SUNDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) — A new scientific discovery could someday lead to medications to fight the flu as well as a vaccine that would not have to be changed every year because it could target a broad range of flu strains.
“We identified new human antibodies that inactivate influenza, not just bird flu, but any of the seasonal influenza viruses that affect us in the winter,” said researcher Dr. Wayne A. Marasco, an associate professor Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities said that most of the injuries were minor but that one student, a 17-year-old male, suffered a head injury during a fall and was knocked unconscious. They said the youth was taken by ambulance to Howard University Hospital and regained consciousness on the way.
Alan Etter, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said that about 15 students complained of injuries and that five were treated at hospitals.
“Basically it was a huge brawl Read the rest of this entry »

With the quick swipe of a student ID and a plastic brown tray in hand, Megan Kono is left standing in the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall faced with a serious dilemma. As she moves from station to station, she must fight the ever-present temptation to grab a slice of fresh tomato pizza or dish out a serving of macaroni and cheese. She must walk quickly past the tub of French fries and the trays of cookies that Dewick offers on a daily basis.
As a swimmer Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK — Publicly funded family planning prevents nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, saving billions of dollars, according to new research intended to counter conservative objections to expanding the program.
The data is in a report being released on Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health think tank whose research is generally respected even by experts Read the rest of this entry »

Freetown — Executive director of the country’s drugs law enforcement agency Kandeh Bangura has welcomed collaboration but said it was news that Colombia wanted to make Sierra Leone its West African headquarters for anti-narcotics.
It could be recalled that on the 7 of January the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the Colombian National Police Cmdr. Gen. Oscar Naranjo saying he will soon station 10 anti-narcotics police in nine Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of the past eight years was the chance for Republicans to fundamentally reform the terribly broken American health-care system. Access to quality health care has long been a professed priority, yet Republicans have been reluctant to tackle the issue.
As a physician, this is deeply disappointing to me because patient-centered health care is, at its core, conservative. Health care is fundamentally a personal Read the rest of this entry »

Short, Intense Workouts May Fight Diabetes
Posted on: Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 07:40 CST
New research announced on Monday says that just a few moments of concentrated exercise weekly is as beneficial as thirty minutes of normal physical activity a day for reducing the risk of acquiring type 2 diabetes.
“It is possible to gain significant health benefits from only 7.5 minutes of exercise each week — if that is all that you find the time to Read the rest of this entry »

POMEROY — In preparation for Meigs County’s new E-911 service, its director is asking residents to help out — by inspecting their house numbers to make certain they are visible to emergency crews.
Doug Lavender, director of Meigs County Emergency Medical Service, will oversee the operation of the new E-911 system from the EMS building on Mulberry Heights. He said many residences in the county now — in town and country — Read the rest of this entry »

A man stabbed at a northwest Reno sports bar has died, according to Reno police.
He was stabbed outside Bully’s Sports Bar around 8:30 p.m., on Sierra Highlands Drive, according to a news release issued by Reno Police Department Sgt. Chuck Lovitt.
An ambulance brought the victim to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, Lovitt said.
According to witnesses, two men were arguing inside the bar before they both went out to the parking Read the rest of this entry »

“I know I need to improve – my fitness, my game,” he admitted
while addressing the fallout from the sacking of his club manager, Luiz
Felipe Scolari. Imagine, then, if England’s friendly with Spain had been a
World Cup qualifier. His obvious lack of confidence would have represented a
genuine concern.
But if that admission was typically honest of the Chelsea and England captain,
it also raised several questions about the central Read the rest of this entry »