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Mar. 14 - Dressed as a princess in a white gown and sparkling tiara, Grace Ekis stepped into a horse-drawn carriage and enjoyed an unforgettable ride down Route 30 last summer. When she reached her destination, Pluma's Restaurant in North Huntingdon, the 5-year-old was greeted by many of her friends, and the youngsters spent a fine afternoon dancing and enjoying many treats. This princess party that...
March 14, 2008
Mar. 14 - What's all the rage with young athletes these days? Hospital visits. With more than 30 million children playing organized sports in the United States today, the opportunity for injury is on the upswing. Almost 1.9 million children under 15 years old were treated in emergency rooms for sports-related injuries in 2002, says the most recent information available from the Centers for Disease...
March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Mar 11, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of Delta-brand golden raisins because the product might contain undeclared sulfites. The raisins, distributed by the Alaz Fine Food Corp. of Brooklyn, N.Y., were sold in 16-ounce uncoded plastic bags in New York. The FDA said the presence of undeclared sulfites poses a health hazard to sulfite-sensitive...
March 14, 2008
OTTAWA, Mar 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The number of preventable cases of mumps is increasing in Canada, and federal officials say part of the problem is opposition to vaccinations. Dr. Paul Varughese of the federal Public Health Agency told the Ottawa Citizen the number of cases jumped from 17 in 2006 to 1,284 reported in 2007. He said there are already 130 cases reported this year. "Some people...
March 14, 2008
Every few days, somewhere in the country, a young athlete drops dead from sudden cardiac arrest. Chris Phillips could have been one. As a freshman defensive back for the Chattahoochee High School Cougars, he was running downfield during football practice when his hearing became muffled, his vision darkened, his back started to hurt and his breath became labored. He thought little of it. The symptoms...
March 14, 2008
Now banned in Boston: artery-clogging trans fat. The city's health board gave final, unanimous approval Thursday to a ban on the artificial substance in french fries, doughnuts, and other dishes made in restaurants and grocery stores. "It's the right thing to do," said Harold Cox, a member of the Boston Public Health Commission. Boston joins a growing number of cities, including New York and Philadelphia,...
March 13, 2008
A simple blood test may be enough to diagnose depression and quickly determine whether antidepressant drugs are working, researchers said Tuesday. That's because scientists have identified a protein in the brain that can serve as a biomarker for depression, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "This test could serve to predict the efficacy of antidepressant therapy quickly,...
March 13, 2008
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. and Chinese scientists have determined women have thicker skulls than do men. Researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianjin University of Science and Technology created a non-invasive method of measuring geometric characteristics of the human skull. They then examined head scan images of 3,000 patients at the Tianjin Fourth central Hospital in...
March 13, 2008
HOUSTON, Mar 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists have determined recurrent low-grade ovarian cancer is less responsive to chemotherapy than more common ovarian cancers. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers said their retrospective study is the first to analyze how women with a rare type of low-grade ovary tumors respond to chemotherapy. The findings also confirm...
March 13, 2008
By the time Celeste Richard learned she was carrying twins, she figured she knew a thing or two about childbirth from four uneventful pregnancies. Her fifth was a different story. Never had she felt so tired, breathless or bloated. "I was swollen, more swollen than I had ever been, but I attributed it to carrying two babies," Richard says. "So did the doctors." Richard, then 39, got worse, not better,...
March 13, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn., Mar 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. health insurer is offering its customers an online service linking personal health data to online research of medical issues. Aetna SmartSource, powered by Healthline Networks' Medically Guided Search technology, will provide customers with health information, local doctors who participate in their health plan, commonly used medications and treatment...
March 13, 2008
A good education and income helps protect people from inflammation that increases their risk of a heart attack, but the more overweight someone becomes, the less protection is gained from a comfortable life, a study suggests today. It's well-known that educated, affluent people have better health than those with lower income or education. In the new study of about 5,000 adults, the college-educated...
March 13, 2008
Best-selling British author Terry Pratchett, who is battling Alzheimer's disease, has donated one million dollars towards research into the debilitating brain disease, he said Thursday. Pratchett, 59, whose fantastic fiction Discworld books have sold 55 million copies worldwide, said insufficient funds and the perception that Alzheimer's was a "fairly quiet" disease compared to cancer were stalling...
March 13, 2008
Younger women with coronary blockages that raise their risk for heart attacks are less likely than post-menopausal women to feel chest pain with exercise, a key warning signal for heart disease, a study suggested Wednesday. Although women usually don't have first heart attacks until their late 60s, "we're seeing more women having heart attacks in their 40s and 50s, before menopause, because of the...
March 12, 2008
Meat from cows that were illegally slaughtered at a California slaughterhouse probably entered the U.S. food supply, a senior U.S. Department of Agriculture official testified at a congressional hearing Wednesday. The number of cows is unknown but probably exceeded the two shown in videos taken by an undercover animal-rights worker at the Westland/Hallmark Meat plant, which last month recalled 143...
March 12, 2008
Cox News Service ATLANTA - Everyone wants a long, healthy life. We all know that genetic makeup is one key to longevity, but what if you are looking for another way to live longer? Enter caloric restriction, an idea that has been around since the 1930s when scientists discovered that feeding mice about half their caloric needs lived longer than the mice given standard lab chow. Studies have shown that...
March 12, 2008
Annamarie Ausnes had been visiting her local Starbucks for coffee and small talk with the barista for three years. During their conversations, they talked about almost everything, but Ausnes never once mentioned her failing health. Ausnes, 55, who works at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, has known about her polycystic kidney disease for nearly 20 years. The genetic disorder causes numerous...
March 12, 2008
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Taking vitamin D supplements in infancy may help a youngster ward off Type 1 diabetes, according to a review of the evidence released on Thursday in specialist journal Archives of Disease in Childhood. Doctors in Britain looked at five studies in which children were monitored from infancy to early childhood to see if vitamin D supplements made a difference to the risk of...
March 12, 2008
Larry the Cable Guy is the latest celebrity spokesperson for a commercial weight loss program. The comedian has lost 50 pounds on NutriSystem and boasts on his website, "Now I look just like Brad Pitt only totally different." Print and TV ads air later this month. Larry, whose real name is Dan Whitney, joins the ranks of stars promoting diet plans. Queen Latifah became the new spokeswoman for Jenny...
March 12, 2008
People with type 2 diabetes who participate in a program in which they're coached by a pharmacist show big improvements in how well they manage their disease, a study says today. That improvement translates to better health for the 914 employees who have signed up for the Diabetes Ten City Challenge. They all work for 29 self-insured employers who have joined the program in hopes that it will reduce...
March 11, 2008
Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and University of Valencia in Spain asked 549 Dutch and Spanish men and women to rate how jealous they felt, and to list the qualities in a romantic competitor that were...
March 11, 2008
The death of an American Airlines passenger during a flight from Haiti to New York last month has cast a spotlight on the growing number of medical emergencies on commercial jets, a trend that largely has escaped public notice because airlines aren't required to report such incidents. The clearest picture of the problem comes from MedAire, an Arizona-based company that provides emergency medical advice...
March 11, 2008
Baby Einstein has changed language promoting some baby DVDs on its Web site, a move critics hailed as a victory in their effort to stop what they say are false claims that the videos are educational. In 2006, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby, accusing both companies of false and deceptive advertising...
March 11, 2008
One in four teenaged girls in the United Sates has been infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first study to examine the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States estimates that at least 3.2 million teens aged 14 to 19 are currently infected....
March 11, 2008
WASHINGTON, Mar 11, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of approximately 1,200 Ellaroo-brand sling baby carriers because of a safety hazard. The CPSC said aluminum rings on the Indian-made carriers, imported by Ellaroo LLC of McKinney, Texas, can bend or break, causing the fabric to slip through the rings, potentially allowing infants to fall to the...
March 11, 2008
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