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9/11 Dogs Suffered Few Health Effects
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - SCHAUMBURG, Ill., -- A new study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reveals that New York Police Department dogs deployed to the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have not experienced any long-term health effects.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:46:01 PM
Mental Health
Mental Health Treatment: It's Commonly Accepted Yet Not So Easy to Obtain or Understand
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Seeing a psychologist or other mental health professional isn't an unusual thing; in fact it's relatively common. Nearly three in ten U.S. adults (29%) report that they have received treatment or therapy from a psychologist or other mental health professional. The survey also found that younger adults are more open to seeking mental health treatment than those over 50 and that many adults are not discouraged from seeking treatment because of stigma or fear of others finding out.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:40:41 PM
Research
Pneumonia Most Common Reason for Hospitalization
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - More than 1.2 million Americans – roughly equivalent to the population of Dallas – were hospitalized for pneumonia in 2006, making this lung infection the most common reason for admission to the hospital other than for childbirth, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:33:38 PM
Foot Health
Women’s High Performance Zoom Runners (by Aetrex)
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Aetrex has taken its 60-year history in technology and knowledge of the human foot and applied it to a new line of footwear including athletic shoes. Style and design are on par with anything else on the market. What sets them apart is that several of the independent retailers where Aetrex is sold also have machines the company owns called an iStep, which measure everything from shoe size to arch type and pressure points free of charge.
Jul 2, 2008 - 11:27:27 AM
Children's Health
4 Million Babies Born Each Year in the United States
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - WHITE PLAINS, NY, – As the incidence of premature birth rises in the U.S., Kmart’s partnership with March of Dimes is steadfast. For the past 25 years, Kmart’s associates and customers have raised an unprecedented $71 million through March for BabiesSM, the March of Dimes’ premier event. This year, Kmart’s 2008 March for Babies campaign topped the charts—raising over $8 million towards helping ensure that all babies are born healthy.
Jul 2, 2008 - 10:44:31 AM
Family Health
Finding Welcome Relief From Heat Rash
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Hot, humid weather can lead to heat rash or prickly heat, which occurs when sweat glands clog and sweat becomes trapped beneath the skin.
Jul 2, 2008 - 9:18:45 AM
Family Health
Stay Cool During Summer’s Dog Days
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - As the mercury rises across the country, people should stay cool and hydrated if they are going to be outside. The parade of weekend warriors treated in emergency rooms for hot weather-related illnesses like heat stroke and heat exhaustion is increasing, physicians report.
Jul 2, 2008 - 9:11:07 AM
Book Review
Eating for Recovery
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Common side effects of excessive drinking include poor digestive and liver function; problems with managing blood sugar; weakened circulatory, immune, and nervous systems; and impaired thinking and changes in mood-regulating hormones. While the primary focus of anyone recovering from alcoholism is staying sober, a critical part of recovery involves halting or reversing the physical damage of excessive alcohol consumption.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:56:38 AM
Book Review
Sober Siblings
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Watching a brother or sister ruin their health, destroy relationships, lose job after job, or act in other self-destructive ways can be heart-breaking. Through co-author Patricia Olsen’s personal experience, along with stories from other siblings of alcoholics, and aided by the wisdom of addiction specialist Dr. Petros Levounis, Sober Siblings explores the effects of alcoholism on the sibling relationship.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:53:05 AM
Heart Health
Gender Differences And Heart Disease
(HealthNewsDigest.com) NEW YORK -- Women may respond less favorably than men to cardiovascular disease (CV) drug-treatments for enlarged heart, according to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists.
Jul 1, 2008 - 2:10:20 PM
Research
Driving Habits of People with Epilepsy
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio – Research shows that people with epilepsy continue to drive despite medical restrictions. In a study from the Ohio State University Medical Center, 26 percent of patients with epilepsy reported having an accident due to a seizure and 19 percent said they were dishonest about seizures in order to drive.
Jul 1, 2008 - 2:05:09 PM
Food and Nutrition
Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Balanced Nutrition Saves Lives
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK -- Clinician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers say that following TBI, patients should be given nutritional supplementation through a gastric feeding tube as soon as possible, which they say can improve their chances of survival by as much as four-fold.
Jul 1, 2008 - 12:50:09 PM
Children's Health
Resuscitation Technique After Brain Injury May Do More Harm Than Good
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - DALLAS – The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
Jul 1, 2008 - 11:03:08 AM
Children's Health
Curbing Kids' Risk-taking Behavior
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Educating kids and their parents about the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike, and buckling up and riding in the back seat of the car, could help to cut down the more than 30 million injury-related emergency room visits that occur each year in the United States.
Jul 1, 2008 - 10:49:54 AM
Supplements
Varying Strength and Contamination Found in Cholesterol Supplements
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK — JULY 1, 2008 ConsumerLab.com announced today that its tests of ten red yeast rice supplements revealed levels of cholesterol-lowering statin compounds to vary by more than 100-fold, with some providing as much lovastatin as prescription medication and others containing very little. A potentially toxic contaminant, citrinin, was found in four of the products, with highest levels in a supplement sold by a national pharmacy chain.
Jul 1, 2008 - 10:41:30 AM
Parenting
Making Peace with Your College Student
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - HOUSTON - Just a few weeks ago you were anxiously counting the days until your precious child came home from college. Now you just can't wait to restore the peace in your home and get the kid back to school again.
Jul 1, 2008 - 9:48:55 AM
Asthma Issues
Olympic Athletes: Trouble Breathing in Beijing?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - MILWAUKEE – When the world’s top athletes convene next month for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, some will face a challenge that tests more than their athletic abilities. Heavy pollution in the Chinese capital could pose problems for competitors, especially those with asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
Jul 1, 2008 - 9:10:46 AM
Children's Health
Rising Number of Severe Bone Infections, Health Complications in Children Linked to MRSA
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - DALLAS – June 30, 2008 – The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a major pathogen has led to more complications and longer hospital stays for children with acute bone infections, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:47:28 PM
Family Health
Mystery ER Season 2 Takes Viewers Behind the Curtain for Real-Life Medical Mysteries on Discovery Health
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Silver Spring, Md., -- This summer, Discovery Health brings gripping, real-life emergency room stories to television with MYSTERY ER, the popular medical reality program. Beginning Monday, July 14, at (8 PM ET/PT,) the second season premieres 10 suspense-packed episodes showcasing the life-threatening drama of patients with enigmatic symptoms and the doctors who race the clock to make a diagnosis -- and to save lives.
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:45:32 PM
Research
Stillbirths, Infant Deaths Lead to Anxiety, Guilt and Stress Among Obstetricians
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Nearly one in 10 obstetricians in a new study has considered giving up obstetric practice because of the emotional toll of stillbirths and infant deaths.
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:44:03 PM
Disease
Rapid Tests for Drug-resistant TB to be Available in Developing Countries
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Geneva -- People in low-resource countries who are ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis -- in two days, not the standard two to three months -- and appropriate treatment thanks to two new initiatives unveiled today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND).
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:42:28 PM
Pet Care
FDA Approves First and Only Single-Dose Antibiotic for Dogs and Cats
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK - Pfizer Animal Health has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Convenia® (cefovecin sodium), the first and only antibiotic for dogs and cats available in a single veterinarian-administered injectable dose.
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:40:56 PM
Family Health
Happy Moods Encourage Creativity
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - New research at Indiana University finds that people who are happy choose creative activities strategically in the interest of maintaining or improving their mood. Their unhappy counterparts want to improve their moods, too, but they have a bigger selection of activities -- not all creative -- from which to choose.
Jun 30, 2008 - 12:33:44 PM
Food and Nutrition
Welcome To The Global Dinner Table
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Americans are aware that TVs, cell phone, sneakers, and clothes are often made in China, But, many are unaware of how this globalization and out-sourcing of commerce is affecting their grocery cart? Did you know that China is the world’s largest grower of apples? Welcome to the new global dinner table.
Jun 29, 2008 - 5:16:38 PM
Commentary
Taming Hypertension - Conventional and Unconventional Wisdom
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - With increased longevity can come more health problems, of course, as we baby boomers are quite aware. One of the more sobering findings to come out of the Framingham Heart Study (in 2002) was that the residual lifetime risks for developing hypertension and stage 1 high blood pressure or higher (greater-than-or-equal to 140/90 mmHg regardless of treatment) were 90% in both 55- and 65-year-old participants.
Jun 29, 2008 - 5:15:20 PM
Lifestyle
Water, The Best Sport Drink!
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Water, it's the best sport drink, that is! It really is, although there are probably as many sport drinks and fancy waters today as there are sneaker styles. Water is a vital nutrient and we need to drink enough of it before, during and after exercise because it's not only crucial for our ability to perform, but later as we go through our day.
Jun 29, 2008 - 2:02:04 PM
Science
What Condition Could Stem Cells Help First?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The answer almost doesn't matter, because stem-cell research has become the latest casualty of a plague sweeping biomedical science: advances in the lab aren't reaching patients.
Jun 29, 2008 - 10:28:35 AM
Research
Relative Risks of Death
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - N.H.—If you're a 55 year-old male who has never smoked, how likely is it you will die from heart disease over the next 10 years? From prostate cancer; pneumonia? Dartmouth Medical School researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) have created charts to provide patients with information -- based on actual records -- of their risk of death.(Pictured:Drs. Steven Woloshin, Gilbert Welch,and Lisa Schwartz)
Jun 28, 2008 - 12:07:50 PM
Environment
The Promise of Hydrogen
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The jury is still out on whether hydrogen will ultimately be our environmental savior, replacing the fossil fuels responsible for global warming and various nagging forms of pollution. Two main hurdles stand in the way of mass production and widespread consumer adoption of hydrogen “fuel cell” vehicles: the still high cost of producing fuel cells, and the lack of a hydrogen refueling network.
Jun 28, 2008 - 9:56:14 AM
Environment
Plastics from Corn
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Polylactic acid (PLA), a plastic substitute made from fermented plant starch (usually corn) is quickly becoming a popular alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. As more and more countries and states follow the lead of China, Ireland, South Africa, Uganda and San Francisco in banning plastic grocery bags responsible for so much so-called “white pollution” around the world, PLA is poised to play a big role as a viable, biodegradable replacement.
Jun 28, 2008 - 9:52:01 AM
Research
Growth Hormone's Link to Starvation May be Clue to Increasing Life Span
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - DALLAS – June 27, 2008 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that starvation blocks the effects of growth hormone via a mechanism that may have implications in treating diabetes and extending life span.
Jun 27, 2008 - 6:13:31 PM
Family Health
The CoverMe Foundation Offers Free, Step-by-step Assistance to Connect Uninsured with Free or Reduced-cost Health Care
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - LARAMIE, Wyo. – The CoverMe Foundation (CMF), a national nonprofit organization, has announced it is offering free, step-by-step assistance to uninsured consumers in identifying and applying for health care coverage as part of its mission to improve the overall health of Americans throughout the United States.
Jun 27, 2008 - 5:59:06 PM
News
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National
UNMC Celebrates Opening of Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The latest jewel on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus -- the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education – opened today with a ceremony featuring top officials from the University of Nebraska, as well as local and state government leaders. Speakers included: Dave Heineman, Nebraska governor; Steven Wartman, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO, Association of Academic Health Centers; Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey; Chuck Hassebrook, chairman, University of Nebraska Board of Regents; and James B. Milliken, president, University of Nebraska.
Jun 27, 2008 - 5:27:31 PM
Research
Migraine “Gun” Zaps Pain With The Touch of Button
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio - There are some 30 million Americans who suffer from migraine headaches.* Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center have unveiled a new device that can control the pain of migraine headaches with no drugs, no injections, and no side effects. In fact this device is as easy as touching a button.
Jun 27, 2008 - 5:19:51 PM
Research
Taming, Then Aiming, Viruses At Brain Tumors
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio - It may sound like the plot of a medical drama, but this approach to fighting cancer is real. Scientists say they may someday be able to battle brain cancer, while using a virus to do it. Early results from the lab are promising.
Jun 27, 2008 - 5:15:00 PM
Education
Training Surgeons From The Video Game Generation
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio) - The first generation of kids who grew up playing video games aren’t kids anymore. Today, they’re the backbone of the American workforce, and all that time playing games as kids, may be helping them now as adults. In fact, researchers hope to use computer animation to not only help train the next generation of surgeons, but to see how good they can really be.
Jun 27, 2008 - 5:04:39 PM
News
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National
Baseball Players' Alleged Steroid Use May Have Provided Performance Advantage
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ATLANTA -- Did steroid use enhance the performance of the "Mitchell 89?" According to Emory University biostatisticians, the major league batters accused of doping appeared to have an advantage over their non-doping peers. The researcher's findings were presented today at the Society for American Baseball Research meeting in Cleveland.
Jun 27, 2008 - 4:16:45 PM
Family Health
Treatment for Cigarette, Alcohol & Drug Use During Pregnancy Dramatically Improves Outcomes for Mom and Baby
(HealthNewsDigest.com) Oakland, Calif. – Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of Perinatology.
Jun 27, 2008 - 12:15:25 PM
New Product
Latest Trends in Liquid Nutrition
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The thoroughly researched liquid dietary supplements from AgroLabs are specifically targeted to provide maximum health benefits to consumers.
Jun 27, 2008 - 11:56:38 AM
New Product
Superfruit Juices
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Austin, TX – Listening to the growing demands from health conscious consumers looking for products that making healthful eating convenient, nationally known brand Genesis Today has launched BOOST Juices, a line of refrigerated, ready to drink superfruit juices. Boost is available at HEB stores across Texas and online at www.genesisboost.com. They are gradually being introduced in other markets across the U.S. this year.
Jun 27, 2008 - 11:04:04 AM
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