CHICAGO — Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death — even if they are very old.Both studies were stopped early so the surprising benefits could be made known. [...]
CHICAGO — The largest-ever study of the long-term consequences of premature birth finds that children born early have higher death rates in childhood and are more likely to be childless in adulthood.
Experts called the research significant because it followed 1.2 million Norwegian births over decades. It also raises questions about future risks for even tinier [...]
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 [...]
VISALIA, Calif. - “Being a chef in California and citrus go hand-in-hand.”Chef Jill Davie is a fifth generation California who grew up with lemon trees in her backyard and now lives up to her philosophy for breakfast, lunch and dinner.At the Sunkist Growers annual meeting in late February, Davie fixed a citrus and shredded wheat [...]
The number of working-age Canadians getting hip and knee replacements has more than tripled in the past decade, to the point where one in three of the procedures are now done on people under the age of 65, newly released data show.
The demand for prosthetic joints also continues to climb among [...]
Three international teams of scientists, one led in part by Toronto researchers, have for the first time homed in on the genetic origins of lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer in the country. After sifting through the DNA of more than 60,000 people, the scientists pinpointed a cluster of genetic variations on the human genome [...]
By Anselma AimableCaribbean Net News St Lucia CorrespondentEmail: anselma@caribbeannetnews.com
CASTRIES, St Lucia: The St Lucia Arthritis and Lupus Association (SLALA) has launched an awareness campaign under the theme %26quot;Someone you know has Lupus.%26quot; A ten-month programme of activities is scheduled to increase awareness and educate the public about the seriousness of the disease. Some of the [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that cases of dengue in Jamaica have been declining, with the Ministry intensifying its efforts to stem the spread of this and other communicable diseases. %26quot;The dengue fever outbreak which started in July last year, peaked in November and since then, has been [...]
BostonĂ‚Â It was probably not wise for the 64-year-old Brit Hume to describe the 71-year-old John McCain as having a “senior moment.” Health And Beauty A blip would have been better. Or a gaffe. Or even a dent in the candidate’s “experience” armor.
But when the traveling senator confused Shiites and Sunnis, when he conflated [...]
Premature birth and low birth weight have been recognized in earlier studies as risk factors for a number of developmental problems, including autism and other illnesses.
But the study of 91 children, who were born around between 7 and 14 weeks prematurely and weighed 3.3 pounds (1.5 kg) or less at birth, was the first to [...]
