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HOUSTON, Feb 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. scientist has discovered a side effect of prenatal lead exposure might be adult-onset obesity. It's been long established that exposure to low levels of lead can result in learning disabilities, hearing loss, language impairments and vision loss. Now Donald Fox, a University of Houston professor of biology, biochemistry and vision sciences, has discovered...
February 20, 2008
Week after week, we read about the results of studies that researchers have just released. Playing with fire can cause burns. Drinking bleach is dangerous to your health. Blondes still have more fun. And so on. So I was hardly surprised last week when I read about new research on 21,000 people that finds firstborn children get more parental attention - 3,000 hours more - than their siblings. Not only...
February 20, 2008
Childhood abuse or physical violence in young adulthood greatly raises the odds of someone starting to smoke by their early 20s, a large study suggested Tuesday. Smokers often find their habit relaxing, "and this may be how they cope with the trauma," says study leader Bernard Fuemmeler, a pediatric psychologist at Duke University Medical Center. "Survivors of traumatic experiences will say they just...
February 20, 2008
As cigarette smoking declines, cheap look-alikes in fruity flavors are gaining substantial ground and worrying public health officials. U.S. adult consumption of little cigars, which have lower taxes and fewer marketing restrictions than cigarettes but pose similar health risks, more than doubled from 1998 to 2006, according to the Agriculture Department. Little cigars are part of a widening array...
February 20, 2008
More than two dozen types of health and beauty products that are sold through online auction sites have been stolen and possibly contaminated, according to the National Retail Federation. The warning comes less than a month after federal agents and local police in Florida arrested a theft ring that it said operated for about five years. The suspects were charged with stealing a variety of products...
February 19, 2008
NEW ORLEANS - Paul Stewart knew as soon as he moved into his government-issued trailer in December 2005 that something was wrong. He said it wasn't long before he started waking up with a scratchy throat. His wife, Melody, woke up with bloody noses. The couple, who had lost their home in Bay St. Louis, Miss., during the Gulf Coast hurricanes, said they asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
February 19, 2008
Being fat has long been seen as a personal problem, fixed only by struggling against the proliferation of fast food restaurants, unlucky genes, and a sedentary life. But could something in the environment also be making Americans fat in epidemic numbers? Animal studies in recent years raise the possibility that prenatal exposure to minuscule amounts of common chemicals - found in everything from baby...
February 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A five-year study on suicide in the United States found a 20 percent increase in the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds, out-pacing any other age group. The suicide rates for middle-aged U.S. residents jumped 20 percent, while the suicide rates for teenagers increased only by 2 percent from 1999 to 2004, The New York Times said Tuesday. Suicide rates for...
February 19, 2008
Feb. 19 - NEWPORT NEWS - Minorities are less likely than whites to have health insurance that pays for continuing care, such as prescriptions. Black women have significantly higher rates of heart disease than white women. These facts point to an ongoing inequity in health care, according to a panel discussion Monday at the Riverside School of Health Careers in Newport News. "I know everybody is not...
February 19, 2008
BOSTON, Feb 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study found that 50 percent of heart patients significantly under use medications to prevent recurrence of heart attacks mainly because of cost. The study, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, found if heart attack survivors had full heart drug compliance - average cost of the drugs is more than $400 per year - it could...
February 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 19, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A non-profit nutrition education organization has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to drop heart disease health claims for soy protein. The Weston Price Foundation submitted a petition to the agency Tuesday in response to the FDA's request for public comment on the issue. Manufacturers have been able to market soy as a "heart healthy" food since...
February 19, 2008
Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the February Archives of General Psychiatry (see also Yale University). The Yale team also found that women were less likely to die while depressed than older men, indicating that women live longer with depression than men. This factor,...
February 19, 2008
Feb. 19 - Day of Dance Southeast Alabama Medical Center will hold its Day of Dance for heart health on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The 2008 event will be held at the Dothan Conference Center next to the new Holiday Inn Express at 4106 Ross Clark Circle North near Twitchell. Day of Dance is free and will include door prizes and dancing for all ages. Free dance lessons will be given...
February 19, 2008
Feb. 19 - When she was younger, Emily Brown would always get nervous when she had to go into a pharmacy or supermarket to buy condoms. "Condoms were always marketed toward men. Like the old Trojan ads. They were always very sexual and made me uncomfortable," said Brown, 26, of Albany. "It always seemed like they were made for boys, and that they were the ones who were supposed to be buying them." Each...
February 18, 2008
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. The Campbell Soup Co.'s kid-oriented soups, which feature characters such as Dora the Explorer and Batman on the cans, are getting their second sodium reduction in three years, the company announced Monday. This time, the 12 soups for kids will have 480 milligrams per serving, which means the company can legally label them as healthy foods for the first time. "Your kids can enjoy...
February 18, 2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that it would step up oversight at 900 slaughterhouses in the USA to check for inhumane handling violations like those that led to the biggest meat recall ever on Sunday. "I don't have reason to believe this is widespread. But the extra checks will give us a better handle on it," said Kenneth Petersen, USDA assistant administrator. Westland/Hallmark Meat...
February 18, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Advanced medical tests for sports-related knee injuries are giving rise to increased diagnoses of major injuries in children, medical experts say. The reported number of children suffering torn knee ligaments soared because it's easier to detect the injuries, not because sports are more intense, medical experts told Monday's The New York Times. Children used...
February 18, 2008
DENVER, Feb 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Colorado scientist warned Monday industrial chemicals are hitting males of many species particularly hard. Rao Veeramachaneni of Colorado State University said chemical exposure has altered or weakened the reproductive capacity of humans as well as many species of animals. The biomedical sciences professor told the Rocky Mountain News some chemicals attach...
February 18, 2008
The U.S. government on Sunday ordered the largest beef recall in U.S. history - 143.4 million pounds - and said the meat has been used in school lunches and food assistance programs. The beef dates to cattle slaughtered two years ago, starting Feb. 1, 2006. The USDA said it believes most already has been eaten. It will remove the rest from inventories. "We don't know exactly where all the product went"...
February 18, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Nutri-Foods-brand 50-pound packages of unhulled organic sesame seeds due to a health hazard. Nutri-Foods Inc. of Royal Oak, Mich., said the seeds might be contaminated with salmonella - a bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections. The recalled sesame seeds have product SKU...
February 18, 2008
If By Easter, which is March 23, you could drop 5 pounds or more and lose some of your belly fat, which means your pants and jeans would fit better. By Memorial Day (May 26), you could lose 10 to 12 pounds and probably wear a bathing suit a size smaller than one you'd fit into now. And by the first day of summer, June 21, you could drop 15 pounds or more and wear shorts that are one to two sizes smaller...
February 18, 2008
A grass-roots push to put defibrillators into every school - to revive children who suffer cardiac arrest as well as their teachers, custodians and visiting family members - may get a jolt from Congress. Nobody knows today how many people collapse inside schools or at school sporting events from cardiac arrest, but cities and states have begun counting the numbers of lives saved by defibrillators in...
February 18, 2008
Korey Rose's perpetual smile and outgoing nature won him friends of all ages wherever he went. Then, in his junior year at Enumclaw High School, Korey was diagnosed with bone cancer. He underwent chemotherapy and surgery. His cancer seemed relentless. Despite that, in June 2004, shortly after his left leg was amputated, Korey graduated with his classmates. He died two months later. "The week before...
February 17, 2008
WASHINGTON - In the hall outside of her congressional office, Rep. Betty Sutton of Ohio calls fellow Democratic congressman Mike Michaud of Maine over to meet her grass-roots posse. "Mike," she says, "I have some people I want you to meet." Sutton is championing a bill that would give matching federal money to provide every U.S. school with an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device that can...
February 17, 2008
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) MILWAUKEE - Her skin cold to the touch, Anna Kindt lay in the hospital as frigid saline was pumped into her veins for more than 10 days. A crack about one-third of an inch wide ran along the top and right side of Kindt's skull, just one of several fractures to her head and face. Her car looked just as bad, a collapsed roof and a crushed side. While passing another car...
February 16, 2008
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