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Aug. 10 - Randy Lindsay of Aiken is seeing things much more clearly these days, thanks to the handiwork of a fellow Aikenite at the Boston Foundation for Sight. Lindsay and his wife Darlene visited the Boston Foundation for Sight in May, where Lindsay was fitted with a set of Boston Scleral Lens Prosthetic Devices. The special lenses extend beyond the iris and are filled with fluid, forming a liquid...
August 10, 2008
Beijing - The easy part comes Tuesday. He only swims. How did Eric Shanteau put it the other day? "A lot of times when you get to an event like this, you put too much pressure on yourself," he said. "I kind of have an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me." Cancer: an out. He isn't normal. Not so much because he is the only athlete among the 10,694 in Beijing who told the world that...
August 10, 2008
Aug. 10 - Editor's note: New Haven Register Assistant Metro Editor Ann DeMatteo was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. As with hundreds of thousands of other women and their families, the diagnosis hit hard. But like others living with cancer, Ann is moving on and we at the Register asked her if she would share her experience with our readers. She graciously agreed. Below is what will be the first...
August 9, 2008
Aug. 10 - Sometimes, to escape from life's daily grind, Kevin Hoffman will hop on his mountain bike and ascend the nearest hill in Auburn. Or the 33-year-old businessman from Loomis will travel to the Maldives islands with a few buddies to surf the Indian Ocean. Or he'll head to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for some backcountry skiing. Or ... You get the idea. Hoffman's an active, outdoors type. But here's...
August 9, 2008
Aug. 8 - LONG BEACH - Six local neighborhoods and six birds have been found to be infected with the West Nile virus, health officials said Thursday. On July 7, the Long Beach Health and Human Services Department said it found the first indication that the mosquito-borne virus has made its way into the region. A black crow was found dead in the 90815 ZIP code area. The health department confirms infected...
August 9, 2008
Aug. 8 - ALBANY - Young campers may be returning home with more than scary ghost stories this summer: A stomach virus is spreading through overnight camps, according to the state Department of Health. Officials have issued a health advisory to all overnight camp directors and camp medical staff alerting them to the outbreaks and providing them with preventive measures to reduce the spread of the gastrointestinal...
August 8, 2008
Aug. 8 - Ron Pullen believes he shouldn't have lived to attend his next class at Murray State University after experiencing a sharp pain one day three years ago. Pullen, 52, felt the searing pain rip through his chest and arm. He pulled over to the shoulder of U.S. 641 and doesn't remember anything until he woke up 20 minutes later. "I didn't have any recognizable signs" of a heart attack, Pullen recalled....
August 8, 2008
PEORIA, Ill., Aug 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - An Illinois hospital has created an in-patient facility to treat Internet addicts. The Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery in Peoria, Ill., said it is the only in-patient facility in the United States that offers treatment for Internet addiction, ABC News reported Thursday. Therapist Tonya Camacho said someone who is addicted to the computer will get...
August 7, 2008
Adults traveling with babies may have no idea how dangerous it is to allow infants and toddlers to fly on commercial airline flights as "lap children." The Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines don't require babies and children under age 2 to travel in child safety seats, primarily for cost reasons. In August 2005, the FAA said, "Analyses showed that if forced to purchase an extra airline...
August 7, 2008
If it seems tougher than in the past to deal with what life throws your way, you're not the only one who thinks so. The death of a friend, getting laid off or having a baby takes more adjustment than in the past, according to a study that compares perceptions of life changes today vs. 40 years ago. "Life just gets more demanding. Today's life is more stressful," says Richard Rahe of Salem, Ore., a...
August 7, 2008
More than 400 people who were treated at Long Island's Stony Brook University Medical Center this summer have gotten a letter of caution about possible exposure to a childhood disease. A medical resident and nurse recently came down with "fifth disease," which is caused by a virus. It gets its name from being the fifth in a line of childhood rash-producing disorders, including measles, rubella and...
August 7, 2008
A drug taken by millions of women in recent decades to improve the chances of conceiving a child yields the same results as no treatment at all, according to a study published Friday. Clinical tests conducted by researchers in Britain found that clomifene citrate, best known by its brand names Clomid and Serophene, failed to improve the odds of becoming pregnant. One of the most commonly prescribed...
August 7, 2008
Children, long neglected in the fight against AIDS, still lack access to effective HIV detection programs and treatments, participants warned Thursday, at a six-day world AIDS conference. Experts at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City said most HIV-positive women have no effective means of preventing transmitting the virus to their unborn offspring, with 30 to 40 percent giving birth...
August 7, 2008
Aug. 6 - NORFOLK - Chubby cheeks and dimpled arms may be dismissed as baby fat in a toddler, but a study of local children suggests pediatricians need to raise concern about weight for tots as young as 2. That's the age the new study tags as a "tipping point" when children who become overweight start putting on more pounds than others. Some begin outpacing peers even earlier. Doctors affiliated with...
August 6, 2008
The aging of the U.S. population is translating into many more visits to doctors' offices and hospitals, a reality that is taxing weak spots in the health care system, a government report said Wednesday. People made an average of four visits a year to doctors' offices, emergency rooms and hospital outpatient departments in 2006, a total of 1.1 billion visits. The number of medical visits increased...
August 6, 2008
The 1-year-old's temperature was nearly 106 degrees when the ambulance arrived at her babysitter's home. It was too late. Aslyn Ryan had been found limp and unresponsive after being left in the car for 50 minutes while her caretaker ran errands, says her mother, Dee Ryan. She spent two days in intensive care and suffered multiple strokes and other hyperthermia-related injuries before she died in 2004...
August 6, 2008
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling more than 51,000 pounds of frozen raw chicken breast tenderloin over concerns it may contain soy. The world's largest meat processor said Thursday that soy, a known allergen, was not declared on the product's label. Tyson says the meat came from a plant in Vicksburg, Miss., between July 23 and Aug. 1, and was shipped to Tyson food service distributors...
August 6, 2008
Women with a history of psychiatric disorders or substance abuse are at much higher risk for postpartum suicide attempts, according to data gleaned from studying Washington women's medical records. The study of postpartum suicide risk, conducted through the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, found that women who had previously been hospitalized for psychiatric disorders were more than...
August 6, 2008
Applying cocoa-butter lotion during pregnancy does not help prevent the stretch marks that many women develop, according to a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Although scientific evidence supporting the use of cocoa butter is lacking, many physicians continue to recommend it. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
August 6, 2008
Twelve million HIV infections could be prevented by 2015 by using a combination of prevention methods including condoms, circumcision and other measures, UNAIDS officials said at a conference here Wednesday. Some 700 people are infected with HIV every day, but the annual infection rate could be slashed by two thirds, the director of UNAIDS Peter Piot and his colleagues said in a statement at the 17th...
August 6, 2008
GOOD DADS give good advice. Mine did. Mostly it came in the form of observation. One day he announced, "Cops don't give tickets to guys in wheelchairs." Conversation stopped. My mother winced. My father had a way of approaching life that sometimes unsettled the controlled tack she favored. The story unfolded. My father, a former Auburn resident then living in Federal Way, had been sidelined by a neuromuscular...
August 5, 2008
Aug. 6 - As Duncanville's Karel Anne Tieszen, a longtime cooking teacher, set out to write her first book, she wanted it to be "absolutely real in its nutrition information. ... If you know the reality of what the calorie count is going to be, you know how to accommodate it into your day," she says. "To me, that's reality. We make trades so that we can have what we really want." That philosophy led...
August 5, 2008
Virginia Department of Health officials are continuing to investigate an E. coli outbreak at a Boy Scouts reservation that has affected 17 people so far. Sixteen of those are Scouts ages 10 to 16 from Northern Virginia who attended camp at Goshen Scout Reservation in Rockbridge County last week. Illness has been reported in members of multiple troops. The 17th is an adult from Maryland. Department...
August 5, 2008
In a move that could lead to significant changes in medical care for older men, a national task force in the United States has recommended that doctors stop screening men aged 75 and older for prostate cancer because the search for the disease in that group is causing more harm than good. The guidelines, issued Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, represent an abrupt policy change by...
August 5, 2008
Valerie Thomas helped her daughter get ready for the new school year by equipping her with a healthier way of living. The Decatur mother recently completed a 12-week program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta that trains families to adopt healthier diet and exercise practices to combat childhood obesity and prevent diabetes. Together, the Thomases learned how to combine proper diet with regular exercise...
August 5, 2008
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