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Baby New Year wanted to make sure that the awful year 2008 was done and gone before she came along yesterday. The first baby of the year in New York City was a late arrival, coming nine minutes after all the gloom and doom of last year fully passed. The official first was Grace Pak, born at 12:09 a.m. at New York Hospital Medical Center in Flushing, Queens. Proud parents Daniel and Sunyoung Lee Pak...
January 2, 2009
HEALTH care, says the man most concerned with that 17 percent of America's economy, can be "a nation-ruining issue." As Michael Leavitt ends four years as secretary of health and human services, he offers this attention-arresting arithmetic: Absent fundamental reforms, over the next two decades the average American household's health-care spending, including the portion of its taxes that pays for Medicare...
January 1, 2009
Jan. 2 - Peter Diessel fidgeted as he sat at a table with other men who had physically abused women. It was his latest attempt to change behavior that stretches back 18 years. His problem, he told the group, had surfaced shortly after his honeymoon. "That's when I started getting abusive," Diessel said later, recalling the moment when he first violently laid hands on his wife. The recent gathering...
January 1, 2009
The National Alliance on Mental Illness, El Paso Chapter, will offer a free educational program for consumers and their families, titled "Choices in Recovery," from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at the San Juan Senior Center, 700 N. Glenwood. The featured speaker will be Dr. Dawn I. Velligan, professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. The purpose of the...
January 1, 2009
More than 30,000 people in Zimbabwe have been diagnosed with cholera, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, as the number of those contracting the deadly disease continues to mount. As many as 31,656 suspected cases were diagnosed to date with one third of them in the capital of Harare, the WHO said. The organisation last reported some 29,131 suspected cases on Monday and 1,564 deaths from the...
January 1, 2009
A brush with death has brought a new career for former Southeast High School health and physical education teacher Sarah Gaila Morrison. One year ago, Morrison was so ill she could barely get out of bed. Today, just eight months after open heart surgery, as a graduate assistant pursuing a master's degree in public health, she is now helping other heart patients prepare and go through the same ordeal...
January 1, 2009
Jan. 1 - OTTUMWA - Imagine every breath you take is filled with microscopic poisons - it could be. Even if you can't see, taste or smell it, it could be there. What is this "silent killer" - radon. Unlike other deadly gases, radon is hard to detect and doesn't have immediate symptoms. It builds up in the lungs and can eventually turn into lung cancer. Studies of radon have been ongoing for several...
January 1, 2009
Jan. 1 - At the stroke of midnight, millions made a New Year's resolution. Some vowed to quit smoking or drinking, others to get out of debt or enjoy life more. Some vowed to get organized, spend more time with family or maybe to help others. And some made the most common resolution of all - to get fit. For those who forge the "losing weight" resolution, it's going to take commitment, motivation and...
December 31, 2008
Diabetes can slow the brain, causing trouble with two types of mental processing in adults of all ages, Canadian researchers reported yesterday. Healthy adults did significantly better than diabetics on two tests of mental functioning - executive functioning and speed of response, according to the University of Alberta study in the journal Neuropsychology. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights...
December 31, 2008
Machines that send fluid circulating through a donated kidney while it is being preserved for transplant keep the organ healthier than the standard method of simply immersing it in fluid and transporting it on ice, doctors reported on Wednesday. The study, the first large-scale international comparison of the two preservation methods, found that while more than a quarter of the 336 kidneys shipped...
December 31, 2008
Merck's popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax and other similar drugs may carry a risk for esophageal cancer, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official said on Wednesday. Diane Wysowski of the FDA's division of drug risk assessment said researchers should check into potential links between so-called bisphosphonate drugs and cancer. In a letter in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, Wysowski...
December 31, 2008
FORT WAYNE, Ind. Nearly 200,000 out-of-hospital incidents of sudden cardiac arrest occur among U.S. residents each year. For every minute care is delayed, survival is decreased. "We used to always think that when the brain didn't get enough oxygen, cells died, but we think now that it's more that the brain is stunned," said Dr. Matt Sutter with Emergency Medicine of Indiana. Sutter works at the Emergency...
December 31, 2008
The preventative use of antibiotics on intensive care patients increases their chance of survival, a study led in the Netherlands and published Wednesday in the United States has found. A team of researchers from the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht compared the effect of two types of antibiotic treatments on nearly 6,000 Dutch patients in intensive care units (ICUs) across thirteen hospitals....
December 31, 2008
BALTIMORE, Dec 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teens signing pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to engage in premarital sex and more likely not to use birth control, U.S. researchers report. The analysis of federal survey data found more than half of teens became sexually active before marriage regardless of a "virginity pledge," The Washington Post reported Monday. "Taking a pledge doesn't...
December 30, 2008
A deadly Ebola outbreak in the central Democratic Republic of Congo has killed nine and infected 21, the UN-sponsored radio Okapi quoted the health minister as saying Thursday. The rare disease, named after a small Congo river, was found in the town of Kampongo, near Mueka in the Western Kasai province, according to Augustin Mopipi. He added that analysis from samples taken on site confirmed the existence...
December 29, 2008
BALTIMORE, Dec 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teens signing pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to engage in premarital sex and more likely not to use birth control, U.S. researchers report. The analysis of federal survey data found more than half of teens became sexually active before marriage regardless of a "virginity pledge," The Washington Post reported Monday. "Taking a pledge doesn't...
December 29, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Serious child malnutrition has increased by nearly two-thirds in parts of Zimbabwe compared to last year, a British non-governmental agency says. A report from the international aid group Save the Children said the jump in malnutrition is seeing many children "wasting away from lack of food," causing innocents to suffer because of a political crisis...
December 28, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Serious child malnutrition has increased by nearly two-thirds in parts of Zimbabwe compared to last year, a British non-governmental agency says. A report from the international aid group Save the Children said the jump in malnutrition is seeing many children "wasting away from lack of food," causing innocents to suffer because of a political crisis...
December 27, 2008
Rescuers took turns at CPR until their arms burned. The man suffering cardiac arrest on the kitchen floor was clinically dead; his wife and children were in tears. "I kept thinking to myself that we as a team controlled the future of this family," North Highline Fire District Chief Scott LaVielle said. Firefighters who found the man with no pulse used a defibrillator, but his heart muscles kept going...
December 26, 2008
A deadly Ebola outbreak in the central Democratic Republic of Congo has killed nine and infected 21, the UN-sponsored radio Okapi quoted the health minister as saying Thursday. The rare disease, named after a small Congo river, was found in the town of Kampongo, near Mueka in the Western Kasai province, according to Augustin Mopipi. He added that analysis from samples taken on site confirmed the existence...
December 25, 2008
In a season that is all about hope, Taunia Oechslin shines like a Christmas star. During a three-year battle with breast cancer, she has been through multiple surgeries and repeated chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She has lost her hair - twice. But she has remained a powerful advocate for breast-cancer prevention and treatment across the region, specifically for the Joyce Murtha Breast Care...
December 25, 2008
Dec. 25 - For one Romanian mom whose baby girl was once given only months to live, the most precious gift of her daughter's young life came this Christmas week when doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston fixed the brave little girl's heart. "They do miracles here," said Oana Geambasu, whose 18-month-old daughter, Sonia, was just 6 days old when doctors in Romania told her that Sonia's heart was on...
December 25, 2008
Yes, the Jewish Santa says, he knows people think it's odd that a man who does not personally celebrate Christmas - not as a child, not as an adult - should dress as the holiday's icon and ho, ho, ho as if it's a primary language. And true, Howard Cohen agrees, even some of his Jewish friends remain perplexed by the Kriss Kringlian devotion of this 53-year-old vice president of Clise Properties, this...
December 24, 2008
Dec. 25 - For more information on organ donation and how to become an organ donor, click here. SILVER CITY - Christmas dawned extra bright this morning for one Silver City man who has literally been given a second chance at life via organ donation. Local business owner Lanny Olson received his new kidney on Aug. 11, after two years and three months of surviving on dialysis, a medical procedure that...
December 24, 2008
Dec. 25 - Health care providers with the University of Virginia's Infectious Disease Clinic are piloting a text-messaging program they hope will improve contact with HIV patients living in rural areas. The program was launched this summer after Mary Rafaly, a UVa clinical social worker doing outreach work with HIV patients, found those living in rural areas missed appointments and fell out of treatment...
December 24, 2008
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