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Sep. 22 - The Lake County Elder Affairs Coordinating Council will host an Elder Expo from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lake County Agricultural Center, 1951 Woodlea Road, Tavares. This year's theme is "A Tour of Good Health, Good Food and Gardens." The free event will include health screenings, informational speakers, tours of Discovery Gardens, pneumonia shots, door prizes and cooking demonstrations....
September 22, 2008
Sep. 22 - EL PASO - Women have a lot of questions about their bodies and the things time and disease can do to them. But they don't always reach out for answers. Maybe events - free events like the Women's Health Seminar on Tuesday at Las Palmas LifeCare Center - can lend a helping hand. The 6 p.m. symposium brings together a panel of physicians and members of a public often thirsty for knowledge but...
September 22, 2008
In the face of nearly zero demand from consumers, genetically engineered food is on its way. Don't worry about any shock at seeing re-engineered fish or meat: The government doesn't want you to know what you're eating. That fits a pattern of denying consumers the right to honest labeling set by the administration with approvals for cloned animals and irradiated meat. Agri-business gets to do what it...
September 21, 2008
Sep. 22 - Perhaps it should be renamed the Fast-food Response Design - or FReD. That seems appropriate for a mass-vaccination event that makes use of a key fast-food feature - drive-through lanes. A total of 1,385 people received the hepatitis A vaccine in Amherst on Sept. 13, and most never got out of their cars. Instead, they were funneled through an Amherst town highway garage and received a hepatitis...
September 21, 2008
Sep. 22 - EL PASO - Women have a lot of questions about their bodies and the things time and disease can do to them. But they don't always reach out for answers. Maybe events - free events like the Women's Health Seminar on Tuesday at Las Palmas LifeCare Center - can lend a helping hand. The 6 p.m. symposium brings together a panel of physicians and members of a public often thirsty for knowledge but...
September 21, 2008
BEIJING, Sep 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The number of babies sickened by tainted milk products in China totals more than 50,000, with four dead and another 104 seriously ill. The Chinese Health Ministry said of those sickened, about 12,900 had been hospitalized, among whom 104 were seriously ill, the China Daily reported. CNN reported another 40,000 sick children underwent outpatient treatment after...
September 21, 2008
HONG KONG, Sep 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Chinese tainted milk scandal spread to Hong Kong Sunday, with officials saying a 3-year-old girl had been hospitalized with a kidney stone. Citing unnamed sources, The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday that Hong Kong's Princess Margaret Hospital was treating a girl who regularly drank milk supplied by Yili, one of China's two biggest dairy companies. The...
September 21, 2008
BEIJING, Sep 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Asian countries are banning Chinese dairy products and foreign manufacturers are poised to benefit from China's tainted baby formula scandal, analysts say. With the dairy products of three of China's leading brands found to contain traces of the banned chemical additive melamine, local Asian media say Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Burma and Bangladesh as well...
September 21, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration alerted physicians Thursday to rare reports of sudden hearing loss in men taking popular impotence drugs from Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Bayer. FDA said it is unclear whether the hearing problems are directly related to drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. However, at the agency's request the drugs' makers added more prominent precautions about hearing...
September 21, 2008
Sep. 21 - TOPEKA - While universal health care may be a long-term goal for some, Kansas advocates for children are hoping the next president will work immediately to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program - a proposal that President Bush vetoed last year. "We really want Congress and the next administration to make a top priority approving the expansion of SCHIP," said Gary Brunk, executive...
September 21, 2008
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. It strikes Kate Miller as odd that the FDA will tell people to stop eating tomatoes suspected of causing illness, but it doesn't pull a drug off the shelves that might make people suicidal. "If it was a tomato or pepper or dog food, they would have been blasting it all over the media," Miller said. Miller son's Cody, 15, killed himself last summer, 17 days after he started taking Singulair...
September 20, 2008
Sep. 17 - Battling indigestion wouldn't normally lead someone to experiment with food. But Duane Thompson's troubles with tomatoes have resulted in a different brand of salsa. Thompson owns Sabrosa Foods, a Hampton-based company whose sole product, at least for the time being, is salsa. Sabrosa means "tasty" in Spanish, and those who struggle with indigestion from eating tomato-based salsas might want...
September 19, 2008
Sep. 17 - Battling indigestion wouldn't normally lead someone to experiment with food. But Duane Thompson's troubles with tomatoes have resulted in a different brand of salsa. Thompson owns Sabrosa Foods, a Hampton-based company whose sole product, at least for the time being, is salsa. Sabrosa means "tasty" in Spanish, and those who struggle with indigestion from eating tomato-based salsas might want...
September 19, 2008
Sep. 17 - During the past year, Katelyn Johnson has been an advocate for a condition she doesn't even have. The 16-year-old junior's efforts began last year, when she organized a fundraiser walk for the American Diabetes Association at Gig Harbor High. She raised about $2,000. Her work didn't stop there, as Katelyn raised another $4,000 in the following months through various events, everything from...
September 19, 2008
The American Lung Association is threatening to shut down its Seattle-based Northwest chapter because of "fundamental violations," including an allegation that the chapter president may be trying to divert the nonprofit's funds. Last month, Mike Alderson, president and CEO of the Northwest chapter, started a group called the Pacific Northwest Lung Cancer Foundation in Seattle. On Thursday, Lung Association...
September 19, 2008
She battles arthritis, endured two hip replacements and underwent three eye operations. She can't read anymore, can't drive anymore, can't stand for more than an hour. Her feet and hands grow chilly because of poor circulation. Bonnie Genevay, an 80-year-old retired gerontologist, once taught others about the effects of aging. "Everything is coming true," she said wryly at her peaceful home in Seattle's...
September 19, 2008
Sep. 11 - Nearly a third of children are obese or overweight, an epidemic of excessive weight that increases their risk of serious disease later in life. Now, an initiative announced Wednesday hopes to reverse that trend in Western New York by turning physical fitness and good nutrition into a school competition. The Fitness for Kids Challenge is one of a number of school-based interventions targeting...
September 19, 2008
Sep. 11 - Nearly a third of children are obese or overweight, an epidemic of excessive weight that increases their risk of serious disease later in life. Now, an initiative announced Wednesday hopes to reverse that trend in Western New York by turning physical fitness and good nutrition into a school competition. The Fitness for Kids Challenge is one of a number of school-based interventions targeting...
September 19, 2008
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. It strikes Kate Miller as odd that the FDA will tell people to stop eating tomatoes suspected of causing illness, but it doesn't pull a drug off the shelves that might make people suicidal. "If it was a tomato or pepper or dog food, they would have been blasting it all over the media," Miller said. Miller son's Cody, 15, killed himself last summer, 17 days after he started taking Singulair...
September 18, 2008
Texas hospitals slammed as post-hurricane conditions deteriorate HOUSTON - A 30-year-old man falls 25 feet from a cherry picker, smacking his head and breaking his leg so badly that bone pokes through his thigh. A trauma team at Texas Medical Center's Memorial Hermann Hospital crowds around him. Nearby, a trauma team prepares for a patient arriving by helicopter who was hit in the head by a falling...
September 18, 2008
Sep. 17 - Battling indigestion wouldn't normally lead someone to experiment with food. But Duane Thompson's troubles with tomatoes have resulted in a different brand of salsa. Thompson owns Sabrosa Foods, a Hampton-based company whose sole product, at least for the time being, is salsa. Sabrosa means "tasty" in Spanish, and those who struggle with indigestion from eating tomato-based salsas might want...
September 18, 2008
A chronic runny nose, taking paracetamol in infancy, and wheezing as a child are all conditions linked to the onset of adulthood asthma, a trio of studies reported Friday. Babies who took the over-the-counter pain reliever paracetamol in the first year of life were fifty percent more likely to show symptoms of asthma by the time they were six or seven years old, according to one of the studies. Based...
September 18, 2008
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A study six years in the making of nearly 225,000 people shows that the rates of cancer deaths among workers at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is the same or lower than in Connecticut and the U.S., researchers said Thursday. "We're encouraged by these findings," Pratt spokesman Jay DeFrank said. "There's no association between any health issues and our workplace."...
September 18, 2008
Sep. 17 - DECATUR - This month, men and women across the country are wearing light blue ribbons to raise awareness of a disease that is claiming the lives of men at an alarming rate. According to a recent Illinois Department of Public Health news release, American Cancer Society statistics reveal that more than 180,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year and close...
September 18, 2008
LONDON, Sep 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - British and U.S. scientists say nearly 7 million pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with hookworms and, therefore, are at risk of anemia. Hookworms are parasitic worms that live in the intestine and can cause a lower than normal number of red blood cells. In a systematic search of medical databases, reference lists and unpublished data, the scientists...
September 18, 2008
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