Author: Lauran Neergaard
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Know your BMI: Docs urged to screen for obesity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are you know your blood pressure. What about your BMI? Body mass index signals if you’re overweight, obese or just right considering your height. Some doctors have begun calling it a vital sign, as crucial to monitor as blood pressure. But apparently not enough doctors check: A government panel renewed a…
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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which…
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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people
WASHINGTON — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than…
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Time cover masks problem: Too few kids breast-fed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The real issue with breast-feeding is this: Too few infants who could really benefit from it are getting mom’s milk. Sure, Time magazine’s cover photo of a woman breast-feeding her 3-year-old is generating debate about how old is too old. But examples like that are pretty rare. About 44 percent of U.S.…
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Time cover masks problem: Too few kids breast-fed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The real issue with breast-feeding is this: Too few infants who could really benefit from it are getting mom’s milk. Sure, Time magazine’s cover photo of a woman breast-feeding her 3-year-old is generating debate about how old is too old. But examples like that are pretty rare. About 44 percent of U.S.…
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Child-sizing radiation doses from medical scans
WASHINGTON (AP) — When your child’s doctor orders a CT scan, X-ray or similar test, there are two big questions: Is the scan really needed? And if so, will it deliver a child-sized or adult-sized dose of radiation? That’s the message from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, as it took steps to help protect…
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Report: Schools key to fighting America’s obesity
WASHINGTON — A new report says schools should be a cornerstone of the nation’s obesity battle. But to trim Americans’ waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn. The Institute of Medicine report comes as obesity specialists hunt solutions to a seemingly intractable epidemic. Two-thirds of U.S. adults and almost a third…
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Report: Schools key to fighting America’s obesity
WASHINGTON — A new report says schools should be a cornerstone of the nation’s obesity battle. But to trim Americans’ waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn. The Institute of Medicine report comes as obesity specialists hunt solutions to a seemingly intractable epidemic. Two-thirds of U.S. adults and almost a third…
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Dirty-bomb test for terror may aid cancer research
WASHINGTON — With a few drops of blood, scientists are creating a way to tell who has absorbed dangerous radiation levels, part of the government’s preparations against a terror attack, and advance research that just might point toward new cancer care, too. Duke University’s work aims to allow rapid triage in the aftermath of a…
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Baker’s dozen gets kidney transplants
WASHINGTON — Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation’s capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify. “A whole new doorway of hope opened,” says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who…