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Dec. 7 - CHEYENNE - Firefighters here respond to about six calls on carbon monoxide every month. That's once or twice a week that a family or individual is in danger of dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. In fact, it's the no. 1 cause of accidental poisonings in America, said Mark Stephens, public education officer at the Cheyenne Fire Department. The gas is odorless and colorless and can leak into...
December 7, 2008
Petr Vaneck was throwing a 90-mph splitter as a 16-year-old. A star for his Czech Republic high school team, he had planned to show off his skills as an exchange student in the USA this year. Instead, Vaneck tore his rotator cuff, an arm injury that has derailed his hopes. "I could not move my arm," says Vaneck, who is living in Fullerton, Calif., this year. Baseball is not usually considered a dangerous...
December 7, 2008
Petr Vaneck was throwing a 90-mph splitter as a 16-year-old. A star for his Czech Republic high school team, he had planned to show off his skills as an exchange student in the USA this year. Instead, Vaneck tore his rotator cuff, an arm injury that has derailed his hopes. "I could not move my arm," says Vaneck, who is living in Fullerton, Calif., this year. Baseball is not usually considered a dangerous...
December 7, 2008
You may think your attentive spouse, your loving children and your good friends are what make you happy. But something else may be going on: The people they're connected with are making you happy too. So suggests a new study proposing that happiness is transmitted through social networks, almost like a germ is spread through personal contact. The research was published Thursday in BMJ, a British medical...
December 6, 2008
You may think your attentive spouse, your loving children and your good friends are what make you happy. But something else may be going on: The people they're connected with are making you happy too. So suggests a new study proposing that happiness is transmitted through social networks, almost like a germ is spread through personal contact. The research was published Thursday in BMJ, a British medical...
December 5, 2008
CHICAGO - Cartons of milk still anchor school lunches, but the milk inside them is changing as concerns mount about childhood obesity and nutrition. Some schools are adding to the selection of sweetened varieties in an effort to boost students' calcium intake, while other schools ban flavored milks. Chicago Public Schools stopped offering whole milk out of concern for the added calories and fat. Organic...
December 5, 2008
We've seen some hillside salt licks with less sodium than many fast-food establishments. But last week, Burger King announced it is reducing the amount of sodium in its kids meals to 600 milligrams or less. In that spirit, we're dedicating this week's quiz to all things sodium. 1. According to the American Heart Association, the average adult should consume how many milligrams of sodium per day: a)...
December 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - Measles-related deaths fell 74 percent this decade, thanks to a UN-led effort to vaccinate kids in Africa and other hard-hit regions, health officials said yesterday. There were an estimated 750,000 measles deaths in 2000, the year before the initiative began, but only 197,000 in 2007, the World Health Organization and its partners reported. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights...
December 4, 2008
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Minuscule nanoparticles added to consumer products increasingly may be swarming through the body and threatening organs like the liver, U.S. scientists fear. "The smaller a particle, the further it can travel through tissue, along airways or in blood vessels," Dr. Adnan Nasir, a clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of North...
December 4, 2008
CHICAGO - Troubled teens are embedding nails, paper clips, bits of rock, glass and crayons in their bodies as a way to cope with disturbing feelings. Researchers reported yesterday on cases in which teens - especially girls - had wounded themselves and forced objects under their skin in a condition called self-embedding disorder. The disturbing trend is a step beyond more common forms of self-mutilation....
December 4, 2008
Geneva (dpa) - Measles deaths fell by 74 per cent globally between 2000 and 2007, with countries in the eastern Mediterranean region cutting the death rate by 90 per cent, the United Nations reported Thursday. The Arab states and other countries in the bloc, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia, made the "remarkable" progress thanks to immunization programmes. Margaret Chan, the head of the World...
December 4, 2008
Dec. 4 - Amid a festive season comes a dire warning - children are at a higher risk for poisoning during the holidays. Medications and essential oils are particularly dangerous, said Jude McNally, managing director of the Tucson-based Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center. McNally said that during the holidays, his center has found children under 5 are more frequently accidentally exposed to medications...
December 4, 2008
After a decade of robust gains, America's health has leveled off and may be poised to take a plunge, an analysis warns. The 2008 America's Health Rankings, out today, offer a comprehensive look at nearly two decades of progress in access to medical care, immunizations, prenatal care, infant mortality, heart disease deaths, smoking cessation, deaths by infectious disease, violent crime and occupational...
December 3, 2008
French chef Serge Devesa was pleased with his latest dinner party: 100 percent approval and praise from his guests, a group of Bloomington middle school students. "This beats anything my mom's ever made," Olson Middle School sixth-grader Blake Wright said while taking a bite of colorful ratatouille. Blake and most of his classmates had never tried the eggplant, zucchini or squash in the ratatouille...
December 3, 2008
BOSTON, Dec 2, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study of blacks living in a Boston-area community found those born in the United States were more likely to have asthma than those born elsewhere. Doug Brugge, an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, said a review of 479 asthma screening questionnaires from children and adults in Dorchester, Mass., suggests black adults who were...
December 3, 2008
Americans will be digging into turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes this week, but on Capitol Hill lawmakers are looking for ways to trim waistlines across the country. Over the years, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has pushed a range of legislation aimed at promoting healthier eating. Harkin plans to reintroduce a bill in the next Congress that would require chain restaurants to provide customers with nutritional...
December 3, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings that deemed Vermont the healthiest. The overall health of Americans remained static for a fourth year, according to an annual report issued on Wednesday assessing a series of measures also including binge drinking,...
December 3, 2008
Science has documented that women with curvy hips have more babies and are healthier. But a new study by a University of Utah anthropologist suggests that flatter hips come with a different set of benefits: strength, assertiveness, competitiveness and an ability to cope with stress. Touche, Barbie. Professor Elizabeth Cashdan, who chairs the U.'s anthropology department, reviewed existing data to answer...
December 3, 2008
Needles, paper clips, a shard of glass and a crayon are among the items Dr. William E. Shiels II has found embedded in the flesh of his young patients. This week, at a meeting in Chicago, the chief of the radiology department at Nationwide Children's Hospital will tell his colleagues about the troubling practice of embedding objects into one's own skin in the interest of self-harm. The sad truth is...
December 3, 2008
Food is part of the holiday season ritual at most houses, and cutting down is hard to do. But many family members and guests arriving for dinners have diabetes, heart disease and other problems, and you can help them while helping yourself to a meal with fewer calories, carbohydrates and fats. Chef Scott Curry and Decatur General Hospital registered dietitian Laura Watson joined forces recently to...
December 3, 2008
Lead paint. Dangerous magnets. "Poison" plastic. Alabama mom Trisha Gilbert says it's not easy to keep up with the latest news on toy safety. Last year, Gilbert began researching the safety of her daughter's products. She called manufacturers to learn more about the ingredients that go into everything from baby toys to sunscreen. After friends and neighbors began turning to her for advice, Gilbert,...
December 2, 2008
Healthy middle-age women can have up to two alcoholic drinks a day without apparently being at risk of irregular heartbeat, according to a study out Tuesday. But having more than two alcoholic drinks is associated with an increased risk of irregular heartbeat, also known as atrial fibrillation, read the report in the December 3 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Several studies...
December 2, 2008
PASADENA, Calif., Dec 2, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've created, for the first time, images of the heart's muscular layer and the link between it and the way the heart contracts. California Institute of Technology researchers say their findings could help create a road map for future cardiac surgical techniques. The researchers showed the muscular band that wraps around the inner...
December 2, 2008
LaTanya Hudgens of Detroit feels like she's been given a new chance to become her best self. A better mother and provider for her three children - Kailynn Hudgens, 15; Kennedy Hudgens-Fuqua, 6, and Kameron Hudgens-Fuqua, 5. For as long as she can remember, she has been sick off and on, with itches, rashes, sores and various related pains. The source of her troubles was discovered in 2000: She had a...
December 2, 2008
Lisa Marie Miller was five months pregnant and living in a homeless shelter when she found out she was HIV positive. Ten years later, the North Tonawanda resident still feels anger toward the disease. Miller discovered the infection had progressed to AIDS the day after Christmas in 2005. "I wouldn't want anybody to go through what I've been through," Miller said. "It's a struggle every day for me to...
December 1, 2008
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