Provides the latest RSS feeds for Breaking Health News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Peking Press.com http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/cat/a1e025da3c02ca7c/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:27 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:27 -0400 30 Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that the wakeup call to eat healthier came after her late father, director Bruce Paltrow, was diagnosed with cancer 15 years ago. The 'Iron Man 3' star, who covers the debut issue of Beach magazine, talked to the publication about how seeing her own father's health dwindle made her open her eyes, Us magazine reported. "I started to research anti-cancer diets in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599378/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 05:30:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599378/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596876/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:01 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596876/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Manama-May-18(BNA)The Kingdom of Bahrain will host the 1st Gulf Medical Management on June 4-6 at InterContinental Regency Hotel. Bahrain Medical Society and Act smart Public Relations Consultancy will organize the symposium under the patronage of Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi. BMS Chairperson Dr. Maha Al-Muqla said that preparations for the upcoming symposium had already been ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604282/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 14:36:54 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604282/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Republicans attempted to connect the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the Obama administration's controversial health-care-reform law in a Saturday response to the president's weekly radio-Internet ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604229/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 14:25:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604229/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The increasingly contentious issue of hospital charges drew renewed attention last week when the federal government released Medicare data showing that facilities nationwide submitted widely divergent bills for the same ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604283/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 14:20:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604283/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova is to receive further treatment for cancer in New York this week.The 44-year-old was due to have the 'pioneering treatment' at the end of the season but it has been brought forward with Barcelona having already secured La Liga title with three games ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604284/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 14:18:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604284/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c COPENHAGEN | Sat May 18, 2013 1:59pm EDT COPENHAGEN May 18 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the antidepressant vortioxetine had shown significant improvement in patients' symptoms. Lundbeck said in a statement that the trial showed safety levels consistent with previously ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604239/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214604239/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sunlight beams through the lounge window at the Katoas' house creating warmth and comfort. The house is matchbox-size, immaculate and homely. Family photos from their life in Tonga and New Zealand clutter the cabinets, and at least 10 sports trophies glisten proudly from a cabinet. Like many Pacific Island families, the Katoa household is large: mum, dad and nine children, including twins and a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603664/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603664/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c (CBS News) In the long-running battle over school lunches, the United States is losing. American kids often reject healthy alternatives in favor of pizza and junk food, but it's different in other countries. In Japan, healthful lunches aren't just a goal for Japanese kids. In fact, they're required. Child obesity is almost unheard of in Japan, and part of that can be attributed to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603582/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 13:22:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603582/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Double hand amputee Amy Copeland is now the first woman in the world to get state of the art by -- islands. You might remember Copeland was infected with the deadly bacteria after she cut her leg in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603665/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 13:20:39 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603665/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Manama, May 18th (BNA) -Minister of Health, Sadiq Abdul Karim Al Shehabi left the Kingdom to Genve to participate in the (66) meeting of World Health Assembly of World Health Organization (WHO), which will be held during the period from May 20 to 28, 2013. The Assembly's works will be opened on Monday May 20th, 2013 with appointing the Credentials Committee, electing the sixty-sixth ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602940/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 12:35:08 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602940/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603002/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 12:31:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603002/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Morgan Arnold poses next to a Scooby-Doo display during a 2012 trip to California with her mother, Cindi Arnold. Morgan, 14, now stands accused of orchestrating a plot with her boyfriend, Jason Bulmer, to kill her father, Dennis Lane, in Ellicott ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603000/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 12:19:08 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214603000/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c World Family Doctors Day is a chance to celebrate what family doctors do in supporting health care for all people in their local communities, their countries and around the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602358/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 11:41:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602358/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Starbucks every day. No manicures, no pedicures. Those kinds of things really add up," Martin said. Webster's response was to work more like someone who was earning only a minimal wage. Even though he was making $80,000 annually working as a full-time math professor at Marymount College - with Martin adding her $70,000-a-year salary as an articulation officer, who provides educational ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602437/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 11:23:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602437/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, the owner of St. John’s Health Center, plans to sell the Santa Monica hospital to Catholic chain Providence Health & ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602436/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 11:23:19 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602436/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c While American kids often leave the healthy option, nutritious lunches aren't just a goal for Japanese kids-- they're required. Lucy Craft ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602438/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 11:20:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602438/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fire ants are an invasive species in the warmer areas of the US, and we here at Weird Science are told by people who have experienced the invasion personally that their fearsome reputation is well deserved. So, normally, you'd expect said people to be happy to hear that the fire ants population seems to be going down. Unfortunately, it's going down because an even more deranged ant is ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:49 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Most Americans will soon begin to see major changes in health care delivery. The changes will likely be mostly negative for the vast majority, but not for everyone. For example, those without health care insurance or with pre-existing conditions should see improvements. But I would bet that many of the young and healthy who have previously chosen not to buy health insurance might not like ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601836/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 10:43:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601836/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c In this Sept. 29, 2011 photo, Dr. Christine Daniel gives a flu shot to patient Amparo Villaluazo at Daniel's Sonrise Medical Clinic in Mission Hills. Daniel, 57, of Northridge, was found guilty on Friday May 17,2013 and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for selling bogus cancer cures to dozens of victims across the country as part of a ';treatment'; program that prosecutors ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601837/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 10:29:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601837/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A sign cautions visitors outside a "pump and treat" facility on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The sprawling installation is the site of one of the worst drinking water contaminations in U.S. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601838/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 10:22:08 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601838/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c BARCELONA, Spain - Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova will return to New York next week to "undergo further cancer treatment" after having a second tumor in two years removed from his throat in December.The club says Vilanova will be given "pioneering treatment" from Monday to Friday that was originally scheduled for this summer but was moved forward after Barcelona clinched the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601839/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 10:20:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601839/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c It could take weeks to get commuter rail service in Connecticut back to normal following the derailment of two trains Friday, the mayor of Bridgeport said. The evening rush-hour derailment between Bridgeport and South Norwalk caused about 70 injuries and tore up the tracks, which Mayor Bill Finch said would need extensive repairs that would greatly complicate transportation into the New York ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601816/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 10:13:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601816/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c For the first 200 dogs to arrive from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, HOPE for Animals will be offering a free vaccine outreach clinic at the Faith United Methodist Church, 207 E. Dewald St. The first-come, first-serve event will be feature free rabies and distemper vaccines, as well as administering free heartworm testing and offering $10 micro-chipping. While this event is only for families that ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601339/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 09:37:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601339/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c National health plans so far have announced participation in "fewer than 15 states" to provide benefits under the Affordable Care Act. (Photo credit: ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601289/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 09:35:15 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214601289/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; California will become the first state to offer voter registration through its health insurance marketplace later this ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600869/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:40:23 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600869/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about conductor James Levine's return to the Metropolitan Opera after a series of health problems kept him away for two ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600348/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 07:35:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600348/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c What if you had the ability to heal your body just by changing how you think and feel? I know it sounds radical, coming from a doctor. When people are doing everything "right"--eating veggies, avoiding red meat and processed foods, exercising, sleeping well and so forth--we should expect them to live long, prosperous lives and die of old age while peacefully slumbering, right? So why is ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600392/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 07:15:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600392/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The American Psychiatric Association released its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or dubbed simply as the "DSM-5." The manual's release was coincided with the APA's annual meeting that kicked off May 18 in San Francisco. The first major revision to the manual in almost two decades, the new DSM has been met by controversy since ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600393/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 07:13:01 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214600393/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Maggie Boyle will leave Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) next month ahead of a management shake-up which follows fears over high mortality figures. Operations were temporarily suspended earlier this year after concerns were raised over death rates at the children's heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). Ms Boyle is not believed to have tendered her resignation. A trust ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 06:29:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON -- Some Alabama physicians and physician assistants were surprised this week to receive a letter with a new demand from the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners: Show us your papers. Under the state's 2011 immigration law, these medical professionals are now required to prove they are U.S. citizens or in the country legally to maintain their licenses to practice, according to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599899/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 06:12:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599899/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Kerala News: It can't be denied that medical tourism has a promising future in Kerala and India. This year, tourist influx is yet to gain momentum, thanks to the reports of European recession and health problems in the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599455/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 05:28:43 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599455/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The revelation that Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against cancer stoked heated discussion this week, but one prominent cancer researcher says it demonstrates the need to make genetic testing available to all ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599456/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 05:17:25 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214599456/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c ultrasound , the natural enzyme plasmin is more effective at dissolving stroke-causing clots than the standard of care, recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). The novel delivery method involved trapping plasmin into bubble-like liposomes, delivering them to the clot intravenously and bursting it via ultrasound. That method is necessary, says UC associate professor of emergency ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598936/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:27:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598936/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of medical disorders including excess body fat and/or high levels of blood pressure, blood sugar and/or cholesterol. However, University of Missouri researchers found that simvastatin, a generic type of statin previously sold under the brand name "Zocor," hindered the positive effects of exercise for obese and overweight adults. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598937/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:27:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598937/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c When the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged, complex new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the regions of the brain involved in creating those alternate pathways - often far from the damaged site. The research, conducted by UCLA's Michael Fanselow and Moriel Zelikowsky in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598938/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598938/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c cholesterol , altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to clogged arteries. In addition to changing HDL from "good" to "bad," the inhalation of emissions activates other components of oxidation, the early cell and tissue damage that ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598939/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598939/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases -- ICD-9 -- to the new ICD-10. Doctors, hospitals and all other healthcare providers have until October 2014 to switch to the new coding system, used to classify every disease or condition and in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598941/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598941/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas found that risky sexual behavior can be predicted by cultural, socioeconomic and individual mores in conjunction with how one views themselves. Katherine Hertlein of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will present her team's findings at the 63rd annual International Communication Association conference in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598940/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598940/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c In the largest clinical trial to date to examine the efficacy of PARP inhibitor therapy in BRCA 1/2 carriers with diseases other than breast ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598943/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:55 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598943/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c cancer doctors, patients, and members of the general public support cutting health care costs by refusing to pay for drugs that don't improve survival or quality of life, according to results of a new study that will be presented by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598942/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:55 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598942/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c angina , or chronic chest pain, are lower than previously considered; therefore, physicians should focus on relieving the chest pain symptoms and improving the quality of life in these patients according to an article published online in the European Heart Journal. Refractory angina patients endure ongoing chest pain despite optimal medical management and for them, standard revascularization ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598944/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:54 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598944/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A national survey finds that a large majority of adults in the US voluntarily apply smoke-free rules in their homes or vehicles. Yet despite this, millions of Americans, many of them children, continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke in these environments, say researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who write about their findings in a study published online in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598946/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598946/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sisters Cathy Balsamo, left, Patti Broccoli, center, and Cindy Lepore, right, have all tested positive for the BRCA1 genetic mutation that raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. All three sisters have had preventive surgery to have their breasts and ovaries removed. Two weeks after her surgery, Broccoli was diagnosed with breast ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598947/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:15:48 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598947/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.UCDMC has postponed 48 elective surgeries – including some for major cancers – and rescheduled 519 radiological examinations, a spokesman said.On an average day, 65 elective surgeries take place at ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598330/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 03:25:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598330/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c OTTAWA - Health Canada has completed a safety review of the anti-acne medication Diane-35 and determined the drug's benefits outweigh its risks when appropriately used. In Canada, Diane-35 is approved for the temporary treatment of severe acne in women who are unresponsive to other treatments. The federal agency says it should not be used in patients with a history that puts them at risk ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598331/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 03:08:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598331/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Financial advisers caution about making direct comparisons with retail bonds, such as the Nuffield Health bond, and fixed rate bond savings accounts. Photograph: ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598170/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 02:15:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598170/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday’s evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597617/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 02:12:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597617/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Under a bill sent to Gov. Pat Quinn, a four-year trial program would allow doctors to prescribe approved patients no more than 2.5 ounces of marijuana every two ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597635/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:55:34 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597635/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sue McLean in her Minneapolis office in 2010. On the wall behind her are guitars signed by Jack Johnson, left and Joe Bonamassa. (Pioneer Press file photo: Scott Takushi) Sue McLean, the preeminent Twin Cities music promoter who brought talent to the Basilica Block Party, the Minnesota Zoo and the Live at the Guthrie Series, has died of cancer, her company announced. Sue McLean and Associates ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597605/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:51:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597605/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Madeleine McCann . After reviewing investigative files on the case, detectives said they had a list of persons of interest, The Daily Telegraph reported. Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who heads the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the review found "investigative and forensic opportunities." Madeleine disappeared shortly before her 4th birthday in August 2007. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597600/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:49:11 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214597600/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c It sounds like something out of a horror story--parents say that their young daughter was murdered at a clinic so the staff could harvest her ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596983/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:09:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596983/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders handbook determines which diagnostic codes medical professionals use for patients and can affect whether health insurance pays for treatment. The latest version has some ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596984/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:07:22 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596984/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c "Forty-five years ago, only three per cent of our population was diabetic and now the figure stands at 25 per cent," said Dr Kumar Sundaraneedi, Medical Director of Health Programmes and Technical Support Services at the Ministry of Health, during the official launch of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Nutritionists and Dieticians (TTANDi)’s cookbook at the National Library, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596238/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596238/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The Solavita resident has beaten cancer not once, not twice, but six times. He travels to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa for daylong treatment at least once a month because of cancerous tumors in his liver.He estimates that he spends 72 hours a month at the doctor's office, and even with a treatment schedule filled to capacity Handler leaves time for a bike ride — and a run, and a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596239/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:14 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596239/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c It is shocking to learn that there is 30 per cent neo-natal deaths taking place in India. This is due to very poor healthcare facilities available in India. Similarly, the education facilities are also very scarce in India. The expenditure incurred by the Government on healthcare and education facilities in India is very ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596240/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sat, 18 May 2013 00:07:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214596240/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Richard A. Cramer, a biomedical industry veteran and philanthropist who served as chairman of The Scripps Research Institute, has died at the age of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595444/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 23:04:52 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595444/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c James Grissom, who was convicted in 2003 and sentenced 15 years in prison for the rape of Sara Ylen, looks out a window in Southgate, Mich. Ylen, who said she was battling cancer, is now charged with fraud, false pretenses and using a computer to commit a crime because state police found no doctor who diagnosed her cancer. The charges were made as those who regularly helped Ylen reel from the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595529/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595529/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Unfortunately, "observation" status is increasingly being used to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals, leaving patients and their families with unexpected bills at the end of their hospital stays. These are stressful situations complicated by unexpected financial ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595530/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595530/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c ATLANTA -- A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the Associated ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594944/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:53:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594944/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of one of the country's most stringent abortion laws, an Arkansas ban on the procedure at the 12th week of pregnancy, saying the law was likely to be declared ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594833/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:33:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594833/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Talia CastellanoTalia Castellano, a 13-year-old internet sensation who is battling brain cancer, films an interview with a local film crew at Arnold Palmer hospital in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday, May 08, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594852/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594852/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c < 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } A compromise health and human services bill being debated Friday, May 17, in the House would help nursing homes and spare hospitals from a surcharge while taking a bite out of HMOs. With net spending of $11.3 billion over a two-year period beginning in July, the health budget bill constitutes more than 30 percent of total general fund spending for the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594866/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:24:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594866/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Ken Venturi, whose 1964 U.S. Open victory was one of the most memorable feats in the history of the golf, died Friday at the age of 82. His death came less than a week after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Venturi had been hospitalized since March for a variety of health issues, including pneumonia and infections in his back and intestine. He won 14 times on the PGA Tour ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594813/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594813/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c CORPUS CHRISTI -- Five cases of chickenpox in a Nueces County day care center were confirmed Friday by the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District. Most of those affected were younger than the recommended age for vaccination, which is 12 months and older, the department said in a news release. Officials were not available for comment. Chickenpox is highly contagious and is spread ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594867/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:19:31 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594867/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A new study gives evidence that Americans who get cancer are twice as likely as healthy Americans to go bankrupt, regardless of whether they have insurance or not. White women were the most likely demographic to go broke, and thyroid cancer, which mostly affects young women, was the type of cancer most closely associated with bankruptcy. Prostate cancer among older men was the least likely to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594013/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:34:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594013/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Thirty-six students at the University of Central Florida graduated debt-free Friday. Four years ago, UCF had just broken ground on its medical school. It had no accreditation, no faculty, and needed to lure the nation's top students to an unknown school, so they offered to give each med student free tuition and covered all their living expenses. A dean and some of the graduates, in their own ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594014/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:31:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594014/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A YouGov poll found 1-in-2 U.S. women would have a double mastectomy if genetic tests suggested they had a very high chance of developing breast cancer. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive on the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highlands Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 26, 2012. UPI/Kevin ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594647/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:13:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594647/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c While a stressful job can increase the risk of heart problems and lead to a 25 percent higher chance of having a heart attack or dying of other heart related illnesses, researchers have found that a healthy lifestyle could reduce this risk. The results, which were published in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592993/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:38:12 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592993/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c For most people, joint pains equate to arthritis, a part of the rite of passage for getting older. There is more to arthritis than meets the eye.Arthritis is the leading cause of disability and a growing problem in the United States. According to the Arthritis Foundation, an estimated 67 million Americans will have some form of the disease by 2030. It's already taxing on the American health ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592994/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:33:54 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592994/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Researchers in the Netherlands found that cancer survivors who became depressed were twice as likely as other survivors to die prematurely. (Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592995/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592995/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Bandar Seri Begawan - Forty four medical and staff personnel at the Pengkalan Batu Health Centre yesterday attended a briefing on how to prevent fires and how to use fire extinguishers. Officers and staff from all divisions including outpatient, dental division, pharmaceutical division, cleaners and security guards participated. A talk was delivered by Hj Said Hj Matassim, Station Officer of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214593139/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:27:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214593139/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Chris Matthews talks with Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, about how sequester cuts are affecting NIH. The Grio's Joy Reid also joins the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592997/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:23:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592997/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Dr. Larry Norton, a world-renowned expert on breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, discusses Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo genetic testing for the breast cancer ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592996/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:23:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592996/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Washing your hands after using the bathroom might be a common practice to stop the spread of germs, but not many women may wash their hands after they put them in their purse. But, according to a study conducted by the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592998/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:11:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592998/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c We love sharing pictures of adorable animals with you and this -- one of the trademarks of world news now take a look at this this morning we have quite -- -- from the Pittsburgh zoo. That's earned six week old tiger cub went in for an -- -- -- yesterday -- -- -- Bible making his debut in front of the news cameras of cars. Because -- hadn't been named yet yet the veterinarians say he is ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592999/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:09:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592999/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Hollywood actor Justin Bartha is engaged to fitness trainer Lia Smith, multiple sources confirmed to UsMagazine.com Friday. The two reportedly met during a Pilates session at Equinox gym in Los Angeles where Smith is an instructor. They went public with their relationship in January and the 34-year-old star of "The Hangover" movies proposed to Smith this month while on vacation at ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592985/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592985/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c In utero exposure to the medications that treat depression may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorders in less than 1 percent of cases. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller talks with friends during a fund raiser for the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in St. Louis on May 16, 2013. UPI/Bill ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592869/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592869/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Middle-aged men who stayed fit were less likely to die from three common cancers after being diagnosed than those who were out of shape, research found. In a study of 17,049 men, those with good respiratory and cardiovascular fitness were more likely to survive prostate, lung or colorectal cancer, and avoid developing lung or colorectal cancers. The results were released Wednesday by ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214593001/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214593001/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c But modern trade pacts reach deep into our lives in ways that have nothing to do with trade. Deals now under discussion undermine the freedom of people everywhere to decide how to live, and they restrict the ability of democratically-elected governments to promote public health. It's time for the rest of us to pay attention: A recent trade spat between Cuba and Australia shows exactly ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591853/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:33:56 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591853/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.U.S. District Judge Robert Timilin also ordered Dr. Christine Daniel to forfeit $1,277,083.Daniel, 58, was found guilty of 11 counts, including wire fraud, tax ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591854/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:25:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591854/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Madison - Gov. Scott Walker's proposed rejection of a federally funded expansion of state health programs would add $52 million in costs for state taxpayers over the next two years, according to the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office. The new report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau immediately became part of the debate over Walker's budget proposal for Medicaid programs, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591855/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:24:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591855/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c BEIRUT: There is a growing risk of outbreaks of bacterial infections, including typhoid fever and possibly even cholera, among Syrian refugees living in poor sanitary conditions, medical workers warned, as Lebanon’s imminent summer ushers in swelteringly hot weather. Spring’s cool respite from the winter freeze and a deluge of rain hasn’t lasted long. Temperatures are expected ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591856/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:20:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591856/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it wants as many as 20 percent of its workers to "telework," use an "alternative work schedule," or do both, in order to "reduce green house gas emissions," decrease "employee stress," and give these government workers more time for ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591739/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:19:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591739/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Shortly after informing the board of directors of her breast cancer, former CEO of Tuesday Morning was ousted as the head of the furniture retail company last June. Kathleen Mason, who served as CEO for 12 years, has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming she was discriminated against. The Wall Street Journal reports this may be ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591858/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:16:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591858/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c At around 4 on a Saturday morning, a time when most of the gay bars in New York have closed and locked their doors, a steady stream of young and middle-aged men, almost all shirtless and some stripped down to their boxer briefs, have found their way down a dark stairwell and into a maze of basement rooms, where the dcor can best be described as fallout-shelter ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592690/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:09:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214592690/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A review of past research finds that fever-reducing drugs have no effect on the speed of children's recovery from an infection, contrary to the fears of some doctors and ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591859/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:43 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591859/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON (Reuters) - USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories has detected porcine epidemic diarrhea (PEDV), a virus associated with outbreaks of diarrhea and vomiting, in the Iowa hog population, a USDA spokesman said on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:43 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c About 30,000 workers statewide including 5,800 at UC Davis are represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 or University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America Local 9119. While the California Public Employment Relations Board will seek a court injunction Monday to stop University of California medical center workers ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591857/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:59:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591857/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Medical school graduates often have their pick of job opportunities in well-outfitted urban hospitals in Ghana. Meanwhile, the ratio of doctors serving the population of the rural Upper East region is just one for every 35,010 citizens. One student is defying trends of urban migration to bring much-needed care to these remote ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591861/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:56:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591861/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c At least 40 people were killed and 56 were injured Friday in a bomb attack during a funeral at the Sariya Mosque in Baquba, Iraq, authorities said. Citing a source it didn't name, IraqiNews.com reported security forces blocked roads leading to the mosque in central Diyala province "to transport the dead bodies" and to take the injured to hospitals for treatment. The source said ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591886/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:56:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591886/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A still image taken from hidden-carmera video footage that shows how staff at St. Joseph's at Fleming care home treated resident Hellen MacDonald. (Video ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590594/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:28 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590594/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Bungoma town is another facility that has been receiving victims of the recent atrocities and it is here where the wife of a slain businessman and her daughter were admitted. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590595/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:25 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590595/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON -; Political scandals cause collateral damage and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will snag some really big game - President Barack Obama's health care ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590596/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590596/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Even before news organizations confirmed that Sarah Hall Ingram, who headed the tax-exempt division of the IRS, would lead agency's implementation of the ACA, Republicans wasted no time ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590598/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:16:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590598/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Thousands of infertile couples could benefit from a new IVF procedure that can dramatically improve the success rate of having a baby through artificial ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590458/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:13:26 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590458/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The operator of a human resources company pleaded guilty to health care fraud and filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade. Ms. McQuade was joined in the announcement with Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Detroit Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley III of the FBI’s Detroit ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590599/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:12:23 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590599/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c sent a medical marijuana bill to Gov. Pat Quinn Friday, after the Senate passed a measure 35-21 largely along party lines. The measure would permit marijuana use with a doctor's prescription for 33 specified ailments, require users, growers, and dispensaries to undergo fingerprinting and criminal background checks, and limit the number of growers and dispensaries. The news comes as several ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590600/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:06:22 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590600/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c confirmed cases , the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. The WHO reiterated that there is no evidence that the new strain of bird flu, which was first detected in patients in China in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590379/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590379/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most surgeons-in-training dislike new rules that limit how many hours they can work, according to a new study that also found the majority said they skirt the restrictions. Researchers surveyed 1,013 surgical residents - who train for years alongside more senior surgeons - and found that about two of every three said they disapproved of the 2011 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590459/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:58:48 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590459/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Onex Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer Gerald Schwartz speaks at their annual general meeting for shareholders in Toronto, May 6, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590347/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:57:19 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590347/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sherri Shepherd cites diabetes as the reason she has the life she had today, according to her new book "Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don't Have ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590602/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590602/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c An American missionary priest in Kenya who became embroiled in a legal dispute over the ownership of hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood. The Maryknoll Society suspended Father William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a lawsuit he filed three years ago against Cardinal John Njue and Sister Marie Therese Gachamab, superior of the Assumption Sisters in Nairobi. He charges that ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590603/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:39 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590603/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Touch Bionics' "i-limb ultra revolution" bionic hands are seen in this image from the company's website. Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Ga. woman who survived a flesh-eating infection last year, reportedly received these bionic hands from the Ohio-based ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590604/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:51:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590604/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c As North Carolina's Medicaid officials tour the state for input about reform, they're likely to get some skepticism. Many doctors, health care experts, and ordinary citizens have questioned the wisdom of inviting private companies from outside the state to manage the program, and instead called on state leaders to expand on the model currently implemented by Community Care of North ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590605/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:50:44 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590605/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Darrell Issa , R-Calif., told The Hill. In 1998, House Republicans focused investigations on campaign-finance controversies that plagued Clinton. However, those investigations quickly became personal, with then-Oversight Committee ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590917/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590917/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Authorities in Wisconsin said they responded to a home on a report of a man being bitten by a black bear that refused to leave his yard. Marinette County sheriff's deputies and Silver Cliff Rescue said the Silver Cliff man's wife called authorities Wednesday at 1:25 p.m. to report a black bear had bitten her husband and was circling their home, The (Iron Mountain, Mich.) Daily News ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591083/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591083/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON -- The humanitarian situation in a rural area of eastern South Sudan appears to be worsening after a hosptial run by an international medical group was heavily damaged in violence last week. Residents are fleeing Pibor town, which is in Jonglei state, near the border with Ethiopia, and some NGO's are evacuating staff from the area. The local hospital, which was run by the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589343/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589343/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The starting gate for motocross' opening race this weekend will be stacked with the best riders in the sport, all healthy and ready to take on what should be one of the most competitive seasons in recent ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589335/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589335/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c One yellow fever shot confers lifetime protection and the customary ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590368/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:56:49 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214590368/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Medicaid Services (CMS), the government division overseeing the roll out of the new Marketplaces, is getting ready. It recently announced that thousands of people will be hired to staff call centers tied to the Marketplaces. Beginning in June, 7,000 to 9,000 additional people will answer phones through CMS’s ';1-800-Medicare'; help line, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The staff ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589338/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:54:39 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589338/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Durban - A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589339/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:49 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589339/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Soccer matches played at a high level of competition are more likely to result in injuries - and in more serious ones - compared to less important games, according to a new study. The finding makes sense, according to Hkan Bengtsson, who led the research, because prestigious games are likely to be "higher intensity and (result in) more ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589185/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589185/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c California's Fiscally Disciplined Budget Positive Fitch Ratings views California's fiscal 2014 budget as continuing the disciplined approach to fiscal management shown by the state in recent years. California's economic outlook cautiously forecasts that the expiration of the federal payroll tax holiday and federal sequestration cuts will have a modestly negative impact on personal ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589340/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:36 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589340/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law restricting abortion because it may violate a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. In a ruling dated May 15, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber declined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two doctors at Little Rock Family Planning Services Inc., challenging the constitutionality of the Arkansas Human Heartbeat ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589954/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:05 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589954/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A turtle that was hit by a car in Canada was airlifted nearly 250 miles for medical treatment, officials said. The snapping turtle was hit by the car in Sarnia in southwestern Ontario last Saturday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. The local Heaven's Wildlife Rescue was unable to provide the medical care the turtle needed so the animal rescue contacted Windsor pilot Rick Woodall, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589341/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589341/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Israel says military dogs are getting their own personnel files with serial numbers, medical backgrounds, performance reports and photos. Dogs of the Oketz canine special forces unit have received a military serial number which the army will use to track their activities, Ynetnews reported Friday. Each dog has also been given a personnel file that contains information from the moment it joined ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589463/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589463/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c As hospitals move into a new era of health care in which they are reimbursed for quality as opposed to the quantity, analysts like those at Moodys Investors Service say demonstrating patient value instead of patient volumes will be more important for nonprofit hospitals moving forward. Thats a historic shift for hospitals, Moodys reports, and it will likely influence credit ratings. And there ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589337/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:27:05 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214589337/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Marijuana has been used for centuries to relieve pain, improve mood and increase appetite. A new study suggests that the herb also has a positive effect on blood sugar levels, suggesting it could be helpful in diabetes ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588069/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588069/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Dysfunctional mitochondria in brain cells can result in learning disabilities, according to a new study in Molecular Cell. The association between dysfunctional mitochondria ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587997/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:52:07 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587997/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A Lexington restaurant closed Wednesday after scoring a 59 on its Fayette County Health Department inspection.Yamamoto Japanese Grill & Sushi, 130 West Tiverton Way in south Lexington, was closed after a health department inspection cited it for violations including:■ Potentially hazardous food not date-marked■ Raw chicken thawing at room temperature■ Sushi chef preparing sushi without ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587998/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:51:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587998/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c My pathology report, with its long list of malignant lumps, filled me with terror and guilt. I must have done a hell of a lot wrong, I reasoned, to cop a tumour-load like that. "30mm at 12 o'clock, 11mm at 10 o'clock , 7mm at 3 o'clock and another of the same size at 3.30, 4mm, 3mm and 1.5mm." Nearly 65mm of cancer in one small left breast. I tried to fit it all in a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587999/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:28 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587999/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Red and yellow tulips are blooming at Winchester Public School in downtown Toronto, but that's not all that is growing there. Students are planting radishes, spinach, parsley, carrots and mouse melons, too. Composting is the lesson for the day in this large food garden. "The worms poop and that's how the dirt goes," explains kindergarten student Sophie. Kids pull dandelion ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588002/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:39:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588002/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Able Seaman Carol Anne Deyoung was charged with disobeying a lawful command and absence without leave after she felt a lump in her breast and called in sick. The member of the Royal Canadian Navy opted for a court martial, but now says charges have been dropped. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588001/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:39:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588001/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c morbidly obese study participants were 39 percent less likely than normal-weight women to develop the chronic condition - in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus and causes painful periods and bleeding. That link was especially strong among women with infertility, according to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588876/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588876/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c SEATTLE -- A new health insurance marketplace being set up in Washington state to help small businesses find insurance for their employees will not be fully operational this fall, as planned. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange instead will run a pilot project in a few counties for its small business program, starting in October 2013. The small business insurance exchange will expand across ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587915/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:37:55 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587915/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Migrants' cost to the NHS is far smaller proportionally than Britons because they are younger, less likely to be ill or to have started a family. The service is also not quite as good as in Poland, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587923/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:36 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587923/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c May 17, 2013 10:44 am The New England Patriots cut player Kyle Love after his diabetes diagnosis on Wednesday, which is leaving some people questioning the ethics of such a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588004/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:28:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588004/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation said today it has launched an online tool that allows users to track the changing makeup of the state’s health-care delivery system.The foundation added its new website provides easy access to information about ownership and major contracting relationships for the state’s acute care hospitals, hospital systems, medical groups, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588005/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:28:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588005/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the rampant price gouging in the healthcare industry that continues to price too many Americans out of access to care and into financial ruin. Not only is the problem not solved by the Affordable Care Act, but it is a likely reason many will continue to demand more effective reform, as in expanding and ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588006/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588006/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Bad at math? An electrical jolt to the brain may be just what the doctor ordered. A new study finds that painless electrical stimulation to the brain helped people perform a set of calculations faster than people who didn't receive the shocks. Not only that, the skills appeared to last long-term. "With just five days of cognitive training and noninvasive, painless brain stimulation, we ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588007/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588007/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON The organic food industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states. But that isn't going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on a sweeping farm bill that has for decades propped up ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587730/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587730/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A San Francisco restaurant owner says he's out of business after complaints about the smell of bacon led to a discovery the eatery lacked proper health permits. Jim Angelus, the owner of Bacon Bacon, said the restaurant will shut down at the close of business Friday. Neighbors complained last summer about the smell and alleged Bacon Bacon did not properly dispose of grease. The San ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588385/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:20:28 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214588385/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A Michigan woman gained the sympathy and admiration of her community as the subject of a newspaper's award-winning series about surviving rape. People and organizations then rallied when her cancer diagnosis became ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586548/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:47:36 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586548/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c NAIROBI -- The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has condemned a brutal attack on civilians living in Mpeti village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. MSF says frequent attacks by armed groups in the villages and towns of North Kivu province have made it difficult for the group to provide medical assistance. The village in North Kivu province ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586636/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:47:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586636/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 - To promote healthy eating among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Chef Ming Tsai have teamed up to film a cooking demonstration in the White House kitchen featuring healthy and traditional Asian recipes that follow the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations that support the U.S. Department of Agriculture ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586324/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:46:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586324/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Gertrude Nakigudde is an accountant in Kampala, Uganda. I'm a freelance reporter and journalism instructor in Seattle. Angelina Jolie is, well, Angelina Jolie. We've all had mastectomies, and we've all nursed parents through their final days with breast cancer. (In Gertrude's case it was her father - men get breast cancer, too.) Angelina's announcement - that she ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586549/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:45:25 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586549/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Registered nurses at The Scarborough Hospital are advocating for their patients by helping the community send the message: cutting nurses is cutting health care. (Gregory Bennett/ONTARIO NURSES' ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586550/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:44:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586550/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Oxford University researchers in a new study found that a weak electrical signal can help boost a person’s mathematic skills over a period few months. The team wrote in the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587460/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A memorial at the entrance to Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine represents the 29 coal miners who were killed in an explosion in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586551/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:39:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586551/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A growing body of research has found time and again that public health actually improves when times are tough economically. That's right: temporary downturns have been associated with declines in deaths, alcohol consumption, and other unhealthy behaviors. It's a finding that researchers have replicated both here and abroad; a downturn, it seems, could be good for your ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586552/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:39:23 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586552/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c It is over 1,000 pages long, has undergone more than three years of revisions and has set doctors at each other's throats. But the latest version of the psychiatrists' bible is finally out - to a chorus of criticism that it is pathologising everyday ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586337/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:35:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586337/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Recently, the American Urological Association (AUA) announced new guidelines for prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing.  These guidelines were designed to help urologists, and ultimately patients, reduce prostate cancer mortality by making informed screening decisions.  These recommendations were based on comprehensive literature reviews and the strength of the existing evidence. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586553/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:10:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586553/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Mary Regan, Political Correspondent The proposed criteria for assessing the risk of suicide to a woman seeking an abortion has been questioned by the Irish Medical Council. It has expressed concern about the ability of women in all parts of the country to access treatment needed under the criteria outlined in the heads of the Protection of Human Life during pregnancy Bill. The Oireachtas Health ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586486/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:07:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586486/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Raleigh's Axial Exchange Inc. raised another $1 million in debt financing, bringing its total funding to $5 million since early 2011. The company struck a deal with the Mayo Clinic last year, which partly led to the development of Axial Patient, a smartphone and tablet app that helps patients better manage their health. Axial sells the app to hospitals, which patients are then given access ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586554/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:06:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586554/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c May 17, 2013 12:26pm Visiting a gynecologist for the first time can be awkward and embarrassing for some teens. But the visit is crucial to help them understand their bodies and lay the groundwork for future health and wellness. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends the first visit should be between the ages of 13 to 15. The exam should be an opportunity to educate ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586555/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:05:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586555/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c May. 17, 2013 Health Canada says a very common antibiotic can increase the risk of death from cardiac arrhythmia. The agency said drug maker Pfizer has updated the precautionary information for Azithromycin (sold as Zithromax and Zmax SR) after a study showed "a small absolute increase in the risk of cardiovascular deaths" in patients taking the drug, as compared to those who took the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586557/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:04:34 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586557/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c View results A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.The name of the provider is not yet known, United Press International said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584855/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:25:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584855/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c LOS ANGELES -; The five largest University of California medical centers have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a looming, two-day strike by some workers next ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214585678/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214585678/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c A new poll finds 42 percent of Americans aren't sure that the Affordable Care Act is actually a law. Guest Host Celeste Headlee discusses this and other health care-related issues with Mary Agnes Carey, senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, and NPR's Senior Washington Editor, Ron ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584856/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:02 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584856/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c NEW YORK -- A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" - some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play with residents of the The Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey.BY Experience has ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584857/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:17:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584857/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c McGill University in Montreal announced last week a new $58 million collaboration between the Rossy Cancer Network and its teaching hospitals: the McGill University Health Center, Jewish General and St. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584858/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:58:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584858/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c WASHINGTON (AP) -- The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584533/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:57:36 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584533/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota doctors say prescription drug abuse is a severe problem in the state and they often feel caught between patients who need pain medication and those who say they should do more to curb ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214585735/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:57:29 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214585735/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Sun-catching Pringle ... the building nestles behind earthen berms. Photograph: Paul Raftery The origins of his design for the Maggie's Centre are now framed on the wall of the reception, where watercolour sketches show a pagan sunburst, with a curious crimson face, beaming health-giving rays down over the building. A circular roof arches upwards to catch the sunbeams, forming a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584859/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:52:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584859/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Some of 40 chaperones and students visiting Penn State's main campus say they came home with bedbug bites. The school says bedbugs were reported in the Curtin Hall dormitory. Three rooms were treated, and all of the residence hall's rooms are being checked. A university spokeswoman says a pest control service used a heat treatment to get rid of the bugs. Several Pittsburgh high ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:52:24 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584860/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c LONDON - It has the distinctly un-catchy, abbreviated title ';DSM-5,'; and is known to no one outside the world of mental health. But, even before its publication on May 22, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry’s dictionary of disorders, has triggered a bitter row that stretches across the Atlantic and has fueled a profound debate about how ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584861/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:51:36 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584861/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Millions of U.S. children are living with mental health disorders, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584863/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:49:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584863/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c World Health Organization stated. While it can be fatal, malaria is preventable and curable, according to the agency. Mosquitoes infected with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite have an increased rate of transmitting malaria. They consume larger, more frequent blood meals than those without the parasite. For the new study, both Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes that were infected by the Plasmodium ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584862/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:49:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584862/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Washington - A measure of the U.S. economy's future health rose in solidly in April, buoyed by a sharp rise in applications to build new homes and apartments. The Conference Board says its index of leading indicators increased 0.6 percent last month to a reading of 95. That followed a 0.2 percent decline in March. The index is intended to signal economic conditions three to six months out. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584540/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:45:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584540/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Up until the early 20th century, being diagnosed with diabetes was essentially a death sentence. Without an effective treatment, patients died due to ketoacidosis, a complication of uncontrolled diabetes in which the body produces high levels of toxic blood acids called ketones.1 In 1916, Romanian physiologist Nicolas Paulescu discovered a pancreatic extract that normalized blood sugar levels in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584864/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:44:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584864/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c ADHD ) is the most prevalent diagnosis amongst youngsters between the ages of three and 17, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583259/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:24 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583259/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583260/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:59:31 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583260/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c E. coli bacteria are present in over half of all public swimming pools, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. E. coli (Escherichia coli), a fecal indicator was found in 58% of pool samples, the CDC informed. Fecal material (poop material) can get into a pool during a formed or diarrheal fecal incident in the water or washing off of swimmers ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583261/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:58:02 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583261/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c CNBC ) Americans spent some $45.9 billion on dining out in April of this year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That total is a $200-million increase from the previous monthly high set in December of last year. Given the ongoing concern about the economy and whether or not government stimulus is actually pulling the United States out of its malaise, this figure came as a bolt out of the blue ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583262/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583262/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c LONDON | Fri May 17, 2013 10:52am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - British singer George Michael has received medical treatment after a car crash on Thursday, his publicist said. The 49-year-old former Wham! frontman was being treated for "minor cuts and bruises" after the accident, Michael's spokeswoman said. "George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584795/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:52:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214584795/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c James Lathlin and his wife Shelly Cowley-Lathlin sit with their daughter Tameka, who has a brain injury, in the pediatrics ward of Royal University Hospital. Lathlin is concerned that fewer medical specialists are staying in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583263/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583263/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Perhaps Saskatchewan's Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk put it best as he tabled the latest report into questionable accounting practices used by his ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583264/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:39 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583264/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Injured turtle Porter suffered extensive facial injuries but is recovering at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre in Peterborough, Ont. (Kawartha Turtle Trauma ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583265/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583265/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c University of Central Florida College of Medicine is graduating this morning, during a ceremony at the main university campus. The charter class of 36 graduates - 20 women and 14 men - were also the first class of medical students in the nation to receive full-ride, four-year scholarships courtesy of community donors. The scholarships, each worth $160,000, helped the school attract more than ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583266/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:55 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583266/scat/a1e025da3c02ca7c