High Schools Try to Keep Athletes Cool
Everyone has to deal with the heat, including high school athletes.
Goodbye, Mystery Meat? School Lunches Get More Healthful
Kids may claim that Tater Tots are the only edible food in the school cafeteria, but in reality, school lunches are getting more healthful. Almost all cafeterias now serve fresh fruits and vegetables, according to a survey of school food directors released Thursday. Whole grains are readily accessible in 97 percent of schools, and 89 [...]
Skin Cancer Drug Gets Quick Approval
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The drug got the green light faster than many other drugs under review, and advocates of personalized medicine say this bodes well for other gene-based drugs in development. When study results for the new drug [...]
Is Malaria Control Failing? Resurgence In Africa Suggests It May Be
New cases of malaria plummeted by 13-fold in the village of Dielmo, in the central highlands of Senegal, after residents started sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and people with malaria were treated with a drug combo that clears their blood of the parasites. That was three years ago. But more recently, malaria’s been on the [...]
Benefits For Severely Disabled Children Scrutinized
To those who believe the federal Supplemental Security Income program for severely disabled children is a lifesaver and not a boondoggle, Hulston Poe is a great example. The 4-year-old was diagnosed with severe ADHD last October, after more than a year of violent temper tantrums, and kicked out of preschool. Case workers said there wasn’t [...]
For Love Or Insurance? Rabbi Seeks Young Wife To Lower Health Costs
When Rabbi Craig Ezring’s annual health insurance costs soared 38 percent this year to a whopping $18,636, he did more than just complain. He went looking for a young wife. For several years, the Boca Raton, Fla., rabbi had been getting coverage through a small corporation he formed with his wife. When she died four [...]
What’s In A Drug Name? Sometimes, Enough To Cause Mix-Ups
If a pharmacist heard the name Clindesse or Clindets while filling a prescription over the phone, they might understandably confuse them, especially if one was more familiar. But the first one is a vaginal antibiotic cream while the other is an antibiotic for acne, and so the patient receiving end of such a mix-up might [...]
As More Women Smoke, Their Risk of Bladder Cancer Grows
Smoking rates have dropped over the last several years, but they now seem to be stuck at about 20 percent for the nation. And nearly as many women now smoke as men, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, bladder cancer rates haven’t gone down much in the last 30 years. While [...]
Salvation Army Doing Part During Heat
After a very short cool down, Oklahoma City is heading back into the triple digit and could be breaking a record for the number of days at or above 100 degrees by Saturday.
Sprained Ankle? Calling ER First Saves Time, Money
Got a bum leg or ankle? If you do, maybe you should call ahead to the emergency room instead of immediately driving over. A study by doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston suggests that hospitals could save time and money if patients with ankle sprains and other lower extremity injuries talk to a health [...]
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