There’s strong new evidence that scheduling a delivery by Cesarean section even a week or two before full term can significantly raise the risk of health problems in newborns.
Researchers at 19 medical centers around the country monitored 13,258 babies born via elective repeat c-section between 1999 and 2002. (Each of the mothers had had a previous c-section, opted to deliver that way again and scheduled the birth in advance, without going Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon monoxide sends 29 to Wash. state hospital
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Nearly 30 people at a seafood business were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said Tuesday.
Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd said they were overcome by fumes at the Homeport Seafoods cold storage business. The fire department responded to a call Tuesday morning about a person passing out. When firefighters arrived, everyone was conscious, but people Read the rest of this entry »
A Cincinnati woman faces charges after police say she tried to sneak drugs into prison.
Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers arrested 48-year-old Margaret Walsh Monday at the Lebanon Correctional Institution. They say she was trying to sneak in marijuana to her husband, an inmate at the facility.
Authorities say they got an advance tip and caught Walsh with eight balloons concealed in her bra. The balloons each held a small amount of marijuana. Read the rest of this entry »
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Miami, FL (AHN) – The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to take the diet supplement marketed under the name Venom Hyperdrive 3.0 because it contains an undeclared drug that can increase heart rate and blood pressure.
The company that makes the supplement, Applied Lifescience Research Industries, from Oak View, Calif., recalled the product after an FDA analysis found the presence of the drug, sibutramine. Read the rest of this entry »
The updated Nursing Home Compare site uses a five-star rating system, similar to that used for hotels and motels, to rank institutions nationwide.
“The old site had a lot of information, but the information wasn’t necessarily terribly usable by the average consumer. You knew if the facility was above or below the state average, but you didn’t know what that meant,” said Charles Phillips, a professor of health policy and management at Texas A&M Health Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A prominent private U.S. health policy group on Thursday proposed creating a major new public health program and government-operated insurance exchange as part of a plan to expand coverage and rein in health care costs.
The Commonwealth Fund, a leading private health policy research group, unveiled a comprehensive plan for changing a U.S. health care system that is the world’s most expensive yet lags many other nations in Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of
Both consumers and doctors need to improve their awareness of dangerous blood clots, which affect between 350,000 and 600,000 Americans a year and result in at least 100,000 deaths, says acting U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Steven Galson.
On Monday, he announced a new education program to increase recognition and treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary Read the rest of this entry »
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As we say hello to 2009, many people are looking to say goodbye to holiday pounds.
“I feel a lot better about myself when I workout,” Bob Holmes said.
But gym members like Linda Hoffert and Holmes say you first have to find the truth about certain fitness myths in order to get in shape safely.
“In the past, I thought you just had to diet and not worry about exercising,” Hoffert said.
Hoffert learned quickly that working out and Read the rest of this entry »
McCourt, 32, is one half of children’s entertaining duo Dick and Dom and most
recently presented the Saturday morning CBBC show Dick And Dom In Da
Bungalow.
However his clean television image has been tarnished on a drunken night out
after the star admitted to having taken drugs.
According to The Sun newspaper, McCourt told strangers: “I have taken
drugs.”
He then told them that his doctor had warned him off the illegal substances Read the rest of this entry »
Running often is frowned upon as a means of fitness because of the pounding it can do to your body. Since running produces landing forces 2.5 to 8 times that of your body weight, some of the frowning may be justified.
That much force translates to a 170-pound man hitting the ground with the force of a more than 1,000 pounds. This force naturally is felt in the feet, but also it travels up the body and is absorbed by muscles and joints along the Read the rest of this entry »