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ST. CHARLES, Mo., Feb 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - An HIV-positive Missouri man has been charged with having unprotected sex with a woman in St. Charles County without warning her she might get AIDS. Michael Bergman was jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Investigators say Bergman may have had sex with five people, both men and women, since learning he was HIV positive....
February 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The supplier of half of a critical blood thinner in the United States has suspended production in the wake of potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. Baxter International Inc. stopped production of heparin due to reports of nausea, shortness of breath and a drop in blood pressure. More than 350 reports have been filed in 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug...
February 13, 2008
SAN DIEGO, Feb 12, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A doctor's office appears to have been a center of infection in a measles outbreak in San Diego. County health officials said there were 10 confirmed and suspected cases of measles, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The first child, who is believed to have been infected in Switzerland, was treated at a doctor's office and is believed to have spread the...
February 13, 2008
JACKSONVILLE - It was a busy summer night in 2001 at a Walgreens store here when pharmacy technician Tomario Lewis went to a computer and typed in the new prescription that would cost Terry Paul Smith his life. Lewis, then 22, a part-timer hired two years earlier, had been at the Merrill Road store for just a few months, working the evening shift. She had hoped to get a 50-cent hourly raise Walgreens...
February 13, 2008
Commonly referred to as a cross between a pear and a strawberry, guava is a vitamin-rich fruit packed full of goodness. Guava has a higher concentration of vitamin C than oranges and one guava contains 5 grams of fiber. The tropical fruit also contains a large amount of lycopene, an anti-oxidant that fights prostate cancer, and as much potassium as a medium banana. Copyright 2008 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
February 13, 2008
Georgia schools have put on hold 178,000 pounds of beef that came from a California slaughterhouse under federal investigation for allegations that it processed cattle at higher risk of mad cow disease. Those animals, known as "downer cattle" because they are unable to walk, are banned from the food supply. The investigation so far has found no evidence that downer cattle were processed into beef destined...
February 12, 2008
Children exposed to alcohol in the womb have impaired eye blinks, a South African study found. Such kids may develop fetal alcohol syndrome, a collection of birth defects and developmental problems that include delayed growth, learning disabilities, and abnormal facial features. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
February 12, 2008
Paula Radcliffe wowed mothers, runners and running mothers in November when she won the New York City Marathon just nine months after delivering Isla, a healthy baby girl. But Nancy Hammond, a St. Louis-area marathoner and mother of three, wasn't so surprised. Nor was she fazed by news that the Brit with Grit - as Radcliffe is known - continued intensive training throughout her pregnancy, including...
February 12, 2008
Sailing away on a cruise ship with a midnight buffet no longer means waving goodbye to your diet. Keeping with the times, cruise lines are promising spa-like cuisine alongside the buttery lobster and piles of crab legs. The hope is that lighter selections will lure health-conscious baby boomers and others who fear being trapped at sea with a 24-hour pizza bar. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. last year...
February 12, 2008
CHICAGO - Women typically treat their kids' coughs and runny noses, schedule regular trips to the doctor's office and are the family's key decision-maker on health care issues. Now they're moving into the executive suites of health insurers, a business long dominated by men. Later this year, Patricia Hemingway Hall, 55, will be the first woman to run Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., the nation's...
February 12, 2008
Feb. 12 - If you're worried about your weight - and who isn't? - you may have the feeling lately that science is really jerking you around. Consider recent findings: Rats fed saccharin gain weight faster than rats fed sugar. Some overweight humans live longer than skinny ones. Diabetics who drive down their blood sugar to "normal" levels are more likely to die of heart disease. Even the end result...
February 11, 2008
Actor Heath Ledger's accidental death from a combination of painkillers and tranquilizers serves as a tragic reminder that taking multiple prescription drugs at once can have lethal ramifications. Doctors and pharmacists call it polypharmacy, which simply means the use of two or more drugs at the same time. In some cases, especially in people with many ailments, polypharmacy is necessary and usually...
February 11, 2008
Feb. 11 - DALTON, Ga. Georgia plans to begin statewide sampling this year at drinking water intakes for perfluorooctanoic acid, according to a program manager of the Environmental Protection Division. The acid is labeled a "likely carcinogen" by a federal panel and is found in the Conasauga River. "We're trying to be proactive," said Jane Hendricks, program manager for the permitting compliance and...
February 11, 2008
A pinch on your baked potato, a dash to season your eggs, a quick shake to make your broccoli more palatable. Salt finds its way - in these and much more insidious ways - into your diet every day. And now it has found its way into the sights of consumer and health advocates who say the government is not doing enough to protect Americans from the harmful effects of too much salt. The Food and Drug Administration...
February 11, 2008
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) ORLANDO, Fla. For more than six years, Jessica Harder was a model kidney-transplant patient. She surfed, competed in swim competitions, worked as a lifeguard and managed to graduate from high school before turning 16. But her donated kidney, which she received when she was 12, wasn't as tough as she was. It gave out on her 16 months ago, for reasons Harder thinks are linked...
February 11, 2008
As Valentine's Day approaches, there's good news and bad news about sex. The good news: Losing weight can turn up the heat. The bad news in this time of rising obesity rates? Gaining weight can douse those flames. In the good-news column are Nikole Lee, 34, and her husband, Bobby, 38, of Albion, Mich. They often joke that they've essentially lost a third person in their marriage. She has dropped 90...
February 10, 2008
Apparently, what happens in Vegas truly does stay in Vegas - especially right at the waistline. Sin City was named America's Fattest City, an annual dubious honor Men's Fitness magazine bestows upon the nation's most overweight city. On the flip side, Colorado Springs earned the title of America's Fittest City in the issue, which hits newsstands today. Though Las Vegas, the land of excess and endless...
February 10, 2008
Soon after being put under anesthesia to undergo a hysterectomy, Diana Todd began hearing voices. As she tried to listen to what the voices were saying, she felt the first cut. The pain was indescribable. She stopped counting after the fifth time her surgeon's scalpel sliced into her body. Lying on the operating room table, the anesthesia drugs had her paralyzed. She was screaming on the inside, but...
February 10, 2008
The key to wedded bliss may also open the door to a longer life. A study of Midwestern couples found those who felt free to express their feelings lived longer than couples who were always angry at one another. The study was published in The Journal of Family Communication and reported by HealthDay.com. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
February 9, 2008
Feb. 10 - With Valentine's Day on Thursday, many of us are hoping our sweeties come through with a big box of chocolates. From a nutrition standpoint, is that a bad thing? Here's a quiz to find out how much you know about chocolate. 1. A 1-ounce serving of chocolate contains about the same amount of caffeine found in one cup of decaffeinated coffee. True or false? 2. A chocolate bar is more likely...
February 9, 2008
Improving and maintaining brain health - from playing computer games to taking supplements - is the latest "hot" health topic for aging boomers. Now comes Harvard University with a study saying there is a natural way to energize your brain, sharpen decision-making skills and feel more alert. And the researchers are not talking about a grande-size coffee from Starbucks. Replenishing brain cells with...
February 8, 2008
FORT WORTH, Texas - It's familiar advice for staying healthy: Exercise, eat your veggies, and visit the doctor once a year. That thinking sends millions of Americans to their physicians' offices for annual physical exams. Yet there's little agreement among doctors about whether regular physicals are actually necessary. Or even about which tests should be included in a routine checkup. Without such...
February 8, 2008
OTTAWA, Feb 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Canadian study found that infants born to teenage fathers are more likely to die within the first year of birth. Researchers from the Ottawa Health Research Institute found that babies born to teenage fathers also are more likely to be born premature and have low birth weight. The findings, published in the journal Human Reproduction, were based on 2.6 million...
February 8, 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Parents who heat plastic baby bottles risk feeding their children a synthetic hormone linked with medical, reproductive and developmental problems, according to a University of Missouri study released Thursday. The chemical - bisphenol A - is used in making hard, polycarbonate plastic and leaches out of the bottles when heated to 80 degrees or filled with hot liquids, researchers said....
February 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children have died, the government warned Friday. The Food and Drug Administration's warning includes both Botox, a wrinkle-specific version called Botox Cosmetic, and its competitor, Myobloc, drugs that all use botulinum toxin to block nerve...
February 8, 2008
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