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DALLAS - Two Texas medical researchers have received a grant to research conflicting reports about the infectious nature and causative agent of Southern-tick Associated Rash Illness in Texas and other states. For years, Texas doctors were slow to diagnose the Lyme-disease type infection because they were unable to detect the spiral-shaped bacteria that cause Lyme disease in patients, animals or ticks...
September 2, 2008
Bob Blackwell can rattle off the names of every country in Europe, even the obscure little islands, but most days he can't remember his computer password or his wife, Carol's, cellphone number. The 30-year CIA veteran recalls trips to the U.S.S.R. on Air Force One with Vice President George H. W. Bush and meetings with Presidents Carter and Reagan, but he occasionally forgets which exit to take on...
September 2, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif. She had this chest cold she couldn't seem to shake. Days turned into weeks, and yet it lingered. Over-the-counter medicine wasn't helping. Friends told Rancho Cordova, Calif., resident Denise Pena, 37, that, hey, feeling tired and nursing a weeks-long cold was a consequence of rearing two active young children born 22 months apart. Sick of being sick, Pena finally went to her doctor...
September 2, 2008
MUNICH, Germany - Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday. In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology. For men, the gap is not so dramatic; male smokers have heart attacks about six years earlier than...
September 2, 2008
Sep. 2 - The fanny pack on Kathleen Silvey's waist goes with her mountain biking and hiking. It's been to rock and country concerts. But inside the carryall is not a pair of sunglasses, car keys or cash. It holds a chemotherapy pump that pushes poisons to the deadly tumors in her abdomen. The rare cancer that has plagued Silvey for 31/2 years is expected to kill her. But the 50-year-old woman is making...
September 2, 2008
Sep. 2 - PLATTSBURGH - Dianne Agnew had learned to live with diabetes. It was not very easy, as she spent more than two decades on a daily regime of medicine and insulin shots and battling fluctuating blood-sugar levels that put her in the hospital several times and almost ending her life. Now, after switching from the insulin shots to a pump that helps regulate the amount of insulin she needs to keep...
September 2, 2008
Swedish researchers said Tuesday they have found a link between a specific gene and the way men bond to their partners, which can explain why some men are more prone to problems in their love life. "There are, of course, many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but this is the first time that a specific gene variant has been associated with how men bond to their partners," Hasse...
September 2, 2008
Sep 02, 2008 (The Herald - McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) - Sep. 2 - Rock Hill's HIV/AIDS clinic will broaden its outreach to minorities with a $60,000 infusion of money. Two-thirds of Catawba Care Coalition's clients are from racial and ethnic minority groups, said director Anita Case. That ratio mirrors national figures that show black Americans suffer disproportionately from HIV and...
September 2, 2008
Sep. 2 - To say Virginia Kong has been impacted by cancer would be an understatement - it's taken nine of her family members, including her husband, parents and her brother. She has also survived two bouts of thyroid cancer. Still, with an indomitable spirit, Kong said she refuses to give in to the disease - and she believes a cure will be found. "I just have faith we can do it," beamed Kong. "I believe...
September 1, 2008
As an epidemic of asthma left more and more children wheezing during the past two decades, scientists blamed everything from obesity to cockroach droppings to the way we build our houses. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have identified another potential cause: child abuse. The Brigham doctors discovered that children in Puerto Rico who endure physical or sexual abuse are twice as...
September 1, 2008
Sep. 1 - HICKORY - When Hani Nassar was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he went straight to the Internet and began to collect information about the disease. That course of action - getting all the facts first - helped Nassar make a decision about treatment. Now he wants to help others go through the same process as the recently-named head of the Man-to-Man Prostate Cancer Educational Support Group,...
August 31, 2008
Sep. 1 - BLOOMINGTON - Sydney Van Hook, age 3 1/2, jumped into the O'Neil Park Pool, played with her dad in the water for awhile, then climbed back out, kissed her mom and did the same things all over again. And again. And again. "With everything that she's been through, I don't think it can be any better right now - with the exception of her back, and that doesn't slow Sydney down," said her mother,...
August 31, 2008
Federal officials say fresh jalapeno and serrano peppers from Mexico pose a salmonella risk, but the peppers are still selling in the U.S. and for much less than their U.S. rivals. Buyers tend to be small Hispanic grocers and mom and pop restaurants, while big supermarkets and restaurants shun the Mexican supply, distributors say. "Mexican peppers still are selling," says Raul Ramirez, warehouse manager...
August 31, 2008
Weight matters. Not only can it cost you your health, it can cost you your job. Researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit have found that prejudice against overweight people is rampant in the workplace in hiring and promotion decisions. And it can also make overweight people feel upset, causing a loss of self-esteem that could negatively affect productivity, said Cort Rudolph, a psychology professor...
August 31, 2008
Aug. 30 - The turning point came when Monique Weston's husband discovered her downstairs in the middle of the night, unable to sleep and crying her heart out. Until then, she figured, she could will herself to snap out of the postpartum depression that had gripped her for two months and made her interpret even the vacuum cleaner's quirky knack of stopping her baby's crying jags as a sign of her inadequacy....
August 31, 2008
Traditional sexual practices including polygamy and promiscuity are driving rampant HIV-AIDS in Swaziland where nearly 40 percent of adults are infected, a UN study released Friday has found. The research found that polygamy, widow inheritance, multiple female partners, and extramarital relationships - in the past viewed as important for keeping society together - increased vulnerability to HIV-AIDS....
August 29, 2008
Traditional sexual practices including polygamy and promiscuity are driving rampant HIV-AIDS in Swaziland where nearly 40 percent of adults are infected, a UN study released Friday has found. The research found that polygamy, widow inheritance, multiple female partners, and extramarital relationships - in the past viewed as important for keeping society together - increased vulnerability to HIV-AIDS....
August 29, 2008
Ivorians with HIV/AIDS can now get free anti-retroviral treatment in public health centers with foreign funders picking up much of the tab, according to a decree of which AFP obtained a copy Friday. "Antiretroviral treatment is free in all public health establishments," said the decree signed by Health Minister Remi Allah Kouadio, which took effect August 20. Most of the treatment costs will be paid...
August 29, 2008
Aug. 28 - Twenty-five students and staff at Bowling Green High School have been identified as having a possible risk of exposure to a student with tuberculosis. District superintendent Joe Tinius said that the parents of students identified as at risk will receive a letter today informing them of the situation and urging students to undergo a free TB skin test between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday...
August 28, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS - Ann Garrity is careful to say that there are many reasons that she feels better these days. Her job is less stressful; her diet is healthier. But she has also changed every product that she smoothes, pats or brushes onto her skin, after a doctor suggested that her health problems were linked to her cosmetics. Persistent fibroids led her to an East Coast physician who urged her to throw...
August 28, 2008
Kelly Bruno has swum the Hudson, so chasing balls at the US Open is no big deal - even though she's the only person ever to do it with one leg. The 24-year-old triathlete, an amputee since she was a baby, is one of 75 ball girls and boys working the Open at the US Tennis Center in Queens. Bruno, hired to fetch loose balls at the net, handled three matches yesterday. "It's a lot of sprinting and standing,...
August 28, 2008
West Nile virus has shown up in mosquito samples from three more South Shore communities, and a pocket of Eastern equine encephalitis has been found in Carver. The latest samples testing positive for West Nile were collected Thursday in Quincy, Stoughton and Canton. The virus has also been found in Abington, Hingham, Plymouth, Whitman, Scituate and Weymouth in recent weeks. The season was free of EEE...
August 28, 2008
Headaches associated with air travel appear to be a "huge and painful problem," Israeli researchers report. In a study of 906 men and women who had traveled more than once by plane, nearly 6 percent reported that they experienced headaches associated with flying. Based on 3.3 billion seats available each year on commercial flights, with 70 percent occupancy, Dr. Israel Potasman and colleagues from...
August 28, 2008
Just as they've made an itchy, scratchy comeback in hotel rooms, bedbugs increasingly are appearing in dorm rooms, say college officials and pest-control experts, who are busy devising ways to eradicate the bloodsuckers. "They're taking off right now," says Dan Mizer, associate director of residence life at Texas A&M University. Bedbugs are everywhere, he says. "They're finding these things in public...
August 28, 2008
Parents who plan to send their little ace pitcher to the mound this fall after a busy summer of youth baseball should reconsider. That's the warning from medical experts who blame a sharp increase in elbow surgeries for youth pitchers on overuse. They caution parents against letting their child throw too many pitches during the season and allowing them to pitch more than eight months in a calendar...
August 28, 2008
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