Roughly one-quarter of Americans say they would refuse a full body scan using new airport body scanners and 14.9 percent said new airport security measures have them concerned for their health, according to the Thomson Reuters-NPR Health Poll. Thomson Reuters and NPR conduct a monthly poll to gauge attitudes and opinions on a wide range [...]
The U.S. teen birth rate declined 9% in 2010 and is now at the lowest level ever reported, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The 9% drop is the steepest one-year decline since 1946/1947. “I am aware of no other social problem [...]
The average American eats 25 pounds of candy per year and the majority of those pounds come from the holidays — specifically Halloween. FindTheBest’s Candy Bar comparison sorts sweets according to Brand, Serving Size, Calories, Total Fat, Sugar and more so health conscious trick-or-treaters can indulge in the fun of this spooky season while still [...]
Although child health experts recommend that children begin oral health care by age 1 or when their first teeth emerge, a new report from the University of Michigan Health System C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Healthshows that most children ages 1-2 have not yet started seeing a dentist. In May 2011, the [...]
The Arthritis Foundation is joining a global effort on Oct. 12, World Arthritis Day, to increase awareness of the many forms of arthritis and to call on individuals and policymakers to take action to reduce the burden of arthritis around the world. Arthritis affects several hundred million people worldwide. In the United States, it’s the [...]
In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week’s 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancetfound that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed [...]
Many Patients Say Treatments Can Be Worse Than the Disease In an extensive article reviewing the most popular prostate cancer treatments available to men today, South Florida urologist Dr. Bert Vorstman takes a critical view on manufacturers, hospital systems and some colleagues who minimize the after effects of radical surgeries while continuing to endorse the [...]
While parents prepare to send their children back to school, they need to remember that nutrition plays a huge role in academic success. Mary Pat Alfaro, M.S., R.D., clinical manager in the Division of Nutrition Therapy at Cincinnati Children’s, says multiple studies have shown that poor nutrition adversely effects school performance and overall achievement. Alfaro [...]
Seniors are significantly concerned about the potential impact to their health coverage if the federal deficit reduction plan includes changes to Medicare benefits. In a recent survey, 81 percent of seniors (aged 65+) who have Medicare coverage indicated that having to pay any more for Medicare benefits in the future would cause either a heavy [...]
In a shocking move by the Obama Administration, the State of Florida will likely be forced to stop providing AIDS medications to low income people who are currently taking life saving drugs due to limits on how much one state can receive from new federal funding. “Despite having over 3,550 people on the AIDS Drug [...]