Study: Low vitamin D can worsen inflammation
McClatchy Newspapers
4/16/2009, by Blythe Bernhard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Most Americans don't get enough vitamin D. And while it's well-known that vitamin D deficiencies can lead to bone problems, a University of Missouri professor has also found a link to inflammation. Healthy women with low vitamin D levels had higher concentrations of ...
Childhood eczema is a growing problem
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4/8/2009, by Linda Shrieves
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Michelle Stevens first noticed the red, blotchy patches on her toddler's feet after he started walking. Every time Noah walked outdoors in their grassy backyard, the blotches appeared. Before long, the itchy patches _ signs of eczema _ began popping up on Noah's legs ...
Energy boost a bummer? Henry Ford Hospital study raises alarm about drinks
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Jeff Seidel
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - After downing three or four energy drinks every day for a couple of weeks, Jason Moore started to get severe chest pains. He thought he was having a heart attack or stroke. But his doctor told him that the chest pain might be caused by the energy drink.
"I don't think ...
New software helps with CPR; Paramedic develops Web site to tell whether procedure is working
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4/6/2009, by Christine Byers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Doug Woods wondered whether people taking his CPR classes were really getting it. As a paramedic, he knew what it felt like to give someone the life-saving technique. He told those he trained about the tired wrists, fatigued arms and aching backs that come with ...
Girl with rare disease raising money for cure
McClatchy Newspapers
4/3/2009, by Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - A broken leg isn't going to stop Lindsay Ratcliffe from being at the finish line of the annual walkathon to raise money for research on progeria, the extremely rare disease of accelerated aging that afflicts the Flat Rock, Mich., pre-schooler and 45 other people ...
Betting on hope: Mother of an autistic college professor reaches out to other parents
McClatchy Newspapers
4/3/2009, by Jeff Seidel
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Eustacia Cutler sat at a piano, practicing Bach. Her daughter, Temple Grandin, was on the floor _ lost in her own world. Lost inside her 2½-year-old mind. Temple couldn't talk and refused to communicate. She started humming, crumpling a newspaper. Squeezing. Shredding. ...
Massachusetts health care has lessons for other states
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4/2/2009, by Michael Vitez
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Many here say the state's experiment in health-care reform is a great success. The governor said last week that 97 percent of residents had health insurance _ the highest percentage in the nation. But now comes Round 2: controlling health-care costs.
The state can ...
Easy ways to work fitness into your day
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - When you can't get to the gym, exercise the way our ancestors did: Move throughout the day. At first, this might feel inconvenient and bothersome. But real-world fitness _ walking, standing, raising and lifting grocery bags, cutting vegetables or climbing stairs _ isn't just ...
Cardiac implant keeps weak heart pumping
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3/31/2009, by Blythe Bernhard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - When someone's heart is about to quit, they're usually told to wait for a transplant or wait to die. Lately, doctors have found other options. "Transplant will never solve the public health dilemma which is posed by all these people with end-stage heart disease," ...
Writing prescriptions to exercise does better than merely discussing the benefits with patients
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3/31/2009, by Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Dr. George Kichura looked at Marc Leeke and his blood tests last fall and diagnosed him with metabolic syndrome. Leeke, 50, of Ballwin, Mo., weighed 258 pounds (too heavy), had triglyceride levels near 300 (twice what they should be) and low HDL levels (that's the ...
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