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Cost-effective grocery shopping means getting maximum value from your purchases. Here are my top picks of foods that deliver the most nutrition for less money: Lentils: These cheap pantry staples are a fabulous source of folate, fiber, iron and protein. Among the least expensive legumes, lentils are the easiest to prepare because they don't need presoaking like their bean buddies. (Iberia, 12 ounces,...
February 4, 2009
A portion of the 54-ton AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at Pitt-Johnstown as part of the university's effort to increase awareness of the AIDS epidemic. The quilt was created in 1987 by the NAMES Project Foundation, and sections of it are on display continuously around the country. Six of the quilt's 47,000 panels will be displayed in the Cambria Room of UPJ's Student Union building. An opening...
February 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday signed into law a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, funded through a 61-cent hike in the federal cigarette tax. "This is good. This is good," a smiling Obama said as he entered the East Room of the White House for a packed signing ceremony attended by Gov. Paterson. Paterson's last-minute trip to the White House required him to reschedule...
February 4, 2009
A highly contagious virus that can cause pneumonia in children is far more common than previously believed, a study shows. Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, sends 2.1 million children under age 5 to the doctor or hospital each year, according to a study of more than 5,000 youngsters in today's New England Journal of Medicine. In the study, 20% of children hospitalized for respiratory symptoms -...
February 4, 2009
Feb. 5 - OXFORD - Itchy, watery eyes, sniffles and sneezes are coming early this year, as allergists are already finding high pollen levels. "It's gonna be a bad spring," said Dr. Robert Grubbe, whose practice, Allergy & Asthma Center, is seeing people trickle in complaining of allergies. Two weeks ago, a pollen reader outside his office showed no levels of pollen, he said. By the following Friday,...
February 4, 2009
MANCHESTER, England, Feb 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teenage girls with higher vitamin D levels may be able to jump higher and faster than their peers with lower levels, British researchers found. Lead author Kate Ward of the University of Manchester said that not only does vitamin D work with calcium to keep bones strong, but researchers now believe teenage girls with higher levels of the vitamin may...
February 4, 2009
Researchers looking into the long-term health effects of hormone replacement therapy said on Wednesday they had made the strongest case yet that the pills raise the risk of breast cancer. But other experts and one company that makes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills said they still dispute the conclusion that a recent drop in U.S. breast cancer cases means that HRT was responsible for the disease....
February 4, 2009
A peanut-linked health crisis that has sickened 550 people nationwide and is being blamed for killing another eight has left 21 New Yorkers ill, state officials said yesterday. Although none was in New York City, the outbreaks of peanut-related salmonella include one case in Nassau County and two in Suffolk. The scare started last month. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
February 4, 2009
Ahealthy lifestyle requires people to make sure they're not eating too much sugar. Sugar can cause tooth decay, but an even bigger problem is that sugary foods are "empty calories." When you fill up on these foods, you miss out on the opportunity to eat healthy foods. For example, if you eat a 2-ounce candy bar instead of a healthy snack like an apple, you'll have consumed about 250 calories, but you...
February 4, 2009
Feb. 4 - After three battles with recurring breast cancer, Sally Miller was tired - body and soul. She was 36 years old when she had a double mastectomy to combat her first breast cancer diagnosis. The cancer returned 11 years later on the incision points. She had 33 radiation treatments. The following year, it was back. Doctors scraped her insides from ribs to clavicle and placed her on an estrogen-blocking...
February 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Feb 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The president of the American College of Physicians says the state of healthcare in the United States is poor. Dr. Jeffrey P. Harris said at the annual State of the Nation's Health Care briefing that there are too many uninsured and underinsured people and there are too few primary care physicians. "The problems are big, so the solutions must also be big,"...
February 3, 2009
Many women are fair-weather exercisers, walking an average of 2,000 more steps a day in the summer than in the winter, a study shows. That's about 1 mile more a day. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh tracked the physical activity of 508 post-menopausal women in the city for 18 months as part of a study looking at the impact of diet and exercise on women's risk of cardiovascular disease. The...
February 3, 2009
The prepubescent children of days gone by have given way to a cooler kid - the tween - who aspires to teenhood but is not quite there yet. Tweens are in-between - generally the 8-to-12 set. The U.S. Census estimates that in 2009, tweens are about 20 million strong and projected to hit almost 23 million by 2020. Among them now are Malia Obama, at 10 already a tween, and sister Sasha, who turns 8 this...
February 3, 2009
ATLANTA, Feb 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. states had a small decrease in mammography utilization from 2000 to 2006, federal health officials said. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta showed that although mammography use in 17 states had increased slightly during the period, usage in the rest of the states and the District of Columbia had...
February 3, 2009
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Feb 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Patients with leg pain caused by arterial disease may be able to forego treatment of the affected artery by participating in hospital-supervised exercise. Various treatments are available, including drug therapy or endovascular revascularization - a minimally invasive technique that widens and restores blood flow to the affected artery - for intermittent...
February 3, 2009
CARDIFF, Wales, Feb 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Cardiff University study found a link between anti-social behavior in children whose mothers smoked in pregnancy. The scientists at the University's Schools of Medicine and Psychology examined the records of 779 children born by in-vitro fertilization whose prenatal environment was provided by either a related mother or an unrelated mother. The study,...
February 3, 2009
San Francisco (dpa) - Teenagers who watch a lot of television or spend long hours playing video games run a higher risk for depression as adults, according to a US study published this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry. In the study, which began in 1995, 4,100 adolescents were asked about their television viewing habits and use of other electronic media such as video games. None of the participants...
February 3, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Feb 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children and teens with healthier nutrition, active lifestyles, food security and greater healthcare access are more likely to use vitamins, researchers say. Dr. Ulfat Shaikh of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento and colleagues analyzed data from 10,828 children ages 2 to 17 who participated in the 1999 to 2004 National Health...
February 3, 2009
Feb. 3 - Getting a shot can save a whole lot of suffering, especially if the shot is loaded with flu vaccine. State and local health officials on Monday said influenza is officially widespread throughout the state. They made the conclusion after reviewing preliminary data and tests results from hospitals, urgent care facilities and doctors' offices. The number of total confirmed cases was not available...
February 3, 2009
Reno County's reported cases of sexually transmitted disease have increased dramatically in recent years, prompting concerns among health officials. Reports of chlamydia jumped more than 52 percent, and gonorrhea 154 percent, during the first half of 2008, compared to the first half of 2000. "It's more concern than I've had in a long time," Reno County Health Department Director Judy Seltzer told county...
February 2, 2009
NEWARK, Del., Feb 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say exercise to strengthen muscles after knee replacement surgery is critical to recovering function. The randomized controlled trial study, published in Arthritis Care & Research, determined the 200 patients receiving strength training showed much greater improvement in strength and function over the next 12 months - as measured by tests...
February 2, 2009
Police Chief Sam Granato on Monday expressed sadness at the weekend suicide of one of his former officers, saying the tragic case highlights the need for law-enforcement personnel to manage the effects of their stressful jobs. "Stress and depression kill more police officers than anything else," Granato said, making it "very important that police understand they're human, and that they reach out and...
February 2, 2009
Pity poor peanut butter. For years it has been maligned as a food that some people are allergic to and others believe is too high in calories. And now a salmonella scare may have marred its reputation further, despite the fact that jars of national name-brand peanut butter sold in supermarkets appear to be safe. The danger is primarily in peanut butter sold in bulk to institutions such as nursing homes...
February 2, 2009
Have you ever sat frazzled in a doctor's office, waiting for your or your child's appointment, only to glance up and see one of those Norman Rockwell paintings of a kindly old doctor gently pressing a stethoscope against the heart of a little girl's doll? In this age of managed health care, when personal doctoring is shoved behind the priority of filling out forms and charging co-pays, it's enough...
February 2, 2009
Common antidepressants suspected of raising suicide risk among children reduce the risk for adults, Italian scientists reported on Monday. The findings that the drugs cut suicide risk by more than 40 percent among adults and over 50 percent for elderly people should reassure doctors, the researchers said. But the study confirmed the drugs seriously raise the suicide risk for children, Corrado Barbui...
February 2, 2009
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