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Landen Thompson doesn't know that his pet Saint Bernard, Thunder, is missing. His mother wants to keep him from finding out. "It would just devastate him," Brittany Thompson said from a third-floor room at St. Francis Children's Hospital, where Landon, 4, has been for less than a week. Landon has cancer, which returned this month after being in remission for a year. It's at an advanced stage four,...
July 21, 2008
Jul. 21 - CHAPEL HILL - It happens. Tons of it, accumulating with every toilet flush. But agreement on wastewater residuals - what's left of sewage after treated water is discharged back into rivers and streams - pretty much stops there. There isn't even agreement on what to call it. Environmentalists and some researchers call it sewage sludge. The industry term is "biosolids." Some farmers swear by...
July 21, 2008
Jul. 20 - DECATUR - Radine Cox's story is hers alone, but in a way, the 58-year-old Decatur woman's tale echoes the experiences of countless others. It started with a nagging ache. Cox awoke one day with a deep pain in her chest. She thought it could be a heart problem, bronchitis or pleurisy and ended up in the intensive care unit at Decatur Memorial Hospital. There, a chest X-ray and a CT scan revealed...
July 20, 2008
At Sidecar for Pigs Peace, motivation for the all-vegan grocery is clear. An "Oink Drive" basket near the front of the store holds customer contributions for Pigs Peace Sanctuary, a nonprofit in Stanwood that cares for unwanted and abused pigs. On the request list: sanctuary-approved vegan hot dogs, pasta, tofu. Pigs' taste in comfort food, it seems, is close to that of their human counterparts. The...
July 20, 2008
FRESNO, Calif. Danielle Cash's idea of a good workout used to be exercising her right to say, "No thanks." The 28-year-old Fresno, Calif., woman tried Tae-Bo. She tried Pilates. She tried doing yoga along with television fitness shows. None of it lasted very long. "I'm allergic to exercise," she says. But a couple months ago, Cash discovered a pole-dancing fitness class at Pulse Holistic Center in...
July 20, 2008
The hot summer in the city means even hotter temps at area playgrounds - where scorching heat left play mats under jungle gyms hitting 167 degrees last week in Manhattan - parents and park-advocacy groups warned yesterday. Geoffrey Croft, head of NYC Park Advocates, said the city has to do more to warn people about the heat hazards lurking in playgrounds. His group tested temps around town over the...
July 20, 2008
Even blind, Barb Oswald knows a good cause when she finds one. Ditto John Upthegrove. Upthegrove, a 70-year-old Burien resident, and the 54-year-old Oswald who is from Seattle, share a common bond: Both are blind. Both are triathletes. Both took part in Seafair Sunday's Benaroya Research Institute Triathlon. The event, held at Seattle's Seward Park, drew 2,000 participants. The youngest was 4-year-old...
July 20, 2008
Jul. 20 - BLOOMINGTON - A few years ago, Domonica Hilt exercised regularly. | "In 1997, we were both health club people," she said of herself and her husband, Maurice. The couple also had a treadmill at home. She could easily put in a 60-minute workout. Then in 2005, Domonica was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The chronic disease, which attacks the central nervous system, has made it difficult...
July 20, 2008
When Susan Arterian Chang decided to return to White Plains, N.Y., after three "blissfully carless" years in London, she wanted to free her family from the auto-dependent life they knew before living overseas. And all it took was moving to a home 1mile from her old neighborhood to do it. In the same suburb they had moved from three years earlier, Chang, her husband and two children found a house closer...
July 20, 2008
Water, water everywhere. How much do you know about what's in that bottle? Here's a quiz to find out. 1. Artesian water is a type of well water collected without pumping. True or false? 2. The difference between well water and artesian water is that well water is mechanically pumped to the surface. True or false? 3. If water is labeled as drinking water, it is right out of the ground. True or false?...
July 18, 2008
study conducted by researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands found that expectant mothers who reported eating even a small amount of nuts or nut products every day during their pregnancy increased the risk of their child developing asthma by 50 per cent. The study, featured in the July issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, asked about 4,000 pregnant women...
July 18, 2008
High school can be hard to shake. Some people never make it out of the cafeteria; they're still trying to find the cool kids' table. With "American Teen," opening in the United States on Friday and in Britain in November, Nanette Burstein can claim a certain expertise on the subject. This movie earned her the documentary directing award at this year's Sundance Film Festival and set off a bidding war....
July 17, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jul 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee will investigate health insurers who cancel coverage when policyholders get sick, the committee chairman said. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said moves to expand the individual insurance market require greater scrutiny, especially insurers' cancellation practices,...
July 17, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jul 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Babies born in Alaska are twice as likely to be born with major birth defects as babies in the 49 other states, a state health department study indicates. State officials say they're at a loss to explain why all races of Alaskans top national rates for "major congenital anomalies," based on a review of data from 1996 through 2002 drawn from the Alaska...
July 17, 2008
Americans are losing the battle to slim down. Adult obesity rates rose from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 in 2007, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. "It's the wrong way," said Patti Sunko-Imhof, a registered dietitian at CJW Medical Center who counsels diabetic patients, most of whom are overweight or obese. "I think the biggest piece is, we are a car culture. We drive...
July 17, 2008
Strobe lights flashed and snow, like on a television set, appeared before Anna Branscome. Then came terrible migraines and fainting spells. The Bloom-Carroll High School student visited her local emergency room more than once, only to be told by doctors that there was nothing they could find, that it was likely in her head, she said. "Well, it was in my head, but not the way they meant," said Branscome,...
July 17, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, and children will suffer the most, according to a new White House science report released Thursday. The 284-page report, mostly written by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said every region of the country will be hit by worse health from heat waves and drought. It said all but a handful...
July 17, 2008
Low-carbohydrate and so-called Mediterranean diets may be more effective than low-fat diets, according to a major new study published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers studied 322 moderately obese employees of a research center in Israel, randomly assigning them to three diet groups and providing them with encouragement and instruction over a two-year period. Members of the...
July 17, 2008
It's summertime, and the living is hardly easy for asthma sufferers in metro Atlanta. Atlanta ranks fourth this year among worst cities for asthma sufferers, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, a nonprofit that ranks asthma capitals annually based on factors such as higher-than-average pollen levels, air pollution and lack of smoke-free laws. CLIP 'N' KEEP! Asthma facts > Asthma...
July 17, 2008
When Madison Cline, now 11, complained a few years ago about her thumb hurting, then her elbow, then her ankle, her mother thought she was just being a kid. The only thing Ali Darnell-Nielsen ever saw was a tiny scab Madison pointed to the day she said her ankle hurt. "Oh, come on. You're fine. Just walk it off," she told her daughter, then in second grade. But that night, as they made their way up...
July 17, 2008
BOSTON, Jul 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Harvard School of Public Health alleges the tobacco industry manipulated the menthol content of cigarettes to hook young smokers. Researchers said a study of internal industry documents and independent lab tests showed cigarette makers adjusted levels of menthol "to create a milder experience for the first-time smoker." The study is published online in advance...
July 17, 2008
The amount of exercise children in the USA get each day drops dramatically from ages 9 to 15, according to one of the largest studies ever done on the activity levels of children. In fact, fewer than one-third of 15-year-olds get 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day, the minimum amount recommended for children by the federal government. Inactivity has been shown to contribute...
July 16, 2008
Inflation is racing through the economy at a pace not seen in years, touching even the medical gloves used by hospitals, as manufacturers cope with high oil prices. The cost of living in June shot up at the fastest rate in 17 years, with the Labor Department reporting Wednesday that consumer prices jumped 1.1 percent, a much faster clip than anticipated. Inflation is corrosive to paychecks, cutting...
July 16, 2008
New research shows that dieters who followed a low-carbohydrate diet lost and kept off about 12 pounds over two years, losing more than others on a Mediterranean or restricted-fat diet. Study participants who followed a traditional Mediterranean diet, which includes a lot of vegetables and a moderate amount of olive oil and nuts, achieved and maintained a 10-pound loss in that time. Dieters who followed...
July 16, 2008
To be cool as a cucumber, sometimes it takes a cucumber - one that's been muddled with mint leaves and mixed with soda water and lime. And when life hands you lemons this time of year, you really do want to make lemonade. We have an herb-infused version that's perfect for summer afternoons. Cocktails take center stage at most dining and drinking spots, but I like nonalcoholic drinks to beat the daytime...
July 16, 2008
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