Outdoor workouts a greener alternative to gym
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Walk into any gym and you're going to see quite a bit of
energy burned -- the energy it takes to keep all that equipment running. So some gyms and exercise enthusiasts are
putting a greener spin on working out, as CBS station KYW-TV reports. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Who: mental health stigma unfair
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- People with mental health problems should no longer be denied treatment because of cultural stigmas, World Health Organization officials said in Switzerland. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Time management improves quality of life
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ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Better time management has health benefits such as less stress, a U.S. newsletter advises. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Official: russia has no melamine victims
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MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Russian residents have avoided illness by not consuming Chinese milk products containing the substance melamine, a Russian official says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tainted milk prompts new chinese standards
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BEIJING, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Chinese officials say they have introduced a new set of quality control standards regarding dairy products because of a scandal over melamine tainted milk. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Need some stress relief? try these
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News of the financial markets have you down? Looking for a little stress relief? We collected a few online stress relievers that just may be worth wasting your time on. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Keeping herpes infection in check
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Herpes simplex virus type I can cause bouts of cold sores, blindness and potentially lethal encephalitis when it reawakens from a quiescent state in the nerve cells it infects. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health herpes herpes virus infections Source Type: news
Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food
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Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health intestines toxins Source Type: news
Bird flu survival tied to hands-on therapy
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Chances of surviving a deadly avian flu pandemic would likely increase with hands-on therapy, even without antiviral drugs, a U.S. health newsletter says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New sushi guides address sustainability
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Mackerel is in but octopus is out. And bluefin tuna, known as the king of sushi for its fatty belly meat, is a definite no-no. These tips and others on ocean-friendly sushi are now available in pocket guides that are being published this month by three conservation groups. The sustainability guides are the first specifically for sushi, listing fish by their Japanese and English names. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Only some web sites provide patients with reliable information before having operation
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New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows unsponsored and professional society Web sites provide significantly higher quality information about common elective surgical procedures compared with commercially sponsored Web sites. In addition, the study authors say that providing patients with technical search terms may increase the likelihood of obtaining reliable surgical information on the Web. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health Online health information Source Type: news
Stroke-prevention surgery safe in growing 80-plus population
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New research published in the October issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the current opinion that patients in their eighties, who are often deemed "high-risk" due to their advanced age, should not undergo carotid endarterectomy – a stroke-preventing surgical procedure that clears blockages from the neck's carotid arteries. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health stroke prevention strokes Source Type: news
Males are more likely to contract pulmonary tuberculosis
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A new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis has been identified by Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) researchers and their collaborators in The Netherlands, Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health pulmonary tuberculosis Source Type: news
Drug candidate slows age-related macular degeneration
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Research results from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine show that the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is markedly slowed in new laboratory-engineered mice when they received treatments of retinylamine, a trial drug that has been tested in a medical school lab. AMD is a leading cause of vision loss in Americans 60 years of age and older. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health age-related macular degeneration Source Type: news
Potential non-invasive optical detection of pancreatic cancer
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At the University of Michigan, a multidisciplinary team of researchers is investigating whether tissue optical spectroscopy can be employed for early cancer detection in the pancreas during minimally-invasive endoscopic diagnostic procedures. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer diagnosis Source Type: news
Optics of alzheimer's disease
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One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of plaques made of protein aggregates in the brain tissue. There is still considerable debate among scientists as to whether these plaques are the cause of the neuronal death that occurs in Alzheimer’s or just a by-product of the disease, however. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health Alzheimer’s disease brain tissues Source Type: news
New technique for mapping blood supply in retina increases safety
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Anyone who has ever been examined for eye disease involving blood flow in the retinal capillaries—as people with diabetes routinely are to assess vision loss associated with their disease— remembers the test: the injection, the bright lights, the discomfort. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health Eye disease retinal disease Source Type: news
New look at mini-strokes
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Like a burning fire, the brain is in constant need of oxygen, and when a blood vessel is blocked during a stroke, part of the brain becomes starved of oxygen and nutrients. When this happens, neurons in that part of the brain die off, leading to permanent loss of function in the parts of the body those neurons serve. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health blood vessels stroke Source Type: news
Children with cystic fibrosis not well covered by guidelines for vitamin d needs
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Existing recommendations for treating vitamin D deficiency in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are too low to cover the serious need, leaving most at high risk for bone loss and rickets, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health child health cystic fibrosis vitamin D Source Type: news
Steroid treatment offers no benefit in preemies
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Results of a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center challenge the longstanding practice of treating premature babies with hydrocortisone, a steroid believed to fight inflammation and prevent lung disease. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health hydrocortisone lung disease premature babies Source Type: news
Onions lower blood pressure, cholesterol
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GREELEY, Colo., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Onions are known for flavor, but they are also healthy for you, says the National Onion Association. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dr. george palade dies at 95; uc san diego nobel laureate
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Dr. George Palade, the UC San Diego Nobel laureate whose work isolating, imaging and identifying the function of minute organelles within cells prompted the Nobel committee to label him and his co-winners the fathers of cell biology, died Tuesday at his home in Del Mar, Calif., after a long illness. He was 95. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, u.s. says
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The CDC calls the rate 'very good' for a new vaccine such as Gardasil. Earlier data show, however, that only about 1% of Latina teens have received it.
About a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exercise reduces pregnancy complications
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EAST LANSING, Mich., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Exercise -- long thought a no-no during pregnancy -- may actually reduce the risk of complications, a U.S. professor says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists develop safer test for down syndrome
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Scientists have developed a safer, less invasive test to detect chromosomal disorders such as Down Syndrome in unborn babies. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
1 in 4 u.s. teen girls got cervical cancer shot
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One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively
new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said
Thursday. The figures represent the government's first
substantial study of vaccination rates for the Gardasil vaccine — Merck
& Co.'s heavily advertised, three-shot series that targets the
sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
George palade, nobel winner for work inspiring modern cell biology, dies at 95
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Dr. Palade’s discoveries about the intricate inner workings of cells were useful in understanding protein production, the basis of the modern biotechnology industry. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ANDREW POLLACK Tags: Nobel Prizes Biology and Biochemistry Deaths (Obituaries) Palade, George E. Source Type: news
Nsaids linked to lower breast cancer risk
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Regular use of anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce breast cancer risk, Canadian and Spanish researchers say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Baby boomers have modest retirement plans
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LONDON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Baby boomers, who famously thought in the '60s that anyone over age 30 was old, don't plan to exert themselves much in retirement, British researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Steroid treatment offers no benefit in preemies
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Results of a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center challenge the longstanding practice of treating premature babies with hydrocortisone, a steroid believed to fight inflammation and prevent lung disease. The scientists observed that such therapy offers little or no benefit and that low cortisol levels are not even necessarily harmful. High cortisol levels, conversely, appeared to increase the risk of dangerous bleeding in the brain and require that babies be monitored aggressively to ward off life-threatening complications, as per the study reported in the recent issue of Pediatrics........ (Source: Medi...
Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info
Communication between neurons and muscle cells
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You can't raise a finger without your brain directing muscle cells, and researchers have figured out another reason that commonly works so well. A neuron sends a message, or neurotransmitter, to the muscle cell to tell it what to do. To get the message, the receiving cell must have a receptor. Oddly, the unstable protein rapsyn is responsible for anchoring the receptor so it's properly positioned to catch the message........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info
A low-cholesterol diet leaves a bitter taste in the gut
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One role for the proteins on the tongue that sense bitter tasting substances, type 2 taste receptors (T2Rs), is to limit ingestion of these substances, as a large number of natural bitter compounds are known to be toxic. T2Rs are also found in the gut, and it has been suggested that there they have a similar role to their function in the mouth (i.e., they might limit intestinal toxin absorption). Data to support this idea has now been generated in mice by Timothy Osborne and his colleagues, at the University of California, Irvine........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info
Nation?s teen vaccination coverage increasing, but below 2010 goals
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
A debilitating disease that is often unknown
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Mimi Winsberg, a triathlete who once sustained herself with energy bars and pasta, found she had celiac disease, which can only be treated with a gluten-free diet. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ANNA SEATON HUNTINGTON Tags: Celiac Disease Gluten Athletics and Sports Source Type: news
Networking sites give patients a lifeline
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When Susannah Reid learned she hadd advanced cancer, a stranger on a Web site helped get her the help she needed. In this week's Empowered Patient, CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen tells you the best social networking sites on the Internet for finding people who hold the answers to your health questions. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Law equalizes coverage for mental, physical care
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An estimated 113 million Americans, including hundreds of thousands in the Washington region, will receive better insurance coverage for their mental health and substance abuse problems because of landmark legislation that for the first time requires mental and physical illnesses to be treated... (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health)
Source: washingtonpost.com - Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chris L. Jenkins Tags: Law Equalizes Coverage For Mental, Physical Care Washington, DC Virginia American Psychological Association Maryland Atlanta Carol Ulrich Centreville Doug Walter George W. Bush Jackie Dantonio Karen Ignagni Laurel Stine Source Type: news
Revamped hub gives returning warriors a taste of home
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They come by the dozen, bandaged and shellshocked, touching down on U.S. soil for the first time since they left home for war. They're greeted by doctors and nurses, who tend to their wounds, and Red Cross volunteers who tell them there's root beer in the fridge and chicken for dinner. (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health)
Source: washingtonpost.com - Health - October 10, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christian Davenport Tags: Revamped Hub Gives Returning Warriors Taste of Home Tim Sumner Afghanistan International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Iraq United States Operation Enduring Freedom Bethesda Christopher Frost Gar Graham Source Type: news
Kids' asthma diagnosis can be a challenge
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INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The diagnosis of asthma in a young child may be more challenging to pediatricians than previously appreciated, U.S. researchers suggest. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Malaysia may impose quarantine after dengue fever outbreak
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Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia is considering imposing a quarantine
in a small northern town in the state of Perak (Source: Monsters and Critics Health News)
Source: Monsters and Critics Health News - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Report warns of great lakes perfect storm
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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A researcher in Wisconsin warns that climate change may put Great Lakes' water quality at risk. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
National briefing | midwest: ohio: obesity fails to stay an execution
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A federal appeals court and the Ohio Supreme Court have rejected arguments that a death row inmate is too obese to die by lethal injection. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tags: Capital Punishment Obesity Ohio Prisons and Prisoners Source Type: news
National briefing | new england: massachusetts: contraceptives at school
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The Gloucester school district voted to allow birth control pills and condoms to be made available at the town’s high school, which had at least 18 pregnant students last school year. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By KATIE ZEZIMA Tags: Education and Schools Birth Control and Family Planning Massachusetts Source Type: news
Herb may help curb bad breath
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BUSAITEEN, Bahrain, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A researcher from Bahrain says a review of mouthwash studies found a mouth rinse containing extract of Garcinia, an herbal remedy, reduced bad breath levels. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cancer vaccine used by 25% of girls 13 to 17
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The figures represent the government’s first substantial study of vaccination rates for Gardasil, a vaccine against a virus responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tags: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Gardasil (Vaccine) Surveys and Series Medicine and Health Vaccination and Immunization Merck & Company Inc Women Source Type: news
Chemotherapy and sex: is sexual activity ok during treatment?
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Chemotherapy and sex aren't mutually exclusive, as long as you're feeling up to it.
Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com (Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist)
Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Concerned about your mental health? get depression screening
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Depression can be treated. If you have any concerns about yourself or a loved one, get depression screening.
Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com (Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed)
Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wiley-blackwell announces launch of asia-pacific psychiatry
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Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced that it will be publishing a new psychiatry journal titled Asia-Pacific Psychiatry focused on the Asia and Pacific Rim region. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: aboey Tags: Health Asia Pacific mental health psychiatry wiley Source Type: news
New procedure to correct sagging breasts
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CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. plastic surgeons say they have developed a procedure for women who want to restore sagging breasts by lifting them to a more natural shape. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why pizza may cause women pain, urination
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CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- For some 1 million U.S. women enjoying that piece of pizza has painful consequences -- a chronic bladder condition, U.S. researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Repossession 'is mental threat'
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House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
