Arnot Health and New York Sport & Fitness will sponsor a “Health Heart, Healthy Body” open house from 9 a.m. – noon Saturday at the fitness facility, 134 W. Water St., Elmira.
The event will offer free body fat analysis and screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose. Those attending also can complete a free wellness profile and talk to Arnot Health representatives about various health issues.
New York Sport & Fitness also will conduct Read the rest of this entry »

Galson added that the tool would “serve as a platform for developing new risk-assessment software that will help in screening and prevention of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other conditions.”
The concept of an easy-to-construct and simple-to-share medical history document may catch on with the public. According to a source in the Federal Office of Public Health and Science, the original tool — the one released in 2004 — was downloaded about Read the rest of this entry »

BETHEL — A change in who delivers paramedic service in town and who will pay for it is stirring controversy.
Starting Oct. 1, Bethel will have its own paramedic on duty 24/7 instead of sharing one with Redding, as it has for many years.
The price for the service will rise, but Bethel says it can recoup the extra amount by billing for paramedic service, something it does not now do.
Bethel’s decision to have its own paramedic is endorsed by Read the rest of this entry »

I disagree with section 5 in the Dec. 14 Perspective article, “Dose of Reality,” that large is better than small. The reverse is more realistic in today’s economy for no future health plan will improve the quality of health care in America.
As my chief of service said to me on Thanksgiving Day 1963, “Medicine has had its day.”
As he forecasted and is obvious to all, the quality of health care in America has been hemorrhaging ever since.
It makes Read the rest of this entry »

OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR) announced today that the United
States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its request for
12-month shelf life from the date of manufacture for its OraQuick
Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test.
test, and represents a six-month increase in shelf life versus
current product available on the market. The Company anticipates having
the enhanced product available for delivery starting in March 2009.
product
represents Read the rest of this entry »

Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare
sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming
healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates
one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation’s most
comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information.
A subsidiary operates one of the nation’s largest Read the rest of this entry »

Getting a good night’s sleep might not cure the common cold, but new research hints it could prevent one.
People who averaged less than seven hours of sleep a night were about three times more likely to develop cold symptoms than others who got eight or more hours of sleep, Pittsburgh researchers report in the
Others who had a hard time falling asleep or woke up in the middle of the night fared even worse: Their chances of coming down with a cold Read the rest of this entry »

Senate Bill 316: Requires insurance coverage for routine costs of care to continue when a person participates in a potentially life-saving medical research trial.
House Bill 2343 and Senate Bill 210: Hold accountable all rapists who prey on victims who are mentally incapacitated because of extreme levels of intoxication.
House Bill 2367: Restricts the use of dangerous chemicals prevalent in children's products, in particular BPA and phthalates.
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Safer, More Reliable Electroshock Weapons
Electroshock weapons – such as stun guns and other similar devices that temporarily incapacitate a person by delivering a high-voltage, low-current electric shock – have helped law enforcement officers safely subdue dangerous or violent persons for years. The use of these weapons has been challenged, however, by claims that they may have contributed to more than 150 deaths in the United States since 2001. Read the rest of this entry »

The research focused on Syt IV, a maverick member of the synaptotagmin family of 17 proteins, which are present in both mice and humans. Synaptotagmins are usually embedded in the membranes of small sacs, or vesicles, filled with neurotransmitters and hormones within nerve terminals. When an electrical impulse from one cell reaches a nerve terminal, it triggers the release of calcium, which in turn triggers the spilling out of the vesicle's contents Read the rest of this entry »