Also On Wellness
Health and Wellness News
The release this January of the first dissolvable tobacco product by a major company has some public health officials concerned. "This is a wake-up call for the public health community," says Gregory Connolly of Harvard School of Public Health. "It's a total sea change." For smokers who can't light up in the office or at a restaurant, a new aspirin-size tablet, called "Camel Orb," will let tobacco...
December 24, 2008
Beverly Fawcett says AIDS is a disease people still have a hard time talking about. "People whisper about it," Fawcett said. "They think it's not respectable like cancer, and HIV and AIDS are still back behind the door. That makes it hard to get help." From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, which is World AIDS day, a Craven County nonprofit support organization will try to raise awareness of the disease by...
December 24, 2008
Just one extra hour of sleep a day appears to lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease, researchers said yesterday. Artery-calcification rates ranged from 27 percent among those sleeping less than five hours a night to 6 percent among those sleeping more than seven hours, says the University of Chicago Medical School study appearing in the Journal...
December 23, 2008
Something about Carol Blackwell is reminiscent of the main character from this year's film Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Not because she solves her and everyone else's relationship problems in 24 hours. But like Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, Carol focuses intently on the present and in subtle, loving ways makes everyone around her feel all right at the end of the day. Carol's husband, Bob, 66, a retired...
December 23, 2008
Dec. 24 - In a pickup basketball game, Gary Jarvis jumped for the rebound. The heart attack that seized him mid-air would later stop him from remembering that leap - as well as the heroism of four nurses who saved his life. On the gym floor of Berean Baptist Church, the 59-year-old Burnsville man lay dying as the nurses ran to him from the sanctuary, where they were readying for their weekly Bible...
December 23, 2008
Mary Beth Ireland didn't feel right. Her lower jaw hurt and she was winded, but she wasn't alarmed. She had a New Year's dinner to prepare for her family. But when Ireland, 47, of Natrona Heights awoke shortly before ringing in 2008 with hardly the strength to walk to her kitchen, she gave in and went to the hospital. Doctors said she got there just in time to avoid what the medical profession calls...
December 23, 2008
CHICAGO - Older adults in the United States are popping prescription pills, over-the-counter drugs and dietary supplements in record numbers, and in combinations that could be deadly, researchers said yesterday. They said more than half of US adults aged 57 to 85 are using five or more prescription or nonprescription drugs, and one in 25 are taking them in combinations that could cause dangerous drug...
December 23, 2008
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Sports drinks with a carbohydrate-protein mix are better than carb-only drinks in aiding cyclists' recovery from exercise, U.S. and Canadian researchers said. John Berardi of Precision Nutrition weight-loss program worked with researchers from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and The University of Western Ontario to study which energy drinks are best...
December 23, 2008
Malcolm Burrell loves his daughter. That's why he doesn't hold her. He doesn't hug her. He certainly doesn't roughhouse with her. Ne'veah Burrell has been at home for about three weeks after spending her first month healing in the hospital with 14 bone fractures. Ne'veah was born with a brittle bone disease and already broke one bone after being home only a week. She broke her femur while kicking the...
December 23, 2008
Coca-Cola Co. has mislabeled Diet Coke Plus, wrongly stressing the vitamins and minerals in the beverage, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has told the Atlanta-based beverage giant. In a letter posted on its Web site Tuesday, the FDA said it does not consider it appropriate to fortify snack foods, such as carbonated beverages. The FDA said a "plus" claim also can only be used on a product that...
December 23, 2008
BOSTON, Dec 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The illicit allure of Brazilian diet pills, with a mix of amphetamines and tranquilizers, remains strong in the United States, researchers reported Tuesday. A report by Pieter Cohen, a Boston physician and Harvard faculty member, reviewed two case studies in Massachusetts that illustrate the major problems with the pills and their unreported components, The Boston...
December 23, 2008
Hanover, Germany (dpa) - The world's population on New Year's Day is set to reach 6.75 billion, a German group that encourages birth control said Tuesday. The World Population Foundation of Germany said the planet's human population rose by 82 million this year. Its best estimate from its own data was that world population on January 1 would reach 6,751,643,600. The Hanover-based group said almost...
December 23, 2008
Nearly three years after federal regulators sounded an alarm about dangerous diet pills imported from Brazil, doctors in Massachusetts continue to treat patients stricken with heart problems, headaches, and insomnia linked to the powerful drugs. Just Monday, a Cambridge Health Alliance internist saw two patients who told him they're taking the medications, typically a brew of speed, tranquilizers,...
December 23, 2008
WHILE some people are decking the halls, not everyone is feeling the merriment of this holiday season. In fact, many people feel more despondent or anxious this time of year. It's as if the backdrop of celebration and lights only illuminates underlying, distressing emotions that are easier to deny during the rest of the year. Christmas and New Year's may have a frenzied pace to them, as people shop...
December 23, 2008
The popularity of Scranton's holiday light show is drawing breast-cancer survivors and volunteers to Nay Aug Park in an effort to raise awareness to the dreaded disease. Tonight, a dozen Susan G. Komen for the Cure members and cancer survivors will hand out pink bags filled with important information regarding mammograms and screenings. "We're doing this because the people in this community have been...
December 23, 2008
The soldiers flanked the casket, solemn and precise, and folded the American flag with a yank-and-flip motion. On one knee, a sergeant presented the flag to a grieving mother. Around them, mourners with red eyes and heaving shoulders testified, silently, to the mark Dennis Channel Jr. left on each of them. Seven soldiers from the Ohio Army National Guard raised their rifles and fired three rounds....
December 22, 2008
Dec. 23 - EL PASO - With only three lab-confirmed cases of influenza reported in the past three months, health officials are declaring a mild flu season for El Paso so far. Dr. Hector Ocarranza, a pediatrician and medical director of the city of El Paso Department of Public Health, attributed the low number of cases to "a successful flu vaccine outreach campaign." Also, this year's flu vaccine appears...
December 22, 2008
Dec. 23 - Central Florida Alliance will host the 2009 Spirit of Women "Day of Dance for Cardiovascular Health" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 28 in the gymnasium at Lake-Sumter Community College off U.S. Highway 441 in Leesburg. The program is designed to inspire women and their families toward better overall health by exercise, which can be fun and beneficial to the heart. The event will incorporate...
December 22, 2008
HERE'S a surprise: It seems kids just don't care about TV as much as their parents. "Millennials," the generation of 14-to 25-year-olds, watch an average of just 10.5 hours of TV a week - significantly less than the generation before them, according to "The State of the Media Democracy," a new study from Deloitte. Generation X (ages 26-42) clocked in at 15.1 hours of TV a week, while Baby Boomers (43-61)...
December 22, 2008
A large body of research suggests that, on average, winter babies grow up to be less educated, less intelligent, less healthy and lower paid than people born in the spring, summer or fall. Scientists have blamed the winter babies' woes on everything from the weather to age cutoffs for school. And now, a pair of University of Notre Dame economists have come up with an explanation they say could account...
December 22, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The saw "Physician, heal thyself" may yield to "Body, heal thyself" as U.S. army scientists study skin regeneration and other self-healing technologies. Regenerative science was one of several technologies showcased at the recent 26th Army Science Convention in Orlando, Fla. The 4-day gathering provides a form to exchange ideas and highlight collaborative...
December 22, 2008
Johannesburg (dpa) - South African authorities reported new cholera deaths in the province surrounding Johannesburg, indicating that the spread of the disease from Zimbabwe is becoming more pronounced. One person had died of cholera over the weekend, bringing the province's death count to three, Chika Asomugha, spokesman for the health department of Gauteng Province, told the South African Press Association...
December 22, 2008
Patricia Boiko became a family doctor because she liked the connection with patients - she enjoyed delivering babies and knowing people into their old age - but she wanted to quit. The practice had become a dismal treadmill, with too many patients and not enough time, double-bookings and harried visits, and paperwork lugged home every night. "It was an assembly line of people," said Boiko, a doctor...
December 22, 2008
RANDSBURG, Calif. (AP) - Heaps of toxic mine waste rise like church steeples over this wind-swept desert town, threatening the health of residents and of thousands of off-road bikers. Tests on dust samples have revealed some of the highest arsenic levels in the country - as much as 460,000 times the level deemed safe by the federal government. But while the poison can cause cancer in people and harm...
December 21, 2008
Hanukkah began at sundown last night, so what better time to tell you about C Lighting's annual holiday party? The bash, catered by Alon's Bakery & Market, was Dec. 11 and benefited the Center for the Visually Impaired (www.cviga.org). C Lighting owner Yaacov Golan says he is "proud to continue the Israeli tradition of providing support to the visually impaired community, especially during Hanukkah,...
December 21, 2008
Featured Posts
©2025 Wellness®.com is a registered trademark of Wellness.com, Inc. 