Wounds and mental disabilities of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq can mess up their sex lives too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.
Whatever the reason, failed sexual intimacy can contribute to higher suicide and divorce rates among returning troops, specialists told [...]
Wounds and mental disabilities of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq can mess up their sex lives too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.
Whatever the reason, failed sexual intimacy can contribute to higher suicide and divorce rates among returning troops, specialists told [...]
NEVER again can you complain you do not have enough time for exercise - the new fitness trend in gyms is slimmed-down classes.
Some bite-size sessions now last just 15 minutes.
And many keep-fit clubs are time-tabling half-hour classes before breakfast or during lunch breaks.
The growth of express-style fitness follows demand from time-poor workers and parents, according [...]
In little more than five years, Seattle has become an international center for malaria vaccine research and, apparently, will have no trouble finding volunteers willing to get bit by malaria-infected mosquitoes bred in a lab on Westlake Avenue.
“I’ve had to stop answering my phone,” said Dr. Patrick Duffy, chief of the malaria program at the [...]
A federal investigation into the hazards facing cooks exposed to diacetyl, a sometimes deadly artificial butter flavoring, is under way in New York City restaurants while in Seattle, state worker-safety agents are starting a similar inquiry.
- Find earlier P-I stories on diacetyl
- What the state’s SHARP program says about diacetyl
These health evaluations come as [...]
Running counter to a nationwide overall decline in tuberculosis rates, TB cases in Seattle and King County have increased and, in 2007, reached a 30-year-record high of 161 active disease cases — three-quarters of them among people born in other countries. Tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory disease, today infects one of every three people on the [...]
Worst of all, his diabetes and hypertension steadily, relentlessly, mercilessly attacked his kidneys. He went on dialysis in February.
Jones has fallen victim to a quiet epidemic plaguing black Chicago. By the thousands, African-Americans are suffering kidney failure and facing the possibility of blindness, limb amputation, life on dialysis and premature death. Patients with end-stage kidney [...]
Danger: Men showed a little more appetite for runny eggs and undercooked burgers, two foods that health experts say carry a higher chance of contamination. Women were more likely to eat one risky food, raw alfalfa sprouts.
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