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Hours after childbirth, Erin Maher lay in bed at Nassau University Medical Center holding her newborn daughter Samantha close when a nurse asked to take the child to the hospital nursery. "I just kept her on my chest," Maher said. "They kept trying to take her away but I wasn't being separated." Since then, Maher, 33, of Farmingdale, has rarely spent a night in a different bed than her now 4-year-old...
May 30, 2008
Call it a dirty little secret: If you want to raise a few chickens in your backyard, chances are Lawrence city leaders aren't going to stop you. For public health officials, it may be a tad too dirty for their tastes. Both the state epidemiologist and the Lawrence Humane Society director have expressed concerns that allowing chickens and their waste in the city limits could promote the spread of disease....
May 30, 2008
May 30 - After testing at the Cherokee Nation revealed Charla Nofire was pre-diabetic, she joined a program to head off the disease. "They gave us a book to list what we ate, count our calories and fat grams, and weigh in," said Nofire of Sallisaw. "I think I did fairly well. I lost 25 pounds, and my blood pressure and blood sugar both came down." Nofire, 38, said her doctor told her he wished more...
May 29, 2008
May 30 - Enjoy the sand and sun without sacrificing your skin. Here are this season's beauty must-haves: Get the golden glow with Smashbox's Desert Chic collection. Smart options include the bronzing powder and brush set ($55), Heatwave eye and cheek color ($28) and lip glosses in Sand, Red Rock and Cactus Flower ($18 each). At Sephora stores or sephora.com. Simplify your trip with The Smart Traveller...
May 29, 2008
With 72 million Americans diagnosed with high blood pressure - and a whole generation of baby boomers entering their hypertension-prone years - it makes sense that inexpensive monitoring devices be readily available for home use. The American Heart Association and physician groups that routinely treat hypertensive patients have endorsed home monitoring devices, which have come down to about $50 to...
May 29, 2008
Frances Bruce had been helping her church's missionary group, Baptist Young Women of Queen Street Baptist Church, with Relay For Life for three years before learning in 2005 that she had breast cancer. "I used to say, 'I wonder how people with cancer feel, what they're going through.' Then a few months later, I found I was one of them." After she had several months of chemotherapy, radiation and hair...
May 29, 2008
May 29 - Not even cystic fibrosis could keep Dana Sharpe from obtaining an education. And it certainly won't prevent her from picking up her high school diploma. "I want to be with everybody, and that's a once in a lifetime thing," said Sharpe, who will graduate June 10 from North Iredell High School. With a diminutive stature and soft-spoken demeanor, Dana seemingly always has a smile on her face,...
May 29, 2008
The US Army said Thursday 115 soldiers on active duty committed suicide in 2007, the most in one year since the service began keeping records in 1980. Nearly a thousand soldiers attempted suicide. The spike came in a year that saw the highest US casualties in Iraq and increased levels of violence in Afghanistan. Barack Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, called it "a...
May 29, 2008
The number of Americans registering to be organ donors is on the rise, thanks in part to a surge in states establishing online registration sites to augment donor designation on driver's licenses. Donor registration has increased 10% from 63 million to nearly 70 million since the start of 2006, according to Donate Life America, a non-profit alliance of national and state organ donation organizations....
May 29, 2008
It looks as if the West has won. San Francisco is the fittest big city in the USA, just slightly more fit than Seattle, according to a scientific analysis of 16 cities released today by the American College of Sports Medicine at its annual meeting in Indianapolis. But not all of the West is in top shape. Los Angeles is near the bottom of the list. To rank big metropolitan areas, health and fitness...
May 29, 2008
LINLITHGOW, Scotland, May 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Scottish woman said she is glad a cow rammed its head into her stomach because the injury prompted an examination that revealed she had cancer. Linlithgow, Scotland, resident Sarah Kerr, 32, was in a pasture feeling stomach pain she blamed on indigestion when a cow head-butted her in the abdomen, the Edinburgh (Scotland) Evening News reported...
May 28, 2008
TORONTO - A new U.S. study contradicts the notion that high blood levels of vitamin D might help protect men from developing prostate cancer - a finding that is likely to add to the public's confusion over the possible benefits of the sunshine nutrient. Laboratory studies of cells have suggested that high doses of vitamin D may reduce prostate cancer from developing, but international research that...
May 28, 2008
ATLANTA, May 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've created a tool called an "intrabody" that can remove the mutant protein that drives neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease. Emory University researchers said they engineered a virus to make an intracellular antibody, or "intrabody," against huntingtin, the protein whose mutant forms poison the brain cells of people with Huntington's...
May 28, 2008
CHICAGO - Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests. The findings may lead to an expanded use for antidepressants. Someday high-risk people like stroke patients might take the drugs before suffering depression - just as people now take cholesterol drugs to prevent heart attacks, the...
May 27, 2008
Small-town fundraisers for a local resident battling a serious disease are not uncommon. Events for a complete stranger, however, don't happen every day. That will be the case June 21 in the Butler County village of Abie, Neb., population 108, at the first Beat Breast Cancer Mud Volleyball Tournament. Organizer Jeremy Stanislav, a Lincoln advertising account manager, said that once he heard the story...
May 27, 2008
Instead of salmon or swordfish, consider sardines. Rather than monkfish, eat mussels. Go with oysters in place of orange roughy. Canadian author Taras Grescoe calls it "bottomfeeding" - eating at the lower end of the food chain - and it's the environmental and ethical path he discovered after three years of research into the modern seafood industry. He found that "big-ticket predators" such as tuna...
May 27, 2008
Pharmaceutical forms of human growth hormone releasers are available only through prescription or remain in the human-trial stage. But at some nutrition retailers and on dozens of websites, there is another form of HGH releaser - food supplements that cost a couple of dollars a day. Some of these products, which go by names including GH Stak and Ageless Foundation, tout the same benefits as synthetic...
May 27, 2008
More than 500 Hollywood writers and producers are working with senior advocacy group AARP to bring attention to the need to provide affordable health care, the groups will announce today. Divided We Fail, an AARP campaign that wants to find bipartisan ways to make health care affordable, will work with the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Motion Picture...
May 27, 2008
Finally some good news in the weight-loss struggle: The rate of childhood obesity may be leveling off in the USA after years of skyrocketing growth, new government data show. About 32% of children and teens ages 2 to 19 - about 23 million - were either overweight or obese in 2003-2006 compared with 29% in 1999. The increase is not considered statistically significant. There also was no statistically...
May 27, 2008
NEW YORK, Feb 6, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. President George Bush's new budget would cut health funding for people affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks by more than 75 percent, a report said. Monday's budget release came a day before the publication of a study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, which cites continued emotional distress and sleeping problems for preschool children...
May 27, 2008
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've determined video games that energize players and induce a positive mood might also enhance the players' creativity. The Pennsylvania State University media researchers also discovered players who were not highly energized and had a negative mood, registered the highest creativity. "You need defocused attention for being...
May 27, 2008
May 27 - TOPPENISH - Corky Ambrose remembers his blood sugar level being as high as 530 when he was first diagnosed with diabetes about 20 years ago. Sugar levels that high over extended periods of time can cause eye, kidney and heart damage. "I felt so thirsty, I was trying to drink water all the time," the 75-year-old tribal member said while sitting at the Yakama Indian Health Service clinic. "I...
May 27, 2008
Some strains of bird flu are coming ever closer to developing the traits they need to cause a human pandemic, a study released Monday said. Researchers who analysed samples of recent avian flu viruses found that a few H7 strains of the virus that have caused minor, untransmissible infections in people in North America between 2002 and 2004 have increased their affinity for the sugars found on human...
May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008 (Greeley Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) - When Marlene Brotemarkle first learned she had leukemia, she was more worried about her daughter, Kelsie, and her recovery from the flu. Then she was worried about the costumes from the Greeley West play "Peter Pan." When the doctors told her it might be a month before she left the hospital, and that she would have...
May 27, 2008
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - World Heath Organization officials said they approved an international alcohol resolution at the yearly World Health Assembly in Geneva. The resolution is aimed at the organization producing an international strategy in line with its fight against health risks linked with obesity and smoking, The Local reported Sunday. WHO said in a media release...
May 27, 2008
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