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A study released Tuesday offers mixed messages on the benefits of having an automated external defibrillator (AED) in the home of someone who has had a previous heart attack. The study was designed to see whether AEDs could extend the lives of people who had suffered a specific type of heart attack - a type that put them at higher risk of cardiac arrest but not at enough risk of unexpected death to...
April 1, 2008
From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes and Southwest droughts, the effects of climate change will have an unprecedented impact on the health of Americans, a report said Monday. The connection between global warming and public health is the focus of a new campaign announced by the American Public Health Association. "There is a direct connection between...
April 1, 2008
MIAMI - Energy drinks charged into the U.S. market in 1997 with Red Bull and its claim: "Improves performance ... increased concentration ... stimulates the metabolism." At 66.7 mg of caffeine per 8.3-ounce can, that would be a mere blip in the bold new world of energy drinks. A cup of coffee, by contrast, has 107.5 mg. Today, provocative handles like Cocaine (since changed to No Name, owing to a 2007...
April 1, 2008
Cox News Service ATLANTA - My father, John Foskett, turns 89 next month, though you'd never know it from his baseline volley. He plays tennis twice a week, competes in senior tournaments and is trimmer today than when he graduated from college in 1947 (six years late because of World War II). Recently, however, my father confided a nagging concern: his memory. He forgets names, or tasks he intended...
April 1, 2008
Cox News Service WASHINGTON - HIV-positive women often do not reveal their diagnosis to current or possible sexual partners, to close friends, or to potential employers because of the stigma attached to the disease, according to a survey released Monday. "Despite 25 years of progress in diagnosing and treating the disease, one in five Americans would not be comfortable with having an HIV-positive woman...
April 1, 2008
The dance-like exercise tai chi, practiced by tens of millions of people in China and around the world, can help curb symptoms of type 2 diabetes, say a pair of studies released Tuesday. In separate experiments conducted in Australia and Taiwan, diabetes patients who performed tai chi for a few hours a week over a three-month period showed significant health improvement compared to control groups....
April 1, 2008
CHICAGO - No one is too old to be treated for high blood pressure, a landmark study showed Monday. The study of 3,845 patients offers the first evidence that treating high blood pressure among elderly patients is safe and saves lives, doctors say. Patients with an average age of 84 who were treated for nearly two years had much lower rates of catastrophic events, including deaths, than those given...
March 31, 2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 1, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of America's Choice-brand classic Caesar salad dressing because of a labeling error. The FDA said Bay Valley Foods LLC is voluntarily recalling 535 cases of the Caesar salad dressing because some of the bottles display an incorrect ingredient label. The label includes ingredient and nutrition information...
March 31, 2008
Apr. 1 - They say we are what we eat, and there is a lot of truth in those words. But it may be more appropriate to rephrase that oft-used statement: What we eat can determine how healthy we are. Mary Jones, a clinical dietician from Plattsburgh, has spent decades sharing her knowledge of proper nutritional choices with area residents. She runs a private practice at West Bay Plaza and promotes nutrition-health...
March 31, 2008
When people ask Scott Morrow, 44, of Stockbridge, Ga., who inspired him to lose weight, he replies that it was his dentist. They say, "Don't you mean your doctor?" and he says, "No, my dentist." Morrow went to his dentist in January 2007 for a root canal. As a precaution, the hygienist took Morrow's blood pressure twice, and both readings were way too high. "Dr. (Randy) Daniel told me he could not...
March 31, 2008
WASHINGTON, Mar 31, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The recall of Honduran-grown cantaloupes now includes the Dole Food Co., Bounty Fresh LLC, Spokane Produce Inc., and Chiquita Brands International Inc. The four firms joined several other companies in recalling cantaloupes grown, packed and shipped by Agropecuaria Montelibano of San Lorenzo, Valle, Honduras, due to possible salmonella contamination. The cantaloupes...
March 31, 2008
When 22 teachers and staff members at Whitko Middle School in Larwill, Ind., decided to lose weight in January 2007, the idea took off faster than kids bolting out of their classrooms for recess. A school is an easy place to gain weight, says Kathy Prater, 54, an eighth-grade language arts teacher. "There's always food at meetings and in the teachers' workroom. I could see every year I was picking...
March 31, 2008
Mar. 31 - In his 2004 film "Super Size Me," director Morgan Spurlock humorously documents the dramatic health consequences of eating all the wrong things for 30 days. Subsisting on a McDonald's-only menu, he gains 25 pounds and a host of ailments, among them the decidedly unfunny side effects of liver damage and sexual dysfunction. So what might happen, then, after 30 days of eating all the right things?...
March 31, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. Soaring survival rates for Arizona cardiac-arrest victims given the "new CPR" are receiving national attention, boosting the push to adopt the technique worldwide. But rescuers in Seattle, ahead of the curve, have been using the new method for years. Pioneered by heart researchers at the University of Arizona, the new technique stresses hard and fast chest compressions instead of mouth-to-mouth...
March 30, 2008
Nearly a half-century after the beginning of what Seattle P-I reporter Carol Smith describes as "a grand experiment" in better treatment of the mentally ill, the law and institutions are a long way from knowing exactly how to protect the public from the occasional deeply dangerous individual. Amid the largely successful effort to end the forced warehousing of the mentally ill, we have failed to summon...
March 30, 2008
Kari Brunson's AnticiPlate blog, which can be read here, would have caught my eye under any circumstances, because she cooks food that sounds and looks relishing. I did a double take after hearing about Brunson's day job, though: She's a dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet. Maybe it's a marker of the strange relationship we have in this country between women and food, or too many childhood readings...
March 30, 2008
My client Tiffany recently went through her spring routine. Preparing for a spring break trip to the beach, she went out and tried on some bathing suits. And once again, Tiffany cringed. Probably my most irregular regular, Tiffany didn't like what she saw. Now she's on a short-term mission to lose some flab and tighten up for her trip. She'll be doing the same thing next year. Honestly, I, too, am...
March 30, 2008
US cardiologists are targeting stress and anxiety as key factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases, according to studies made public at a scientific conference here. People who cut their stress levels and keep them under control face a 60-percent lower chance of suffering a heart attack or stroke than constant worriers, said a report unveiled Saturday at the 57th annual conference of the American...
March 30, 2008
NEW DELHI, Mar 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. patients are increasingly going overseas for big savings on major surgeries, the American Medical Association said. Medical tourism to countries like Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and India has surged as many of the 46 million people in the United States without health insurance look for affordable treatment, the Chicago Tribune said Friday....
March 29, 2008
LONDON, Mar 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A British study suggests cardiac medicines known as beta-blockers might heal the heart via the brain when administered during heart failure. Up to now medical scientists have believed beta-blockers - drugs that slow heart rate, lower blood pressure, control angina and help protect against from heart attack - worked directly on the heart. But researchers at University...
March 28, 2008
SHELBYVILLE, Ky., Mar 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The 137 people who got sick at an Easter buffet at Claudia Sanders' Dinner House in Shelbyville, Ky., may have been hit with a staph bacteria, officials said. State health officials say preliminary results from the Kentucky State Lab suggest staphylococcus aureus might be the source of the food poisoning. Officials told the Louisville Courier-Journal...
March 28, 2008
NEW YORK - Health officials have pushed back a deadline for national chain restaurants to put calorie counts on their menus in New York City outlets. The requirement was supposed to take effect Monday, but a restaurant trade group has challenged it in court. The city Health Department said Thursday it was postponing the regulation's start date until April 15 because the court ruling is expected soon....
March 28, 2008
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - France today impounded shipments of imported mozzarella cheese after the European Commission said Italy had not done enough to fight dioxin contamination. Citing EU concerns, Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier asked "all professionals to immediately impound the products concerned pending additional information," a statement from the agriculture ministry said. "In the coming...
March 28, 2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Mar 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A survey said U.S. adults are gaining confidence in the fairness and reliability of healthcare quality assessments. The Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll said most adults favor the use of patient satisfaction surveys to determine healthcare quality above all other quality measures. More than half of those surveyed said it...
March 28, 2008
Mar. 28 - By now, the green-living movement has trickled into just about every nook of the mainstream culture. It was only a matter of time then before eco-consciousness had its way, too, with Tupperware-style parties and their kitschy female bonding. There's one difference - at these parties, no one is trying to sell anything. And instead of leaving with buyer's remorse, organizers say attendees are...
March 28, 2008
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