Category Archives: Health

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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Rodney King beating 20 years later: Can’t we all just get along?

By doris | Published: March 3, 2011

Full Story at thegrio.com This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beating, an incident which shone the spotlight on police brutality and race relations in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. On March 3, 1991, King — who was driving with two of his friends in his white Hyundai — was [...]

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Sheriff: Three adopted children suffered horrific abuse

By doris | Published: February 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Three adopted children who allegedly suffered burns and were forced to eat pet food lived in “inhumane conditions” and might never fully recover, an Oklahoma sheriff said Thursday. “They have been raised worse than dogs,” Canadian County Sheriff Randall Edwards told CNN of the three malnourished juveniles, who are [...]

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ICE agent killed, another injured in Mexico shooting

By doris | Published: February 15, 2011

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com [Updated at 8:14 p.m.] One of two American immigration and customs officers who were shot in Mexico on Tuesday has died, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. The two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents were shot while driving between Monterrey and Mexico City on Tuesday afternoon by unidentified [...]

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Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms

By doris | Published: February 14, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CONCORD, N.H. – Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals — one in San Francisco and one in Seattle — still offer it. But interest in [...]

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Three Philadelphia priests, teacher charged with sexually abusing boys

By doris | Published: February 10, 2011

Full Story at religion.Blogs.CNN.com Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN) – Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city’s district attorney’s office said. CNN Senior [...]

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Police question woman in buttocks injection death

By doris | Published: February 9, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com PHILADELPHIA — Police questioned a New Jersey woman and were seeking a second woman for questioning in the case of a London woman who died after receiving cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport. Investigators issued a search warrant at the Bergen County, N.J., home of [...]

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Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul

By doris | Published: January 31, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com PENSACOLA, Fla. – A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people’s rights by forcing them to buy [...]

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Breast implants may cause rare cancer

By doris | Published: January 26, 2011

Full Story at pagiingdrgupta.blogs.CNN.com The Food and Drug Administration says it has found a possible link between breast implants and a very rare type of cancer. After reviewing data published between 1997 and 2010, the agency determined people with both saline and silicone gel-filled implants have a small but significant risk of anaplastic large cell [...]

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Oldest elephant in N. America dies at 71

By doris | Published: January 19, 2011

Full Story at news.blogs.cnn.com Taj, an Asian elephant who could hold a paintbrush to create art on canvas, has died at age 71, her keepers announced. “As the oldest elephant in North America, we mourn the loss of this gentle soul who touched millions, but we also celebrate an extraordinary life,” Six Flags Discovery Kingdom [...]

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9-year-old shooting victim’s organs help save child

By doris | Published: January 15, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com An organ donation from the 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim has saved the life of a child in Boston, according to media reports. Christina Taylor Green was one of six people killed in the shooting rampage that targeted U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords outside a Safeway store outside of Tucson. Giffords, 40, remained in [...]

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Johnson & Johnson recalls 45 million more products

By doris | Published: January 14, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil division announced a recall of certain Tylenol brand products Friday after a review of cleaning procedures at a plant in Fort Washington, Pa. Conducted in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration, the recall covers certain lots of Tylenol 8 Hour, Tylenol Arthritis [...]

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Lucky! Woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

By doris | Published: January 12, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com MERIDIAN, Idaho — Tyler Ashton Marx’s lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both. The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho. Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched [...]

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Jailed Mississippi sisters freed for kidney donation

By doris | Published: January 7, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After 16 years behind bars in Mississippi, two sisters were released Friday on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other. Gov. Haley Barbour suspended the sentences of Gladys Scott, 36, and Jamie Scott, 38, who were serving life sentences for armed robbery. Gladys agreed to donate [...]

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Company recalls ground beef over E. coli fears

By doris | Published: December 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A California company has recalled 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef over fears of E. coli contamination. First Class Foods Inc. of Hawthorne said recalled packages were produced on December 7 and December 16. They have “EST. 18895″ printed on them, federal officials said. Products were shipped to California, [...]

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CDC: Salmonella outbreak spreads to 16 states

By doris | Published: December 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ATLANTA — An outbreak of salmonella that was tied to tainted alfalfa sprouts has grown to at least 94 cases in 16 states. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said the case count had risen from 89 cases in 15 states in the past week, with California [...]

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Mother gives hours-old baby girl to California firefighters

By doris | Published: December 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Thank God for that law to help the children. I think all states should have that law, maybe we would not have babies in trash cans. (CNN) — A 27-year-old mother surrendered her baby girl to firefighters in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, authorities said Saturday. She told firefighters at Fire [...]

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92-Year-Old Woman Finishes Marathon

By doris | Published: December 14, 2010

Full Story at KITV.com HONOLULU — Gladys “Glady” Burrill, 92, the oldest woman to enter the Honolulu Marathon finished the race Sunday in 9 hours, 53 minutes and 16 seconds. Burrill’s finish time was about an hour short of the world record for her age group (90-94). The record time for that group is 8 [...]

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