CDC's surveillance summary for week 38 of 2009 reports influenza activity stayed elevated, with 22.8% of specimens testing positive and 99% of subtyped influenza A viruses being 2009 H1N1. Eleven pediatric deaths were reported, all linked to 2009 H1N1.
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Lifestyle
Children at risk for psychotic symptoms if mothers smoke or drink
Among 6,356 participants, 12-year-olds whose mothers smoked during pregnancy more often had psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions, with risk rising the more the mother smoked. Lead author Stanley Zammit stressed the estimate assumes a causal link.
Lifestyle
When Drugs and Therapy Don't Cure Depression, Running Will
Writing in the Washington Post, Daniele Seiss recounts how running lifted her depression after therapy left her drained and antidepressant combinations either failed or brought side effects that made normal life impossible. Mercola adds that he considers exercise effective.
Disease
Obesity Rate Could Reverse Positive Breast Cancer Trend
An American Cancer Society report says breast cancer death rates have fallen about 2 percent a year since 1996, meaning 130,000 women did not die of the disease. Lead author Ahmedin Jemal warns that rising obesity, a major risk factor, could reverse the trend.
Miscellaneous
Bad Economy Boosters Health: Study
A University of Michigan study found US life expectancy rose 6.2 years between 1929 and 1932, from 57.1 to 63.3, across both sexes and racial groups. Deaths fell from every cause examined except suicide, which the lead author ties to changed working conditions.
Lifestyle
High-Heels can lead to disabling foot problems
In a survey of 3,300 men and women, more than 64 percent of women who had worn high heels, pumps or sandals reported heel and ankle pain as they aged. Lead author Alyssa Dufour ties unsupportive shoes to hind-foot pain and advises choosing shoes for comfort and fit over style.
Miscellaneous
Do Damaging Videos Threaten Food Industry? Temple Grandin Speaks Out
Temple Grandin's line that economics alone cannot justify a production practice frames a look at videos of chicks ground up alive and hens left to die, the egg industry's Good Egg damage-control campaign, and industry resistance to a bill curbing routine antibiotics in farm animals.
Lifestyle
The Flu: You've Gotten Your Shot, Now What?
Background on influenza as H1N1 spread: scientists did not pin down its cause until the 1930s, having blamed bad air and cold weather. The virus travels in mucus and saliva, survives longer indoors, and after a three- to four-day incubation brings sore throat, dry cough, chills and aches.
Drug
Electronic Medical Systems Not Flawless
At a Houston VA medical center, 92 of 1,196 abnormal test alerts emailed to doctors drew no timely follow-up, about 8%, including imaging showing cancerous growths or aneurysms. Alerts sent to more than one clinician were less likely to be acted on.
Disease
Weight loss helps sleep apnea
Among 264 obese patients with type 2 diabetes, those given a weight-loss program lost about 24 pounds in a year against one pound for an education-only group, and were three times more likely to see sleep apnea remit, 13.6 percent versus 3.5 percent.
Lifestyle
Secret Link Between Cigarettes and Cell Phones?
A review of 11 long-term epidemiologic studies found that using a cell phone for 10 or more years roughly doubles the risk of a brain tumor on the side of the head the phone is held against. Senator Tom Harkin has promised to investigate any link to cancer.
Miscellaneous
10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
Mercola urges readers to join Facebook, then lock it down, and opens a list of privacy guidelines beginning with organizing friends into lists. He describes the site, then at 300 million users, as a way to reach well over ten million people with his message.
Lifestyle
More women choosing to have non-cancerous breast removed
New York State data from 1995 to 2005 show prophylactic mastectomies more than doubled, with 6,275 women having the surgery and 81 percent already diagnosed with cancer in one breast. Lead author Stephen Edge says evidence that it prevents recurrence is slim.
Miscellaneous
Most parents don't want their kids to receive swine flu vaccine
A University of Michigan poll of 1,678 parents found 40 percent would immunize their children against H1N1, against 54 percent for seasonal flu. Among those refusing, 46 percent were not worried their children would fall ill and 20 percent doubted H1N1 is serious.
Lifestyle
Anti-Aging: A Fresh Approach to Health and Wellness
An essay on aging and health care, weighing the 20th century's gains against infectious disease and death in childbirth, illustrated by the author's great-grandfather, a rural Texas physician, against today's habit of merely fixing what breaks.
Miscellaneous
Apple adds MMS support to iphone
Apple added multimedia messaging to the iPhone 3G and 3GS and AT&T switched it on, though some users report it not working as expected. Photos and video sent this way display only on MMS-capable devices, and the carrier sets the size limit for each message.
Miscellaneous
Woman implanted with another couple's embryo gives birth
Carolyn Savage, mistakenly implanted with another couple's embryo at an Ohio fertility clinic, carried the pregnancy to term and gave the 5-pound 3-ounce boy to his biological parents, the Morells. The clinic and both families are trying to settle damages without going to court.
Lifestyle
World's oldest man eats two meals a day
Walter Breuning of Montana, newly 113, says he has eaten only breakfast and lunch for 35 years: “You get in the habit of not eating at night, and you realize how good you feel.” He takes no medication but a daily baby aspirin, and credits working as much as diet.
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