He doesn’t just play a doctor on TV. Sanjay Gupta could soon be the nation’s chief doctor — on TV and off.
Gupta,
a practicing neurosurgeon, assistant professor of neurosurgery andchief medical analyst for CNN,is expected to
become the nation’s next surgeon general.
The position would make him the uniformed head of the 6,000-member Commissioned
Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service — a job that carries the rank of vice admiral Read the rest of this entry »
The Food and Drug Administration is warning people who may want to lose weight in the new year. WFMZ’s Melissa Batulis has more on a list of what may be hidden in your diet plan.
REPORTER: They’re weight loss products that claim to be herbal or healthy. But it’s what they don’t say that has federal regulators and doctors worried.
BANEY: At worst, could kill you.
REPORTER: The FDA released a list of 25 weight loss pills including 7 Day Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)
— Doctors remained optimistic Friday that all eight babies born last month to a California woman will fully develop without major complications.
All of the octuplets are breathing on their own and continue to receive tube-fed donated pasteurized breast milk, Kaiser Permanente Hospital spokeswoman Socorro Serrano said. Only two of the six were being supplemented with intravenous nutritional combinations.
“Premature Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It happens all the time: Filling out that clipboard at the doctor’s office, you can’t remember what cancer killed Aunt Sally or when Dad had his heart attack.
A good family health history is far more important than a gene test in predicting your future medical needs, but it’s hugely underused. On Tuesday, the government begins offering a free new service to try to change that — helping people compile one at home, Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A person’s fitness level in childhood seems to influence certain measures of their health as young adults, new study findings suggest.
The study followed Norwegian students and found that those who were more physically fit at age 13 were less likely to become obese or have elevated blood pressure in early adulthood.
By the age of 40, however, that effect had faded, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. Read the rest of this entry »
OF all the men in Australia that Health Minister Nicola Roxon could have chosen to appoint as an ambassador for men’s health, she chose Tim Mathieson.
Mr Mathieson is a hairdresser with an interest in men’s health; he has even been sporting a moustache for Movember, the fundraising event for men’s health.
So at face value perhaps not an unsuitable appointment, but the problem is Mr Mathieson just happens to be the partner of Deputy Prime Minister Read the rest of this entry »
MONDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) — In yet another blow to the dietary supplement industry, researchers find no evidence that multivitamin use helps older women ward off heart disease and cancer, the top two killers of women, respectively.
“Women can be encouraged by the fact that these vitamins seem to do no harm, but they also seem to confer no benefit,” said study co-author Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, a professor of epidemiology and population Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON – It happens all the time: Filling out that clipboard at the doctor’s office, you can’t remember what cancer killed Aunt Sally or when Dad had his heart attack.
A good family health history is far more important than a gene test in predicting your future medical needs, but it’s hugely underused. On Tuesday, the government began offering a free new service to try to change that – helping people compile one at home, e-mail it to relatives Read the rest of this entry »
This month, Harris County’s criminal district judges voted to create a felony mental health court, the first one in the county’s history to focus exclusively on felony defendants diagnosed with such serious conditions as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression.
This is a smart move on several levels. Introduced about a decade ago, mental health courts, which now number more than 150 nationwide, seek to provide more humane Read the rest of this entry »