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He may be the most productive masturbater on Earth. Sperm donor Ed Houben has fathered 46 children and has six more on the way - and he's done it without any sex. Houben, who lives in the Netherlands, said he became a donor five years ago after learning there was a semen shortage, according to Vice magazine. He recently even attended a reunion of 30 of his children, though he retains no parental responsibility....
October 21, 2008
People who eat quickly until they're full are three times more likely to be overweight, a problem aggravated by the availability of fast food and the decline of good dining habits, Japanese researchers said yesterday. The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, highlight how eating styles, and not just what or how much is eaten, can contribute to an obesity epidemic fueled by the spread...
October 21, 2008
TORONTO, Oct 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Shipping of processed meats from the Toronto plant associated with 20 listeriosis deaths will resume next week with federal permission. The Maple Leaf plant was closed Aug. 20 after a rash of listeria-related illnesses were reported, most of them in institutions such as nursing homes. The company issued a recall of all of the more than 200 products the plant...
October 21, 2008
JACKSON, Miss. Debra Barnes has a thriving chiropractic practice, a nice home and a family who loves living in the South, but she said she would leave Mississippi in a heartbeat if health officials tried to force her home-schooled children to be immunized. Barnes is part of a network of parents whose decision to home-school their children rests on their belief that mandated vaccinations for public...
October 21, 2008
Despite widespread awareness of the risks of the next flu pandemic, the world needs to drastically improve cooperation in preparing for what would be a major global crisis, a UN report said Tuesday. The report by the United Nations and the World Bank said that while most countries are planning for a flu pandemic, the worry was that "many plans have not been tested and may well fail once the next influenza...
October 21, 2008
Let's see a show of hands. Who got a 9% raise this year? Once you stop laughing, consider this: The average employee's health care costs, including premiums and out-of-pocket expenses, will increase 8.9% in 2009, according to Hewitt Associates. That's well above the rate of inflation and average salary increases. For that reason, it's more important than ever to scrutinize your employer's health care...
October 21, 2008
Suicide rates in the USA are up after more than a decade of dropping, and middle-aged whites primarily account for the increase, a report says. The rate for whites 40 to 64 years old jumped 19% for women and 16% for men from 1999 to 2005, say researchers from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Their analysis was published online in the AmericanJournal of Preventive Medicine....
October 21, 2008
'YOU have breast cancer" is one of the scariest sentences in the English language. I know, because last October I heard those words when I was diagnosed with the disease, which attacks roughly 180,000 women a year. From that moment on, I was thrown into a world of new information, decisions and doctors. I was afraid, overwhelmed and didn't know where to turn. But as I was soon to learn, there's plenty...
October 20, 2008
WASHINGTON - Narcotic pain-relief prescriptions for injured U.S. troops have jumped from 30,000 a month to 50,000 since the Iraq war began, raising concerns about the drugs' potential abuse and addiction, says a leading Army pain expert. The sharp rise in outpatient prescriptions paid for by the government suggests doctors rely too heavily on narcotics, says Army Col. Chester "Trip" Buckenmaier III,...
October 20, 2008
Mankind's greatest triumph of the last century was not the mastery of flight, the invention of the computer or the recognition of rights for women and minorities. As huge as those achievements were, they were overshadowed by something more profound. Over the past 100 years, humankind fulfilled the age-old dream to extend life, by making bigger gains in life expectancy than during the previous 50 centuries....
October 20, 2008
Mankind's greatest triumph of the last century was not the mastery of flight, the invention of the computer or the recognition of rights for women and minorities. As huge as those achievements were, they were overshadowed by something more profound. Over the past 100 years, humankind fulfilled the age-old dream to extend life, by making bigger gains in life expectancy than during the previous 50 centuries....
October 20, 2008
Diets worldwide that are rich in fried and salty foods increase heart attack risk, while eating lots of fruit, leafy greens and other vegetables reduces that risk, a study published Monday showed. The study, called INTERHEART, looked at 16,000 heart attack patients and controls between 1999 and 2003 in countries on every continent, marking a shift from previous studies which have focussed on the developed...
October 20, 2008
Breast cancer survivors and their supporters took their cause to the streets Sunday. They were participants in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, a 5-kilometer walk in downtown Akron that raised more than $200,000, the American Cancer Society reported. The event, which started and ended at Canal Park, drew more than 5,000 participants, the society said. It raised money for research and breast health...
October 20, 2008
Oct. 12 - EVERY TIME I turn around, I know that my battle is just beginning. You see, for me, the big problem isn't going to be defeating breast cancer. That's a given, a minor bump in the road of life we already know is well on its way to being conquered, thanks to prayer from all of you and to my excellent chemotherapy treatment and surgery and radiation to come. But how do you get an obese workaholic...
October 20, 2008
Oct. 20 - BRANFORD - Thanksgiving came early for Glenn Smith Jr. on Sunday, but most of the trimmings were on the floor. Surrounded by family and friends, the Clinton police officer and Iraq war veteran watched as his loved ones shaved their heads in solidarity of Smith's fight against throat cancer. They also enjoyed a turkey dinner, a nod to the fact that Smith starts chemotherapy and radiation treatments...
October 19, 2008
Nearly 6,000 Long Islanders "walked for the cure" yesterday at SUNY College at Old Westbury, the second of three walks scheduled by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation on Long Island this year. The two-mile walk, sponsored by more than a dozen companies, aimed to raise $1 million for diabetes research and had raised half that amount before the event started, according to Barbara Rogus, executive...
October 19, 2008
OTTAWA, Oct 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - At least 10 toxins have been found in the Ottawa River that supplies the Canadian capital with its drinking water, city officials said. City councilors were sent a memo by the infrastructure services department that said "extremely low concentrations" of such drugs as acetaminophen and chemicals such as bisphenol A were found in tests conducted earlier this year,...
October 19, 2008
Melissa Neumann's constant companion is pain. But the 30-year-old Lexington woman discusses her pain in a soft tone of voice, as if talking about a minor irritation such as getting stuck in the slow line at the supermarket. In fact, her pain is so severe that she has considered amputation of her arm. | "The pain has been constant for eight years now," said the former swimmer, who has worked on the...
October 19, 2008
The TV commercials typically talk about menopause and grandmothers. One depicts 61-year-old actress Sally Field planting flowers while praising her medicine for osteoporosis. Yet the disease, so often associated with older women, is one that 45-year-old Tim Brokaw suffers, too. With his bones deteriorating and becoming more fragile, the Newark factory worker had already crushed a disk in his back when...
October 19, 2008
. HONG KONG, Oct 20 (Reuters) - China's economic boom has resulted in stark health inequity between its urban and rural populations and health experts urged the Chinese government to work harder at providing healthcare for everyone. Infant mortality in China's countryside stands at 123 for every 1,000 live births compared with 26 in the richest counties, the experts wrote in a paper published in The...
October 19, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. Football players who slather on moisturizer in full view of their teammates are bound to come in for some locker-room kidding. "Sure, we were hazed," says Barry Alford. "But in the end," says Jefferson Hoffman, "the guys were coming to us in secret and asking, 'What do you use on your skin?'" Alford and Hoffman, both 34, are former Arizona State University football players who have teamed...
October 19, 2008
Parents of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are almost twice as likely as other parents to divorce by the time their child is 8 years old, a new study suggests. A child's disruptive behavior doesn't in itself cause marriages to flame out, but it probably pours fuel on other stresses that spark marital conflict, say psychologists William Pelham Jr. and Brian Wymbs of the State...
October 19, 2008
Teenage scouts may be taken to sexual health clinics to better educate them on sex, according to new guidance issued Monday by The Scouting Association, whose world-famous motto is "Be Prepared." The document says the advice should apply for Explorer Scouts, who are aged between 14 and 18, and adds that scout leaders can also give out condoms if they believe a youth is highly likely to begin or continue...
October 19, 2008
Oct. 12 - Medicaid, the system for providing medical care to poor people, seems afflicted by an illness itself. It bleeds money. But in North Carolina, a novel approach called Community Care may have found a cure. One way Community Care saves money is by keeping up with Medicaid patients who have chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma. By making sure patients are receiving medicines and other...
October 19, 2008
NORTH BAY, Ontario, Oct 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Public health officials in North Bay, Ontario, say the number of people sickened by E. coli bacteria at a fast food restaurant has risen to 131. Local Medical Officer of Health Dr. Catherine Whiting told the Toronto Star she expected the number to increase further in coming days because the bacteria's incubation period that can last as long as 10...
October 18, 2008
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