
Obese pregnant women are slightly more at risk of having babies with birth defects, according to an analysis of several studies published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). While the absolute risk increase is likely to be small, congenital anomalies linked to maternal obesity include, "a neural tube defect (nearly twice the odds), including spina bifida (more than twice...
February 10, 2009
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Exercise improves quality of life in post-menopausal women even if they don't lose weight, U.S. researchers suggest. Corby K. Martin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Louisiana State University System in Baton Rouge and colleagues studied the effect of 50 percent, 100 percent and 150 percent of current public health physical activity...
February 10, 2009
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An Israeli study suggests patients with high cholesterol levels who continually take statins have a lower risk of death over four to five years. Researchers at Maccabi Healthcare Services and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel, said the lower death risk was seen regardless of whether the patients already had diagnosed heart disease....
February 10, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists say they've discovered a topical eye emulsion might become a cost-effective treatment for dry eye syndrome. Dr. Melissa Brown of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said the emulsion consisting of cyclosporine - a medication used to reduce transplant rejections or to treat arthritis and psoriasis - could be used when...
February 10, 2009
NEW YORK, Feb 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Eating a Mediterranean diet appears to be associated with less risk of mild cognitive impairment, New York researchers said. Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas and colleagues at Columbia University Medical Center in New York calculated a score for adherence to the Mediterranean diet among 1,393 individuals with no cognitive problems and 482 patients with mild cognitive...
February 10, 2009
Popping a multivitamin might make you feel healthier, but research out today suggests the benefit might be all in your head. Half of all Americans routinely take dietary supplements, a $20-billion-a-year market, and multivitamins are the most commonly used, the authors write in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "People want to take control of their health," says lead author Marian Neuhouser, an associate...
February 10, 2009
Under the Gold Medal School program, elementary schools around the state have made exercise and good nutrition a priority. Some have put recess before lunch, so youngsters don't scarf down their food or scrap it altogether in a rush to get outside. Principals are giving out pencils and stickers as rewards instead of candy. Some classes are growing vegetable gardens, and some schools have added 45 minutes...
February 10, 2009
Only a small percentage of people who get the flu or a similar illness are prescribed drugs shown to treat the virus, according to a Thomson Reuters study released yesterday. The report found that 4 percent to 6 percent of patients with influenza-like illnesses filled a prescription for an antiviral medication. Doctors usually recommend only rest, fluids and, perhaps, analgesics for treating viruses...
February 9, 2009
Like any mother facing a long day in the car and then on a plane with two young kids, ages 4 and 5, Jennifer Krieger of Alexandria, Va., was prepared. "I bought peanut butter crackers," she says, "thinking it would be a great healthy snack to take on the trip, easy to throw in my bag, and it won't go bad." But things went bad, in ways that Krieger couldn't have imagined. A long-awaited Christmas vacation...
February 9, 2009
Longtime patients are familiar with filling out forms from physicians and health insurers, but not like this one. Called a "Request for Medication to End My Life in a Humane and Dignified Manner," the proposed form would be used by terminally ill Washington residents to initiate a specified process that would lead to their deaths. "I understand the full import of this request and I expect to die when...
February 9, 2009
BELTSVILLE, Md., Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A compound of the Tauroniro tree in South America has been found to be effective in deterring mosquitoes from biting and to repel ticks, researchers said. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology found that isolongifolenone deters the biting of the mosquitoes - known spreaders of diseases such as malaria, West Nile virus and Lyme disease...
February 9, 2009
It wasn't the typical Sunday service. The Rev. Sheridan Todd Yeary stood before the congregation at Douglas Memorial Community Church with a tray of ham and cheese and doughnuts. The senior pastor used the props to compare physical health to spiritual well-being. "Heart health is not about you," Yeary told the congregation. "It's about honoring the God that made you. "God's plan for healthy living...
February 9, 2009
Women who took multivitamins for years did not lower their risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke or premature death from any cause, researchers reported on Monday. The large study was the latest to indicate that various vitamin supplements do not prevent common chronic diseases even as consumers spend billions of dollars on these popular products that line supermarket and drug store shelves. "Essentially,...
February 9, 2009
DENVER, Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health officials say they've treated the first known case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in the United States. An unidentified patient treated a year ago at Lutheran Medical Center in Denver was later found to have the disease, apparently contracting it in Uganda, the Rocky Mountain News reported Monday. Hospital officials told the newspaper they are working with...
February 9, 2009
MONTREAL, Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Canadian researcher says narcotics have a much greater effect on the brains of the mentally ill. Dr. Stephane Potvin of the University of Montreal says the deterioration of the cerebral structures caused by addictive drug consumption may be irreversible in the mentally ill who in 33 percent to 50 percent of cases suffer from drug addiction and who - particularly...
February 9, 2009
BALTIMORE, Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say global warming might delay the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some parts of the Earth, negatively affecting public health. Researchers led by Johns Hopkins University Professor Darryn Waugh said they discovered increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely, the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions...
February 9, 2009
Andy Sanchez is a full-speed ahead kind of guy. A decade-long veteran of the West Haven Police Department, the 34-year-old officer was recently appointed to the street crime unit and continues to serve as a police liaison to the Hispanic community. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sanchez re-enlisted in the Army and was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he served as a member of the 344th Military...
February 9, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Using money to achieve life experiences - like eating out - rather than material possessions leads to greater happiness, U.S. researchers found. Ryan Howell of San Francisco State University said the study demonstrates experiential purchases result in increased well-being because they satisfy higher order needs, specifically the need for social connectedness...
February 8, 2009
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