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NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, Mar 5, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Most patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy - excessive day sleepiness/sleep paralysis - experience several symptoms of eating disorders, a Dutch study says. Study authors Dr. Hal Droogleever Fortuyn and Dr. Sebastiaan Overeem of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands, focused on 60 patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy who were...
March 5, 2008
HELSINKI, Finland, Feb 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers in Finland found that when stroke patients listen to music for a couple of hours a day, their verbal memory and focused attention recover better. The study, published in the journal Brain, also said stroke patients who listened to music had a more positive mood than patients who did not listen to anything or who listened to audio books....
March 5, 2008
A common but hard-to-see type of lesion in the colon poses a stronger threat of cancer than the more frequently diagnosed colorectal polyps, scientists said in a new study Wednesday. Researchers in California found, using colonoscopy data from patients, that the often undetected flat lesions could be 10 times more risky for colon cancer than the polyp-shaped neoplasms which are usually the target of...
March 5, 2008
They are a smart, adaptive enemy, ready to exploit any weaknesses anywhere on Earth. Tobacco companies are refining their strategies for the 21st century, an era in which the World Health Organization says their products conceivably could kill 1 billion people. Of necessity, WHO, too, is marshaling international efforts to protect people in the poorer and emerging markets where the tobacco corporations...
March 5, 2008
While death from war, terrorism and homicide crowd the headlines, at more than a million deaths per year suicide outstrips them all, but gets scant attention, an expert warned Wednesday. The president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), Brian Mishara, said with global suicide rates on a steady rise in recent decades, societies must commit more resources to help bring the...
March 5, 2008
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - This Indian couple hasn't spoken about it with family or friends, the choice they made after seven excruciating years of infertility. Desperate to have a child, they turned to an egg donor. It was a last-ditch effort to become pregnant, said Neetu, 34, and Rajiv, 38, who spoke to The Chicago Tribune on the condition that their last names not be used. Admitting that they...
March 5, 2008
CARMEL, Calif., Mar 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A California herbal supplement firm will pay $23.2 million in a class action settlement for false advertising, one of the plaintiff groups said Tuesday. Airborne, which advertised its supplement helped fight off colds, will refund money to consumers who bought the product, said the non-profit advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. "There's...
March 5, 2008
ANNA WHITE'S drink of choice was a Blue Dolphin. It's what she ordered when she partied. She could toss them back with the best of them. It was water. Just water. White, a graduate of Bellevue's Sammamish High, was not quite 22 when she was killed 5 1/2 years ago, after she was run down while standing on a sidewalk in California. Now, a project named after her that helps those who have been drinking...
March 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 5,000 California supermarkets, restaurants, retailers and school districts received meat recalled last month by Westland/Hallmark Meat - and now a state website lists their names and locations. California's list is one of the first attempts by a state or federal agency to publicly identify retailers and restaurants that received food that was later recalled. The length of...
March 4, 2008
One year after Bob Woodruff spoke about his brain concussion on an ABC documentary, he is busy flying around the world on assignments and continuing to draw attention to the signature injury of the war in Iraq: traumatic brain injury. His recovery seems miraculous, considering how the shrapnel from a roadside bomb had ripped into his skull on Jan. 29, 2006. Woodruff, 46, is back at work at ABC news,...
March 4, 2008
Mar. 4 - They say you can hear the pop, but Carly Iulo remembers the sound she heard last September as more of a thud. She initially thought - and hoped - her kneecap was dislocated. But it was worse than that. The anterior cruciate ligament in Iulo's left knee ruptured, bringing an end to her club soccer season and putting her sophomore season at Hilton Head Island High School in danger. Iulo won't...
March 4, 2008
After 16 years in the Navy, Petty Officer 1st Class Becky Schrader was medically retired when a stroke blindsided her at age 37. Schrader, who as a Navy cryptologist gathered, guarded and provided critical military information, was left first paralyzed after the stroke five years ago, then quite weak on her left side. The cause was as mysterious as the ciphers she once helped to devise and unravel....
March 4, 2008
Feb. 18 - CHAPEL HILL - It took several tries, but Anna Gibson volleyed a volleyball for the first time. "She's going to be a natural athlete," said her mother, Melody Gibson. After a few minutes, 3-year-old Anna raced to try her hand at another sport at UNC's Youth Health and Fitness Fair, organized by UNC Athletics and UNC Family Medicine. The fair, held in recognition of National Girls and Women...
March 4, 2008
Hearing loss could be prevented with simple hormone treatment using oestrogen stimulating drugs already on the market today, the co-author of a new Swedish study on the topic said Tuesday. "We found that the beta (oestrogen) receptor protects against hearing loss" in mice, said Barbara Canlon, a professor at the department of physiology and pharmacology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Canlon,...
March 4, 2008
The massive recall of beef last month thrust school cafeterias into "uncharted territory" over food safety, prompting leading food service directors to question whether the federal government's alert system is adequate to keep unsafe food off cafeteria lines. Based on prepared congressional testimony to be delivered today, two officials with the School Nutrition Association are expected to urge the...
March 4, 2008
Holly Massingill noticed the little slip-ups first. The Austin mother, who once had an "almost photographic" memory, began to stumble over friends' names when introducing them. She would hop in her car and forget where she wanted to go. Massingill began to wonder about her brain, though, after she asked her friend if she was looking forward to her upcoming wedding. The friend reminded her the wedding...
March 3, 2008
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since entering a psychiatric hospital in January, Delta Burke is speaking out about her depression, saying she remembered having anxiety as early as kindergarten. In a two-part Entertainment Tonight interview airing tonight and Friday, Burke said she needed an adjustment under a physician's care after the five medications she was taking no longer worked. Now she's on...
March 3, 2008
So, we're at a point mentally where we want to do something about our bodies. But there's one problem. The guy in the newspaper never said how we should go about doing whatever that "something" is. How do we get started? What's the first thing we do? We're motivated - we think. We don't know how long it's going to take, but we're hoping we're ready to put in the time. What now? Is it hiring a trainer?...
March 3, 2008
U.S. workers are silently suffering from a dramatic lack of sleep, costing companies billions of dollars in lost productivity, says a study out today. Nearly three in 10 workers have become very sleepy, or even fallen asleep, at work in the past month, according to a first-ever study on sleep and the workplace by the non-profit National Sleep Foundation. The late-2007 survey was based on a random sample...
March 3, 2008
Mar. 2 - If you are one of the estimated 45 million Americans suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, new research indicates successful treatment may be more than revamping your eating habits. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, is characterized by gastrointestinal distress such as cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. While IBS does not harm the intestines or lead to chronic...
March 3, 2008
The sound of fellow classmates reading English literature in class put Emily Grooms to sleep in high school. When she feels pressure to sleep now, because of fast-approaching mornings, the college student revisits the image. "I pretend that someone is standing in front of class reading from a book, and I make up the story, something like, 'Once upon a time, a boy went to see his grandmother' and I...
March 3, 2008
Adding that expensive scented oil to your bath may help your mood, but it won't do much for your health, an upcoming study has found. Health and beauty companies have made millions off the soothing scents of aromatherapy products. But like many home remedies, there is no hard science to prove that these smells do any real good. A group of researchers at Ohio State University decided to test the supposed...
March 3, 2008
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Mar 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health officials in Canada's retirement haven of Victoria, British Columbia, are warning senior gardeners dirt can be deadly, as three deaths last year show. Chief Medical Health Officer Richard Stanwick said three people over the age of 50 died of tetanus on Vancouver Island last year, and it's likely they acquired it from soil in their gardens,...
March 3, 2008
Jan. 27 - Last fall, the American Medical Association waged war on salt by urging food manufacturers and restaurant chains to reduce the sodium in their products. Don't wait for producers to make the change, says the AMA. Excess sodium greatly increases the chance of developing hypertension, heart disease and stroke. Here's a quiz to find out if you are making good choices when it comes to salt. 1....
March 3, 2008
Like millions of parents, Lynne Bruton tried all the usual ways to get her three children to bed on time: turning the television off 30 minutes before bedtime, stopping them from eating and drinking well before going to sleep and sticking to a nightly routine that included sitting with her children in their rooms to help them "wind down." But sometimes these methods didn't work - particularly with...
March 2, 2008
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