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Medical Research: The Best Investment We Can Make in Our Future
While the cure for cancer has been elusive, President Obama's National Cancer Moonshot initiative offers renewed hope that we could see breakthroughs in prevention, detection, and treatment for a disease that affects millions of Americans and their families. The cancer moonshot is the latest demonstration that Washington understands the potential for medical research to change lives and improve the health of all Americans. It builds on the bipartisan support we saw last fall when House and Senate negotiators agreed on a $2 billion budget increase for medical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Today,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Health Tip: Are You at Risk for Low Back Pain?
-- Low back pain is among the most common reasons for missing work. About 80 percent of people have the condition at some point during their lives, U.S. government statistics show.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke mentions...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
If You Eat Any Fruits Or Vegetables At All, You're Doing Better Than Half Of America
If you’re feeling down about how you eat, consider this: if you eat about one cup of fruit and more than 1.5 cups of vegetables a day, you’re actually eating better than about half of all Americans. If you eat 1.5 cups of fruit (the recommended serving size for an adult), you’re doing better than more than three-fourths of Americans. And if you eat two cups of vegetables a day (another recommended serving size), that’s better than almost 90 percent of your neighbors. We say this not to put down our fellow Americans, but to point out that eating more fruits and vegetables is linked to lower rate...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zimbabwe Needs SLPs in Public Hospitals
Zimbabwe desperately needs speech-language pathologists, according to the Africa Health Network in an article on Voice of America. State-owned hospitals and other public health organizations—especially those in the capital city of Harare—can’t keep SLPs employed. Government officials say this occurred primarily because of low salaries.
“Right now there is not a single speech therapist working in public service in Zimbabwe,” says Michele Angeletti, country representative of Christian Blind Mission.
This was confirmed by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr. Gerald Gwinji, who says t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Autism Spectrum Disorder Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Swallowing Disorders Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs
Pretty Much Nobody In The U.S. Leads A Healthy Lifestyle
Only 2.7 percent of U.S. adults hit the four key metrics of living a healthy lifestyle -- abstaining from smoking, eating well, exercising and maintaining a healthy body fat percentage -- according to a disheartening new study. The study's lifestyle benchmarks for health weren't particularly high. Being smoke-free, exercising moderately and eating USDA recommended foods don't seem like particularly difficult marks to hit. So why do so many Americans fall short of living healthy lives? "That is the million dollar question," Ellen Smit, a senior author of the study and an associate professor at the Oregon State Un...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 25, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
UCLA faculty voice: Body mass index perpetuates stigmas and indicates little about health
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A. Janet Tomiyama
A. Janet Tomiyama is assistant professor of psychology in the UCLA College. Jeffrey Hunger is a doctoral candidate of psychology at UC Santa Barbara. This op-ed appeared March 7 in Zócalo Public Square.
You’ve just returned from your morning run and you’re rustling through your snail mail when you receive some shocking news — an official memo from your employer informing you that your health insurance premium is increasing by 30 percent. You’ve been deemed a health risk, and you are being charged accordingly.
Yet you’re the picture of health: A run is part of your daily routine, you passe...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Obesity in the U.S. and Europe on the Rise: A Comparison
Levels of obesity in adults and children are rising worldwide. The World Health Organization calls the rising level "an epidemic" citing sugary drinks and processed foods as the main culprits, along with an urban sedentary lifestyle.
A study published in The Lancet named "Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013" stated obesity issues "were estimated to have caused 3.4 million deaths globally, most of which were from cardiovascular causes. Research indicates that if left unaddressed, the ri...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Moms Lose Up To 9 Hours Of Sleep Every Week
Here's another reason to take a minute to appreciate everything your mom's sacrificed for you this Mother's Day: Her sleep.
Not that anyone who’s paced the hallway trying to sooth a crying infant needs proof, but several studies have documented that new parents and parents of young children miss out on a whole lot of sleep.
Now, a new population-level research in Australian quantified just how much sleep working Aussie parents are missing out on, compared to their colleagues without children. The results of the survey indicated that fathers of young kids are missing out on one to four hours of sleep each w...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate Change and the Emergent Epidemic of CKD from Heat Stress in Rural Communities: The Case for Heat Stress Nephropathy.
Weiss I, Kanbay M, Wesseling C, Sánchez-Lozada LG, Johnson RJ
Abstract
Climate change has led to significant rise of 0.8°C-0.9°C in global mean temperature over the last century and has been linked with significant increases in the frequency and severity of heat waves (extreme heat events). Climate change has also been increasingly connected to detrimental human health. One of the consequences of climate-related extreme heat exposure is dehydration and volume loss, leading to acute mortality from exacerbations of pre-existing chronic disease, as well as from outright heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Recent stud...
Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - May 4, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Glaser J, Lemery J, Rajagopalan B, Diaz HF, García-Trabanino R, Taduri G, Madero M, Amarasinghe M, Abraham G, Anutrakulchai S, Jha V, Stenvinkel P, Roncal-Jimenez C, Lanaspa MA, Correa-Rotter R, Sheikh-Hamad D, Burdmann EA, Andres-Hernando A, Milagres T, Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research
What The Government's Latest Asian-American Health Report Got Wrong
Asian-Americans fare better than the general population on five different measures of health, according to a new national study.
But though it may appear that the "model minority" myth about the 15 million Asians in America extends even to physical and mental health, experts say this finding obscures the truth about vast disparities between Asian subgroups -- and that the study's methodology may have prevented the elderly, immigrants and people who don't speak English from contributing to a more nuanced picture of the health status of Asians in America.
The report, published by the U.S. Center fo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
In Little Rock, Alzheimer's Association President Calls for More Research
The number of Arkansans suffering from Alzheimer's disease is expected to increase almost 25 percent — from 54,000 to 67,000 — by 2025 as the state's population continues to age, according to Alzheimer's Association President and CEO Harry Johns.
During a quick trip to Little Rock on Wednesday, Johns met with U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark.; Gov. Asa Hutchinson; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences staff and others working to combat the disease.
Johns told Arkansas Business that the cost of care for Alzheimer's patients in the U.S. reached a "staggering" $236 billion this year. Johns also said th...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 1, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Study Reveals That Eating 'In Moderation' Is A Fool's Errand
"Everything in moderation" is a common piece of healthy eating advice from slim and sexy celebs, dietitians and other lifestyle gurus. It's a call that's thousands of years old: The ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote the phrase “moderation is best in all things” in his poem Work and Days, written around 700 BCE, and other philosophers and writers have echoed the maxim ever since.
But just because it’s a saying that has persisted throughout history doesn’t mean it’s right, helpful or useful.
While it sounds like wise advice for anyone who wants a low-key approach to healthy eating...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Air pollution emerges as a leading factor for stroke
90% of burden, linked to modifiable risk factorsRelated items from OnMedicaUK toddlers’ diet 'cause for concern’Alcohol-related deaths likely to rise, warn expertsFruit drinks for children have ‘unacceptably high’ sugar levelsRise in hospital admissions attributable to smoking Act now to halt air pollution’s death toll, MPs urge government
Source: OnMedica Latest News - June 9, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
No more sneaking sugar into packaged foods
The iconic black-and-white Nutrition Facts label you find on packaged foods in the United States is getting its first makeover in two decades. The federal government decided last month to update the food label beginning in 2018 by listing how much sugar has been added to a product.
The current label lumps added sugar with naturally occurring sugars in the foods themselves, which is a deceptive practice, said Dr. John Swartzberg, a UC Berkeley clinical professor emeritus and editorial board chair of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. So listing added sugar “will hopefully guide people away from consuming products with a ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 30, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
