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New Zealand says one of China's most popular candies - a kind frequently sold at Asian markets in the United States - contains dangerous levels of the industrial chemical melamine. In an extension of the broadening scandal in China over contaminated milk, testing by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority found 180 parts per million of melamine in White Rabbit Creamy Candies. The agency's website called...
September 24, 2008
Many hospitals have stepped up efforts to encourage regular hand washing by doctors. But what about their clothes? Amid growing concerns about hospital infections and a rise in drug-resistant bacteria, the attire of doctors, nurses and other health care workers - worn both inside and outside the hospital - is getting more attention. While infection control experts have published extensive research...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 25 - All children from 6 months to 18 years old should get flu vaccinations every year, the government said Wednesday in revamped guidelines that now include more than 260 million Americans. That's a sweeping change from previous guidelines, which included children who are 6 months to 4 years old. Officials said Wednesday that flu season could be curbed greatly if all youngsters are immunized....
September 24, 2008
What Dr. Michael LeVine prescribes for his patients he also advises for himself. The Atlanta physician, who will be 65 on Sept. 29, weighs 157 pounds and maintains less than 5 percent body fat. His blood pressure is good, and his cholesterol is normal. Although he modestly refrains from touting himself as a role model, he "tactfully suggests" that his patients exercise and lose weight to help fight...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 25 - SCHODACK - This year, for their 12th birthday, Lexi and Connor Kinzelmann didn't get toys or games or books. They didn't get any gifts at all. Instead, the twins told friends to bring the money that would have been spent on a gift to the party, after which they would donate it to the Alzheimer's Association. The Kinzelmanns' grandfather, Thomas Stead, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when Lexi...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 25 - Getting old does not have to mean living with disease, frailty and lots of medications. Mind-body connection is often the key, says Dr. Andrew Weil, alternative medicine expert, author and Tucson resident. Weil, who has studied elderly populations in communities around the globe, will be the keynote speaker Monday at a Tucson event that focuses on healthy aging. He will highlight evidence-based...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 25 - COLONIE - Don't report a UFO sighting if you spy a tricolored ethereal glow in the sky at dusk Friday around The Crossings of Colonie. You'll be witnessing the efforts of more than 1,000 people carrying illuminated balloons to commemorate and celebrate lives touched by cancer at a Light the Night fundraising event. More than 1,100 walkers raised about $260,000 last year for the Upstate New...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 24 - Matt Palm proposes a trade for shoes. You get his black, gold and white Nikes for a day. He gets your casual black loafers. You can walk in your pair. He can't. Is it a deal? "When you've gone through what I've gone through, you really appreciate the little things," he said. "Having the ability to take care of yourself, to move your arms up and down, or even to walk, is priceless. I don't...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 24 - The American Heart Association and Wesley Medical Center announced Tuesday that they are forming a partnership to improve women's heart health. The partnership means Wesley will be the Heart Association's local Go Red for Women sponsor for the next three years. The Go Red campaign is the Heart Association's national effort to increase awareness about how heart disease affects women. Heart...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 24 - Shawn Johnson is the compact powerhouse 16-year-old who won a legion of new fans and an Olympic gold medal on the balance beam in Beijing. Johnson, who also scored three silvers in the Summer Games, will be among the high-profile gymnasts performing tonight at Arco Arena. She'll also be one of the performers featured on "Frosted Pink with a Twist," an Oct. 12 television special aimed at encouraging...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 22 - As Irving Elementary School second-graders snip away at beehive cutouts, Tonya Lungstrum asks how much they know about what's inside those beehives. "It tastes like honey 'cuz it is honey," second-grader Tommy Willis said. As Muskogee Public Schools nutrition education coordinator, Lungstrum seeks to make sure kids not only know how foods taste, but also how different foods make them healthy....
September 24, 2008
Sep. 24 - Ken Patterson, a 40-year-old retired Army sergeant from Titusville, went to Washington, D.C. last spring the hard way - in a battery-powered wheelchair, 50 miles at a time. Drivers yelled at him to get off the road. They cursed. Some made crude gestures. But on Tuesday - four months after Patterson met with lawmakers to raise awareness about the link between military service and Lou Gehrig's...
September 24, 2008
The abortion rate in the United States has hit a 30-year low, with the decline particularly marked among teens, who once had the highest rate of abortion, a report showed Wednesday. "Many Americans will welcome the news that there are fewer abortions, particularly among teens, and that a larger proportion of abortions are now happening very early in pregnancy," said Sharon Camp, president of the Guttmacher...
September 24, 2008
Sep. 24 - Hair salons and barbershops are legendary for offering a psychiatrist's office-cum-confessional-cum-news service where people relax, bond and bare their souls on any topic that comes up. A University of South Carolina group wants to add another topic to the list - colon cancer. "Why not just take it a step further and talk about health issues?" said Sheniqua Riley of Profile Barber Institute...
September 24, 2008
BEV THOMPSON, OWNER of Eastside Harley-Davidson, lives on Lake Sammamish and has a thing for pink flamingos. She also has a thing about helping breast cancer patients. So does Federal Way's Barbara Purdom, a breast cancer survivor who volunteers with Angel Care Breast Cancer Foundation, an organization that provides emotional support for the newly diagnosed. If you pick up a copy of the organization's...
September 23, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) - Inhaler drugs used by millions of people with emphysema and bronchitis may slightly raise the risk for heart attacks and even death, a study suggests. The results aren't conclusive and inhalers provide significant relief for these patients struggling to breathe. But the study authors urged doctors to closely monitor patients who use the inhalers. Most affected patients have both emphysema...
September 23, 2008
WASHINGTON - The government plans to substantially increase disability benefits for veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries, acknowledging for the first time that veterans suffering from this less severe version of the Iraq war's signature wound will struggle to make a living. "We're saying it's real," said Tom Pamperin, a deputy director for the Department of Veterans Affairs, about the significance...
September 23, 2008
STANFORD, Calif., Sep 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've determined type 1 diabetes might not be due to bad genes, but rather to good genes behaving badly. Because type 1 diabetes typically runs in families, scientists have looked for inborn genetic errors or gene variants. But now Stanford University researchers led by Dr. C. Garrison Fathman have discovered the critical difference...
September 23, 2008
Sep. 23 - THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR TO UPDATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND THINK PINK Breast self exams aren't worthwhile - or are they? Does eating certain foods prevent breast cancer? The rate of breast cancer is going up - or is it? Sometimes, what we know seems to change every day. To a certain extent, that's true, as new studies provide more information about the disease. October is Breast Cancer Awareness...
September 23, 2008
Sep. 23 - People are picking up fewer prescription drugs and visiting their doctors less often as the economy pinches pocketbooks, according to analyst research. The drug industry is often thought to be invulnerable to a recession because people are reluctant to skip doctors' visits or stop taking medications. But the number of prescriptions dispensed in the second quarter of this year fell almost...
September 23, 2008
Sep. 23 - THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR TO UPDATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND THINK PINK Breast self exams aren't worthwhile - or are they? Does eating certain foods prevent breast cancer? The rate of breast cancer is going up - or is it? Sometimes, what we know seems to change every day. To a certain extent, that's true, as new studies provide more information about the disease. October is Breast Cancer Awareness...
September 23, 2008
Sep. 23 - Remember West Nile virus? It might seem as if the threat posed by the mosquito-born illness is waning, since the number of infected humans and deaths dwindles. State and county health officials acknowledge that progress has been made - that the number of mosquitos carrying the virus is being reduced and public education efforts are minimizing human infections. State data shows that human...
September 22, 2008
If you've shied away from getting a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, two new studies may make you less reluctant. One study found that if a first colonoscopy is normal, patients can safely put off having another test for at least five years - and many experts would say at least 10 years. The other study found that so-called virtual colonoscopies, which use CT scans, are roughly as accurate...
September 22, 2008
WASHINGTON, Sep 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Abortion demographics have changed dramatically since the 1970s, with far more older U.S. women and non-whites now undergoing the procedure, an analysis says. In the first comprehensive study of who is getting abortions since 1974, the Guttmacher Institute, a private nonprofit reproductive health research organization, found that women in their 20s and 30s...
September 22, 2008
Serious side effects from the use of food supplements resulted in 604 "adverse-event" reports - a list that includes at least five deaths - through the first six months that such accounts have been required by law. The Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements in the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition acknowledged receiving 368 mandatory...
September 22, 2008
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