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Your favorite restaurant's kids meal may not be very good for your kids. Too salty, fatty and calorie-laden was the verdict delivered this month by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. After analyzing kids' items offered by 13 of the nation's 25 largest restaurant chains, the Center for Science in the Public Interest concluded that 93 percent...
August 25, 2008
Aug. 25 - Earlier this summer, a Food and Drug Administration warning about particular varieties of raw tomatoes being linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak kept them off supermarket shelves, your favorite submarine sandwich and the salad you planned on making with dinner when the news broke. The warnings, which devastated the tomato industry with multi-million dollar losses and fed the news cycle...
August 25, 2008
BANGALORE, India, Aug 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A project by scientists in the United States and India may soon produce an inexpensive Web-enabled device that will allow asthma monitoring on the Internet. The device that would measure lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders is being developed by the U.S. electronics company Texas Instruments Inc. at its Bangalore, India, facility....
August 25, 2008
OTTAWA, Aug 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it expanded its warning issued last week concerning contaminated meat products to include additional brands. The CFIA and Maple Leaf Consumer Foods said the products that might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can be identified by the establishment number that appears on the packages as "Est 97B" near the "Best...
August 25, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Aug 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. actress Christina Applegate is recovering from a double mastectomy she had after being diagnosed with breast cancer, pop singer Lance Bass says. The former 'N Sync singer, who is friends with the "Samantha Who?" star, said Applegate is doing well and keeping herself busy by completing crossword puzzles in her hospital bed, People magazine reported Saturday....
August 25, 2008
OTTAWA, Aug 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it expanded its warning issued last week concerning contaminated meat products to include additional brands. The CFIA and Maple Leaf Consumer Foods said the products that might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can be identified by the establishment number that appears on the packages as "Est 97B" near the "Best...
August 24, 2008
GLENVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Crammed on middle linebacker Derek Walker's plate are beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, spinach and a roll. In the other hand, he balances a salad and a bottle of hot sauce. He lumbers through the small, tabled-filled cafeteria and plunks down without spilling a drop. All without a tray. "You've just got to do with what you have," Walker said. Glenville State has joined an...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 25 - Kim Rodriguez believes whole foods are the foundation of health. But, she said, many people do not eat enough whole foods because of misinformation and lack of understanding about good food choices. That's why she opened Aiken Nutrition this month with the goal to restore and maintain a person's health. "I don't want to tell people what's right or what's wrong. I'd rather them make their...
August 24, 2008
LONDON, Aug 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Poverty in England is responsible for poor health, and even death, among children, a broad range coalition of groups says in a report. End Child Poverty - a 130-group network of children's charities, church groups, unions and think tanks - suggested in its report that children from poor families are at 10 times the risk of sudden infant death as children from...
August 24, 2008
TORONTO, Aug 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian authorities have confirmed a bacterial outbreak that claimed four lives has been traced to a Toronto meat-processing facility. Maple Leaf Foods has expanded a nationwide product recall after the listeriosis outbreak was linked to its plant, Canwest News Service reported Saturday. The expanded recall will include all sliced deli meat and other products...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 24 - 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 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 in January. Diagnosis:...
August 24, 2008
The battle against aging has a new weapon: a copper-oxide pillow case that inventors say will diminish wrinkles and lines on people's faces after just four weeks. Scientists believe moisture from the skin causes the pillow case to release copper ions, which stimulate production of collagen. The US-Israeli company Cupron has begun selling the cases online for around $30. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings,...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 24 - WEST HAVEN - When Brenda Zmuda made the difficult decision to donate her mother's kidneys after she died to save the lives of two Connecticut men, she had no idea that nine years later she would be looking for a kidney to save her husband. Now a little good karma might be heading Brenda's way. Her husband, Steven Zmuda, a diabetic who undergoes nightly dialysis because of chronic renal failure,...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 24 - Getting quality health care helps consumers stay healthy and recover faster when they become sick, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet, according to two annual agency reports on the quality of health care, the gap between the best possible care and the actual care patients receive remains large....
August 24, 2008
Aug. 24 - Babirye lives in a fishing village in Uganda. She loves singing with her twin sister, holds faith in God close and finds solace in a beachside church. Her father died from AIDS when she was 5, and her mother suffers the same disease. While her twin is healthy and active, Babirye, born with HIV, now shows outward signs of illness. Babirye, now 14, is one of 15 million children in Uganda who...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 24 - LONG BEACH - Suzanne Caves took a devastating loss in her life and used it as a way to help others. When her son Michael died of AIDS in 1986, the Long Beach mother abandoned her career as a successful real estate agent and dedicated her life to helping those with AIDS. Caves died Friday morning at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center after battling a lung infection. She was 81. While many...
August 24, 2008
Aug. 20 - Blame it on the sweet tea and fried chicken. The Southern tradition of fueling bodies with greasy, high-fat foods consistently lands Alabama and its neighbors in the top five rankings for obesity. Alabama was ranked as the third most obese state in the country - behind Mississippi and West Virginia - in the "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America" report, which uses an average...
August 23, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Four in 10 of the patients flooding California's dwindling and overtaxed emergency rooms could be treated elsewhere, but can't wait for an appointment with their own doctor, according to a study released Tuesday. The report by the Public Policy Institute of California offers a portrait of the state's emergency rooms, which have decreased by 11 percent since the 1990s but have seen a 10...
August 22, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Bush administration has proposed a new rule intended to allow healthcare workers to refuse to deliver medical services that violate their personal faith. The regulation would authorize the federal government to withhold funding for more than 584,000 medical facilities unless they accommodate the religious preferences of doctors, nurses and others who...
August 22, 2008
All of Massachusetts may soon become a trans fat-free zone. The state's public health commissioner responded enthusiastically Wednesday to a lawmaker's request that his agency impose a statewide ban on the artery-clogging fat in all restaurant food. Last month, California became the first state to outlaw restaurant use of trans fat, found commonly in doughnuts, french fries, and chicken nuggets. Boston,...
August 21, 2008
Aug. 20 - A disabled Wilson woman is lobbying Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration and Gov. Mike Easley on a quest to have every U.S. airport install a family assistance restroom. A word of warning to officials at the unequipped airports - Tawana Williams usually achieves what she wants. Despite being born without arms, Williams has learned to care for herself, built a successful public speaking...
August 21, 2008
While the incidence of breast cancer in young women in the U.S. is relatively rare, there are more than 250,000 women under the age of forty that are living with the disease and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the next year. Television-star Christina Applegate's tumor was detected through magnetic resonance imaging, which was ordered by her doctor, according to her publicist. That decision proved lifesaving...
August 21, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration has approved use of irradiation on spinach and lettuce to kill dangerous bacteria, but companies may have a tough time selling the idea to consumers. The FDA's decision, effective today, adds iceberg lettuce and spinach to the short but growing list of foods approved for irradiation, including meat, poultry and some shellfish. While a handful of companies have succeeded...
August 21, 2008
Twenty-five schools statewide will be able to buy Washington-grown fruits and vegetables as snacks this year, thanks to new legislation. The Local Farms-Healthy Kids bill passed nearly unanimously in Olympia earlier this year aims to get nutritious food to schoolchildren and provide economic opportunities to state farmers. But one of the most important parts of the plan - hiring two staff people to...
August 21, 2008
Aug. 20 - In the four years of losses at Decatur General, the majority of uncompensated care has been to patients whose income was above the poverty level. President and Chief Executive Officer Dean Griffin described these clients as patients who can probably afford to pay, but who do not for some reason. Griffin said almost three weeks ago that the hospital now is more diligent in billing and collections....
August 21, 2008
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