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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 he was to ship out...
June 22, 2008
HaLeigh Brewer and Kelly Gleason don't look particularly tough or imposing when you first look at them. But they are fighters, and more importantly, they are survivors. Both Brewer and Gleason have fought cancer and won and are two of four area recipients of $1,000 scholarships from the American Cancer Society, and both have chosen to use the money to help them learn to help others. 'Pretty terrifying'...
June 22, 2008
Jun. 22 - Jamaal Williams looks like he's playing a video game as he manipulates the joystick, guiding a cursor along lines that fan out from a target on a screen. Each time the cursor meets the target, there is a low bleep. He repeats the movements as occupational therapist Natalie Smyk hovers. "Jamaal has good strength. Now, we are working on his ability to control his movements," said Smyk, at the...
June 22, 2008
DENVER, Jan 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. Army sergeant was deployed to Iraq last year in spite of osteoporosis so painful that he was heavily drugged, The Denver Post reported. Staff Sgt. Jack Auble's medical status was changed from permanent to temporary disability, the report said. This month, he was assigned to an operations center in Baghdad. "I took Percocet, and I also took Vicodin," Auble...
June 21, 2008
MELBOURNE, Jun 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Australia is the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults classified as obese or overweight, a new study indicates. The study reported Australians outweigh U.S. residents and 123,000 Aussies could experience premature deaths during the next 20 years, The Age reported. Four million Australians - 26 percent of the adult population - are considered...
June 20, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS - Sherry Claude recalls the first time she saw a doctor for depression. She had been in a "down mood" for three weeks when she worked up the courage to make an appointment. Her doctor, a general practitioner, brushed aside her concerns. "He told me I really just had the blues and I should go home and practice some affirmations," she recalled. For Claude, it took years before she finally...
June 20, 2008
ATLANTA, Jun 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - One of every 100 U.S. babies was a test-tube baby and about half of them were twins, triplets or higher, a U.S. health agency reported. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta's most recent data on in vitro fertilization covers the year 2005, WebMD.com reported Friday. The information came from 422 of the 475 U.S. medical centers assisting people with fertility...
June 20, 2008
Jun. 20 - If you're one of the millions of Americans who have silver fillings in your teeth, a tiny bit of mercury vapor could be seeping out of them when you bite down. Silver fillings, also called dental amalgam, have long been a staple of dentistry. But because they're made of about 50 percent mercury - which can harm the body and the environment - they've been controversial. The Food and Drug Administration...
June 20, 2008
Jun. 20 - Florida Atlantic softball and women's golf coach Joan Joyce grew up at a time when strength coaches were rare for men's teams, so it's no surprise she never did any weight training. "I know I had no upper-body strength. I couldn't do one push-up or one pull-up, yet I was successful because I was strong in the legs and very flexible," said Joyce, 67, who played professional softball, basketball,...
June 19, 2008
QUINTON, Va. (AP) - A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's. Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes. Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce. Chris Coleson tipped the scales at 278 pounds in December. The 5-foot-8 Coleson now weighs 199 pounds and his waist size has dropped from 50 to 36. The 42-year-old businessman...
June 19, 2008
Dave Sklar loved Fourth of July fireworks so much, his wife joked he was a "pyro." Last July 1, the Pierce County couple planned to buy their usual $200 or more cache of rockets, mortars and fountains to set off near their home in Graham. They never made it. Sklar swallowed a bottle of painkillers that day, ending a life plagued by depression so severe that he holed up in the garage, interpreted innocent...
June 19, 2008
NEW YORK, Jun 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say gastric band patients losing less than half of their excess weight within a year of surgery experience dramatically improved health. New York University School of Medicine researchers followed 50 gastric band surgery patients for two years to determine the minimum excess weight loss needed to cause resolution or maximum improvement of obesity-related...
June 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is cracking down on the sale of products that fraudulently claim to prevent or cure cancer. The products contain ingredients such as bloodroot, shark cartilage, coral calcium, cesium, ellagic acid, Cat's Claw, an herbal tea called Essiac, and mushroom varieties such as Agaricus Blazeii, Shitake, Maitake, and Reishi,...
June 18, 2008
Jun. 19 - PORT NECHES - No one would look at John Leggett's stocky build and consider him a candidate for one of those weight-loss shows on TV, but the photos don't lie. One photo showed Leggett among a group of about 15 men and women whose rounded faces sat above hockey gear that covered their sometimes lumpy bodies. As for the other photo - taken four months after the first - Leggett noted a major...
June 18, 2008
Snow sports accounted for more than 64 percent of emergency-room visits for treatment of injuries suffered during outdoors activities, according to the first national study to estimate recreational injuries. Snowboarding was responsible for 25.5 percent of the injuries, followed closely by snow skiing at 24.2 percent. Sledding - including sleds, toboggans, snow disks and tubes - was next at 10.8 percent....
June 18, 2008
When it comes to satisfying their sweet tooth and their diets, celebrities are finding comfort in an old dessert. Jell-O, which has been around long before there was a Beyonce, is popular not only with that glamour girl but also with a host of others who want to leave the jiggling to their desserts. Count Jessica Simpson, Lisa Rinna, Mel B. and Kirstie Alley among its legions of fans. Alley calls sugar-free...
June 18, 2008
Skateboarders aren't frowned on at Oak Elementary School in Albany, Ore. In fact, students there get credit for performing grabs, kickturns and ollies in class. Oak is among hundreds of schools across the country that have adopted a skateboarding curriculum in their physical education classes. Skate Pass, the Boulder, Colo., company that created the curriculum in 2006, says skateboarding is now being...
June 18, 2008
CHICAGO - John Meyer, 37, recently learned the hard way that nail-biting doesn't just leave you with stubby, bloody fingertips. The Chicagoan's habit fractured - and wore down - his upper teeth so severely that he needed $15,000 worth of dental reconstruction. "His teeth were scalloped in the shape of his nails to accommodate his nail-biting," said Meyer's dentist, Jeffrey Weller of Weller Aesthetic...
June 18, 2008
CHICAGO - John Meyer, 37, recently learned the hard way that nail-biting doesn't just leave you with stubby, bloody fingertips. The Chicagoan's habit fractured - and wore down - his upper teeth so severely that he needed $15,000 worth of dental reconstruction. "His teeth were scalloped in the shape of his nails to accommodate his nail-biting," said Meyer's dentist, Jeffrey Weller of Weller Aesthetic...
June 18, 2008
NEW YORK, Dec 28, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) - A report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the drug eltrombopag appears to significantly boost platelet counts in hepatitis C patients. A low blood platelet count is a frequent complication associated with advanced disease, a problem compounded by the fact that standard antiviral treatment for the disease can further reduce platelet numbers to dangerously...
June 18, 2008
Shaped like an apple? If you're sporting a gut that rides out front like a basketball under your shirt, you're at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease. But exactly why that protruding belly, known as metabolic syndrome, puts you at greater risk has been a bit of a mystery. Now researchers say they've figured out what that mound is doing while you're sleeping: Migrating. To your liver. Fatty substances...
June 18, 2008
Jun. 18 - Sure, it's great that Samantha turns 50 in the new "Sex and the City" movie, with nary a hint of her sex appeal diminishing. And yes, Madonna can hold her own (and then some) with Justin Timberlake on their new single, "4 Minutes." But Christopher Hopkins is more interested in reality. Un-airbrushed, un-surgically enhanced, un-personal trainered reality. Which is why he wrote "Staging Your...
June 18, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - People look far and wide for weight-loss success. They spend a lot of money on programs, packaged food and personal counseling. They try crazy fad diets and fasts. Ruth Gonzales-Paul didn't do any of these things. When it came to losing weight, she relied on her friends, her family and her faith. It worked. Since June 2007, Gonzales-Paul, 35, has lost over 60 pounds. She had already lost...
June 17, 2008
Jun. 18 - OAKLAND Six-year-old Michael Walker kneeled in the middle of the garden, his shoulder-length dreadlocks falling into his face as he gently pinched off the leaves of various plants to use in a salad. Katrina Suprise, a teacher at the Oakland Based Urban Gardens Summer Camp, leaned over and asked the second-grader if he'd ever eaten an onion before. He shook his head vigorously, his hair flying...
June 17, 2008
get someone to lie to you. Men who thought they'd been given human growth hormone improved their athletic performance on a jumping test, even though they'd gotten a placebo instead, a new study shows. The research was presented in San Francisco on Tuesday at the annual conference of the Endocrine Society, whose members include doctors and researchers who focus on hormones. It underscores the power...
June 17, 2008
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