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Palm readers may not be the only ones who can tell a lot about people by examining their hands. Recently, scientists in North America and Europe have looked to the relative lengths of index and ring fingers for clues about a variety of characteristics, including musical ability, athletic prowess and, in a study just released, osteoarthritis risk. The researchers believe that the difference between...
January 23, 2008
A good fight with your spouse could be good for the health, a new study has found. Couples who suppressed their anger have a mortality rate twice as high as those in which at least one partner stands up for themselves, according to the study which tracked 192 US couples for 17 years. "When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said lead author Ernest Harburg,...
January 23, 2008
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently decided that employers could reduce or eliminate health benefits for Medicare-eligible retirees older than 65. It did this by formally endorsing the idea that employers did not have to ensure parity between current workers and retirees related to health benefits or dollars spent on health benefits. While the EEOC claimed its intent was not to encourage...
January 23, 2008
Gwinnett County health inspectors returned to Pharr Elementary Tuesday, nearly a week after the school failed its regular health inspection. This time the Snellville school earned a 91 out of 100. The score marked a quick turnaround for the school, which received a 65 when inspectors visited Jan. 16. Ken Yant, director of school nutrition for Gwinnett schools, said a supervisor visited the Pharr campus...
January 23, 2008
Heart disease deaths in the USA have fallen below the American Heart Association's prevention goal for 2010, and deaths from strokes are nearing their own record low, the AHA said Tuesday. But epidemics of diabetes, obesity and inactivity, along with widespread racial, economic and geographic differences in access to care, threaten those gains, AHA President Daniel Jones warns. "Unless we can find...
January 23, 2008
CHICAGO - A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers. Most of the surgery patients were able to stop taking diabetes drugs and...
January 22, 2008
Originally Published:20071201. Chlamydia remains the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, with more than 1 million cases diagnosed in 2006. Yet an estimated 2.8 million new cases go undiagnosed each year. In the national Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in mid-November, the national rate of reported...
January 22, 2008
If you want to breathe a little easier, try adding some mustard greens to your diet. The peppery-tasting vegetables boast several vitamins and minerals that help improve air flow in asthma sufferers. Vitamin E helps improve lung function and lowers the risk of developing asthma while vitamin C helps relieve airway constriction and break down histamine. Mustard greens also contain magnesium, a mineral...
January 22, 2008
Are osteoporosis drugs overused? As women age, they fear osteoporosis so much that one study found 80 percent of elderly women would rather be dead than confined to a nursing home with a broken hip. But the medicines used to prevent such a grim future are coming under attack. Called bisphosphonates, they include Fosamax and Boniva, the new drug whose TV ads feature Sally Field. They're the most popular...
January 22, 2008
Breanne Watterson was just 4 when the hip pain began. The preschooler went through periods in which she limped to school or had to be carried, says her mom, Victoria Watterson. Doctors dismissed the attacks as "growing pains," but the girl suffered through five years in which she had spells of fever and pain in her hip and arms. "She couldn't play at all," Watterson says. In 2004, doctors finally confirmed...
January 22, 2008
CALCUTTA, India, Jan 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Tuesday there is no confirmation of humans being affected by the chicken avian flu outbreak in West Bengal state. Ramadoss , however, suggested delay by the government in the eastern state may have contributed to the spread of the disease to several districts, the Press Trust of India reported. "Initially...
January 22, 2008
BETHESDA, Md., Jan 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists have identified four genes that interact with serious obstetric complications to increase the risk for schizophrenia. National Institute of Mental Health researchers in Bethesda, Md., examined 13 genes believed to play a role in the development of schizophrenia. All of the genes also play a role in supplying blood to the brain, or are influenced...
January 22, 2008
NEW YORK, Jan 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The New York City Board of Health has unanimously approved a measure requiring chain restaurants to disclose calorie counts on menus and menu boards. The board voted Tuesday to require restaurants with more then 15 locations nationwide to list calories after a previous measure was struck down by a federal judge who ruled it ran counter to federal law, the Center...
January 22, 2008
CHESTER, England, Jan 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - British medical workers say Nintendo's motion-oriented Wii video game system is to blame for thousands of minor injuries. The console, which allows players to mimic the movements of games and sports including golf, tennis and boxing with a hand-held motion sensor, has caused minor accidents and injuries that have been labeled "Nintendo Wii syndrome,"...
January 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 20, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Harmful bacteria are evolving faster than scientists can develop antibiotics to fight them, U.S. researchers say. Over-prescription of antibiotics, interbreeding of strains in the fertile environment of hospitals and use of the drugs in the production of livestock are all leading to resistant strains of bacteria, and the pipeline for new antibiotics has...
January 22, 2008
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla., Jan 22, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Authorities are investigating the death of a man who apparently received a transfusion of the wrong blood type at a Florida hospital, it was reported Tuesday. The Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach has turned over records to state investigators who are looking into the death of Blake Oliver. Oliver, 67, died following surgery when he...
January 22, 2008
An experimental gene therapy treatment for chronic pain enabled rats with this condition to go symptom-free for three months, a study released Monday said. The rats were injected with a gene that tricks the body into releasing endorphins, a natural painkiller, in the nerve cells surrounding the spinal cord. The treatment simulates the effect of painkilling drugs but is much narrower in scope, targeting...
January 22, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis says Hollywood is helping to shine a spotlight on the deadly lung disease. TV series such as "Autopsy," "House" and "Heartland," as well as Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko," have raised awareness about the disease by showing characters or real-life people suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. "When Hollywood takes...
January 21, 2008
Thirteen years ago, the story of 7-year-old Nicholas Green and his gift of life made headlines around the world. Nicholas and his sister, Eleanor, were traveling with their parents, Reg and Maggie Green, in Calabria, Italy, in September 1994 when would-be robbers mistook their vehicle for a jewelry delivery car and fired on it. The rest of the family were uninjured, but Nicholas was severely wounded....
January 21, 2008
Chatting on a mobile phone before bedtime makes for more restless nights, a Swedish researcher who headed up a study on the subject cautioned on Monday. "If you feel you have trouble sleeping, you should think about not talking on a mobile phone right before you go to bed," said Bengt Arnetz, a professor of social medicine and stress research at Uppsala University, north of Stockholm. Arnetz, who spoke...
January 21, 2008
Inside a laboratory at Stanford University, researchers are confidently pursuing evidence that vitamin D plays an important role in breast and prostate cancer prevention. At Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif., a famed nutritionist is convinced that widespread deficiency of vitamin D in the U.S. population leads to poor immune system and brain functioning, among other conditions. And scientists...
January 21, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jan 21, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a warning for the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch label concerning the risk of blood clots. The new label will include a warning that users of the birth control patch are at higher risk of pulmonary embolism from blood clots known as venous thromboembolism than women using birth control pills....
January 20, 2008
I received a few interesting comments following last week's column on the struggles we face as we age. Seems there are a few people who, like my brother and my cousin, are feeling the effects of 40, stricken with unaccounted for aches and pains. Larry said he enjoyed the article about my "aging friends." (We're aging from the day we're born, but when does it become an unflattering adjective?) "They...
January 20, 2008
The US Supreme Court said Friday it would consider whether smokers of cigarettes marketed as "light" could sue the makers for deception on the grounds that they were just as harmful as regular smokes. The court will rule on whether companies touting cigarettes as "light" or having "lower tar and nicotine" can be charged with "deceptive practice," according to court documents. In August 2005 several...
January 19, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 18, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health officials are investigating a cluster of neurological illnesses in workers at pork slaughter facilities in Indiana and Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Health said 12 workers at the Quality Pork Processor plant in Austin, Minn., have reported illnesses characterized by changes in sensation and weakness in the limbs. The agency said it learned...
January 19, 2008
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