| Conn. doctors want to help patients die
October 7, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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| | HARTFORD, Conn., Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Two Connecticut doctors said Wednesday they are suing the state to determine if there is a way for them to legally help terminally ill patients end their lives. The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate reported Dr. Gary Blick and Dr. Ron Levine said they filed suit in state Superior Court to have the legal right to offer "aid in dying" to terminally ill patients deemed mentally competent. Under Connecticut state law, no one may intentionally help an individual commit suicide. The Hartford (Conn.) Courant said the doctors want the court to specify if |
| Cancer Society to offer no-smoking course
October 7, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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| Sacramento hospitals see rise in emergency patients
October 7, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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| | Oct. 7--Local emergency rooms are seeing a big spike in patients without health insurance, increasing waiting times and costs for everyone, according to a Bee analysis of state and national health data. Among those patients is Shannon Zeitler, who lost her medical insurance when she lost her marriage. She recently went to UC Davis Medical Center for help controlling her seizures. There was no urgency for her visit, she conceded, but she had little choice. "I was so under stress. I knew I needed to get some medicine in me," she said "I had no doctor. ... I'm $7,000 in |
| Swine flu vaccine could help most in U.S., experts say
October 7, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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| | Oct. 7--Up to 95 percent of Americans have not caught the swine flu and could benefit from a vaccine, federal health officials said Tuesday. The estimate comes as the first shipments of H1N1 vaccine arrive at health departments nationwide. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius promoted the vaccine Tuesday at a news conference at St. Louis University. "Without jeopardizing any of the safety steps, this vaccine is coming to market and becoming available far more quickly than anybody could have anticipated," Sebelius said. About 300 people are participating in three H1N1 vaccine trials at SLU, one for |
| Diseases that masquerade as injuries in sports world
October 7, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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| | Oct. 7--There are sportsmen and women who report to sports physicians with health conditions they think are as a result of participation in sports but are, in real sense, not related to sports. In most cases athletes complain of shortness of breath, sore muscles and painful joints as symptoms that are a result of "running hard" only to discover that a problem that was ignored has turned out to be serious. It is therefore important to recognise that not every symptom pointing to a particular health condition is correct. It is mandatory that sportspeople take a good medical history and |
| Health bill gives some groups a break
October 7, 2009 at 8:22 am
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| Doctors join fight against obesity
October 7, 2009 at 8:22 am
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| Canada delays flu shots amid concerns
October 7, 2009 at 7:38 am
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| | TORONTO, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Annual flu shots have been delayed in much of Canada because of an unpublished study suggesting the shots increase one's likelihood of contracting swine flu. Twelve of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have put off the flu shots for most people until after H1N1 inoculations are done, probably by year's end, The Wall Street Journal reported in Wednesday's editions. Researchers from the British Columbia Center for Disease Control, the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and Laval University in Quebec co-authored the study. They say it has yet to be reviewed |
| Calorie information may not change choices
October 7, 2009 at 7:38 am
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| | NEW YORK, Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- About 25 percent of consumers indicated that calorie information at fast-food restaurants influenced their food choices, U.S. researchers said. Brian Elbel of New York University's Langone Medical Center compared New York fast-food eating -- which has implemented calorie labeling in fast-food restaurants -- to Newark, N.J., which has no calorie labeling requirement. The study, which focused on low-income areas in New York, found that posting calories increased the percentage of consumers who saw calorie information to 54 percent, and approximately 25 percent of these consumers indicated that the information was influential | | | 
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