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Canada's proposed ban on a hormone-like chemical in baby bottles has spurred U.S. retailers and legislators to try to phase out use of the ingredient, called bisphenol A, or BPA. Canada's announcement Friday came just days after the National Toxicology Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found "some concern" that low levels of BPA cause changes in behavior and the brain,...
April 21, 2008
A contaminated blood thinner from China linked to 81 deaths in the United States is present in drug supplies in 11 countries, the New York Times said Tuesday, citing federal regulators. The US Food and Drug Administration Monday sent a warning letter to Changzhou SPL, the Chinese plant identified as the source of contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International in the United States, the Times said....
April 21, 2008
While most Americans enjoyed a clear jump in life expectancy from 1960 to 2000, a startling number - especially women - living primarily in the Deep South and in Appalachia actually saw a drop in life spans beginning in 1983, says a study that came out Monday. In sum, where you live makes a difference in how long you can expect to live. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University...
April 21, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Apr 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of KFC-brand double chocolate chip cakes because of a labeling error. The FDA said the KFC Corp. of Louisville, Ky., is voluntarily recalling the cakes because they contain eggs, milk, wheat and soy and possibly traces of tree nuts, not listed as ingredients, thereby posing a health risk for...
April 21, 2008
Apr. 21 - Karen Stavish wants to thank her organ donor's family, but at the same time she doesn't know what to say. Stavish, 49, of Plains Township has mixed feelings whenever she thinks about sending the family a letter. Still, after almost two years, she's been unable to put her gratitude into words. The same as many other organ donor situations, Stavish received her new kidney and pancreas from...
April 21, 2008
The average onion has just about 35 calories. So, fans of Outback Steakhouse's signature appetizer, the deep-fried Bloomin' Onion, may be surprised to learn that the tasty, crunchy treat comes with an additional 2,275 calories. Starting today, the Aussie-based steakhouse and many other chain restaurants in New York City are required to tell patrons just how many heat exchange units their offerings...
April 21, 2008
Apr. 21 - It's not something her doctor prescribed, but for Debra Bailey gardening is physical therapy for her incurable disease. Bailey has muscular dystrophy, a debilitating genetic disease that may ultimately leave her paralyzed, unable to get out of bed or kill her. "It's incurable. There's nothing I can do about it," she said. "I can take vitamins, and that's about it." Bailey said she was diagnosed...
April 20, 2008
Diane Reuter, 52, a Richwood, N.J., mother of five adult children, knows why she gained weight over the years: She put everyone else's needs above her own. She often resorted to fast food for last-minute meals and unwound by eating ice cream at night. "I was completely devoted to caring for my kids. I got pregnant and gained weight. I got pregnant again and gained more weight. There was no time to...
April 20, 2008
Apr. 20 - Sherrill Hughes lost her husband. Mary Jane Granger developed type two diabetes. And Ellie Seals needed a cane to walk due to constant pain. They were all looking for something to help them put their lives back in balance. They turned to tai chi. "My husband died, and I was trying to live," Hughes said. The slow movements and deep breathing were enough to keep her grief from consuming her....
April 20, 2008
Apr. 20 - First in a series. As the oncology nurse swabbed Susan Nolen's forearm with alcohol and jabbed her with an intravenous needle, the 51-year-old thought of how many times she has gone through the process. This time, it was completely different, or rather, reversed. April 10 was the first time Nolen, an oncology nurse at Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, received chemotherapy. "I'd much...
April 20, 2008
Apr. 15 - The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants Americans traveling to Israel to make sure they are immunized against measles. More than 900 people in Israel have been diagnosed with measles since September, the majority of them in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. Measles is a highly contagious virus, spread through coughing and sneezing. The CDC advisory comes as many Americans prepare...
April 19, 2008
Babies fed canned formula from plastic bottles may be getting a double dose of a potentially harmful chemical, consumer watchdogs warn. Baby bottles made of clear, hard polycarbonate plastic and the epoxy lining of formula cans both contain bisphenol A, or BPA, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked in animal studies to breast and prostate cancer, infertility, diabetes, early puberty and other health...
April 19, 2008
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials are investigating more than 180 reports of illness in people who took dietary supplements containing toxic levels of the mineral selenium. Last month, federal officials warned consumers about harmful doses of selenium - a mineral considered healthful in small amounts - in plastic bottles of liquid Total Body Formula and Total Body Mega Formula. The manufacturer recalled...
April 18, 2008
Federal health officials say the nation is winding down one of its worst years for influenza, thanks in part to a poorly matched vaccine, but residents of Seattle and King County appear to have suffered through only a typical flu season. "Flu is still around, but it's definitely on the decline," said Matias Valenzuela, a spokesman for Public Health - Seattle & King County. "It's been a pretty routine...
April 18, 2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. environmental group said high levels of industrial chemicals have been found in household pets. Analysis of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats conducted by the Environmental Working Group found that the animals were contaminated with 48 of 70 industrial chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at levels higher than those typically found in people....
April 18, 2008
SANTA FE, N.M., Apr 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The New Mexico Department of Health is screening 250 people for tuberculosis after a healthcare worker was diagnosed with the disease. The testing is being conducted in Albuquerque and Clovis, N.M., on those who may have been exposed to TB through contact with the unidentified healthcare worker, the agency said Wednesday in a release. Federal and state...
April 17, 2008
CHICAGO, Apr 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Chicago water officials said they're testing Lake Michigan drinking water for the presence of pharmaceutical drugs and other unregulated chemicals. The announcement Thursday came on the heels of a Chicago Tribune report that found trace amounts of prescription drugs and other chemicals in local drinking water, the newspaper reported. The Tribune, which hired...
April 17, 2008
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has begun investigating potential hazards from lead in some artificial turf sports fields across the country. California State Sen. Abel Maldonado says the scrutiny of federal watchdogs could help his bill calling for a state study comparing the public health and environmental impacts of synthetic and natural turf. "These fields are a problem," Maldonado...
April 16, 2008
Apr. 17 - ST. LOUIS - Kory Alexander says he got tired 11 years ago of meeting teenagers from his St. Louis neighborhood with no parents to care for them and no place to go. So Alexander, then a 24-year-old single guy, became a foster parent to a teenager he knew while working at St. Vincent's Children's Home in Normandy. It's a role he has since undertaken 11 times. He didn't stop there. So far, he...
April 16, 2008
When their son Andrew was only 5 days old, Rachel and Kyle Fox had to make one of the most painful of all decisions: whether to continue aggressive medical treatment to try to save him. Andrew and his twin sister were born after only 23 weeks in the womb - just over halfway through a typical pregnancy. Andrew was especially fragile and needed an operation to repair a hole in his colon, a procedure...
April 16, 2008
Heavy smokers and drinkers develop Alzheimer's years before people who don't drink or smoke as much, a new report says. The study, presented Wednesday at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chicago, suggests heavy drinking and smoking might be accelerating damage to the brain, which could lead to Alzheimer's. But the flip side of the study is a message of hope: People who cut back or stop...
April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 17, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Lawmakers on both side of the aisle say it appears the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seriously underfunded for next year. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Utah, agreed that the FDA needs a great deal more money than President George Bush is currently offering, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Kohl heads the Senate Appropriations...
April 16, 2008
Apr. 16 - KUTTAWA, Ky. Paula Cunningham and the women at McClanahan Publishing are known throughout Kentucky as The Cookbook Ladies. Since 1999, Cunningham, owner of McClanahan Publishing House, has written cooking columns culled from her personal recipe collection and from the cookbooks published at McClanahan for Kentucky Monthly magazine. Now, she her staff at and McClanahan Publishing have combined...
April 15, 2008
Exercise can shrink your waistline and reduce the belly fat shown in recent studies to be so toxic, even if you don't lose much weight. That is the conclusion reached by exercise expert Timothy Church and colleagues in a new book, Move Yourself: The Cooper Clinic Medical Director's Guide to All the Healing Benefits of Exercise (Even a Little). "You can lose a lot of waist without losing a lot of weight,"...
April 15, 2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 15, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A draft report from a U.S. government agency said exposure to bisphenol A in plastic may pose serious health risks. The National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program urged further study of possible links between the chemical and breast cancer, prostate cancer, early puberty in girls and hyperactivity, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The...
April 15, 2008
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