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ST. LOUIS, Nov 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some drugs used in premature babies and in pregnant women at risk for preterm deliveries can kill infant brain cells, research by U.S. scientists shows. The study indicated the class of steroid drugs, glucocorticoids, often used to help underdeveloped lungs in premature infants, irreversibly damaged baby mice's brain cells in the cerebellum, the area responsible...
November 18, 2008
One-third of Canadians with asthma have likely been wrongly diagnosed by their doctor, said a study Tuesday that blames an explosion of asthma cases in developed countries on lack of proper testing. "About one-third of individuals with physician-diagnosed asthma did not have asthma," said the study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). "This finding suggests that, in developed...
November 18, 2008
Alcohol appears to increase the risk of certain common stomach and esophageal cancers, Dutch researchers reported yesterday. Their study, presented at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Washington, found that people who consumed four glasses of alcohol each day had five times the risk of developing the cancers as did nondrinkers. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
November 18, 2008
We're all for the freedom of choice allowed in this state for those who want to buy raw milk. But caution is well advised for consumers, producers and even retailers. The dangers are very real. The benefits of raw milk? For most people, it's not worth going there. Pasteurized milk serves the public incredibly well, providing immense nutrition at extremely reduced risk for infections, many severe and...
November 17, 2008
Regular physical activity can significantly lower a woman's risk of developing cancer, but skimping on sleep can eliminate those gains, a study released Monday has found. In a long-term study of nearly 6,000 US women, researchers found that those who exercised the most had a 25 percent lower chance of developing cancer than those who were the least active. But among younger, physically active women,...
November 17, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Gulf War syndrome is real and afflicts about 25 percent of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served in the 1991 conflict, a U.S. report said Monday. Two chemical exposures consistently associated with the disorder - one to a drug given to soldiers to protect against nerve gas and the other sed to protect against desert pests - were cited as causes in the congressionally...
November 17, 2008
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Tuberculosis is mutating into dangerous, drug-resistant forms for which no cure is known, health leaders in Switzerland said. One strain of XDR-TB, which stands for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, doesn't respond to antibiotics normally used to treat TB, making it virtually incurable and threatening to become a pandemic, CNN reported Monday....
November 17, 2008
A drug which increases the release of growth hormones has failed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in humans, despite having offered promising results in studies on mice, a study published Tuesday has found. Previous studies on mice had shown that a hormone called insulin-like growth factor-1 helped reduce the accumulation of plaque on the brain. This plaque, called beta-amyloid, is thought...
November 17, 2008
BOSTON (AP) - Boston has joined others cities in banning artery-clogging trans fats from food served in restaurants and grocery stores. Businesses, as well as schools and hospitals, will have to stop using oils and spreads that contain trans fats. Prepackaged foods such as a bag of chips or cookies won't be included. The city Public Health Commission approved the ban unanimously Thursday. Fines would...
November 17, 2008
What's the healthiest city in America? It appears to be Burlington, Vt. Vermont's largest city is tops among U.S. metropolitan areas by having the largest proportion of people - 92 percent - who say they are in good or great health. It's also among the best in exercise and among the lowest in obesity, diabetes and other measures of ill health, according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for...
November 16, 2008
Climate change in Southern Arizona could trigger an increase in asthma, bronchitis, West Nile virus, allergies, dengue fever, valley fever, heat-related deaths and malaria. These and other diseases could increase or arrive here as the climate warms, dries and displays more extreme hot and cold spells and fiercer storms due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Those warnings came...
November 16, 2008
Baby boomers are smoking pot and popping pills at an alarming rate, even as drug abuse among teens is decreasing, according to federal and local health data. Some 5 percent of Americans in their 50s reported abusing drugs "in the past month" in 2007, compared with just 2.7 percent in 2002, researchers found. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
November 16, 2008
MIAMI, Nov 16, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. authorities are targeting home healthcare fraud in diabetes treatments, officials said. Taxpayers are paying for thousands of homebound people to receive unnecessary diabetic treatments, The Miami Herald reported Sunday. Many patients for which the government is being billed either don't have the disease or don't need a visiting nurse to inject insulin, the...
November 16, 2008
MILWAUKEE, Nov 16, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Certain products that advertise being "microwave safe" allegedly release the chemical bisphenol A when exposed to heat, test results indicate. Lab tests of 10 items' containers found that all of the advertised "microwave safe" containers allegedly released toxic doses of the chemical known as BPA, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Saturday. The newspaper...
November 16, 2008
MADISON, Wis., Nov 16, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Wisconsin group says it is trying to change state laws to help improve the state's ranking in binge drinking and drunken driving. Dr. Robert N. Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said his group is hoping to help push Wisconsin from the top tier of surveys grading the prevalence of dangerous alcohol use,...
November 16, 2008
In an era of rising academic standards, there is no more fundamental responsibility than moving up today's very low bar for the health and safety of school children, teachers and staff. The upcoming legislative session will be a make-or-break opportunity for intelligent decisions in favor of healthy schools. Legislators must use a school finance reform study to guarantee districts put money into schools'...
November 15, 2008
GLENDALE, Calif. For Glendale's smokers, Thursday was a real drag. Following the lead of neighboring Burbank and green trailblazers Calabasas and Santa Monica, Glendale began its ban on smoking in hallways of apartment complexes and in public areas - including parks, parking lots and parking structures, and even standing in line to use the ATM. But in a city, just north of downtown Los Angeles, dotted...
November 15, 2008
GLENDALE, Calif. For Glendale's smokers, Thursday was a real drag. Following the lead of neighboring Burbank and green trailblazers Calabasas and Santa Monica, Glendale began its ban on smoking in hallways of apartment complexes and in public areas - including parks, parking lots and parking structures, and even standing in line to use the ATM. But in a city, just north of downtown Los Angeles, dotted...
November 15, 2008
GLENDALE, Calif. For Glendale's smokers, Thursday was a real drag. Following the lead of neighboring Burbank and green trailblazers Calabasas and Santa Monica, Glendale began its ban on smoking in hallways of apartment complexes and in public areas - including parks, parking lots and parking structures, and even standing in line to use the ATM. But in a city, just north of downtown Los Angeles, dotted...
November 15, 2008
Being born prematurely can cause health problems that haunt people into adulthood and even affect their own children, a study shows. Doctors have long known that premature babies are less likely to survive and thrive than those born at full-term, after an average pregnancy of 40 weeks. But a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the health problems of premature babies...
November 15, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered scores of food products imported from China - including cereals, snacks, candies, chocolate drinks, custards, puddings, baby food and pet foods - held at the border until testing proves they are not contaminated with the chemical melamine. The directive, issued Thursday, comes more than a month after revelations of widespread melamine contamination in China's...
November 14, 2008
Nov. 14 - With a major study now suggesting that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs might help more people, Sacramento doctors are already fielding patient calls. The main questions: Should I take a pill or get a test to be better protected from heart disease? The answer varies by doctor, as physicians try to sort through the latest findings. "There has been a dramatic falloff in the incidence of coronary...
November 14, 2008
AIDS patients who take effective retroviral drugs do not pass on the virus even through unprotected sex, Switzerland's state commission on the disease claimed on Wednesday. Couples were one partner is HIV positive do not need to use a condom to prevent transmitting the disease, as long as retroviral therapy is followed regularly and has suppressed the virus in the blood for at least six months, the...
November 14, 2008
The number of American adults who smoke has dropped below 20 percent for the first time on record, health officials said yesterday. In 2007, 19.8 percent of adults - 43.4 million people - were smokers. That was a percentage point below 2006 and followed three years of little progress, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report. Smoking and secondhand smoke still kill 443,000...
November 13, 2008
What say we channel our inner Wilfred Brimley and rhapsodize about oatmeal, which may be the best breakfast option out there? You remember breakfast, don't you? The most important meal of the day? A recent survey conducted by the International Food Information Council found that 90 percent of respondents called breakfast "important," but only 49 percent copped to eating breakfast daily. Feel your oats...
November 13, 2008
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