Friday, November 20, 2009
Health
WASHINGTON - Obesity begone! Americans are lacing up athletic shoes and signing up to run in '5Ks', 10-milers and even marathons in record numbers.
In a country often lampooned as populated with obese soda-swilling TV junkies, some 9.2 million people completed a certified foot race in the United States in 2008, up from 3.7 million in 1987.
Of those, 425,000 completed a marathon -- 26.2 miles, or 42.2 kilometers -- and 715,000 ran a half-marathon, according to Running USA, a non-profit group th...
WASHINGTON - Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests.
Pushing back the age of the first screening would help avoid giving teen girls unnecessary treatment, which can have "economic, emotional and future childbearing implications," according to the guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
ACOG previo...
WASHINGTON - Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs reported on Monday.
Allen, 56, one of the wealthiest men in the world, has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, CNET News and other technology news sites said, quoting a letter from Allen's sister, Jody Allen.
"He received the diagnosis early this month and has begun chemotherapy," Jody Allen said in the letter to employees of her brother's company, Vulc...
WASHINGTON - US health authorities issued guidelines Monday questioned the benefit of annual screening for breast cancer in women aged 40-49 and recommended only biennial mammograms for women over 50.
In an update of its 2002 recommendations, the US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) said "the decision to start regular, biennial screening mammography before the age of 50 years should be an individual one."
After examining data from 600,830 women who underwent routine mammographs betwee...
WASHINGTON - With US health care reform at a critical stage, non-generic prescription drug prices have risen sharply in the past year even as other consumer prices generally eased.
The American Association of Retired People (AARP) found in a study released on Monday that prices for brand name prescription drug have shot up 9.3 percent since October 2008.
That was considerably greater than the average increase over the past seven years -- 5.8 to 8.3 percent a year -- even though the US econ...
Lower your cholesterol
While our own body (our liver) produces cholesterol on its own, the greater bulk of cholesterol in our blood comes from the food we eat. An elevated cholesterol level, which thickens our blood and causes hardening of the arteries that eventually plug the arteries, is implicated in the development of high blood pressure, arterial blockages in the abdomen and legs, heart attack, and stroke.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gem P. Daus, M.A. has been named as the first executive director of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC).
Daus will lead the organization and work to implement a strategic plan that secures the NCIHC as the expert national resource on language access issues in health care. Daus’s presence will provide an important and unique opportunity to work more closely with NCIHC members and stakeholders in meeti...
Tilapia was in the news lately as a food item that contains “higher levels of potentially detrimental long-chain Omega-6 fatty acids than 80-percent-lean hamburger, doughnuts and even pork bacon.” The study was reported in the “Journal of the American Dietetic Association.”
In biblical times, tilapia was popularly called St. Peter’s fish because reportedly, he caught one with a coin i...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the issues of Hepatitis B, and healthcare reform at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco’s Chinatown on October 31st 2009. The event was organized by the Fang family, who is well known in the Chinese community in San Francisco.
Among the guests of honor who attended the event were Congresswoman Jackie Speier, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chu, and California Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. Ma was chronic...
The advent of the computer and cyberspace technology has led to the explosion of, and instant access to, seemingly endless volumes of information in the various fields of human endeavor, including in medicine, via the internet.
This modern “virtual library” on the Web, accessible to practically anyone, any place, in the world where the interne...
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