Lung cancer - Martial arts display gets royal approval

Martial arts display gets royal approval
Hounslow Guardian, UK - 22 hours ago sliced a melon in half while it rested on his colleague's chest using a the display, Prince Charles jokingly commented: "I'm so glad that the health and safety

National study to test ResQ-Valve with CPR in cardiac arrest
EurekAlert (press release), DC - 13 hours ago Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. This suction facilitates venous blood return to the chest, increasing forward

Reopen debate on stem-cell research
Kalamazoo Gazette, MI - 16 hours ago passionately represented in this week's hearing before the House Health Policy Committee. An Ann Arbor resident, who is paralyzed from the chest down, urged

DOH introduces anti-tuberculosis drive
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - 5 hours ago Health workers would not be allowed to leave the person's home until they see of appetite, visible weight loss, hot flashes, sweating, and even chest pains or

Bionics beats brain disorders
Canada Free Press, Canada - 20 hours ago But actually it's implanted just under the skin in the patient's chest during an outpatient the US are varied because we don't have a uniform health care system

Man saved by defibrillator works to get more in public places
Virginian Pilot, VA - 2 hours ago Now, he has a tiny defibrillator implanted inside his chest. The city's central library, health department offices and some other buildings have AEDs available

Bill allows kids to medicate themselves
Beaufort Gazette, SC - 1 hour ago and it feels like you've got something really heavy in your chest," he said. The bill was passed to help students with special health needs who frequently take

Chest pain equally common in women and men
Reuters.uk, UK - Mar 21, 2006 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women have a similarly high incidence of stable angina -- chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the heart -- as men, the

Suicide ends up in jury's hands
Pioneer Press, MN - 23 hours ago There are a lot of mental health concerns and Heights police found her lying on her back in her trailer home's bedroom, dead from a gunshot wound to her chest.

Cocklers' final moments recounted
BBC News, UK - 1 hour ago "I am up to my chest in water The Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph all look at the Department of Health survey that found one in 50 pupils aged 11-15 had

Lung cancer - Home & Garden

Home & Garden
Evansville Courier-Press - Select a Topic Cold & Flu ADD & ADHD Allergy Alt. Medicine Arthritis Asthma Diet/Weight Loss Body Aches Breast Cancer Cancer Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception Dental Health Diabetes Digestive Elder Care E.R. Emphysema

Dana Reeve's Death Highlights Mystery of Lung Cancer Among Nonsmoking
Daily News Central - Lung cancer killed Dana Reeve on Monday. She was 44 and had never smoked. People know her as the constant caregiver and support for her husband, actor Christopher Reeve, whose tragic fall from a horse in 1995 paralyzed him. He died in 2004. About one

Scientists in food fight over soda
CNN - (AP) -- Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone. Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages. One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid. The nation's single

Statewide Ban Could Slow Smoking
Morning News - Smokers snickering about how they can avoid Fayetteville's smoking ban by running up the road to restaurants and bars in other towns might want to take notice of a bill Gov. Mike Huckabee is supposedly shopping around. One of the measures that could

INTERVIEW WITH AARON ECKHART ON THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
Cinema Confidential - Ceramic babies with incense cigarettes are scattered on the table, and Aaron Eckhart wants one. That is unbelievable, can I get one of these? asks the actor, after sauntering amiably into the room and picking up a tiny would-be smoker. Like

Associated Press
News Busters - When the president starts a sentence with "some say" or offers up what "some in Washington" believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows. The national media was full of broken hearts last week when Dana

Huffing and Puffing
Orange County Weekly - Thank You for Smoking , a new comedy by Jason Reitman, is as sleek, clever and cocky as its anti-heroic protagonist, Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a hard-driving lobbyist for the tobacco industry who can turn the most unpromising PR quagmire to his

Lung cancer - 2005 Power of the Pen

2005 Power of the Pen
Hamilton Spectator - No way Jose, I am not going in there. This is what I thought to myself as I looked up at the big, old, creepy-looking house I was obligated to enter. It was located on an eerie, deserted lane. See, it was Saturday and I was doing deliveries for

Russia Vaccinates Birds At Moscow's Zoo Against Bird Flu
CattleNetwork.com - MOSCOW (AP)--Authorities vaccinated birds at Moscow 's Zoo Tuesday as part of a program to protect domestic fowl in Russia against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. For the workers tasked with giving the injections, however, catching up with the

Judge to Decide Accused Killer's Fate
WNEP-TV 16 - The fate of an admitted murderer is in the hands of a judge in Lycoming County. Police said Brian Yasipour stabbed his daughter dozens of times in 2001. His attorneys are trying to prove he was insane at the time of the deadly stabbing. The district

Lung cancer - Guidelines for getting vaccinated

Guidelines for getting vaccinated
Bergen Record - Vaccines play an important role in preventive health. Age, lifestyle and previous illnesses can help healthy adults decide whether to get a specific shot. Here is some general advice. Tetanus-diphtheria vaccine: Every 10 years. These vaccines are

Exposure to Dirt, Pets, and Pollen at an Early Age May Fight Allergies
WVLT - Knoxville, Tennessee (WVLT) -- We've known for decades, the only way to develop immunity to certain viruses is to acquire the virus itself and develop antibodies. Now, researchers are applying that thinking to allergies. In this week's Healthy

Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Science Daily - Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel . While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human

Danger in the kitchen
USA Today - Rebecca Allen has known she is allergic to peanuts and milk products since she was 2, when her parents had her tested. Yet despite her best efforts, she hasn't always been able to avoid them. Sam Gilman, 13, pictured here with his father Andrew, is

Use of antibiotics eyed in childhood asthma
Knoxville News Sentinel - Researchers have found that infants who are given antibiotics in the first year of life are twice as likely to develop childhood asthma than those who don't take the drugs. In addition, a new study that synthesized results from previously published

Chest health - Scientists Seek Clues for Acupuncture's Success

Scientists Seek Clues for Acupuncture's Success
WebMD - Mar 20 12:01 PM
In part 3 of WebMD's 4-part series on alternative medicine learn how acupuncture might help when Western medicine doesn't have an answer.Save to My Web

Scientists Discover How Coffee Can Reduce Risk Of Pancreatitis
Science Daily - Mar 20 3:13 PM
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found how coffee can reduce the risk of alcohol-induced pancreatitis. Pancreatitis is a condition in which the pancreas becomes inflamed, causing severe abdominal pain. It is often triggered by alcohol consumption which causes digestive enzymes to digest part of the pancreas.Save to My Web

Head off allergies: Expose kids to pets, dirt early
KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul - Mar 20 8:18 AM
Here's the conventional wisdom: Pets promote allergy, kids shouldn't eat peanuts until they're at least 3, and intestinal worms are nothing more thanSave to My Web

Leptin linked to asthma in women
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 16 11:31 AM
High levels of leptin, an inflammatory compound produced by body fat, may raise the risk of asthma in premenopausal women, new research suggests.Save to My Web

New eczema therapy on horizon
BBC News - Mar 19 5:48 PM
Experts hope to improve treatment of conditions like eczema after finding a gene which causes dry skin.Save to My Web

Immune System Cells May Be Cause of Asthma
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 2:02 PM
WEDNESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- As medical technologies improve, researchers are rooting out more information about possible causes of common diseases, such as asthma.Save to My Web

Allergy shots: Hope for long-term allergy relief
Mayo Clinic - Mar 20 9:27 PM
If you wonder whether allergy shots are right for you or your child there's plenty to consider. Here's how the shots work, when they're recommended and more.Save to My Web

Chest health - Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer

Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer
Canada.com, Canada - Mar 7, 2006 She was 44. Reeve died late Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer, said Sean Dougherty, a spokesman for the foundation.

Dana Reeve's Death Draws Attention to Lung Cancer
International News Service, Australia - Mar 15, 2006 Dana Reeve isn't your typical victim of lung cancer, but she is not a rarity. Ten A. Smoking is the biggest cause of lung cancer. Smoking

Superman Widow Dana Reeve Dies of Lung Cancer
Voice of America - Mar 7, 2006 Dana Reeve - widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve and advocate for victims of spinal cord injuries - died late Monday of lung cancer at the age of 44.

Why lung cancer is a growing risk for women
Standard-Speaker, PA - Mar 7, 2006 NEW YORK - The death of singer-actress Dana Reeve, the widow of actor Christopher Reeve, of lung cancer underscores the risks faced by women, even those who don

Lung cancer survivor's message of strength
Peoria Journal Star, IL - Mar 9, 2006 BY DAYNA R. BROWN. PEORIA - When Ann Centers heard that Dana Reeve died of lung cancer, she was devastated. It brought back memories

Program targets lung cancer
Inside Bay Area, CA - Mar 13, 2006 resident said she was lucky after she heard about the unexpected death this past week of Dana Reeve widow of Christopher Reeve a victim of lung cancer.

Chest health - Drugs firm says sorry over trials

Drugs firm says sorry over trials
ITV.com, UK - Mar 15, 2006 "His chest is puffed out. The MHRA is working with the North West London Strategic Health Authority, the Department of Health and the Metropolitan Police, to