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Sep. 18 - Two of presidential hopeful Barack Obama's most ardent supporters - his wife, Michelle, and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine - were in Charlottesville on Wednesday, but for different reasons. In what was the first day of a three-day conference on health sciences, Kaine spoke at the University of Virginia Medical Center about obesity in the United States, particularly in Virginia. Kaine's audience was...
September 18, 2008
CHICAGO - Tucker Moore earns solid grades, runs cross-country at Lake Forest High School and is training to be an Eagle Scout. Still, when facing a tough math problem or moral dilemma, the 16-year-old sometimes asks: What would Link do? At Moore's skillful hand, Link - the daring hero of Moore's favorite video game, Zelda - has rescued a princess and freed the kingdom from tyranny. Although his demons...
September 17, 2008
New York City ranks as the undisputed condom capital of the nation. The Mayor's Management Report, issued yesterday, showed that the Health Department gave away 39,070,000 male condoms to community groups in fiscal 2008, which ended on June 30. That's enough for every man, woman and child in the city six times over. It was more than double the previous year's 17,770,000. The price tag of the rubbers...
September 17, 2008
Sep. 17 - Work it: Healthy Moms, a health club for new and expectant mothers, is hosting a free day of fitness at Meadowmont Club on Saturday. Sampler fitness classes will be available for visitors to try out, including the Prenatal AquaMoms, PowerStroll, Total Body Conditioning and AquaMoms with Baby. The program teaches safe exercises for expectant mothers following guidelines from the American College...
September 17, 2008
The television medical drama Grey's Anatomy apparently has more to offer than Patrick Dempsey's rakish smile and a good cry. A new survey reports watching the show also may increase a viewer's health smarts. Research released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates many people who tune in to prime time's top-rated shows remember health messages in episodes. In one survey, Kaiser experts worked...
September 17, 2008
BAGHDAD, Sep 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Iraqi health officials said 107 cases of cholera have been confirmed in the central and southern regions of the country. Cholera is a gastrointestinal disease that is often spread by contaminated water. Ihssan Jaafar, a spokesman for the ministry's cholera control unit, said health officials are offering medical treatment and raising awareness of the outbreak...
September 17, 2008
SOMETIMES THE ODDS are with you. Sometimes they're against you. Sometimes it's a little of both. Case in point: Renton's Craig Riggs, a man who didn't need a wake-up call when it came to cardiovascular disease. He already got one in 1970 when his 59-year-old father suffered a heart attack, then a second one in 1980 when his mother, then 61, died from the same cause. And he got yet another the day his...
September 16, 2008
As the market melts down, hurricanes wreak havoc, war grinds on and feelings of helplessness set in, stress goes up. That can bring on a host of unpleasant physical symptoms, say health professionals. When we get stressed, our bodies naturally respond. Stress-related ailments include headaches, restlessness, agitation, insomnia, irritability, neck pain, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, insomnia, chest...
September 16, 2008
CHICAGO, Sep 16, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A large-scale U.S. study suggests exposure to Bisphenol A is linked to health problems such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in adults. BPA is widely used in epoxy resins lining food and beverage containers. The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Society, said higher BPA concentrations were also associated with liver-enzyme...
September 16, 2008
Women who eat right, exercise and never smoke tobacco more than halve the risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, a long-term study released Wednesday said. The study is based on data provided by 80,000 women in the United States who were between 34 and 59 years old when the investigation began in 1980. Over the next 24 years, the volunteers filled out detailed questionnaires about their diet,...
September 16, 2008
Octogenarians who walk an hour or more each day are less likely to die and or be prone to serious illness compared with less active counterparts, according to a study published on Wednesday. The research was carried out among 248 Italian volunteers, living in a mountain community, whose average age was 85.9 years. During the 24-month experiment, 12 percent of the volunteers died, but the mortality...
September 16, 2008
Sep. 16 - Tens of millions of patients rely on Vytorin to lower their cholesterol. After a year of bad news for the drug, though, many of those patients are confused and concerned, wondering whether they should continue taking it. The assault on Vytorin began in January, when a clinical trial claimed that the $3-per-pill drug was no better at sweeping plaque from arteries than a $1-per-pill generic...
September 15, 2008
Researchers have long known that watching violence on TV or in movies ratchets up aggression, but what about watching people being mean to one another? Could watching Mean Girls make you as aggressive as watching Kill Bill? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne and colleagues asked 53 British college-aged women to watch one of three video clips, featuring...
September 15, 2008
The U.S. government is ramping up efforts to promote the building of healthy homes free of lead, chemicals, mold, moisture and pests. Four federal agencies are hosting the first national summit on the topic, beginning today in Baltimore. Several U.S.-funded studies will be unveiled that show how renovations in Cleveland, Seattle and New Orleans lowered the risk of asthma and other health problems for...
September 15, 2008
No wonder consumers are confused about the safety of chemicals in plastic. Even federal government agencies don't agree about the hazards posed by Bisphenol A, or BPA, an estrogen-like chemical used in plastic that has been detected in the bodies of 93% of Americans tested. Two weeks ago, the National Toxicology Program said it has "some concern" that BPA alters development of the brain and prostate...
September 15, 2008
My balloon sword is green and long, like a mutant zucchini, and I'm thrusting it at a perfect stranger while laughing uproariously on command. My opponent parries neatly. On every side, would-be d'Artagnans are crossing swords - their balloon rapiers squeaking and bouncing ineffectually amid a comic free-for-all. Moments ago, we were 20 sober, polite adults standing in a circle, awaiting direction...
September 15, 2008
When nurses tried to insert an IV into patient Linda Aron's hand, she was so anxious over the impending operation to fix her acid reflux that they simply had to stop. Instead of continuing to poke and prod Aron, nurses at Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center called in a massage therapist to rub her shoulders and arms to help her relax. Within 10 minutes, Aron had an IV in place. To meet patient...
September 15, 2008
Sep. 9 - He finally got his own bathroom, a coup for anyone living in a group home. He finally got the big front room with the big picture window, too, after living in four other, smaller rooms. Now he's in what used to be the living room in this reconfigured suburban house. He has a fireplace where he keeps some groovy houseplants, his books and stuff. The guy has settled in. James "Baines" Allmon...
September 14, 2008
Two years ago, Tim Seiwerath learned how to fly. He was teaching a yoga class in downtown Seattle when Lux, who goes by one name, and Dawn Sternstein - also yoga instructors - dropped in. "After class Lux asked me, 'Do you want to fly?' I didn't know what he was asking. I just said, 'Yeah, of course I want to fly,' " recalled Seiwerath, 38, who is a head taller than Lux and long-limbed, while Lux is...
September 14, 2008
Can you hear me now? If the answer is no, it might not be your cellphone reception. It could be wax in your ears. As in that natural, yellowish stuff better known in medical circles as cerumen. Usually earwax coats and protects ears and then is naturally expelled. Sometimes it gets impacted, which can cause problems ranging from diminished hearing to pain and odor. The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head...
September 14, 2008
Sep. 14 - Life is not easy for a spouse of an adult with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. John Capel, a psychologist with practices in Sacramento and Davis, would seem better equipped than many to deal with the ADHD of his wife, Cass. But he says it's still a challenge. He deals with it with patients in his practice and deals with his own issues. "It's like being a caregiver for an elderly...
September 14, 2008
Sep. 12 - Pat Ward-Schumann of Paducah may look like the picture of health, but last year she had her second heart stent put in at age 52. "Ten years ago I went through the same thing," she said. "I thought I was too young. At the time, I was told women didn't have heart attacks. They just died." She didn't want to be the next statistic. She went to the doctor after experiencing severe chest pains....
September 13, 2008
Sep. 12 - Nassau County has recorded its deadliest year from West Nile virus with the confirmation yesterday that a 90-year-old Mineola man also perished from the mosquito-borne illness. He joins two other people in Nassau confirmed dead from the virus. Officials also announced another confirmed case - that of a 56-year-old woman - bringing the number of cases in Nassau so far this year to nine confirmed...
September 13, 2008
Sep. 12 - Does the world need another book about heart disease and cardiac care? Perhaps the world doesn't, but women do. For decades, scientists and clinicians considered the female heart to be a smaller duplicate of a male heart. Recent findings have banished that paradigm, and researchers are finding significant differences between the hearts of males and females. These differences also affect the...
September 12, 2008
Sep. 12 - LAS CRUCES - A national bus tour urging people to fight cancer through the power of their voices will stop today in Las Cruces. The "Fight Back Express" is expected to be at the Southern New Mexico Cancer Center, 150 Roadrunner Parkway, at 7:15 p.m. today. The bus is sponsored by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network to emphasize the role that elected officials can have in the...
September 12, 2008
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