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After his cancer diagnosis and a six-month absence from Washington, the senior senator will press ahead for comprehensive coverage for uninsured WASHINGTON - When he endorsed Barack Obama for president in January, Sen. Edward Kennedy said it was because his young colleague "understands what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now.'" Ten months later, the haunting quote that Obama...
November 20, 2008
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. The number of soldiers seeking help for substance abuse has climbed 25% in the past five years, but the Army's counseling program has remained significantly understaffed and struggling to meet the demand, according to Army records. About 13,500 soldiers sought drug counseling this year and 7,200 soldiers were diagnosed with an abuse or dependency issue and enrolled in counseling,...
November 20, 2008
Jul. 31 - West Nile virus has been found in two more mosquito samples collected this month in Huntington, Suffolk County Department of Health officials confirmed yesterday. That brings the number of positive mosquito samples in the area to six this year, officials said. Previously, four crows and one blue jay also tested positive in Huntington. In all seven birds have been found to have the West Nile...
November 20, 2008
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A ban on fast-food ads in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, U.S. researchers said. Shin-Yi Chou of Lehigh University, Inas Rashad of Georgia State University and Michael Grossman of City University of New York Graduate Center measured the number of hours of fast-food television advertising messages...
November 20, 2008
U.S. health officials asked doctors on Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children caused by Hib bacteria amid an ongoing vaccine shortage. Officials are most concerned about bacterial meningitis and sepsis, a bloodstream infection, caused by Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) in children under age 5 because of the high risk of death or serious complications,...
November 20, 2008
Kathy Shedd had red hair. Meg Rafferty was shy. And Jodee Blanco was just different. Those were their crimes. The punishments for Blanco, Shedd, Rafferty, and others like them? Being kicked, punched and spit upon. They were yelled at, taunted and shunned. They spent hard time in isolation, crying themselves to sleep at night, sometimes wanting to die. They weren't in prison. They were in school. And...
November 20, 2008
Handgrips on 12 out of 15 exercise bikes tested in Germany were found to contain substances that can cause cancer, a consumer safety group said on Thursday. The grips had polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, liable to cause cancer and other health problems when in contact with skin, consumer safety group Stiftung Warentest said in their monthly magazine. Five of the bikes with dangerously high levels...
November 20, 2008
Publicly funded mental health care for children has improved in the past 25 years, but top officials in more than one out of five states say no child with serious mental disorders receives good care in their states, a report says today. The report "gives us reason to be extremely concerned about children's mental health," says Michael Hogan, commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health....
November 20, 2008
Three former York College wrestlers have sued the college, claiming they contracted herpes from a teammate with whom they were forced to grapple in practice. Andrew Bradley of Lewes, Del., and Alexander Binder of Baltimore, who both graduated earlier this year; and James Harris of Cedar Brook, N.J., who expects to graduate in December, filed a civil lawsuit for negligence Nov. 3 in Philadelphia County...
November 20, 2008
ATLANTA - A little less "I'm Lovin' It" could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads. A ban on such commercials would reduce the number of obese young children by 18 per cent, and the number of obese older kids by 14 per cent, researchers found. They also suggested that ending an advertising expense tax...
November 20, 2008
Treating patients with respect can not only contribute to their peace of mind, but also improve health outcomes, according to Dr. Susan Wehry. Wehry, a geriatric psychiatrist, gave a talk about person-centered health care at the Vermont Veteran's Home on Tuesday. The talk was the fourth part of the home's Family Caregivers Series, which is put on in conjunction with the Vermont Chapter of the Alzheimer's...
November 19, 2008
Nov. 20 - Today's Great American Smokeout marks the 33rd year of helping smokers quit, even if its just for a day. Since its inception, the event has spurred other local organizations - like Pottsville's Clinical Outcomes Group Inc. and Schuylkill County Tobacco-free Youth Coalition - to pick up the anti-smoking torch. "It's branched out a lot. There are so many other people now that do their own things...
November 19, 2008
ATLANTA, Nov 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A computer model based on online searches about the flu can offer real-time weekly levels of flu activity, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reports. The application, "Google Flu Trends," launched last week and the research behind the tool was published online Wednesday in the journal Nature. Jeremy Ginsberg said he and fellow researchers used data from...
November 19, 2008
For most people, the start of the holiday season brings feelings of joy and anticipation. But for those who have lost a loved one, the holidays can be viewed with dread and depression. Family traditions will never be the same, and many people suffer from loneliness and depression. However, there are things you can do to help alleviate some of the stress and worry that surrounds this time of year. According...
November 19, 2008
An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday. The doctors said they knew of another case in which an adult had been kept alive in Germany for nine months without a heart but said they believed this was the first time a child had survived...
November 19, 2008
Much like John McCain tried to put a local, personal face on economic troubles with Joe the plumber, the National Nurses Organizing Committee looks to make personal stories from small towns on its Web site every day evidence of health care gaps. The Sept. 24 story on the Web site, www.guaranteedhealthcare.org, is that of a Ripley woman who had no insurance but suffered with persistent abdominal pain...
November 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened three offices in China this week as part of an effort to improve the safety of food imported from the Asian nation. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach are traveling to the offices in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai to meet with manufacturers and Chinese...
November 19, 2008
Much like John McCain tried to put a local, personal face on economic troubles with Joe the plumber, the National Nurses Organizing Committee looks to make personal stories from small towns on its Web site every day evidence of health care gaps. The Sept. 24 story on the Web site, www.guaranteedhealthcare.org, is that of a Ripley woman who had no insurance but suffered with persistent abdominal pain...
November 18, 2008
After his girlfriend's black Lab mix got fleas from a visiting pooch, Jim Avent set off eight bug bombs in various rooms of her sprawling house in Woodinville. Dashing for the open sliding-glass door, Avent was partway across the kitchen when he was overcome by the fumes. He fell to the ground and strained to drag himself to the threshold. "I was hanging halfway in the house, halfway out of the house,...
November 18, 2008
MORGANTOWN - The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the new Alzheimer's Awareness Stamp during the Oct. 17 dedication of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute research building. "I can't think of a better place to dedicate this stamp," said Carolyn Lewis Gallagher, vice chairman of the board of governors for the U.S. Postal Service. Every 71 seconds someone is diagnosed with the fatal, memory...
November 18, 2008
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University report that more than 80 percent of Americans are overweight. People who are overweight are prone to experience health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and lower back pain. If eating too much food was the problem, then consuming fewer calories should be the answer. However, the majority of overweight adults do not routinely overeat. In fact, as a nation,...
November 18, 2008
A large study has dashed hopes that the dietary supplement ginkgo biloba can protect against age-related dementia and Alzheimer's. In the largest clinical trial ever to evaluate the influence of ginkgo biloba supplements on the development of dementia, the results have come up flat, says study author Steven DeKosky, vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. DeKosky's...
November 18, 2008
Today's teenagers and young adults are far more likely than their parents to believe they're great people, destined for maximum success as workers, spouses and parents, suggests a report comparing three decades of national surveys. And these so-called Millennials or Gen Y young people may be heading for a fall when their self-esteem is punctured by reality, says psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego...
November 18, 2008
Nov. 18 - To the untrained eye, the 50 or so kids and smattering of parents and teachers walking the track at Raleigh's A. B. Combs Elementary after school one recent afternoon may have looked as if they were just out for some exercise on a nice fall afternoon. In fact, they were helping to buy new equipment for their school. The students were training for Sunday's Wake PTA Healthy Lifestyles 5K race,...
November 18, 2008
They begin gathering around Madrona Playground's picnic tables and restroom before dawn, quietly talking and stretching until 6 a.m., when they start hauling sandbags, running stairs and doing shoulder blade push-ups. An hour later, they scatter - slipping back to their homes as their children and husbands wake up, the first commuters gather at bus stops and the sun rises. In city parks around Seattle,...
November 18, 2008
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