WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Proponents of healthcare reform may have found their ally in U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, but the real campaigning has just begun.
While all eyes are on the president’s transition team as it begins evaluating the nation’s struggling economy and two wars, consumer advocates, union groups and others are determined to keep affordable healthcare front and center.
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Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy linked to life-threatening cardiovascular disease.
The researchers analyzed data on more than 11 million women who gave birth in Denmark from 1978 to 2007. Among women with preeclampsia, the risks of subsequent hypertension were compounded with each pregnancy.
The findings were presented Thursday at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting in San Diego.
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The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren’t helpful in protecting users against heart disease.
“At least in the context of two very common outcomes — cardioprotection and chemoprevention — we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Howard Sesso, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Read the rest of this entry »

According to Christian Island health manager Valerie Monague, about 200 of the island’s population of 700 people are 55 and older. That means an aging population with medical needs.
She is also trying to replace a doctor at a time when the whole of North Simcoe is experiencing an acute doctor shortage.
Monague said she has been dealing with this issue for the past two months, and now time is running out.
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September 12, 2008 04:45 am
Connecting Young Moms Education/Support Group, conducted by the Social Work Department at Beverly Hospital, meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Women’s Health and Medical Arts Building, Beverly Hospital campus. Free. Registration required; call 978-922-3000, ext. 2720.
Free prenatal yoga classes meet every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at Prana Health and Yoga Center, 7A Colonial Road, Read the rest of this entry »

A spokeswoman for Maryland’s health department says seven salmonella cases in the state have been tied to a nationwide outbreak of the disease.
says the seven cases have the same DNA “fingerprint” as other cases in the outbreak that has struck 42 states.
No deaths in Maryland have been attributed to the outbreak. However, federal health officials say the strain involved in the outbreak has hospitalized about one in five.
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ZANESVILLE – Bouncing, running, fishing and many other games were enjoyed by the children who attended the Genesis Children’s Center 15th annual Fall Festival held at the Genesis Fitness Trail.
Tanner Campbell, 4, and his grandmother, Paula Barnett, were attending the festival for the third year. Tanner was busy fishing for a toy while his grandmother watched his progress. Suddenly, with a quick pull, he landed a bouncing ball paddle which Barnett Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible
contamination, a development that threatens to widen one of the largest food recalls ever and raises more questions about why the government allowed the plant to operate.
The company’s plant in Blakely, Ga., was identified a month ago as the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »

That pill your doctor just gave you? There’s a decent chance that its ingredients are powerless to make you feel better—and that your doctor knows it. About half of U.S. doctors answering a recent national
to patients. That report, which appeared last month in the journal
, has raised eyebrows and reignited a debate over whether such treatments have a place in medical practice. A January survey of Chicago-area physicians yielded similar Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will open three offices in China this week in an unprecedented effort to improve the safety of exports headed to America amid recurring product safety scares.
The new FDA offices, which are the first outside of the United States, will increase effectiveness in protecting for American and Chinese consumers, according to the office of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.
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