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Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - More than two decades after the U.S. set the national drinking age at 21, a movement is gaining traction to revisit the issue and consider allowing Americans as young as 18 to legally consume alcohol. Serious discussions already are under way in several states. In Vermont, the state Legislature has formed a task force that will study whether the drinking age should be...
March 10, 2008
Having endured two bouts of whiplash as a result of separate car accidents, Marc White knows all too well about the persistent problems caused by neck pain. White, director of the Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability, recalls that in one of the accidents, his car was struck by a bus for people with disabilities - a fact he considers more than a little ironic. "I think the driver...
March 10, 2008
Breastfeeding women can drink moderate amounts of alcohol without endangering their baby, Sweden's National Food Administration said Tuesday, changing its previous recommendation to abstain entirely. "There is no medical reason to abstain completely from alcohol while breastfeeding," Annica Sohlstroem, head of the agency's nutrition department, said in a statement. "The amount of alcohol that the child...
March 10, 2008
5 things that add up to more (or fewer) years: Are you optimistic? Add eight years to your life. Do you have low self-esteem? Alas, subtract four (and, no, we did not add "you loser." That must have been you). We love info like this, culled from "The Long Life Equation" (Adams Media; $10). We chose five tips to share. The book is written by a doctor, not - although the advice may sound familiar - by...
March 10, 2008
The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease skyrockets when both parents are struck by the degenerative brain disorder, a study published Monday has found. The dementia also seems to strike at an earlier age among patients with a wide family history of the disease, the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Neurology found. "Because Alzheimer's disease is so...
March 10, 2008
Tainted water from a major US contractor was probably responsible for sickening several dozen US soldiers in Iraq between 2005 and 2006, the Pentagon said in a report obtained Monday. Although a definite link could not be established, the tainted water was supplied by KBR, the global engineering, construction and services company which plays a leading role in providing support to US forces in Iraq....
March 10, 2008
CHICAGO - Chicago attorney Ray Gordon looks at food in a whole new way. At 59, he has taken over the responsibility of grocery shopping and cooking, a role his wife had for 30 years. "The kitchen is now my domain," he said. "I enjoy cooking. It's like a hobby." This transformation was spurred by rising blood pressure and cholesterol levels that landed Gordon at Northwestern Memorial Wellness Institute....
March 10, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas, Mar 10, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Across the United States it is television - not Daylight Saving Time - that determines the sleep schedule of most people, a study found. Researchers Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers and Mark L. Pocock said the natural cue of daylight has some effect on timing, but timing of television programs has a larger effect. "I lived 20 years in the Eastern...
March 9, 2008
HOUSTON, Mar 9, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Chemical industry officials deny a claim by public officials that levels of benzene have increased in the Houston region, a published report said Sunday. The Houston Chronicle reported that data collected by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality showed 13 air monitors detected concentrations of benzene - a carcinogen - exceeding healthy levels. The chemical...
March 9, 2008
Ashley Wilkens of Carmel, Ind., got pregnant at 16, delivered a boy and placed the baby for adoption. Now 18, she works in retail sales, is studying for her GED and has filed paperwork to join the Navy. She stayed in high school halfway through her pregnancy and says her peers seemed fine with it. "It just seems like it's OK and it was accepted. People would say: 'Look, how cute. You have a little...
March 9, 2008
Mar. 6 - Retirement is getting more expensive, according to a report released Wednesday that shows the average 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 just to cover their medical expenses once they stop working. Boston-based Fidelity Investments' latest health care cost estimate marks a 4.7 percent increase from 2007, when it was estimated that retiring couples would need about...
March 8, 2008
One of the basic principles of communication planning is to understand audiences better; doing so makes it possible to develop messages most likely to resonate with target audiences and reach them more frequently. 1,2 Audience segmentation is one of the core tools that enables communication and marketing planners to better understand their audiences.3,4 One objective of audience segmentation is to...
March 8, 2008
More than five years of recycling soldiers through Iraq and Afghanistan's battlefields is creating record levels of mental health problems, as about three in 10 GIs on their third tour admit emotional illnesses, according to an Army study released Thursday. Soldiers in combat suffering emotional issues and who saw friends killed were twice as likely to abuse civilians by kicking or hitting them, or...
March 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress demanded Thursday that federal officials quickly hand over a list of stores that received any beef that was the subject of the biggest meat recall in U.S. history. Richard Raymond, undersecretary of Agriculture, told Rep. Maurice Hinchey and other members of a House subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Department of Agriculture's budget that it could not release the...
March 7, 2008
WASHINGTON, Mar 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. soldiers repeatedly deployed to Iraq are at greater risk of having mental health issues, a military study revealed. The U.S. Army report indicated enlisted soldiers on their third or fourth tours of duty showed signs of depression or other disorders in higher proportions than those on their first or second deployments, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday....
March 7, 2008
The Discovery Channel has discovered the body. Make that The Human Body: Push the Limits (Sunday, 9 and 10 ET/PT). Blending real-life re-enactments and computer-generated graphics, Human Body provides an intimate look at how the body and brain cope in crisis mode. "We wanted to focus on the human body, but wanted to explore it in a different way. The goal was to make this the Planet Earth of the human...
March 7, 2008
More states are considering laws that would require children younger than 8 who outgrow child safety seats to be in booster seats when riding in cars. Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio and Utah are considering passing or strengthening laws on booster seats. Last year, Virginia, Oregon and North Carolina enacted legislation. All 50 states and the District...
March 6, 2008
Addiction is often a difficult, chronic and confusing condition that can tear families apart. There is a push on the federal level and in Seattle to inject more science into treating the disease, which is being linked to dysfunctions in the brain. On Thursday, Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the federal National Institute on Drug Abuse, visited Seattle to talk about the intersection of science, the brain...
March 6, 2008
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nearly 40,000 people learned this week that a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a type of scandal more often associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years. The shoddy practices may have led to an outbreak of the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus and exposed patients to HIV, too....
March 6, 2008
Repeated combat tours are taking a toll on the mental health of US Army's most experienced soldiers, with stress-related problems rising sharply in their third and fourth tours, an army study found Thursday. The survey conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 by army mental health teams also found that soldiers' were less willing to report fellow soldiers for ethical violations than in 2006. Major...
March 6, 2008
Although the statement Patrick Swayze's publicist issued says he is upbeat about his diagnosis, experts say pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest of all tumors. Only 4% of patients are alive after five years, says Mace Rothenberg, a professor at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. The American Cancer Society estimates that 37,680 Americans will be diagnosed with the disease this year...
March 6, 2008
CHICAGO, Mar 5, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say flat lesions that can be hard to find during colonoscopy are linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association said flat, non-polypoid colorectal neoplasms appear to be relatively common and may be more likely to develop into cancer compared with the more routinely diagnosed...
March 6, 2008
ulian Awad is only 34, but he wants to know whether he has an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease after he reaches retirement age. Alzheimer's killed Awad's maternal grandfather and, indirectly, his grandmother. She died, Awad says, from the stress of caring for her husband. So CEO Awad plans to be first in line this spring when his Philadelphia company, Smart Genetics, begins testing...
March 6, 2008
ATLANTA, Mar 6, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers have created a sensor necklace that someday may help people remember the last time they took their pills. The MagneTrace records the exact time and date when specially designed pills are swallowed and lets the user know if any doses are missed, Maysam Ghovanloo of the Georgia Institute of Technology said Wednesday in a news release. The necklace...
March 5, 2008
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn., Mar 6, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Exposure to the artificial acid C8 may increase death risks from stroke and prostate cancer in chemical plant workers, a study in Minnesota found. In a study submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, high death rates were found among 4,000 workers at 3M's chemical plant in Cottage Grove, Minn., The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette reported....
March 5, 2008
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