Category Archives: Health

Tasers may provoke deadly heart problems, study finds

By doris | Published: May 2, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) Tasers may provoke heart problems in the people it strikes, according to a new study from the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. VIDEO: Taser: An officer’s weapon of choice The study of electronic control devices (ECDs) – often known as Tasers – was conducted by Dr. Douglas P. Zipes, [...]

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Once-conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina thrive six months after operation

By doris | Published: May 1, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) On November 1, 2011, when they were two years old, conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco underwent separation surgery at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. Conjoined twins undergo separation surgery in Calif.PICTURES: Conjoined twins: 40 amazing photos (GRAPHIC IMAGES)PICTURES: Formerly conjoined Sabuco twins: How [...]

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New beef brouhaha: Should you be grossed out by ‘meat glue?’

By doris | Published: April 30, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Still reeling from the specter of “pink slime,” beef industry officials on Friday fought off another culinary creep-out: “meat glue.” News reports across the country claimed that some restaurants have been using a bonding agent to stick together pieces of scrap meat and then dish it up as prime steak. “This [...]

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Debt Collector Is Faulted for Tough Tactics in Hospitals

By doris | Published: April 28, 2012

Full Story at NYTimes.com Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside. This and other aggressive tactics by one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debts, Accretive Health, were revealed on Tuesday by the Minnesota attorney general, raising concerns [...]

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200 now sick in salmonella sushi outbreak

By doris | Published: April 27, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnb.msn.com At least 200 people in 21 states and Washington, D.C., now have been sickened by raw scraped tuna contaminated with not one but two rare strains of salmonella, government health officials reported Thursday. Tainted tuna scraped from the backbone of the fish has been linked not only to the salmonella Bareilly [...]

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Mad cow disease in California: Should humans be worried?

By doris | Published: April 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) A cow’s positive test for mad cow disease has prompted health officials to alert a concerned public that humans are not at risk for contracting the deadly human variant of the disease. VIDEO: Mad cow disease discovered in Calif.New case of mad cow disease discovered in California; First since [...]

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Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons

By doris | Published: April 23, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (MoneyWatch) How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. [...]

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7 Healthy Mother’s Day Gifts

By doris | Published: April 22, 2012

Full Story at Health.com This Mother’s Day, skip the flowers and give your mom something she really needs—the gift of good health. No, you don’t have to buy her a treadmill. There are many other things you can do to give your mom a boost in terms of her physical (or mental) well-being. Most moms [...]

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Seven Proven Treatments for Arthritis Pain

By doris | Published: March 28, 2012

Full Story at BetterMedicine.com Arthritis is a general term for more than 100 rheumatic diseases. More than 46 million Americans reported having diagnosed arthritis or chronic joint symptoms in a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Arthritis can affect the joints, muscles, connective tissues, skin and organs. The most obvious [...]

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FDA: Dissolvable tobacco better for health, but could lead to more users

By doris | Published: March 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) A Food and Drug Administration scientific advisory panel says dissolvable tobacco products could reduce health risks compared with smoking cigarettes. But the agency also warned the products have the potential to increase the overall number of tobacco users. Tobacco use claimed 6 million lives in 2011, report showsPICTURES: Shocking ads: [...]

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Girl’s best friend is dog who carries her oxygen

By doris | Published: March 21, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com Two years ago Aaron and Debbie Knobloch learned that their baby daughter Alida was suffering from a rare lung disease and that she would need a portable oxygen tank to help her breathe. The good news was that the oxygen tank would make their little girl healthy. The bad news was [...]

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Do ice baths really prevent muscle aches?

By doris | Published: March 15, 2012

Full Story atmsnbc.com Taking a dip in a tub of cold water after exercising may prevent muscle soreness, but a new look at past research says little is known about its side effects or even how long to stay in the water. In general, the researchers said there is very little quality research on the [...]

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Red Meat Tied to Increased Mortality Risk

By doris | Published: March 12, 2012

Full Story at ABC News.go.com Eating a single serving of red meat per day may raise the risk of early death, a new study found. The study, which followed more than 120,000 American men and women, linked daily consumption of unprocessed red meat with a 13 percent increase in mortality risk. A daily serving of [...]

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‘Pink slime’ panic grows online: Are we overreacting?

By doris | Published: March 10, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Updated March 9: An online petition urging the government to stop the use of “pink slime” — the scrape and waste meat products that are treated with ammonium-hydroxide — in school food has collected almost 20,000 signatures over the last several days. After reports that school districts around the country were [...]

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3-year-old girl recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets

By doris | Published: March 5, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.news.com A 3-year-old with curious eating habits is recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets. KPTV reports that after she ate them, the magnets formed a dangerous ring inside Payton Bushnell’s digestive track, snapping her intestines together and ripping holes in both her small intestine and stomach. “They saw a circle had formed [...]

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Stories of survival emerge from tornado victims

By doris | Published: March 4, 2012

Full Story at  news.Yahoo.com EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. (AP) — The stories from tornado survivors across the South and Midwest were remarkable: schoolchildren took cover under desks, people hunkered down in a church basement or hid out in a bank vault. One family even piled on top of one another for protection. One of the most [...]

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Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments

By doris | Published: March 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The moment 18-year-old Army Pvt. Tim Josephs arrived at Edgewood Arsenal in 1968, he knew there was something different about the place. “It just did not look like a military base, more like a hospital,” recalled Josephs, a Pittsburgh native. Josephs had volunteered for a two-month assignment at Edgewood, [...]

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Diabetes, memory loss warnings added to statins

By doris | Published: February 29, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug administration announced the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such [...]

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Oranges, grapefruits lower women’s stroke risk

By doris | Published: February 26, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com A diet rich in citrus fruits, such as oranges and grapefruits, may reduce women’s risk of stroke, a new study says. In the study, women who ate the most citrus fruit had a 19 percent lower risk of having an ischemic stroke than women who ate the least. In an ischemic [...]

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Paula Deen on diabetes backlash: Some ‘were kinda mean about it’

By doris | Published: February 25, 2012

Full Story at Bites.today.msnbc.com When Paula Deen revealed to Al Roker that she had type-2 diabetes in January, response from the public was fast, furious and largely negative. Now, just over a month later, Deen says that she was taken aback by the reaction. “I think it was from a few people that were kinda [...]

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