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WASHINGTON - In the first major overhaul of the Indian Health Service in more than a decade, Congress moved Tuesday toward bolstering health-care screening, illness prevention and mental health benefits for Native Americans. The Senate-approved legislation would infuse $35 billion over 10 years into the Indian Health Service to improve tribal health care for 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska...
February 26, 2008
(UWIRE) MINNEAPOLIS - Cats need their owners to give them clean litter boxes, bowls filled with food and a comfortable place to lay their heads. But in the end, cats may be better for their owners than their owners are for them. University researchers have found a correlation between cat ownership and a decreased risk of deadly heart conditions. The study, conducted by Adnan Qureshi, executive director...
February 26, 2008
Thousands of people could die from heart attacks if there was a widespread repetition of the crisis at Britain's Northern Rock bank, according to a study published by British researchers on Tuesday. A team of sociologists at Cambridge University suggested that the stress of a system-wide banking crisis could lead to a 6.4-percent surge in heart attacks in high-income countries such as Britain and the...
February 26, 2008
Feb. 26 - When you have a problem, there is nothing like talking with a friend who understands. And in today's global community, that friend could easily be someone on the other side of the world. Online support groups, with topics ranging from pregnancy to alcoholism, are a growing presence. Organizations like the American Cancer Society are even getting into the act, starting a support group called...
February 26, 2008
(UWIRE) CORVALLIS, Ore. Almost 8 million Americans suffer from an eating disorder like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. OSU is helping spread awareness of this mental illness by observing National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, with only one in 10 people receiving treatment for the disease. The first National Eating...
February 26, 2008
(UWIRE) AMHERST, Mass. A recent national survey showed that female drug use, alcohol consumption and smoking are on the rise. At a time when overall numbers for teenage drug and alcohol abuse are declining, women are catching up to, and in some cases, outpacing, men in almost all areas. This is a surprising trend, according to the health care officials, because traditionally, women have been more conservative...
February 26, 2008
A new map of faith in the USA shows a nation constantly shifting amid religious choices, unaware or unconcerned with doctrinal distinctions. Unbelief is on the rise. And immigration is introducing new faces in the pews, new cultural concerns, new forces in the public square. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, documents new peaks, deepening...
February 26, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration's current budget for reviewing consumer drug advertisements is larger than in the previous five years combined. But whether that level of funding will be sustained and continue to come from taxpayers - or will be raised from drugmakers through new user fees - is likely to be battled out in Congress as it addresses future FDA funding. The FDA received $6.1 million for...
February 26, 2008
Drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis have been recorded at their highest rates ever around the globe amid shortages in funding needed to combat the disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Nearly a half million new cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) occur each year worldwide, or around five percent of the total nine million new cases, the WHO said in a report. The information...
February 26, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health officials reported an outbreak of yellow fever in Paraguay, with seven confirmed cases in San Pedro and four as yet unconfirmed cases in San Lorenzo. In addition, Africa Fighting Malaria - a non-profit health advocacy group based in South Africa and in Washington - said the number of cases reported by neighboring Brazilian health authorities has more...
February 25, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. The pilot project announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their...
February 25, 2008
ATLANTA - Want to lose weight and look better? Improve your heart rate, circulation and overall health? Then get out of your car and hop on the bus or train. That's the message from some transit agencies that are appealing to drivers' health concerns. "All the new research over the last five years indicates pretty clearly the health benefits of public transportation," says Jason Jordan, director of...
February 25, 2008
You crave fried plantains. You yearn for your grandmother's biscuits. And the mere thought of your aunt's chocolate cake makes your mouth water. But you also know those dishes wreak havoc with your heart health. So how can you enjoy your food faves without killing yourself slowly? Substitute, substitute, substitute. Making small changes can let you enjoy your favorite foods with less damage to your...
February 25, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bone tests aren't just for women anymore. New guidelines are calling for older men to get a routine check for bone-thinning osteoporosis. There's news for women, too: A new computerized tool uses more than bone-density tests to predict who is at highest risk of breaking a bone in coming years - by adding in such important risk factors as whether a parent ever broke a hip. It's an...
February 25, 2008
The nation's largest meat recall could grow into its largest food recall as companies destroy products with any amount of the 143 million pounds of beef recalled last week. The recall's scope is unprecedented, says the Grocery Manufacturers Association. The value of foods affected - including soups, sauces, burritos and bouillon cubes - could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, a senior GMA...
February 25, 2008
LONDON, Feb 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study to be published in the British medical journal Fertility and Sterility suggests that Viagra could harm men's fertility. The research, led by Queen's University consultant Gynecologist Dr. David Glenn, suggests that the drug can damage sperm and prevent fertilization, The Telegraph reported Sunday. The findings state that recreational use by young men...
February 25, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of about 2,900 Chinese-made children's metal necklaces due to a health hazard. The CPSC said the necklaces, imported by the Pecoware Co. Inc. of Chino, Calif., contain high levels of lead. The recalled necklaces include a cat with silver and pink rhinestones, a heart and lock with pink...
February 24, 2008
Maybe it's a slice of meatloaf, or a bowl of ice cream. Maybe it's a one-of-a-kind sandwich with ingredients that probably should be strangers to each other. But your family has eaten it for generations. One thing is certain: Comfort food is personal. Psychologist Gerard Musante, founder and director of Structure House, a residential facility in Durham, N.C., points out that the real issue is the unique...
February 24, 2008
Feb. 24 - As recently as last summer, there were only two psychiatrists in Cameron County, and neither of them practiced full time in Brownsville. Less than six months later, the city has a 37-bed mental health facility, two full-time psychiatrists and an outpatient clinic in the works. County officials and administrators at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville's new psychiatric facility said...
February 24, 2008
NEW YORK, Feb 24, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Dozens of people have taken the New York Health Department up on its offer of free hepatitis A vaccines following a infection scare at a city nightclub. A city health department spokesman said this week more than 90 people have taken the vaccines since an infected bartender at the New York hot spot Socialista was found to have not been taking recommended precautions...
February 24, 2008
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb 23, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study suggests that obese children are more likely to have breathing problems during surgery. University of Michigan researchers said obese children were found to have a higher rate of difficult mask ventilation, airway obstruction, major oxygen desaturation and other airway problems, the U-M Health System said Friday in a release. The findings...
February 23, 2008
OTTAWA, Feb 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Canadian survey found that more than one-quarter of seniors living at home and 38 percent of those in institutions suffered from chronic pain. Data from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey showed that chronic pain affected 27 percent of seniors living in households, compared with 16 percent of people ages 18 to 64, Statistics Canada said in a release....
February 23, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance for treating this often-fatal problem. These strokes happen when a vessel in the head bursts or leaks, flooding brain tissue with blood and damaging areas that control walking, talking and other functions. More than 100,000...
February 23, 2008
Feb. 22 - Despite the rain and winds, warm weather and sunny skies beckon - when weddings and proms mean arriving in the best body-revealing attire. With the best skin, perhaps? Tanning salons string across the county like clothes on a line: from Club Paradise Tanning Salon in Jacksonville to Tropiks Tanning on U.S. 431 in Anniston. But it's a beauty business with a chorus of medical and regulatory...
February 22, 2008
When science fiction writer Ray Bradbury wanted to illustrate childhood cruelty, he robbed a 9-year-old girl named Margot of one of life's most precious commodities: sunshine. In the haunting 1959 short story "All Summer in a Day," Margot lives on oppressively rainy Venus, where the sun appears just once every seven years. Classmates, jealous because Margot once lived on Earth and remembers the sun's...
February 22, 2008
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