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Fitness fireball Richard Simmons, 60, who has had people Sweatin' to the Oldies for years, will offer new ideas for pumping up physical education at a congressional hearing Thursday in Washington. "Some schools have 15 minutes two days a week for PE classes, and a lot of schools don't have recess," Simmons says. "When you take the physical activity and the recess away, these kids are just sitting in...
August 5, 2008
Aug. 5 - A Worcester farm has voluntarily suspended sales of all raw milk sold directly to consumers until subsequent sampling indicates the product is free of pathogens, according to a state media release. Listeria monocytogenes was found at Autumn Valley Farm during routine testing from a sample taken by an inspector from the state Department of Agriculture and Markets on July 22, the release from...
August 5, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Aug 5, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Human rights activists told AIDS researchers that HIV-positive immigrants detained in the United States don't get adequate medical care for their conditions. Human Rights Watch said Tuesday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security isn't doing enough to either treat the disease or prevent its spread in detention centers. "Unless Homeland Security reforms its...
August 5, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 30, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The source of a salmonella outbreak initially linked to tomatoes has been narrowed to a pepper farm in Mexico, officials said Wednesday. The Washington Post reported the federal investigators found the Salmonella saintpaul strain in irrigation water and serrano peppers on a Mexican farm where jalapeno peppers are also grown. "We have a smoking gun it appears,"...
August 5, 2008
The concerns about cell phones and cancer won't go away by themselves. In the face of inadequate science on the subject, members of the public would be well advised to adapt individual precautionary principles. Some will want to use wired earphones to eliminate or limit the usage of phones next to their heads. Others may want to text messages whenever possible rather than calling. For those young people...
August 5, 2008
Children's advocates say they hope a sweeping consumer protection law passed by Congress last week will begin a broad national effort to shield youngsters from dangerous chemicals. The bill, which is expected to be signed by the president, will require that toys be tested for safety before they're sold. The law would ban several types of phthalates, ingredients in plastic linked to reproductive problems....
August 4, 2008
Our attitudes toward time shape every part of our lives, and yet few recognize how this subtle fact can sabotage careers or vault them skyward, wreck marriages and make people happy (or not), suggests a book in stores today. The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (Free Press, $27) by Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd, research manager at...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 5 - Before March 5, Akron Police Officer Michael Vavro had never used an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a real-life situation. And he hasn't used one since. That one time was enough, though. "He saved my life," said Patricia Monstrom. "He really did." "No," Vavro said, sheepishly. "The machine worked." The 70-year-old Akron woman was shopping at the Giant Eagle on Waterloo Road in Akron,...
August 4, 2008
Participation in a child-care program appears to increase the likelihood a youngster will be obese when he or she shows up for the first day of kindergarten, researchers report. The study, conducted by Dr. Erin J. Maher of Casey Family Programs in Seattle, is published in the journal Pediatrics. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
August 4, 2008
Cox News Service WASHINGTON - Too many people rely on sleeping pills and use them for too long, according to the September edition of Consumer Reports. A nationwide survey by the magazine in April found that 44 percent of Americans are problem sleepers, meaning they have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or wake up too early at least eight nights per month. The survey of 1,466 adults, conducted...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 4 - The will to live longer has pushed its way to the forefront as baby boomers hit their 60s, retire and find themselves with enough energy for a second lifetime. "Since we left the Garden of Eden, we've been looking for the river of immortality," says Dr. John Morley, head of geriatric medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Morley is co-author of the book "The Science of Staying...
August 4, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) - Cartoons about the psychiatrist's couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists. The expanded use of pills and insurance policies that favor short office visits are among the reasons, said lead author Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 4 - Megan McShea was intent on finishing the Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage. She stayed true to her word. The Murrysville woman ran 26.2 miles in the Alaskan race, raising $6,500 for blood-related cancer research in the process. "It was just amazing," said McShea, a 2002 graduate of Franklin Regional High School. "It was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. I was just...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 4 - When it comes to AIDS, the attention is on Africa and other parts of the world. But the epidemic hasn't disappeared from our backyard. In Sacramento County, an estimated 5,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS. Nationwide, 1.2 million people live with HIV, a larger number than ever before, according to CARES, a Sacramento HIV health care center. And the face of HIV is changing: Although men...
August 4, 2008
The bombs along the Baghdad road exploded one after the other, leaving one soldier unconscious and another screaming from his wounds. Staff Sgt. Kevin Dunne's squad was under attack. Rifle and machine gun fire pinned them down. Then shots from a sniper. Dunne yelled orders, but he and his squad were at a disadvantage. Dunne says he couldn't hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming...
August 4, 2008
The United States has significantly underreported the number of new HIV infections occurring nationally each year, with a study showing that the annual infection rate is 40 percent higher than previously estimated. The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and released here on Saturday, found that 56,300 people became newly infected with HIV in 2006, compared with the 40,000...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 4 - DURHAM - Dr. Arturo de Leon, a former family physician in Raleigh, began his medical career as a missionary doctor and, after retiring 10 years ago at the age of 60, has gone back to his roots - quite literally. On Jan. 26, he and dozens of other medical professionals and volunteers from area hospitals, as well as from around the country, will travel to Davao City in the southern Philippines...
August 4, 2008
Aug. 4 - Jamal and Katie were best friends, helping each other with homework and school projects, playing basketball together, and sticking up for each other when someone teased one of them. They were friends through "thin and thick," as Jamal liked to say. But then Katie, a middle schooler, changed. "This touchy, moody girl wasn't the Katie I knew," Jamal said. "It wasn't even the Katie that Katie...
August 3, 2008
Aug. 4 - You might go in with a broken arm, but you'll leave knowing your HIV status. Most people who visit the Barnes-Jewish Hospital emergency room will have the chance to get a confidential, fast and free test for the virus starting today. The hospital is one of the first in the country to launch universal HIV testing in emergency rooms, in part because of St. Louis' high rates of sexually transmitted...
August 3, 2008
EVERY 10 minutes another mad scientist or meds specialist or someone with nothing else to do dredges up a new sickness or physical problem. The entire world then rushes to get it. Civilization's latest fearful fad is choking at night/clogging your airway/causing yourself inability to breathe. Translation: sleep apnea. Long ago a person flopped into bed, closed the lids, fell into dreamland. Today that's...
August 3, 2008
SYDNEY, Aug 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - One Australian state plans to begin paying for surgery to help the obese lose weight, officials said. Providing the surgery is expected to be part of a larger proposal to help New South Wales residents get the pounds off, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Health Minister Reba Meagher is expected to announce Monday the state will set up clinics where the overweight...
August 3, 2008
Aug. 3 - It sneaks on in the form of late-night pizza runs, all-you-can-eat dorm buffets, endless ice cream socials and maybe a little beer. That dreaded freshman 15 - the gradual weight gain that happens for many college students (and not always freshman year), when they start living on their own and don't always make the best food choices. Studies show that students on average gain 3 to 10 pounds...
August 3, 2008
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - It was morning when the water unexpectedly rose and rushed ashore, destroying nearly everything in its path. The human toll was inexplicable and fears of a mass mental health crisis were profound. Those are just some of the many similarities between the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While the number of victims was much larger...
July 31, 2008
Boxing in the living room and dancing in the den have elevated home gaming - and children's heart rates - to new heights. New research shows that exercise video games such as Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution boost children's activity levels significantly. The Wii system, made by Nintendo, is controlled by a wireless remote that translates movements to its "Mii" caricature on screen. In Dance Dance...
July 31, 2008
Stockholm (dpa) - The risk of developing Alzheimer's or dementia is reduced if you live with a spouse or a partner, according to a Swedish study published Thursday. Researcher Krister Hakansson of the Karolinska Institute and Vaxjo University conducted the study using data from a Finnish study where 2,000 people were examined at the age of around 50 and were re- examined 21 years later. The results...
July 31, 2008
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