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SEATTLE -Dreary northern winters are infamous for inducing depression. But being starved for sunlight can do more than kick you into a psychic hole. A growing body of evidence suggests it can raise your risk of cancer, increase susceptibility to heart attack, diabetes and other disorders, and at least partly account for the region's sky-high rates of multiple sclerosis. The reason is vitamin D, an...
February 16, 2008
SANTA ANA, Calif. It was just what the doctor ordered an hour of talk about sex. On a recent Thursday evening, 18 women gathered to compile a list of what they find sexy, from candles and jazz to "my legs," "kisses on the ear" and firemen. Then they examined dozens of sex toys and bought a few. The women squirmed and giggled at times, but they didn't shrink from the evening's activities, sponsored...
February 15, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif. If the medical resident who's caring for you looks a bit depressed, you might want to double-check your medication. A small study of 123 pediatric residents at three leading U.S. children's hospitals, including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Calif., found that depressed residents were six times more likely than other residents to make medication errors. The actual...
February 15, 2008
ATLANTA - The flu season is getting worse, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the flu vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs. The flu shot is a good match for only about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The situation has even deteriorated since last week when the CDC said the vaccine...
February 15, 2008
LONDON, Feb 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A British report suggests smoking while pregnant may be less damaging to a fetus than many people have been led to believe. Emma Tominey, a research assistant at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said the effects are almost negligible if women stop smoking by the fifth month of pregnancy, The Times of London reported Thursday....
February 15, 2008
When Heather Blythe found her 13-year-old son hanging from a belt in his closet, she thought he was pulling a prank. She quickly learned she was tragically wrong. Braden Erickson had apparently only intended to get a quick high in a game teens call the "choking game." Instead, he died at his Phoenix home. At least 82 youths, ages 6 to 19, have died from the choking game from 1995 through 2007, the...
February 14, 2008
NEW YORK - A celebrity-studded Valentine's Day charity auction of contemporary artworks - all inspired by the colour red and the concept of love - raised more than $42.5 million to benefit HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa, Sotheby's auction house said. Organized by Sotheby's, U2 lead singer Bono, artist Damien Hirst and Manhattan's Gagosian Gallery, Thursday night's sale blasted past the maximum...
February 14, 2008
Amsterdam (dpa) - Sexy video clips have a strong influence on the self-image of young girls, said a study published Friday. The study was conducted by Tom ter Bogt, chair of the Royal University of Utrecht's music and youth culture department. Half of the 500 youths he studied were exposed to sexy video clips from the dance and hiphop scene. The other half saw the same artists, but in a neutral video....
February 14, 2008
The book is called "Sexy Hormones" but it could better be labeled "The Hormone Bible." Here's all you ever wanted to know about female hormones - from natural ones to bioidentical hormones, from treating hormone conditions like bladder incontinence to understanding what the birth control pill can do to undermine your sex life. There's even a section on foods and exercises to improve your sex life plus...
February 14, 2008
LONDON - Anyone who's seen an Austin Powers movie knows the stereotype about the English: They have bad teeth. Health Secretary Alan Johnson said it's time to improve Britain's dental health and urged putting fluoride in local drinking water to help reduce tooth decay in children, especially in poor areas. About 10% of England's population has fluoridated water. There is little to none in Wales, Scotland...
February 14, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. report said first-born children may attain more education and make more money because they get more parental attention. Joseph Price, economics professor at Brigham Young University, said his research shows that first-born children get about 3,000 more hours of quality time with their parents between ages 4 and 13 than the next sibling in line....
February 14, 2008
SAN DIEGO, Feb 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health officials are trying to find about 250 people who may have been exposed to measles on a flight from California to Hawaii. The San Diego Union-Tribune said Hawaiian Airlines flight 15 from San Diego to Hawaii last Saturday included a infant who contracted the illness in a San Diego medical clinic. The child is being treated on a military base in Hawaii....
February 14, 2008
The standard treatment for patients who have attempted suicide by drinking pesticide - a major problem in parts of rural South Asia and China - is essentially useless, according to a study. Activated charcoal, taken orally, has long been prescribed as an antidote for self-inflicted poisoning, as it is thought to absorb toxins in the stomach and prevent them from entering the bloodstream. But a large...
February 14, 2008
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - An Israeli scientist is investigating a possible link between heavy cell phone use and tumors of the salivary gland. Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of Tel Aviv University investigated nearly 500 people who had been diagnosed with benign and malignant tumors of the salivary gland and found that frequent cell phone users had a higher risk of developing tumors, the...
February 14, 2008
Being obese boosts the risk of half a dozen types of cancer, and the odds strengthen as one's waistline thickens, according to a major review published on Saturday by The Lancet. Doctors at the University of Manchester, northwestern England, trawled through 141 studies that monitored the health of 282,000 people who gained weight. Their benchmark of fat was the body mass index (BMI), in which the individual's...
February 14, 2008
LONDON, Feb 14, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - British and European researchers say noise pollution airplanes and traffic can increase blood pressure, even if it doesn't wake them. Scientists at Imperial College London and other European institutions monitored 140 sleeping volunteers in their homes near London's Heathrow and three other major European airports. The researchers found volunteers' blood pressure...
February 14, 2008
Educators spend most of their money on students, but three King County elementary schools recently won $600,000 to spend on teaching parents as well as their children. On Wednesday, White Center Heights, Beverly Park and Mount View elementary schools - all in the Highline School District - were the latest U.S. schools to formally win money and support from the Toyota Family Literacy Program, a nationally...
February 13, 2008
Even those of us who don't gab on cellphones appreciate having one for an emergency. For a blind or visually impaired person, the Nokia N82 promises much more: It's a liberating day-to-day tool that grants access to printed materials not otherwise easily available. A sightless person can use the phone to snap a picture of a menu, book, printed receipt or business card. Software on the phone processes...
February 13, 2008
A type of probiotic - the term for bacteria supplements deemed to be good for health - boosted the immune system of long-distance runners, according to an Australian study published on Thursday. Twenty elite male athletes, competing in events ranging from 800m to the marathon, were enrolled in an experiment that coincided with intensive winter training. The volunteers were given the probiotic Lactobacillus...
February 13, 2008
A month-long diet of fast food and no exercise led to dangerously high levels of enzymes linked to liver damage, in an unusual experiment inspired by the docu-movie "Supersize Me." But investigators, reporting their findings on Thursday, were also stunned to find that a relentless regimen of burgers, fries and soda also boosted so-called good cholesterol, seen as a key measure of cardiovascular health....
February 13, 2008
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Feb 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - International and local aid agencies launched a vaccination effort in the Central African Republic to curb an outbreak of meningitis, a U.N. agency said. A U.N. humanitarian affairs agency said Monday meningitis spread across the northwestern districts in the Central African Republic at epidemic levels. The top U.N. humanitarian coordinator...
February 13, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif. If the medical resident who's caring for you looks a bit depressed, you might want to double-check your medication. A small study of 123 pediatric residents at three leading U.S. children's hospitals, including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Calif., found that depressed residents were six times more likely than other residents to make medication errors. The actual...
February 13, 2008
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists have determined deforestation and social marginalization increase the risk of acquiring an infectious, tropical skin disease. The University of Michigan researchers examined the incidence of the disease American cutaneous leishmaniasis, or ACL, in Costa Rica. ACL - characterized by skin lesions caused by an infectious organism carried...
February 13, 2008
MONTREAL, Feb 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Preliminary statistics released by the provincial agency that oversees Quebec lotteries and gambling has linked suicides to gambling, Montreal media reported. In December, the Quebec Court of Appeal ordered all of the Loto-Quebec agency's internal investigations and emergency response information made public with regard to gambling in one of the province's...
February 13, 2008
Hundreds of new products regularly compete for a spot in your grocery cart. More than 20,000 new packaged foods and drinks hit the shelves of supermarkets in 2007 alone, according to one analysis. The P-I frequently receives samples of new or noteworthy products, and I'm going to pass along our impressions of them to help you decide if they're worth your hard-earned dollars. In today's inaugural review,...
February 13, 2008
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