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Chicago Tribune (MCT) BELLMORE, N.Y. Kristofer Goldsmith was so distressed about the prospect of returning to Iraq that he decided he was willing to kill himself to avoid serving a second tour. Just as Goldsmith's three-year Army contract was to expire, it was extended under the military's "stop loss" program, and his unit was set to deploy to Baghdad to take part in the troop surge. On the day before...
June 29, 2008
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jun 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A woman in the Canadian province of British Columbia says she is searching the Internet for a new kidney for her husband. Lois Wilson said she began looking for the organ for her husband Dave on Craigslist.com after a friend suggested the online marketplace, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. "It's body parts but I'm not selling...
June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some 1-gallon jugs of Nestle-brand purified drinking water due to possible contamination. The "Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water" was sold in Shop-Rite stores in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The FDA said fewer than 150 bottles might contain a diluted form...
June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some 1-gallon jugs of Nestle-brand purified drinking water due to possible contamination. The "Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water" was sold in Shop-Rite stores in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The FDA said fewer than 150 bottles might contain a diluted form...
June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some 1-gallon jugs of Nestle-brand purified drinking water due to possible contamination. The "Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water" was sold in Shop-Rite stores in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The FDA said fewer than 150 bottles might contain a diluted form...
June 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some 1-gallon jugs of Nestle-brand purified drinking water due to possible contamination. The "Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water" was sold in Shop-Rite stores in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The FDA said fewer than 150 bottles might contain a diluted form...
June 29, 2008
SNYDER, N.Y., Jun 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pat Thomas, New York state's oldest resident, turned 113 Sunday - and by the way, she has a new hobby, painting. Thomas, born in 1895, is the sixth-oldest person in the United States and the eighth-oldest in the world, The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported Sunday, citing the Verified Living List of the Gerontology Research Group. An avid gardener, she has cultivated...
June 29, 2008
Jun. 29 - Pomegranate became the "cool" fruit for the health-conscious not too many years ago. This exotic, reddish fruit is full of antioxidants and may be effective against preventing several types of cancer and heart disease. Eventually, this acidic, citrusy fruit made it into more than juice. Last summer, I tried out a recipe for pomegranate daiquiris for some guests. A simple recipe search turns...
June 29, 2008
Jun. 27 - BLOOMINGTON - Staying fit and having fun doing it will be easier than ever next week. Bloomington and Normal parks and recreation departments have partnered with The Pantagraph's Fit Kids initiative to offer Twin Cities Fitness Week - five days of free activities. Fit Kids is a nearly yearlong initiative dedicated to identifying and highlighting commonsense approaches to preventing childhood...
June 29, 2008
GLOUCESTER, Mass. The revelation last week that 18 Gloucester HS teens were part of a "pregnancy pact" may have shocked the nation, but many residents of this seaport city - where having a baby bump at a tender age isn't uncommon - were less than surprised. The proof is in one Cape Cod-style home, where four generations of Gloucester gals live, including one of the high-school teens and her newborn...
June 28, 2008
Houston is one of a number of U.S. cities increasingly burdened by the federal government's failure to tackle the nation's health care problems, according to a new report. Struggling to provide services to their uninsured and underinsured residents, mayors and leading health officials in 13 cities across the country want major health care reform to be a priority of the next president, the report found....
June 28, 2008
More than a quarter of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta - and more than a third of its medical officers - will be eligible to retire in the next five years. Replacing them will be difficult because of a national shortage of public health professionals, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. In addition, the agency has dramatically increased...
June 28, 2008
Taipei (dpa) - A survey by Reader's Digest magazine showed on Thursday that only about half of Asians consider themselves healthy, while the rest are bothered mainly by weight-related problems. The Asian edition of the Reader's Digest reached the conclusions after surveying 19,700 Reader's Digest subscribers in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and the Philippines. The survey...
June 27, 2008
Taipei (dpa) - A survey by Reader's Digest magazine showed on Thursday that only about half of Asians consider themselves healthy, while the rest are bothered mainly by weight-related problems. The Asian edition of the Reader's Digest reached the conclusions after surveying 19,700 Reader's Digest subscribers in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and the Philippines. The survey...
June 27, 2008
Taipei (dpa) - A survey by Reader's Digest magazine showed on Thursday that only about half of Asians consider themselves healthy, while the rest are bothered mainly by weight-related problems. The Asian edition of the Reader's Digest reached the conclusions after surveying 19,700 Reader's Digest subscribers in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and the Philippines. The survey...
June 27, 2008
Cox News Service ATLANTA - The number of Americans sickened by salmonella-contaminated tomatoes has soared to 707, making it the largest outbreak connected to the crop since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started keeping records in the 1960s. The actual number of illnesses is likely much higher. For every laboratory-confirmed case, the CDC estimates that another 30 illnesses go unreported....
June 27, 2008
With summer's full-strength sun hovering, Utahns are slathering on sunscreen and ducking indoors for protection - as they should be, most dermatologists would say. But at least one doctor says to let the sunshine in. Spending about 15 minutes unprotected in the sun two to three times a week, while taking a 1,000 IU vitamin D supplement daily, may be enough to ward off a vitamin D deficiency, Michael...
June 27, 2008
Lentils are not a glamour food, at least when you are looking at them in your bowl, but from a nutrition standpoint they are the belle of the ball. Here's a quiz about lentils to find out how much you know about these little legumes. 1. Lentils are loaded with potassium. True or false? 2. One cup of cooked lentils has about 90 percent of your daily value of folate. True or false? 3. A cup of lentils...
June 27, 2008
Warning to Southern delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver: It will be a no-fry zone. As part of the effort to make the Aug. 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats' guidelines for catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food. No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything. In promoting...
June 26, 2008
MIAMI, Jun 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Miami-Dade Health Department told swimmers to stay out of the water at 12 Miami-area beaches this week because of high levels of bacteria. Health officials said water samples are analyzed weekly for fecal coliform and enterococci that normally inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and animals and may cause human disease, infections or illness. Fecal pollution...
June 26, 2008
HIV infections among heterosexual Africans could be slashed by more than a third if safe-sex counselling was directed at married or cohabiting couples, a new study says. The investigation, published in Saturday's issue of the British medical weekly The Lancet, probed the rate of new HIV infections among 2,279 Zambians and 1,782 Rwandans living in towns. Between 55.1 percent and 92.7 percent of new...
June 26, 2008
Taipei (dpa) - A survey by Reader's Digest magazine showed on Thursday that only about half of Asians consider themselves healthy, while the rest are bothered mainly by weight-related problems. The Asian edition of the Reader's Digest reached the conclusions after surveying 19,700 Reader's Digest subscribers in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and the Philippines. The survey...
June 26, 2008
The drug buprenorphine is twice as effective as a rival treatment called naltrexone in helping heroin patients stay off the narcotic, a trial published in The Lancet on Friday said. The two drugs, along with a dummy pill called a placebo, were tested for 22 months among 126 patients in Malaysia who had emerged from a detoxification and counselling programme, it said. Buprenorphine, which is marketed...
June 26, 2008
DAVIS, Calif., Jun 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S.-led international team of scientists said it's determined extreme climatic weather events can produce a sharp increase in infectious diseases. The scientists, led by University of California-Davis researchers, said they determined how climate extremes associated with global warning - such as the increased frequency of droughts and floods - can create...
June 26, 2008
Taipei (dpa) - A survey by Reader's Digest magazine showed on Thursday that only about half of Asians consider themselves healthy, while the rest are bothered mainly by weight-related problems. The Asian edition of the Reader's Digest reached the conclusions after surveying 19,700 Reader's Digest subscribers in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and the Philippines. The survey...
June 26, 2008
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