Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Reported by Tiffany Chao, M.D., and Shari Barnett, M.D., ABC News Medical Unit: During the school day, you leave your children’s health in the hands of the school nurse — but it’s hard to know if they are prepared for everything. Some forms of preparedness…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – History suggests Singapore will enjoy a welcome baby boom in this Year of the Dragon, the most auspicious for births in the Chinese zodiac. But after 25 years of state-sponsored matchmaking and fertility-boosting campaigns, the government's attempts to arrest a sliding birth rate are falling flat, with potentially profound consequences for the wealthy Asian city-state. The calls to conception are now urgent and constant to citizens whose fertility ranks last among 222 nations in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook. …
Health officials and a consulting surgeon are reviewing a living-donor kidney transplant program that’s been temporarily suspended by a northwest Ohio hospital, where a donated kidney apparently was put with medical waste instead of going to the intended recipient in what medical experts describe as a rare accident.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mercury and omega-3 fatty acids – both found in fish – appear to have opposite links to heart health, scientists have found. In an analysis of more than 1,600 men from Sweden and Finland, researchers found that men with high levels of mercury in the body had an increased risk of heart attacks, while those with a high concentration of omega-3s had a lower risk. Fish are considered part of a healthy diet, but the balance between potential risks and benefits from the two compounds is not clear. …
Tuberculosis may be rare in the United States, but elsewhere around the world it’s a different story. Drug-resistant strains of TB are increasing in a number of countries, thanks to the disease becoming resilient to second-line treatments.
Federal health officials are telling Americans to avoid Daniella mangoes distributed by a Northern California fruit distributor because they may be contaminated with salmonella that has already sickened more than 100 people in 16 states.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Telephone therapy may help people dependent on marijuana kick the habit, a new study from Australia suggests. Researchers found that almost twice as many users significantly cut back on marijuana following four hour-long phone counseling sessions compared to those who were put on a treatment waiting list. Knowing therapy may work over the phone could help extend treatment to people in remote areas where in-person therapy is hard to come by, according to Peter Gates, from the University of New South Wales, and his colleagues. …
(Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc’s drug to treat chronic constipation and irritable bowel syndrome with constipation for use in adults. The drug, linaclotide, will be sold under the brand name Linzess and carry a boxed warning that it should not be used in patients 16 or younger, the agency said. An estimated 63 million people suffer from chronic constipation, according to the National Institutes of Health. Additionally, an estimated 15. …
See the food above? That's what 1,200 calories looks like. Registered dietician Kerri-Ann Jennings, whose also an editor for Eating Well magazine, says if you want to get serious about healthy weight loss, 1,200 calories could be your magic number. "[M …
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