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Scotland's smoking ban appears to have prevented hundreds of heart attacks in its first year, a study shows. The number of people admitted to the hospital for heart attacks fell by 17% in the year after Scotland's smoking ban took effect in March 2006, according to a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The study's author, Jill Pell of the University of Glasgow, says the size of the decline...
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
Nearly 8 percent fewer Massachusetts adults smoked in 2007 than the year before, the steepest decline in cigarette use in more than a decade, state health authorities reported Wednesday. The drop coincided with the revival of the state's tobacco-control program, which was slashed under the administrations of Jane Swift and Mitt Romney. The Department of Public Health, for example, in boosting its spending...
July 30, 2008
People who tend to overthink things might be protecting themselves from Alzheimer's, according to research presented Wednesday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease. A slew of studies were presented at the meeting in Chicago that looked at how certain lifestyle factors, like rumination, and family history may affect a person's risk for dementia. Among their findings: *Overthinking...
July 30, 2008
Jul. 30 - Despite the federal government's creation of more informative sunscreen labels, consumers can still only buy products that suggest an exaggerated degree of protection. Sunscreen defends against harmful solar rays that can damage skin and increase the risk of skin cancer. Yet some products claim nonsensically high protection factors and undeserved degrees of water resistance. Federal officials...
July 30, 2008
Young children are "not at risk from exposure to lead" in artificial turf fields, according to a nationwide evaluation of the surfaces by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The evaluation, obtained by USA TODAY, is due out today. "Our message is: go out and play," CPSC spokeswoman Julie Vallese said. "Parents should not be concerned about harmful levels of lead in artificial turf."...
July 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The AIDS epidemic among African-Americans in some parts of the United States rivals that in some parts of Africa, researchers say. The report, published by the Black AIDS Institute, an HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on African-Americans, found that while blacks represent only about one in eight Americans, half of those living with HIV in the United...
July 30, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE - There are the pit bulls, chained and unchained. The scary-looking guy with bloodshot eyes. The 37 houses in a row with people who don't want to talk. The trailers in the middle of the desert with only a TV watching over a couple of kids. The nation's outbreak of salmonella saintpaul has been going on for four months. At least 1,307 have been sickened, and it's not over yet. As state and...
July 29, 2008
Jul. 30 - Mosquitoes that tested positive for the West Nile virus have been found in New Haven, Hamden, East Haven, Hartford, Darien and Norwalk, among others, bringing the tally of affected municipalities to 11 statewide, officials said Tuesday. Mosquitoes carrying the virus previously had been found in Milford, Greenwich, Stamford and Stonington. A Sherman resident remains this year's only reported...
July 29, 2008
People in Mediterranean countries are abandoning the region's widely praised healthy diet in favour of food that has too much fat, salt and sugar, the Food and Agricultural Organization warned Tuesday. "Hailed by experts as keeping people slim, healthy and long-living, the Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world - but is increasingly disregarded around the Mediterranean," said a statement...
July 29, 2008
A generation ago, unmarried couples who lived together were often derided for "shacking up" or "playing house." Studies in the 1980s supported those negative stereotypes, suggesting that cohabitation could doom a long-term relationship, substantially raising the risk of divorce. While researchers say the overall divorce rate is higher among those who lived together before marriage, now they don't blame...
July 29, 2008
HERSHEY, Pa., Jul 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say high levels of insulin could be an early sign that girls whose mothers suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome might also be susceptible. Researchers at the Penn State University College of Medicine say their finding could help determine whether daughters of women suffering from PCOS are at a higher risk of developing the disease, compared...
July 29, 2008
Bronchial allergies, asthma, ear infections, recurrent cold and dry cough are rampant in UAE and are increasing at an alarming rate mainly due to dirty air-conditioning systems, say experts. "Since the ACs are operational 24 hours a day during summer, it is vital that the filters are properly cleaned up so as to prevent infectious diseases such as cold, coughs and allergies," suggested Salman Mohammed,...
July 29, 2008
DENVER, Jul 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Female athletes and exercisers tend to exhibit eating disorder symptoms more often than those who don't exercise as regularly, U.S. researchers said. The study by researchers at the University of Denver is one of the first to document that women participating in athletic competition and have sports anxiety likely will experience eating disorder symptoms, the...
July 29, 2008
New York (dpa) - The unrelenting global struggle against the AIDS epidemic has made significant gains, reflected in the decline in the number of infection and AIDS-related deaths, a new study on HIV/AIDS said Tuesday. In countries with large numbers of people infected with the AIDS virus, such as Rwanda and Zimbabwe, changes in sexual behaviour resulted in the decline of the number of newly infected...
July 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. lawmakers agreed to ban a family of toxins found in children's products as part of a bill that would reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said U.S. President George Bush opposes the ban but hasn't indicated whether he would veto the measure, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Among other things, the legislation...
July 29, 2008
Hollywood has had it with cancer. Jennifer Aniston, America Ferrera, David Cook, Casey Affleck, Meryl Streep, Lance Armstrong, Scarlett Johansson and Forest Whitaker are just some of the celebrities who are taking a stand against cancer during a one-hour television special to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Stand Up to Cancer has attracted A-list names to participate in the...
July 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find - and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol. The City Council was poised to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a swath of the city where a proliferation of such eateries goes hand-in-hand with obesity....
July 29, 2008
Q. I'm planning to reenter the workforce after an 18-month absence because of treatment of leukemia. What's the best way for me to reflect this gap in employment on my resume without hurting my chances of being viewed as a good candidate? I have no problem being forthcoming about my illness, but I would rather discuss it during an interview. A. Your situation calls for sharing the right information...
July 29, 2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jul 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a melanoma cancer survivor, had a spot of skin removed from his face during a routine checkup, aides said. McCain, the presumptive Republican Party presidential candidate, has had a history of dangerous melanomas. During a campaign stop in Bakersfield, Calif., McCain denied he had any serious problems when he discussed...
July 29, 2008
To a teenager, "When I was your age" usually signals that an adult is about to hold forth on just how different - and awful - the world is these days. But the latest version of an annual study, out today, suggests that since the mid-1970s a few key features of teens' lives have remained essentially the same. Among the most vivid similarities: Today's teens read about as well (or as poorly) as their...
July 28, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Jul 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says a bill banning trans fats in restaurant food by 2010 will lead to a "healthier future for California." "Consuming trans fat is linked to coronary heart disease, and today we are taking a strong step toward creating a healthier future for California," the former body-builder said Friday as he signed the bill in Sacramento....
July 28, 2008
Ashley Adams had no trouble quitting smoking during her pregnancy. Morning sickness and dry heaves made her too nauseated to crave cigarettes. And seeing pictures of low-birth-weight babies at a health clinic made her determined to protect her child. "Those pictures just broke my heart," says Adams, 22, of Shawnee, Okla., whose first child was born in 2006. "I said, 'I'm not going to put my kid through...
July 28, 2008
When Initiative 1000 was certified for the ballot last Thursday, few would have thought a measure legalizing physician-assisted suicide would transform Washington voters into a "Chosen People." If you read the 2007 report of the Death With Dignity National Center, however, what emerges is that the Evergreen State was carefully chosen, as it were, to revive a movement lately on life support. It is a...
July 28, 2008
All of her life, she has had long hair. The good kind, too - strong and thick, with wisps of curls framing her face. But in the next few months, chemotherapy will take what's left of Crystal Oxendine's once waist-length hair. Oxendine, who is 35, has ovarian cancer. Last week, she attended Cape Fear Valley Cancer Center's Look Good, Feel Better seminar to find a wig that might be right for her when...
July 28, 2008
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