Category Archives: Health

Students to see healthier school lunches under new USDA rules

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at usnews.msnbc.msn.com Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity. “Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step in building [...]

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Americans hit the brakes on health care spending

By doris | Published: January 10, 2012

Full Story at America hits the brakes on health care spending – Health – Health care – msnbc.com WASHINGTON — U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment and the loss of private health insurance forced many Americans to delay or forego medical treatment, government officials said on Monday. [...]

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Good News at Last: Chocolate Is Good for You! Maybe

By doris | Published: October 30, 2011

Full Story at The Atlantic.com In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the British Medical Journal offers some cheery news. A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on chocolate and health concludes that the flavonol antioxidants in chocolate reduce the risk for cardiometabolic disorders such as heart disease and stroke–by a whopping one-third. As the investigators [...]

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Cantaloupe illnesses and deaths expected to rise

By doris | Published: September 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in coming weeks. So far, the outbreak has caused at least 72 illnesses — including up to 16 deaths — in 18 states, making it the deadliest [...]

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Postal Service may default on a $5.5 billion trust fund payment

By doris | Published: September 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Postal Service does not have the money to meet an obligation to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month, but if there’s a default, officials promise no interruption in the mail, the payroll or payments to suppliers. Commenting in [...]

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Migraines: More than just a headache

By doris | Published: July 24, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When Alden Waters gets migraines, she feels as if her head is being squeezed into a vise. Depending on what she has eaten, she may vomit. The headache takes longer to go away if she can’t rest and goes to teach her math classes anyway. “It’s rare, but it [...]

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Lawsuit ties tainted wipes to twin’s brain damage

By doris | Published: July 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com For nearly four years, a bacterial infection that left a Seattle-area newborn with severe brain damage while his twin brother developed normally has remained a medical mystery, traumatizing his family and stumping local and national disease experts. Myles Massey, now 3, can’t speak or walk, must be fed through a stomach [...]

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Build safer nuclear plants? We have the power

By doris | Published: July 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in March, the appetite for new nuclear power plants slipped to post-Chernobyl lows. Regulators from Italy to Switzerland to Texas moved to stop pending nuclear-power projects, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) began to re-evaluate the safety of all domestic plants. Yet nuclear [...]

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Appeals court upholds Obama health care law

By doris | Published: June 29, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com Today’s ruling by a federal appeals court in Ohio, upholding the Obama health care law, marks the first time a Republican-appointed judge has found the most controversial part of the law constitutional. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was 2-1 on the “individual [...]

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Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of [...]

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Chantix smoking pill can raise heart risk, FDA warns

By doris | Published: June 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s stop-smoking drug Chantix can lead to a small increase in cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks for patients who already have cardiovascular disease, U.S. drug regulators said on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration is changing the label for Chantix after reviewing the results of a clinical trial. [...]

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Giffords released from Houston hospital

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reached a major milestone in her recovery Wednesday when she was discharged from a Houston hospital where she has spent the past five months recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Doctors treating the Arizona congresswoman at TIRR Memorial Hermann said her cognitive abilities [...]

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E. coli death toll rises to 31; sprouts traced to trash in home

By doris | Published: June 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Berlin (CNN) — Four more deaths have been confirmed by German health officials Friday bringing the total number of European deaths from an E. coli outbreak to 31. All but one were in Germany. According to German health authorities the bacteria has been traced to sprouts found in a North Rhine-Westphalia [...]

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Paralyzed toddler can now move his legs

By doris | Published: June 10, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Izaiah Wallis lies on his back, machine tubes hooked to his small body, legs stretched out and toes curled. A white sheet of paper hangs on an aquarium-themed painted wall behind his bed, bearing a request written on his behalf by his grandmother. “If you love me, please don’t kiss me,” [...]

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‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian is dead at 83

By doris | Published: June 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world’s medical ethics stage, died early Friday, according to a spokesman with Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 83. The assisted-suicide advocate had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment, his attorney had said. [...]

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A guide to headache remedies

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Real Simple) — Head hurts? Try one of these doctor-approved pain relievers. Relaxation techniques Best for: Soothing stress before a headache starts. How they work: Simple deep breathing and stretching (neck and shoulder rolls, in particular) relax tense muscles that trigger headaches, says Sheena Aurora, M.D., the director of the Swedish [...]

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Boy, 9, uses CPR to save 2-year-old sister

By doris | Published: April 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Tristin Saghin might only be 9 years old, but he knew just what to do after his 2-year-old sister was found floating in her grandmother’s swimming pool unconscious Sunday. “I went running outside … and I did CPR on her,” the boy told affiliate KNXV in Mesa, Arizona.

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The simple way to ease stress and anxiety

By doris | Published: April 16, 2011

Full Story at aralifestyle.com (ARA) – Do you ever feel down, stressed or anxious? Millions of Americans struggle with stress, anxiety or mood problems. They can wear and tear on your body, leaving you feeling tired, drained and empty inside. Over time stress and anxiety can build causing you to be less productive, anxious, tense [...]

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Johnson & Johnson settles U.S. bribery charges

By doris | Published: April 9, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Johnson & Johnson with bribing doctors in several countries to prescribe its drugs and medical devices. The company has agreed to pay $70 million to settle the charges, without admitting or denying the allegations.

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7 tons of ground beef recalled due to possible E. coli

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Kansas company has recalled more than 14,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination, federal authorities have announced. The recalled meat, sold in large packages and distributed in numerous states, comes from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kansas. Some 14,158 pounds of beef, [...]

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