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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Mar 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A school district in Florida is considering a ban on energy drinks after four students were taken to the hospital after drinking the "high octane" beverages. The Miami Herald reported Sunday that the Broward County School Board is considering banning from its campuses drinks that promise such things as a burst of energy and weight loss. "You see...
March 23, 2008
CHICAGO - With pregnancy comes the inevitable question: Will you breast-feed? But hardly anyone thinks to ask that question of a woman who is adopting. Yet it's possible to induce lactation in order to nurse a non-biological child. There are several ways to make this happen, including holding a baby to the breast, pumping, taking herbs, using a protocol of birth-control pills and other medicines. Lactation...
March 22, 2008
NEW YORK, Mar 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reports suicide attempts among combat veterans who are treated by the VA are on the increase. One report, unseen publicly until now, chronicles suicides successfully carried out by vets after receiving VA treatment as rising from 1,403 in 2001 to 1,784 in 2005, CBS reported Friday. A second report, dealing with attempted...
March 22, 2008
Corte Madera, Calif. From the living room of Dr. Richard Olney's Corte Madera home, sliding glass doors offer a wide-open view of the tidal marsh in front of his house, of passing clouds and of the shorebirds that fly in and fly out. Inside, the man who once rode mountain bikes and ran triathlons sits nearly motionless in his wheelchair. He watches the world with the same intense intellectual curiosity...
March 22, 2008
CHICAGO - Paz Soto didn't even consider her son overweight, so the doctor's next piece of news shocked her. Andy had developed fatty liver disease, a potentially life-threatening chronic condition usually found in middle-aged adults. "I was really scared when I heard that something was wrong with his liver," she said through a Spanish interpreter. "The doctor said Andy's liver got fatty like someone...
March 22, 2008
GLASGOW, Scotland, Mar 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The United Kingdom's first case of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis was reported in a hospital in Scotland, officials said. The patient, a Somali man in his 30s, is being treated with an antibiotic cocktail to control the resistant TB, The Guardian reported. A spokeswoman at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glascow, Scotland, said health officers were...
March 22, 2008
Mar. 19 - DEAR SHOPPING: I have a family history of skin cancer, so I am supposed to have minimal sun exposure. Every self-tanning lotion/ cream/spray I have used has caused an itchy rash. It doesn't matter if I pay a lot (Lancôme) or a little (Neutrogena). I am not looking forward to swimsuit and shorts weather. Do you know of a product for sensitive skin that will not cause such a reaction but goes...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 19 - DEAR SHOPPING: I have a family history of skin cancer, so I am supposed to have minimal sun exposure. Every self-tanning lotion/ cream/spray I have used has caused an itchy rash. It doesn't matter if I pay a lot (Lancôme) or a little (Neutrogena). I am not looking forward to swimsuit and shorts weather. Do you know of a product for sensitive skin that will not cause such a reaction but goes...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 19 - DEAR SHOPPING: I have a family history of skin cancer, so I am supposed to have minimal sun exposure. Every self-tanning lotion/ cream/spray I have used has caused an itchy rash. It doesn't matter if I pay a lot (Lancôme) or a little (Neutrogena). I am not looking forward to swimsuit and shorts weather. Do you know of a product for sensitive skin that will not cause such a reaction but goes...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 19 - DEAR SHOPPING: I have a family history of skin cancer, so I am supposed to have minimal sun exposure. Every self-tanning lotion/ cream/spray I have used has caused an itchy rash. It doesn't matter if I pay a lot (Lancôme) or a little (Neutrogena). I am not looking forward to swimsuit and shorts weather. Do you know of a product for sensitive skin that will not cause such a reaction but goes...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 19 - DEAR SHOPPING: I have a family history of skin cancer, so I am supposed to have minimal sun exposure. Every self-tanning lotion/ cream/spray I have used has caused an itchy rash. It doesn't matter if I pay a lot (Lancôme) or a little (Neutrogena). I am not looking forward to swimsuit and shorts weather. Do you know of a product for sensitive skin that will not cause such a reaction but goes...
March 21, 2008
The good news about getting health information is that we have the Internet. And the bad news is . . . we have the Internet. When you Google something like "heart disease" or "Prozac," you get more than 30 million hits. Lots of information for sure - but where do you start? More important (and here's the ugly part), what can you trust? It's an important question that makes for a growing problem. According...
March 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Courteney Cox and David Arquette have a challenge for their famous friends: help raise US$1 million in two weeks for Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare skin condition that primarily affects children. Joining Cox and Arquette in the awareness-and money-raising effort are Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom, Kate Beckinsale, Rashida Jones, James Marsden and Eva Longoria Parker. All will lend their...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 21 - A father and his adult son from north-central Minnesota died this week from complications of an "influenza-like illness," health officials said Thursday. The Minnesota Health Department announced that two people had died, but provided no details. But Itasca County coroner Dr. Michael Baich confirmed information from a family friend that the victims were Danny Adams Sr., 64, of Dora Lake,...
March 21, 2008
Mar. 21 - A crow found in Herald, in southeast Sacramento County, has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first confirmation of the season in the region. Lloyd Douglass, general manager of the East Side Mosquito Abatement District, said residents should limit exposure to mosquitoes by eliminating standing water, using insect repellent and wearing the proper clothing. Mosquitoes pass the disease....
March 21, 2008
Denver - An outbreak of salmonella poisoning in Alamosa in south-central Colorado spread Thursday, with 111 people likely sick from the dangerous bacteria, which appears to have contaminated the city's tap water, officials said. "This may be the tip of the iceberg," said Julie Geiser, Alamosa County's director of nursing and public health, during a press conference in Alamosa. "We think there are a...
March 20, 2008
Mar. 21 - Federal Medicare cutbacks have put some cancer patients in a tough spot, said the chief executive officer at Oklahoma Oncology. Ken Butcher said Medicare-only patients seeking treatment at Muskogee Regional Cancer Center may have problems if they need chemotherapy. "The whole problem has been created by the reimbursement policy of the Medicare system," he said. "The physician reimbursement...
March 20, 2008
Mar. 20 - Justin Eccleston is blind, but he has a vision. "I like classical," said the 20-year-old who one day wants to become a professional piano player. The Mira Loma High School graduate said he started playing piano 12 years ago by listening to recordings. Eccleston uses few words when he speaks because he also has autism, which limits his communication abilities. Although he can't carry on a...
March 20, 2008
Letting celebrities get away with drug crimes is sending out the wrong message to 'impressionable' young people, a UN report warned Wednesday. The United Nations drug control agency has for the first time highlighted the damaging influence drug-using celebrities - such as Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and Kate Moss in Britain - have on fans. Without specifically naming anyone, the International Narcotics...
March 20, 2008
VOORHEES, N.J. The Lego raft carrying the Lego castaways approached the Lego island, "chased by raptors." Lewis Roberts, a 12-year-old from Medford, N.J., moved the raft an inch, then another young filmmaker snapped a digital camera. A third boy consulted their script. "Quiet on the set!" In the sudden silence, the boys let out a raptor-like "ROAR." Lego animation is like a cartoon. The illusion of...
March 20, 2008
CLEVELAND, Mar 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Heart surgery patients who receive older blood face a higher risk of complications and death, the New England Journal of Medicine said Thursday A Cleveland Clinic study said found that heart surgery patients who received transfusions with blood that has been stored more than 14 days were more likely to suffer from kidney failure, sepsis, prolonged intubation...
March 20, 2008
A meningitis epidemic has killed 519 people out of 5,046 cases reported in Burkina Faso since the start of January, new health ministry figures said Thursday. Ousmane Badolo, a ministry epidemiologist told AFP "we've gone over the 500- dead mark". Dr Badolo said that of 16 affected districts in Burkina Faso, the outbreak had reached epidemic levels in eight. The last official figures issued on March...
March 20, 2008
Nearly one in four children aged four to five and almost a third of all 10- to 11-year-olds in England are obese or overweight, according to a study by Britain's Department of Health. As the government tries to fight Britain's bulging waistlines, figures for 2006-7 showed that 22.9 percent of four- to five-year-olds were above their target weight when they began their school careers. Thirteen percent...
March 20, 2008
A days-of-the-week pillbox just doesn't cut it anymore, say many who juggle multiple medications. "I take five medications, six if you count my baby aspirin. I don't have time to worry about my pills," says Ray Robinson, 72, a retired wildlife biologist from Poolesville, Md., and the father of two teenagers. He takes prescription drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And he...
March 19, 2008
Mar. 20 - Itchy skin, stubborn water spots and clogged refrigerator filters have some Roseville residents crying foul over the city's new method of storing surface water in underground aquifers. "Our homes were built for good water," Carolyn Myhre said. "Our health is at issue even though they say they meet all the health requirements. We want a guarantee that we won't get put on this water again."...
March 19, 2008
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