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Aug. 21 - The state-mandated nurseto-student ratio has long been the target of the Pennsylvania Association of School Nurses. The state Health Department requires that public schools employ at least one certified school nurse for every 1,500 students, double the federally recommended ratio of 1-to-750. The association insists that the ratio, established in 1949, is out of touch with the increasingly...
August 21, 2008
Cox News Service WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Britney Spears' continuing, bizarre behavior, from shaving her head to reportedly instigating a standoff with police at her home, has led to periodic reports that the singer may suffer from bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression. There even were interviews with People magazine managing editor Peter Castro, where he quoted unnamed relatives of Spears...
August 21, 2008
Pop-Tarts and doughnuts for breakfast for 2-year-olds. Rolls, chicken nuggets and French fries for school lunches. Brownies given the same nutritional value as a slice of whole-wheat bread. Federal nutrition programs are failing children and contributing to an epidemic of obesity and chronic illnesses in America, according to speakers who testified Wednesday at a U.S. Department of Agriculture listening...
August 21, 2008
TORONTO (AP) - An outbreak of listeriosis has killed one person and sickened at least 16 others, Canadian public health officials said Wednesday, as a food company suspended production at a Toronto plant and expanded a recall of nearly two dozen types of packaged meats. The Public Health Agency of Canada said it was working with officials in four provinces to establish any link between the outbreak...
August 20, 2008
In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West's disease of the moment. Tens of millions of girls and young women in the United States and Europe have been vaccinated against a virus that can cause many types of the disease in the two years since two vaccines were given government approval in many countries and, often, recommended for universal...
August 20, 2008
Aug. 21 - State health officials have qualified their cancer-risk assessment of formaldehyde emissions from a proposed Rocklin funeral home. On Friday, a health official clarified that formaldehyde emissions from the funeral home would pose a greater cancer risk only if humans were exposed to a certain level on a long-term basis. The Rocklin City Council on Aug. 12 delayed a decision on the proposed...
August 20, 2008
Aug. 21 - American Indians in Minnesota and surrounding states have dramatically higher rates of colon cancer and several other types of the disease than whites, a University of Minnesota researcher and his colleagues reported Wednesday. They found that American Indians in the Northern Plains have nearly triple the rate of liver cancer and more than twice the rate of stomach and gallbladder cancer...
August 20, 2008
A new study adds to arsenic's notoriety as a cause of cancer and favored murder mystery poison by suggesting it also plays a role in diabetes. Exposure to low levels of inorganic arsenic - an industrial pollutant that also is found naturally in rocks and soil - in drinking water may increase a person's risk of type 2 diabetes, researchers report in today's Journal of the American Medical Association....
August 20, 2008
Christina Applegate's choice to have a double mastectomy puts her in the company of a growing number of women who are taking aggressive steps to avoid dying of breast cancer. Studies show more patients are choosing mastectomies, even though women are just as likely to survive if they have smaller, breast-conserving surgeries. Doctors say part of the trend has been spurred by technology: scans that...
August 20, 2008
ATHENS, Ga., Aug 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study suggests exclusive breastfeeding promotes greater weight loss than mixed feeding among mothers, even during the early postpartum period. University of Georgia researchers Irene Hatsu, Dawn McDougald and Alex Anderson investigated the effect of infant feeding mode on maternal body composition. They measured the weight and changes in body fat...
August 20, 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 20, 2008
Beijing (dpa) - Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled on Wednesday her dream of competing at the Olympic Games. However, the Argentine could not hear the shouts of the crowd gathered at the BMX circuit, and she will not be able to hear her national anthem if she wins a medal on Thursday. Dutto is 98 per cent deaf, but she represents Argentina alongside Maria Gabriela Diaz in one of the newcomer sports of the...
August 20, 2008
LOS ANGELES - What would it sound like if 15 of the hottest female singers joined voices? The answer will be revealed Sept. 2. That's when "Just Stand Up" hits the airwaves and iTunes. The song features Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood....
August 19, 2008
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - If baby boomers have trouble sleeping they should turn off the TV, an Israeli researcher suggests. Nava Zisapel of Tel Aviv University says insomnia affects about half of all people age 55 and older. "People are sleeping in front of the TV, or nodding off during conversations, and taking long afternoon naps," Zisapel says in a statement. "This leads...
August 19, 2008
WASHINGTON - Don't be surprised if your doctor orders a vitamin D test during your next physical. Blood tests to check levels of the so-called sunshine vitamin are on the rise as doctors and patients react to headline-grabbing research that suggests having too little may not only hurt your bones - it might increase your risk of certain cancers or heart disease. But there are problems with deciding...
August 19, 2008
David Zinczenko was not surprised by the report this month that found most kids' meals at popular chain restaurants are far too high in calories. "There's a lot more that needs to be done to get smart and healthful choices at restaurants for kids," says Zinczenko, best-selling author of a new book, Eat This, Not That! For Kids! with Matt Goulding. The book offers color photos of good and not-so-good...
August 19, 2008
The troubled economy may be prompting more families to turn to federal school nutrition programs that aid poor children, a survey suggests. For the first time since 2004, a majority of cafeteria operators say the number of children getting free or reduced-price lunches has risen. In the annual survey, out today from the School Nutrition Association, 51.4% of food service directors say they saw an increase...
August 19, 2008
The number of women ages 40 to 44 who remain childless has doubled in a generation, the U.S. Census reported Monday. In June 2006, 20% of women in that age group remained childless. Thirty years ago it was 10%. "A lot of women are having no children," Jane Lawler Dye, the author of the report, says. "Also, the women who are having children are having fewer children." Birth rates for non-Hispanic white...
August 19, 2008
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies. Yet no larger action was taken. Food and Drug Administration officials insisted as recently as last week that they were surprised by the outbreak because...
August 18, 2008
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 18, 2008
Nutritionists say a new report on calorie-packed children's meals at some of the nation's most popular restaurants should be a warning for health-conscious parents. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group based in Washington, D.C., released the first comprehensive report Monday on children's meals at popular fast-food and chain restaurants. The center's analysis found that many...
August 17, 2008
Aug. 17 - Sally Garcia, a 53-year-old lawyer disabled by multiple sclerosis, was torn. A new-generation medication, Copaxone, was really working for her. After two decades of being in and out of hospitals, Garcia was taking steps to work again. Her wallet, though, was in severe distress. Under her Medicare prescription plan, Garcia's share of the expensive drug was $330 per month. All together, medications...
August 17, 2008
When a Navajo woman delivers a baby at Banner Page Hospital in northern Arizona, she invites her entire family - often more than 10 people - into the birthing room. She may give birth squatting, as is custom among Native Americans. A medicine man will offer ancient prayers and herbs for the mother to ease childbirth. After the baby is delivered, nurses will save the placenta so the family can take...
August 17, 2008
Aug. 18 - The test sounds simple enough: Memorize three words, draw a clock and repeat the words a few minutes later. Since October, some 4,000 volunteers age 70 or older have taken that test as part of an experiment at the VA Medical Centers in Minneapolis and several other cities. About a fourth of them have failed. Of that group, most turned out to have some form of dementia, said Dr. J. Riley McCarten,...
August 17, 2008
Aug. 18 - Even the superintendent of Coweta Public Schools expects his youngest children, Hanna and Hunter, to teach him a thing or two about healthy nutrition and exercise. "They will be nagging me, I know," said Jeff Holmes, who was on hand to announce that Coweta and Wagoner Public Schools started the CATCH program this year. "My 13-year-old son, Hayden, will probably put his two cents' worth, too."...
August 17, 2008
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