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Those who felt severely stressed after the Sept. 11 attacks and continue to worry about terrorism are developing cardiac problems at much higher rates than other Americans, a groundbreaking study suggested Monday. It's the first large report to track the health of adults from before 9/11 to see how their responses to the terrorist attack may be contributing to illness years later. "You don't have to...
January 8, 2008
Jan. 8 - State and Butte County health officials will hunt for a possible environmental culprit in a cancer spike detected near Oroville. The rare move comes on the heels of an analysis of state cancer data that found 23 cases of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and 2005, twice the number that would be expected for the neighborhood in question. The decision to probe further in the Oroville area focuses attention...
January 8, 2008
BELLEVILLE, Ill. The scene: A desolate street in an Iraqi city. As night gives way to dawn`s first light, you walk warily, the M-16 in your hands pointed at every alleyway and door you approach. From your left you hear a baby screaming. From somewhere off to your right you hear a man`s voice echoing eerily, endlessly, in the morning call to prayers. And then it happens. An abandoned truck up ahead...
January 7, 2008
Up to one French teenager in five suffers from hearing problems because of exposure to excessively loud volumes on personal stereos and in night-clubs and rock concerts, a leading expert warned Monday. "We believe that between 10 and 20 percent of adolescents have damaged hearing. And that's not counting those who suffer from tinnitus and hyperacusis (over-sensitivity to certain sounds)," Professor...
January 7, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Corey Jackson says his weekly support group at The Wellness Community is strong medicine for "anxiety run rampant" as he battles cancer. Even though he has insurance, Jackson said it took a month to find an oncologist who had time to see a new patient after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma two years ago. "You're told you have a life-threatening illness, and then it takes a...
January 7, 2008
For years, Heidi Roizen, 49, a venture capitalist in California's Silicon Valley, reserved a part of her closet for clothes that were too small, garments that her husband called her "aspirational wardrobe." She had co-founded and operated her own software company, was an executive for Apple, consulted with start-up companies and hobnobbed with billionaires such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, but...
January 7, 2008
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) ORLANDO, Fla. If you smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for 20 years, you might develop lung cancer. Most insurers would pay for surgery and other cancer treatments without quibbling over it. But if you gradually piled on weight, then developed diabetes or other problems from obesity, your health plan likely would not cover weight-loss surgery without a fight. The insurance...
January 7, 2008
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) ORLANDO, Fla. Monica Ramos lost about 200 pounds the hard way. In 2004, a doctor stapled her stomach and rerouted her intestines. A year later, Ramos collapsed in her home and was rushed to the hospital, where she needed another operation to stop internal bleeding. Her weight-loss surgery represents the gamble that legions of morbidly obese Americans are taking every year....
January 7, 2008
Some women would take drastic steps to hit their ideal weight, a poll for Fitness magazine shows. And we're not talking extreme diets. Nearly a quarter (23%) would spend a week in jail; 23% would shave their head; 22% would wear a bikini on TV; and 21% would trade 10 years of life, according to the survey of 1,000 women 18 and older. Most (85%) would rather have an extra toe than 50 extra pounds. This...
January 7, 2008
Jan. 7 - Sleeping on a satin pillowcase might seem like a luxury, but for Pam Grimes it brought comfort and a good night's sleep as she underwent chemotherapy. When the Kennewick woman started losing her hair, the slipperiness of the fabric helped prevent her from waking up each morning to see the "globs" of hair on her pillowcase, said her husband, Jerry Grimes. Realizing that something so simple...
January 7, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Diesel emissions continue to plague the Southland and are creating what air-pollution officials call an "unacceptably high" rate of cancer risk for residents, according to a study released Friday by the region's air-quality agency. While the region's air has less toxic contamination now compared with seven years ago, the pollution is bad enough that 1,200 of every million residents in...
January 5, 2008
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study in Pakistan found that treating children with severe pneumonia at home is just as effective as treating them in hospitals. The World Health Organization said the findings could significantly change the way the illness is managed in developing countries. The research, conducted in Pakistan by researchers from the Boston University School of...
January 4, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Charlie Cross counted how many friends and relatives took their own lives over the years and came up with 19, all Alaska Natives. "Of those 19, a mere three that I know of were not consuming alcohol," Cross, an investigator with the Alaska State Troopers, said as he fought back tears. "My personal experiences with the utter devastation is what really makes me want to do the...
January 4, 2008
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - More than a quarter of the people examined by medical officials in the aftermath of a deadly 2005 South Carolina train wreck and chemical spill suffered from serious lung problems and even more had mental health troubles, according to a state health agency's report. The report by the Department of Health and Environmental Control released Thursday said more than 850 people were...
January 4, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. researcher has linked increased mortality to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. Using a computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates physical and chemical environmental processes, Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson found that for each increase of one degree Celsius caused by carbon dioxide, the resulting...
January 4, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was expected to deem meat and diary from cloned animals safe for human consumption. The FDA examined the issue for six years and asked producers of cloned livestock to not deliver foodstuffs to markets until their official ruling on the food's safety, the Wall Street Journal said Friday. It's expected to take at least...
January 4, 2008
BOSTON, Jan 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Test results show the Listeria that has killed two Massachusetts men almost certainly came from a Worcester-area dairy, state health officials said. The same strain of bacteria was found in a sample at Whittier Dairy, a bottle of milk found in a victim's home, and the blood of four people diagnosed with the infection, The Boston Globe reported. The bacterium was...
January 4, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jan 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. states attempting to expand Medicaid coverage have recently been blocked by the Bush administration, The New York Times reported Thursday. A federal directive on Aug. 17 said states had to enroll 95 percent of children in families with incomes below twice the federal poverty limit in the State Children's Health Insurance Program before they could expand...
January 4, 2008
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) ORLANDO, Fla. Tom Kern had a potentially lifesaving heart device implanted in his body last year. Now he wonders if it might harm him instead. The Florida man is caught in the worldwide recall of components used since 2004 in a leading brand of defibrillators, which shock the heart to restore a normal rhythm. The manufacturer, Medtronic, is warning patients that the wires...
January 4, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. and British researchers are testing a new universal flu vaccine developed to tackle influenza pandemics. The British company Acambis said Phase I clinical and pre-clinical data suggest the firm's M2e-based universal influenza vaccine, Acam-Flu-A, has the potential to provide protection against strains of Influenza A. The vaccine targets the M2e...
January 4, 2008
Jan. 4 - The pen is mightier than the doughnut. So say former overeaters who have dropped pounds by keeping a food journal. Increasingly, nutritionists and dietitians are advising dieters to keep a daily record of what they eat. "It's a checks-and-balances approach," says Kathleen Zelman, director of nutrition for WebMD and director of the WebMD Weight Loss Clinic. "You might think twice before diving...
January 4, 2008
IT'S the news every man has been waiting for drinking beer doesn't give you a beer belly. A new book is aiming to dispel some of the most common myths on diet and fitness such as whether endless sit-ups will actually result in a six-pack. Among the other misconceptions addressed include if muscle turns to fat once you stop exercising and whether weightlifting can shrink men's testicles. Best of all,...
January 4, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say pregnant women who are overweight or obese are more likely to give birth to heavier babies at higher risk of becoming obese adults. Researchers at the U.S.Department of Agriculture-Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center found fetal exposure to gestational obesity leads to a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of excessive weight gain and...
January 3, 2008
A lack of time is one of the main excuses people give for not exercising, but experts say it's easy to sneak exercise into your life. Melina Jampolis, an internist who works with overweight patients in the San Francisco area, advises clients to squeeze in activity whenever they can. She tells them to do five minutes of calisthenics, such as sit-ups or push-ups, in the morning, take a 10-minute walk...
January 3, 2008
Walking regularly might not ease the hot flashes of menopause, but it can help reduce stress and other psychological symptoms that can go along with the change of life, a study reports today. Menopause typically starts around age 50, but women often start experiencing symptoms in their 40s. Deborah Nelson, a public-health researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, recruited 380 women, most of...
January 3, 2008
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