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A steady diet of red meat makes the body more susceptible to a virulent form of intestinal bug that can cause bloody diarrhoea and even death, according to a study to be published on Thursday. Researchers in the United States and Australia said persistently eating red meat appears to prime the body for exposure to this potent form of Escherichia coli (E. coli). The meat naturally contains sugar molecules...
October 29, 2008
Unfounded fears about vaccines are causing too many parents to forgo getting the shots their children need to stay healthy and not spread dangerous diseases among their playmates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last month that measles cases in the United States had reached the highest level in more than a decade, an alarming rise in a disease thought to be eliminated in the United...
October 29, 2008
Oct. 29 - Too often, it is when women show up for prenatal exams that they discover they are HIV positive, or sick with full-blown AIDS. Even more common, the women are black or Hispanic, and in long-term relationships they believed were monogamous. Their risk factor for contracting the virus that causes AIDS? Being an adult and being a woman of color. Last year in North Carolina, 80 percent of HIV...
October 28, 2008
Oct. 29 - With the flu season here, health officials are emphasizing the need to have children vaccinated against the influenza virus. In years past, the Center for Disease Control has recommended people in high-risk categories receive vaccinations. Children ages 6-23 months and elderly people with chronic medical conditions were the primary targets for vaccinations. However, the CDC is recommending...
October 28, 2008
Oct. 29 - What is it about oatmeal that people love to hate? Many people just consider it a big bowl of goo that's good for you, and that's the end of it. But oatmeal doesn't deserve the bum's rush, and here's why. Have you had your cholesterol checked lately? More than 40 studies show that the soluble fiber in oats helps lower the LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, and reduce the risk of heart disease. According...
October 28, 2008
Many college students don't gain the dreaded freshman 15 their first year away from home, but they do pack on 6 to 9 pounds, two studies show. Why? Key reasons include dramatic increases in beer drinking and significant decreases in physical activity. The latest studies were conducted at Indiana University in Bloomington and Tufts University in Boston. Indiana researchers surveyed 272 female students...
October 28, 2008
MONTREAL, Oct 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian scientists say depression and anxiety in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients might cause increased hospitalizations. "This is an important and revealing finding, indicating that for COPD patients, depression and anxiety must be treated as potential clinically important risk factors, rather than simple comorbidities that are caused by COPD,"...
October 28, 2008
MONTREAL, Oct 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian scientists say depression and anxiety in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients might cause increased hospitalizations. "This is an important and revealing finding, indicating that for COPD patients, depression and anxiety must be treated as potential clinically important risk factors, rather than simple comorbidities that are caused by COPD,"...
October 28, 2008
About one out of seven female veterans of Afghanistan or Iraq who visit a Veterans Affairs center for medical care report being a victim of sexual assault or harassment during military duty, a study reports today. More than half of these women have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A similar proportion of male veterans with sexual traumas have PTSD, but fewer than one out of 100 men who had recent...
October 27, 2008
Pregnancy has long been blamed for addling women's minds but new work by Australian researchers finds this idea may be nothing more than an old wive's tale. A study by the Australian National University's centre for mental health research found that there is no evidence to suggest that impending motherhood affects a woman's cognitive ability. The research is based on analysis of interviews with 2,500...
October 27, 2008
WASHINGTON - Drug-resistant staph bacteria picked up in ordinary community settings are increasingly acquiring "superbug" powers and causing far more serious illnesses than they have in the past, doctors reported Monday. These widespread germs used to be easier to treat than the dangerous forms of staph found in hospitals and nursing homes. "Until recently we rarely thought of it as a problem among...
October 27, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Your 9-year-old's eyes hurt during homework? Your teen's a slow reader plagued with headaches? They may have a common yet often missed vision problem: Eyes that don't turn together properly to read. As many as one of every 20 students have some degree of what eye doctors call "convergence insufficiency," or CI, where eye muscles must work harder to focus up-close. And those standard...
October 27, 2008
More than one-third of Canadians having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital instead of calling for an ambulance, delaying potentially life-saving treatments, says a new study. Victims may also endanger others by getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle when blood flow to their heart is restricted, said the study presented on Sunday to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress. "We're talking...
October 27, 2008
Jeff McCready likens his cancer ordeal to a graphic depiction of the invasion of Normandy during World War II. "I feel like sometimes I'm in a scene in Saving Private Ryan," the 48-year-old Huron man said last week. "I'm the one who made it, and there's a whole lot of dead bodies around." Understandably, Mr. McCready's reaction is a macho one. But the disease the married father of three boys successfully...
October 26, 2008
Oct. 27 - Fourteen-year-old Sarina Farb could nibble on a piece of bacon if she wanted, but the thought sickens her. "I have my own food choices," Farb said. "If someone was serving meat and I wanted to try it, I could, but I don't consider eating it at all." Sarina and her 10-year-old sister, Samantha, have never tasted meat. "They've always eaten a vegetable-based diet," said their mother, JoAnn...
October 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - Giving four times the usual dose of flu vaccine helps protect elderly people better than the usual dose, researchers said. Recent research has shown the standard flu vaccine does not reduce deaths noticeably among the elderly, who account for most of the 36,000 people who die from the disease yearly in the US. Dr. Ann Falsey and her colleagues at the University of Rochester School of Medicine...
October 26, 2008
Oct. 27 - Health professionals advise all Americans to watch their intake of calories, fats, carbohydrates and sodium. Often, it's the last one that's hardest to do. Why? First, it's in about everything we eat, especially convenience foods for today's fast-paced lifestyles. According to the American Heart Association, 75 percent of our sodium comes from processed foods such as soups, canned foods and...
October 26, 2008
HAWAII just had a vivid les son in health-care eco nomics, learning that if you offer people insurance for free - surprise, surprise - they'll quickly drop other coverage to enroll. As a result, Hawaii is ending the only state universal child health-care program in the country after just seven months. The program, called the Keiki (Child) Care Plan, was designed to provide coverage to children whose...
October 26, 2008
Marcia VanDewark of Orchard Park had the benefit of an astute and caring doctor when she was afflicted with ovarian cancer. She woke up after her seven-hour operation to the sight of her gynecologist crying. A surgeon had told her mother that she had seven months to live. "Not only did she survive," said her mother, Marian Mlynarczyk of Buffalo, she went on to become a national pioneer in the battle...
October 26, 2008
Post-traumatic stress disorder, once a poorly understood and little-known mental health problem, is turning up on the public's radar a lot more as growing numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans seek treatment for the illness. About one out of seven service members have returned from deployments with symptoms of the disorder, according to a Rand Corp. study out in April. The Department of Veterans...
October 26, 2008
BEIJING, Oct 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Nearly 25 percent of Beijing children under age 3 reportedly drank chemically tainted milk, said officials who conducted a massive door-to-door survey. Families of 75,474 young children said they had given their children Sanlu milk powder, which later was found to be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency reported....
October 26, 2008
When ovarian cancer whispers, Tulsans Larry Bump and Bob West want you to hear it. They didn't. And they both lost their wives of more than 40 years to the insidious disease. "That's the mission, to get the symptoms out," said West. "When a lady has the symptoms, she should ask the doctor to rule out ovarian cancer." For years, the two men and their wives were good friends, socializing often. Linda...
October 25, 2008
When ovarian cancer whispers, Tulsans Larry Bump and Bob West want you to hear it. They didn't. And they both lost their wives of more than 40 years to the insidious disease. "That's the mission, to get the symptoms out," said West. "When a lady has the symptoms, she should ask the doctor to rule out ovarian cancer." For years, the two men and their wives were good friends, socializing often. Linda...
October 25, 2008
Time spent Googling the latest campaign news or searching for choice eBay buys may help stimulate and improve the minds of middle-aged and older Americans, UCLA scientists suggest. Research reported in next month's American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry is the first to assess how performing Internet searches influences brain activity in older Americans, says study author Gary Small, professor at...
October 25, 2008
LONDON, Oct 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Maria Grachvogel, a British fashion designer and owner of a London boutique, said she has had trouble finding the size 10 models she prefers. Grachvogel put on her first show in five years in London this week, The Guardian reported. "I have always been someone who would request that model agencies send me their curviest girls," she said. "But this time even they...
October 25, 2008
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