Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
(Editor’s Note: This story has been changed since it was first published. MRSA is a staph infection resistant to the methicillin and related antibiotics. The original version mistakenly indicated it is resistant to most antibiotics.)In a five-month period, 65 inmates in the King County Jail have been diagnosed with MRSA, a sometimes-deadly bacterial infection resistant [...]
A young woman on a flight March 26 from the Netherlands to Seattle may have exposed other travelers to measles, public health officials said Wednesday.People on that flight, Northwest Airlines Flight 33 (Amsterdam to Seattle), as well as others who may have been in the same areas at Sea-Tac Airport, should be vigilant for any [...]
In a letter to 16,000 private health units, the Public Health Ministry said doctors performing the operation outside formal sex-change therapy - which requires rigorous physical and mental evaluation of the patient - faced up to six months in jail.
However, senior health official Tara Chinakarn admitted that policing the temporary ban might be difficult as [...]
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 [...]
De Rosa’s comments came Tuesday at a House hearing on how the CDC and its sister agencies handled complaints about trailers issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Committee Democrats accuse FEMA of manipulating scientific research to downplay the dangers.
They say the CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where De [...]
By Rubia Rodriguez Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic correspondent Email: rubia@caribbeannetnews.com
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Public Health minister Bautista Rojas stated that he will not meet with the leaders of the Dominican Republic doctors%26rsquo; union (CMD) as the doctors continued their second day of strike action and said that no talks can be forthcoming until the [...]
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): More than 26,000 Surinamese patients have been treated by Cuban doctors who are working in Suriname as part of a cooperation agreement between the two countries.
The Cuban Public Health Minister and his Suriname counterpart established a cooperation accord by which the island included the CARICOM nation in its Comprehensive Health Program [...]
