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LAS VEGAS, Jul 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 12-year-old California girl left in a coma after her heart failed while riding a roller coaster at a Las Vegas theme park has died, officials said. Catlynne Shaw had been in critical condition after having a heart attack while on a ride at Circus Circus Adventuredome July 16, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. Ed Granil, a Clark County Fire...
July 23, 2008
State Department of Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin is ready to take on the federal government over jalapeno peppers. If Georgia-grown jalapeno peppers prove free of the salmonella strain that has caused the widespread outbreak, Irvin said he will ask supermarkets to put Georgia's peppers back on their shelves. Such a request would run counter to the decision Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
July 23, 2008
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don't find a link between increased tumors and cell phone use, and...
July 23, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Many drug addicts, problem gamblers and alcoholics may find it harder to kick their habits in New York now that the state has become the first in the country to ban smoking at all recovery centers. Some addicts say losing the tobacco crutch could keep them from getting clean and sober, or from trying at all. New York's 13 state-run addiction treatment centers have been tobacco free...
July 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. Labor Department's proposal that would make it tougher to regulate exposure to workplace toxins has raised the ire of politicians and health experts. The text of the proposed rule has not been made public, but sources briefed on the change told The Washington Post it would seek a re-examination of methods used to measure risks posed by workplace toxins....
July 22, 2008
Diabetes experts created the first recommendations Tuesday for the treatment of people with pre-diabetes in the hopes of curbing the diabetes epidemic. There are now no solid guidelines for diagnosing and managing pre-diabetes, a condition in which a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes. If physicians do not recognize and treat pre-diabetes,...
July 22, 2008
Cecilia Gordon Kane can cancel her gym membership. Or so the claims of her new athletic shoes may lead her to believe. By just walking in her sneakers, the Marietta woman supposedly will receive a complete workout: burned calories, strengthened muscles and toned legs, core and back. "I felt like it would be an investment in me because I needed to get moving," said Kane, who bought a pair of Chung Shi...
July 22, 2008
The 160.934 kilometer diet? As residents of Vancouver, B.C., maybe that's what James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith should have called their "100-mile diet." But who's complaining when their one-year experiment in eating only products grown or gathered close to home has helped spur a national phenomenon? The couple's book, "Plenty," helped spark people in countless other communities to find their own eat-local...
July 22, 2008
The struggling economy is hurting many Americans' mental health: Anxiety, depression, sleep problems and money-rooted marital conflicts are growing, experts around the USA say. Requests for therapists increased 15% to 20% in the past three months, "primarily driven by concerns about the financial situation," says Richard Chaifetz, chairman and CEO of ComPsych in Chicago, the nation's largest employee-assistance...
July 22, 2008
The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with inviting fragrances of apple and cinnamon or a country garden. But those common household items are potentially exposing your family and friends to dangerous chemicals, a University of Washington study has found. Trouble is, you have no way of knowing it. Manufacturers...
July 22, 2008
Filleting fish is one of those food-preparation steps The New York Times calls a "deal breaker" of the dinner table. Shoppers might initially jump at a sign advertising steeply discounted fish, but for most, the interest evaporates at the thought of a do-it-yourself dissection. I asked Eric Donnelly, executive chef at The Oceanaire Seafood Room, to provide tips for home cooks on how to fillet a whole...
July 22, 2008
LONDON, Jul 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A British court has awarded $1.6 million to a woman who suffered an epileptic fit after a few weeks on a diet that caused a sodium deficiency. The judgment ratified by the High Court will be paid by the insurer for Barbara Nash, a "nutritional therapist and life coach," the Daily Mail reported. Dawn Page, who lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son, went...
July 22, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it found a jalapeno pepper contaminated with the same strain of salmonella driving an outbreak that's sickened thousands and mystified investigators for two months. The agency also said all consumers should avoid eating fresh jalapeno peppers and foods made with them, including fresh salsa, broadening a warning previously directed at people most at...
July 22, 2008
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Jul 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Center for Science in the Public Interest said Sara Lee, an Illinois consumer foods company, will adjust labels regarding its "Whole Grain White Bread." CSPI, in a release Monday, said it had threatened to file a lawsuit against Sara Lee regarding labeling on the bread wrappers. The non-profit nutrition organization alleged that Sara Lee's "Whole...
July 22, 2008
Whether powerful medicines marketed by pharmaceutical companies do more harm than good is one of the trickiest controversies in a world filled with scientific data. Side Effects, by investigative journalist Alison Bass, grapples with the controversy over drugs used to treat depression, with a focus on Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft. No matter how vigorously the pharmaceutical manufacturers defend their products,...
July 22, 2008
County officials continue to monitor health-related issues that typically crop up over the summer months. RABIES The North Country has not had a positive case of rabies this year, but with the deadly virus identified north and east of the region, officials are keeping their eyes and ears open for any developments. And they are asking the public to do the same. "We would like to test any sick raccoons...
July 22, 2008
The vast majority of patients don't fully understand the instructions they receive from doctors when they leave the emergency department, according to a new report. Further, the vast majority of those patients weren't aware that they didn't understand. The study, published online this month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, followed 140 patients or their primary caregivers at two hospitals in southeastern...
July 21, 2008
Colleen Staats stared at her son in a hospital bed, where he lay with broken limbs and a fractured skull. A sport-utility vehicle struck 14-year-old Harrison Lucas on June 22 as he was crossing Rt. 256 near Stonecreek Drive South in Pickerington. "It's obviously the worst nightmare you can have as a parent," Staats said. She said it was hard to keep up with the dozens of phone calls and voice mails...
July 21, 2008
Jul. 22 - OTTUMWA - The sun may feel good to most people, but it can be a dangerous thing. Overexposure to hot temperatures can increase the risk of heat-related illnesses such as heat stroke, dehydration and infected sunburns. Eunice Harden said she knows the basic rules of what to do and not to do when you are outside. "I don't typically stay out long enough to get burnt or heat stroke," she said....
July 21, 2008
Jul. 22 - A Type 2 diabetes diagnosis doesn't end with just a prescription. A prescription or two may be part of that plan. But for many, treatment is far more than drugs, blood sugar checks and follow-up visits. It's a life-changing course of diet and exercise that for some is a complete overhaul of their current lifestyles. For newly diagnosed diabetes patients, some of whom have gone their entire...
July 21, 2008
Four years ago, Andrew Dancy, 80, received a card in the mail advertising a free gym membership through his Medicare provider, Humana, and the Silver Sneakers Fitness Program. Dancy, who had never belonged to a gym, absentmindedly added the mailer to a stack of papers on a kitchen shelf. A few months later, after his wife of 52 years died, Dancy was wandering around the house when he saw the edge of...
July 21, 2008
Jul. 20 - No one in Japan can avoid the sweat and smells of hot humid summer, regardless of sex, age or ethnicity. But a recent survey on body odor reeked of bad news for men. Chuo Bussan International Co., a deodorant maker in Tokyo, polled some 700 women in their 20s and 30s about the waft from males in December 2007. Of the respondents, 89 percent said they have caught a whiff of BO from guys on...
July 21, 2008
When Sue Sullivan goes in for Botox to help with her headaches, she sometimes indulges in a few strictly cosmetic treatments, too. Sullivan, 53, of Maple Grove, pays for headache treatments out of her family's main budget and taps her bonus for the strictly wrinkle-zapping procedures - everything from Botox and dermal fillers to laser treatments. But with the slowing economy, Sullivan has held off...
July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A recall of tainted ground beef is expanded to include all products used to make approximately 5.3 million pounds of ground beef, U.S. federal officials said. The E. coli-contaminated ground beef was manufactured between May 16 and June 26 by Nebraska Beef Limited in Omaha, the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a release....
July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A recall of tainted ground beef is expanded to include all products used to make approximately 5.3 million pounds of ground beef, U.S. federal officials said. The E. coli-contaminated ground beef was manufactured between May 16 and June 26 by Nebraska Beef Limited in Omaha, the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a release....
July 21, 2008
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