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Archive for August, 2008
« Previous EntriesPoll Shows America‘s Elders Aging Well General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 1, 2006 — Aging well, even with more than 80 candles on your birthday cake, may be more likely than you think.
At least that’s what a new Gallup poll about Americans 80 and older suggests.
Polling included 1,000 adults age 18 and older, and was conducted by telephone between August and October.
Responses from those with [...]
New York First City to Ban Trans Fats General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 5, 2006 — New York is the first city in the nation to ban trans fats from all restaurants.
The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously to rid the city’s restaurants of trans fats. Trans fats must disappear from frying oils by July 2007 and from all foods by July 2008.
Once praised for [...]
Rehabs Role in Treating Addiction General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Actor Michael Douglas, radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, and former congressman Mark Foley might seem to have little in common, but there’s one experience they do share: rehab.
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear of some new high-profile actor, singer, or politician checking into a center to treat a drug or alcohol problem. And [...]
First-Time Mom: Higher Depression Risk General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 5, 2006 — First-time mothers have a higher risk for postpartum depression than other new moms, and their risk is greatest during their first three months of parenthood, a Danish study shows.
Compared with women who had given birth 11 to 12 months earlier, first-time mothers were found to have seven times the risk of [...]
Chewable Birth Control Available General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 8, 2006 - A spearmint-flavored, chewable birth-control pill is now available by prescription at U.S. drug stores.
Introduced last September as Ovcon 35 Chewable, it is now dubbed Femcon Fe by Warner Chilcott, which markets the chewable made by Bristol Myers Squibb.
The pill may be chewed — followed by a full glass of water so [...]
Good Deeds in the Genes? General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 7, 2006 — Altruism — acting selflessly on behalf of someone else — may have a silver lining that’s woven through human history.
A report in Science speculates that altruism evolved among human ancestors who cooperated by sharing scarce resources to survive in harsh conditions and warfare.
Those sharing, caring practices likely had a personal cost [...]
Hidden Magnets Fritz Heart Devices General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 6, 2006 — Jewelry and accessories made with small, powerful magnets may have a fatal attraction for heart patients with implantable defibrillators or pacemaker implants.
Heart doctors always warn patients with electronic implants to avoid close contact with magnetic fields. But patients may not recognize that the jewelry they receive as a gift — or [...]
Chronic Cough Can Be Depressing General Health
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dec. 11, 2006 — Chronic cough is often accompanied by depressiondepression, and when chronic cough eases, people may feel better.
So say doctors at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
They studied 100 patients with chronic cough — defined as cough lasting for more than eight weeks — who were treated at [...]
