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Parents and policymakers need to take action to protect children from being harmed by TV, the Internet and other types of media, a report says. Researchers have done individual studies for years to learn how media affect children. A review released today, which analyzed 173 of the strongest papers over 28 years, finds that 80% agree that heavy media exposure increases the risk of harm, including obesity,...
December 1, 2008
Paris (dpa) - France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is to be named later Monday a special ambassador in the global fight against AIDS. Bruni-Sarkozy, whose brother died from the disease, will become a special ambassador for the the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international fund-raising organization. "Of course, I'm particularly sensitive to this issue because of my brother,"...
December 1, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Let's tell Lucia McLain that she should wear a helmet when she hops on her bike for a spin to Mercy San Juan Medical Center, where she volunteers twice each month. "I have one," says McLain, who's 93. Of course! And here it is, unused, stored in the bottom of the china cabinet in the living room of her small apartment at the Atrium, a Carmichael, Calif., assisted-living center. "I...
December 1, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Harmful amounts of sodium can be found in unsalty foods such as breakfast cereal and bagels, according to Consumer Reports magazine. The group's analysis of 37 food products found a cup of Kellogg's Raisin Bran contains 350 milligrams of sodium, a half-cup of one brand of low-fat cottage cheese had 360 mg, and a Pepperidge Farm Whole Grain White Bagel carried 440 mg. U.S....
December 1, 2008
The body's initial response to contracting HIV could provide the answers scientists need to develop a vaccine for the AIDS-causing virus, a Nobel-winning expert said on Monday. The AIDS epidemic has killed about 25 million people, and about 33 million worldwide are now infected with HIV. Cocktails of drugs can control the virus but so far there is no cure. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who shared the 2008...
December 1, 2008
About 16 million more children in Africa face malnutrition in 2020 as a result of low economic growth and dwindling investments in agriculture, an international study released Monday in Mozambique said. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) study unveiled at an agricultural conference in Maputo showed that developing countries in Asia grew at an annual average rate of nine percent...
December 1, 2008
When using personal listening devices, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommends turning the volume down, limiting listening time to an hour a day and taking frequent listening breaks. Here are more tips from ASHA and audiologist Dennis Burrows. If you have a 10-notch scale, keep the setting at 6 or below. If someone can hear earphone "leakage" from several feet away, it's too loud....
December 1, 2008
Julie Sheu, an employee at the Clif Bar food company in Berkeley, Calif., started biking to work this year, thanks to a one-time benefit her company offers to its employees: $500 to either buy or repair a bike if they pledge to use the bike a minimum of two times per month. "It was the incentive and support I needed to get a bike that allowed me to get to work faster and do errands on weekends," she...
November 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says trace amounts of melamine and other toxic chemicals found in infant formula tests are considered safe. FDA officials Friday released some of the results of a nationwide testing effort undertaken in the wake of September's Chinese infant formula scandal, in which high levels of melamine found in infant formula were...
November 30, 2008
When using personal listening devices, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommends turning the volume down, limiting listening time to an hour a day and taking frequent listening breaks. Here are more tips from ASHA and audiologist Dennis Burrows. If you have a 10-notch scale, keep the setting at 6 or below. If someone can hear earphone "leakage" from several feet away, it's too loud....
November 30, 2008
Who doesn't like freebies, especially when it comes to pricey pills? But free medication samples, which at first glance look like a win-win-win situation for manufacturers, doctors and patients, can have hidden costs. Doctors might pick a sub-optimal drug simply because they have a sample. Plus, only makers of expensive brand-name drugs are doling out samples. And leaving pharmacists out of the equation...
November 30, 2008
"I have one child. She's 15. And she's negative." So says a single mom we'll call "Laurel" - The Dominion Post agreed to withhold her name to protect her privacy - describing one of the answered prayers in her life. "I was pregnant when I was diagnosed [with the HIV virus]. I found out when I went for prenatal testing. I'd suspected. I had become more sexually promiscuous. And there were always times...
November 30, 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...
November 30, 2008
A New York Sports Club in Queens allowed a young newlywed to die last April because gym employees failed to administer CPR and didn't use a legally required defibrillator to assist the dying woman, a lawsuit claims. As Dari Gracova, 25, lay convulsing on the floor of the club because of a heart arrhythmia, gym workers held back her husband, Ilir Ademi, and others from giving her life support, the suit...
November 29, 2008
Nov. 27 - Two "Dancing With the Stars" dancers are spotlighting a condition that can cause infertility and chronic pain and from which as many as 10 percent of women suffer in silence. Julianne Hough, the two-time winner as a professional dancer on the show, made headlines by telling the world she had endometriosis. She inspired fellow dancer Lacey Schwimmer to get checked since she had been experiencing...
November 29, 2008
The Yuma County AIDS Network plans to celebrate the 15th anniversary of its annual World AIDS Day vigils with an evening of memories, prayers and words of hope Monday. Organizers say they offer the candlelight vigils as a way for people affected by AIDS to come together in a safe place, to remember loved ones and to call attention to a serious disease. "This event is for everyone affected or infected...
November 29, 2008
US health authorities have raised the safety threshold for melamine for infant formula amid widespread concern over the use of the industrial chemical in Chinese dairy products. Melamine is used to line cans, make flame retardant and cleaning products, and does not occur naturally. "Levels of melamine alone or cyanuric acid alone, at or below 1 part per million (ppm) in infant formula do not raise...
November 29, 2008
HARVARD HEALTH LETTERS It happens every year. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops, footballs fly - and the flu strikes. Influenza is so common that it's easy to dismiss this seasonal affliction as "just a virus" or "just the flu." It's true that the flu is caused by a virus and that most patients recover without specific therapy. But it's also true that thousands of Americans die from the...
November 29, 2008
HARVARD HEALTH LETTERS It happens every year. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops, footballs fly - and the flu strikes. Influenza is so common that it's easy to dismiss this seasonal affliction as "just a virus" or "just the flu." It's true that the flu is caused by a virus and that most patients recover without specific therapy. But it's also true that thousands of Americans die from the...
November 29, 2008
HARVARD HEALTH LETTERS It happens every year. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops, footballs fly - and the flu strikes. Influenza is so common that it's easy to dismiss this seasonal affliction as "just a virus" or "just the flu." It's true that the flu is caused by a virus and that most patients recover without specific therapy. But it's also true that thousands of Americans die from the...
November 29, 2008
HARVARD HEALTH LETTERS It happens every year. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops, footballs fly - and the flu strikes. Influenza is so common that it's easy to dismiss this seasonal affliction as "just a virus" or "just the flu." It's true that the flu is caused by a virus and that most patients recover without specific therapy. But it's also true that thousands of Americans die from the...
November 29, 2008
HARVARD HEALTH LETTERS It happens every year. The days grow shorter, the temperature drops, footballs fly - and the flu strikes. Influenza is so common that it's easy to dismiss this seasonal affliction as "just a virus" or "just the flu." It's true that the flu is caused by a virus and that most patients recover without specific therapy. But it's also true that thousands of Americans die from the...
November 29, 2008
Nov. 28 - The opening of a doctor-rating Web site isn't meant to be a modern-day response to the biblical proverb of "physician, heal thyself." But Dr. Steve Feldman says he believes that DrScore.com can play a role in helping physicians get a better, perhaps more honest, assessment of their services from patients and their caregivers. Feldman is a professor of pathology and dermatology at Wake Forest...
November 28, 2008
Eating fast food could contribute to the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a new Swedish study published Friday which offered possible clues to preventing it. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, a leading medical university in the Swedish capital Stockholm, fed mice on a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months to study their behaviour. "On examining the brains...
November 28, 2008
NEW YORK, Nov 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - High-tech heart scans fail in some cases to detect artery blockages and at other times can misidentify blockages that don't exist, a study found. The study provoking debate among cardiologists indicates further that the more invasive, standard testing procedure is not ready to be replaced by the newer technology, researchers say. Researchers said in this week's...
November 28, 2008
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