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They ran, they played, they raced model boats with paper sails and used their breath as the wind. It was a normal three-day camp for a group of children whose lives are usually not quite so normal. Children with asthma may not be able to take part in group sports or other strenuous activities, but for the children at Camp Wheeze Away, it was a glimpse at how much fun life can be. The camp was last...
June 25, 2008
A lower IQ increases a person's risk of developing a common form of dementia, a British study found yesterday. The study found that those with lower IQs were more likely to develop vascular dementia. "There is something about your mental ability that adds further to your risk of vascular dementia," said John Starr, a geriatrician at the University of Edinburgh. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All...
June 25, 2008
Millions of discarded mobile phones and computers are posing a "major challenge" to human health, the chief of the United Nations Environment Programme said Thursday. Achim Steiner told a UN conference on waste management on the Indonesian resort island of Bali that 20 million mobile phones were thrown away each year in China. Meanwhile, the global number of personal computers was expected to double...
June 25, 2008
Eugheia Simon has all the appearances of a professional working woman. Simon is working at the Beaumont school district administrative office, helping out where she's needed. "I love to organize things," Simon said as she filed papers Tuesday, about one week into her first job. "I want to do a really good job," she said, displaying her enthusiasm along with frequent smiles and laughter. Simon works...
June 25, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the thousands of people who have gone to court claiming ground zero-related illnesses don't have serious health problems, lawyers for the city claim in court papers. About 10,800 plaintiffs claim to suffer from a wide variety of health problems from breathing toxic dust from the debris of the World Trade Center after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The claims are filed in federal...
June 25, 2008
Unsafe water leads to one in 10 diseases and six percent of deaths worldwide, according to estimates in a report to be published by the World Health Organization on Thursday. While the UN agency estimates that problems relating to water cause 9.1 percent of diseases recorded yearly, the report highlights this disproportionately affects the world's poorest countries. "In the 35 most affected countries,...
June 25, 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 24, 2008
The number of Americans suffering from diabetes has grown by more than 3 million since 2005, leaving nearly 8 percent of the population afflicted with the disease, says a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report issued Tuesday. In all, an estimated 24 million people across the nation are suffering from diabetes, according to 2007 estimates. Another 57 million are estimated to have "pre-diabetes,"...
June 24, 2008
Jun. 25 - A new program developed by the Nebraska Medical Center gives rural health care facilities around-the-clock, online access to pharmacists. The Remote Pharmaceutical Care program arranges for an on-call pharmacist to provide advice to rural doctors and nurses about the medications they're prescribing, said Paul Baltes, a medical center spokesman. The on-call pharmacist works under a contract...
June 24, 2008
Finally, it's time for a break. The weather's great. You've worked hard all year. You deserve a vacation. And an extra glass of wine. And a second scoop of ice cream. And a bite of funnel cake won't hurt, right? You're on vacation. You've earned it. Or you will, in weight, at least, if you're not careful while being carefree. But you can enjoy yourself and stay in shape on your getaway by following...
June 24, 2008
Even though his doctor told him what to do to lower his high blood pressure, John Mason had trouble doing it. Watching a diet and exercising regularly isn't easy for anyone, he said, so for five years he lived with hypertension. But as the Burien man approached 50 - the same age his father, aunt and cousin died of heart disease - he began taking his blood pressure seriously. In 2006, he enrolled in...
June 24, 2008
RICHMOND, Va., Jun 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Philip Morris USA, the largest U.S. cigarette maker, has pulled another cigarette brand it claimed was safer from production, the company said. The Marlboro Ultra Smooth with high-tech filters failed to catch consumer interest, "presumably because they didn't think the taste and flavor was acceptable," said Brendan McCormick, a spokesman for Altria Group...
June 24, 2008
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) MILWAUKEE, Wis. People who stop breathing during sleep are more likely to lose their expected - and beneficial - drop in nighttime blood pressure, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin researchers. This brings scientists one step closer to understanding how sleep apnea, characterized by brief pauses in breathing during sleep, contributes to the development...
June 24, 2008
Washington - Despite months of effort, federal and state investigators may never learn the source of the tomatoes that caused a salmonella outbreak that may have sickened thousands, officials said Thursday. Investigators say the contaminated tomatoes probably came from somewhere in Florida. For two months, the Food and Drug Administration, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
June 24, 2008
Forecasters issued the first red alert of the year for today's smog levels. State officials expect the region's current spell of bad air to linger through this week. WHAT TO KNOW Children and people with heart and lung diseases, including asthma, are particularly at risk. Experts advise even healthy people plan outdoor exercise in the morning or evening, or go to a gym. Breathing too much ground-level...
June 23, 2008
A few weeks ago at work, as Cassandra Nichols tried to climb a flight of stairs, she had trouble breathing. Obese for years, she now weighs almost 300 pounds and fears for her future. "I don't want to die," said Nichols, a 24-year-old showing signs of Type 2 diabetes. "I need to lose this weight." A candidate for gastric bypass surgery, Nichols, a caseworker for the state's Child Protective Services,...
June 23, 2008
13-year-old Logan County boy becomes the state's second victim this year. The recent weather pattern in Oklahoma is ripe for producing loads of mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus, the state epidemiologist, Dr. Kristy Bradley, said Thursday. Meanwhile, a 13-year-old boy in Logan County is the second confirmed case of West Nile virus in Oklahoma, the state Health Department reported Thursday. The...
June 23, 2008
Tropical diseases that ravage Africa, Asia and Latin America commonly occur among the poor in the USA, leaving thousands of people shattered by debilitating complications including mental retardation, heart disease and epilepsy, an analysis showed Monday. The diseases, caused by chronic viral, bacterial and parasitic infections, disproportionately strike women and children and are largely overlooked...
June 23, 2008
WASHINGTON - The federal government will not give anti-radiation pills to millions of people who live 10 to 20 miles from a nuclear plant because there are more effective ways to protect people in case of an accident or terrorist attack, the White House said Monday. The pills "offer negligible additional protection" against radiation exposure for those who live outside a 10-mile radius of a reactor,...
June 23, 2008
Consumers almost always link arms with government public health agencies banning the sale of food believed to contain dangerous pathogens. But that kumbaya spirit appears to vaporize when the consumable is raw milk. From coast to coast, the controversy sizzles with almost identical arguments. The infectious-disease community insists that unpasteurized milk can contain E. coli, campylobacter, brucella,...
June 23, 2008
If you or a loved one has cancer, doctors can treat it and, in many cases, cure it. When a blocked artery starves the heart of oxygen, doctors can snake a catheter through blood vessels from your groin to your chest and prop that artery open. If a kidney fails, they can hook you to a machine that filters wastes from your blood or replace your kidney with a donated organ. Modern medicine can enhance...
June 23, 2008
Sean Brooks is well known in extreme sports circles, climbing Mount Everest, camping at the North Pole, hiking the glaciers of Greenland and for any photo opportunity where he has icicles hanging from his face or watching a sunset from atop Mount Kilimanjaro. So it was just a matter of time before his book hit the stands about how to emulate his lifestyle. That's a growing a trend nowadays with books...
June 23, 2008
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Jun 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Experts warn Iowans affected by the recent flooding that they may be in more danger from mold and contaminated water than they were when rivers were surging. Professors from the University of Iowa discussed the impact of the disaster on physical and mental health at a news conference Friday, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. "From a public health...
June 23, 2008
DALLAS - Harold Boling built a career as a college registrar on his attention to detail. So when he found out he had Alzheimer's disease, he and his wife, Ginny, visited an attorney and a financial adviser. "I wanted to make decisions about our future while I still could," he said. "I may have Alzheimer's disease, but it doesn't have me." In the five years since his diagnosis, Boling has learned to...
June 23, 2008
LONDON, Jun 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Amy Winehouse's father said the British soul singer is in the early stages of the progressive lung disease emphysema. The BBC also quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying his 24-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat. The diagnosis came after the Grammy Award-winning singer was hospitalized last week following a fainting spell in her London...
June 22, 2008
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