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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 13, 2008
Oct. 13 - BLOOMINGTON - Emily Trefzger Campos exfoliated Martha Hall's skin as part of a microdermabrasion treatment. "We're cleansing the skin," Trefzger Campos, a medical aesthetician and laser technician, explained in a quiet voice as soothing music played in the background. | "Microdermabrasion increases blood flow and helps with fine lines and wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, acne scarring and spots...
October 12, 2008
CHICAGO - America's leading pediatricians' group says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence that it may help prevent serious diseases. To meet the new recommendation of 400 units daily, millions of children will need to take daily vitamin D supplements, the American Academy of Pediatrics said. That includes breast-fed infants...
October 12, 2008
The potato - nutritious, accommodating and unassuming; a species (Solanum tuberosum) with thousands of varieties - has certainly been taken for granted more than it should have been throughout its history. It originated 8,000 years ago near Lake Titicaca (in the Andes, between Bolivia and Peru), according to the Farm and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, but it took native hunters and...
October 12, 2008
Hamburg (dpa) - More and more older men are trying to become fathers and discovering that it's not as easily achieved as it is in youth. Usually the man's entire lifestyle comes into question when fertility is impaired, said Hermann Behre of the university centre for reproductive medicine and andrology in Halle, Germany. Smoking can have a negative effect on men advancing in age. Poor diet and lack...
October 12, 2008
At a time when they're already fighting for their lives, more cancer patients are now struggling to pay for their medicines. One in eight people with advanced cancer turned down recommended care because of the cost, according to a new analysis from Thomson Reuters, which provides news and business information. Among patients with incomes under $40,000, one in four in advanced stages of the disease...
October 12, 2008
Oct. 13 - EL PASO - Think pink. What was started by two people 23 years ago as a one-week way to promote mammography as an effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer has grown into a monthlong international pink-nomenon. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's still about promoting mammography and early detection, but it's about so much more these days. Like raising millions for research...
October 12, 2008
America's health is in critical condition. National media reports regularly talk about the fact that Americans' lifestyle is so good compared to nations around the world, that we don't take care of ourselves and have declining health and obesity in both adults and children. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 67 percent of all Americans, about 200 million, are overweight or obese. That number...
October 12, 2008
America's health is in critical condition. National media reports regularly talk about the fact that Americans' lifestyle is so good compared to nations around the world, that we don't take care of ourselves and have declining health and obesity in both adults and children. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 67 percent of all Americans, about 200 million, are overweight or obese. That number...
October 11, 2008
WAVERLY, N.Y. In the brisk air on Saturday morning, more than 150 people gathered by ElderWood Healthcare in Waverly, N.Y., dressed in pink shirts, shorts, hats and bandanas, and ready for the fourth annual Ann Marie Kraus Memorial 5K Run/Walk. Kraus had been a dietitian at Tioga Nursing Facility, now known as ElderWood, and a mother of four children. In October of 2005, she lost a battle with breast...
October 11, 2008
Oct. 12 - Yet the view persists that adolescents are somehow immune to the debilitating clinical depression that afflicts many adults. And such carefree-days-of-youth thinking on the part of some parents and caregivers can yield tragic results. Teen suicides, which had been on a downward trajectory for the previous two decades, showed an 18 percent rise in 2004 over the previous year, according to...
October 11, 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 11, 2008
NASHVILLE, Oct 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Healthcare reform advocates say they're hoping the major-party U.S. presidential nominees will start talking more about insurance and cost issues. As U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., were preparing to meet Tuesday night in Nashville for their second presidential debate, the issues of U.S. residents without health insurance and reducing...
October 10, 2008
NASHVILLE, Oct 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Healthcare reform advocates say they're hoping the major-party U.S. presidential nominees will start talking more about insurance and cost issues. As U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., were preparing to meet Tuesday night in Nashville for their second presidential debate, the issues of U.S. residents without health insurance and reducing...
October 10, 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 10, 2008
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Four years ago, Jessica Soske of Berkeley, Calif., was diagnosed with a rare neuro-endocrine disease that affects the use of her muscles. She had a tough time coping and coming to terms with her body's changes. Soske, a former attorney, tends to get stuck in her analytical mind, so traditional psychotherapy didn't help, she says. A devotee of meditation, Soske decided to try a...
October 10, 2008
DETROIT, Sep 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - An environmental group released a study showing higher levels of flame-retardant chemicals present in the bodies of U.S. children. The findings from the Environmental Working Group are being used to bolster calls from Michigan groups for the passage of restrictions on three such chemicals known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs. "The chemical is ubiquitous...
October 9, 2008
Oct. 9 - Heavy rains propagated a huge number of mosquitoes last week and then cooler weather knocked them back, but this year's risk of West Nile virus will not subside until the first hard freeze, insect and public health experts said. Consequently, now is not the time to drop your guard against Connecticut mosquitoes. Cases of West Nile virus infection have been diagnosed in October. "In previous...
October 9, 2008
Several Shelton High School students will raise money to help fight childhood cancer this month. Keirsten McDonald, a 14-year-old freshman who is Miss Shelton Teen America, is leading the effort. Proceeds will benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Keirsten, who is competing for the Miss Connecticut Teen America title this month, said she has recruited several students...
October 9, 2008
Oct. 9 - The number of people in the Owensboro metropolitan area without health insurance exploded between 2000 and 2005, a new U.S. Census report shows. In Daviess County, 19.4 percent more people were without health insurance in 2005 than in 2000, the report says. In McLean, the numbers were up 56.4 percent - and in Hancock, 85.4 percent. "It's a serious problem," JAT Mountjoy, health education director...
October 8, 2008
Oct. 9 - Just five years ago, the Tulsa City-County Health Department got only 5,000 doses of influenza vaccine yet still had unused vials to throw out at the end of flu season. This year, as flu season approaches, the agency expects to provide free flu vaccinations to more than 30,000 Tulsa County residents, spokeswoman Melanie Christian said. "Certainly, we've seen public demand increase," she said....
October 8, 2008
OTTAWA, Oct 9, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Toronto meat processing plant closed for sanitizing after a deadly listeriosis outbreak produced four new contaminated samples, federal officials said. The Maple Leaf plant was closed in August after being identified as the source of the bacteria that killed 20 Canadians and was stripped down and sanitized. It reopened Sept. 17, although none of its products...
October 8, 2008
PHOENIX - Most people think of fat as an inert blob, but fat cells release powerful chemicals. In obese people, the fat tissue often produces too many bad hormones and too few good ones, says Susan Fried, director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit of Maryland at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Fried and other scientists discussed the latest research on fat cells here...
October 8, 2008
Tough economic times, war, political unrest, threats of terrorism and other highly stressful circumstances can contribute to depression and anxiety, mental health experts say. According to the 2008 Stress in America survey released Tuesday by the American Psychological Association, eight of 10 Americans say the economy is a major source of stress, which can also lead to depression, suicide, heart disease,...
October 8, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct 8, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists say they are the first to demonstrate a genetic linkage between obesity and the risk of colon cancer. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers say their finding could lead to greater accuracy in testing for the disease and might improve efforts to ward off colon cancer with obesity-fighting activities, such as exercise,...
October 8, 2008
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