They said an estimated 77 percent of dietary sodium comes from processed foods and restaurant foods. “Sodium has become so pervasive in our food supply that it’s difficult for the vast majority of Americans to stay within recommended limits,” said Janelle Peralez Gunn, public health analyst with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
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California is facing what could be the state’s biggest outbreak of pertussis since 1958, according to its top public health official. This contagious disease is more commonly known as whooping cough due the distinctive whoop that occurs when sufferers cough and gasp for breath. “Whooping cough is now an epidemic in California,” said Dr....
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When kindergarten through fifth grade students return to class at Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Provincetown, Mass., this fall, they’ll be able to ask the school nurse for condoms. Thanks to a new, district-wide policy approved by the Provincetown School Board, condoms are now available to students in all schools, regardless of their age....
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A federal government website that starts July 1 takes a step in that direction. The site, for the first time, will give consumers a list of all private and government health care plans for individuals and small businesses in their areas. The nation’s new health care law requires the site (www.healthcare.gov). Initially, it will...
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WASHINGTON – Are the toys in your child’s Happy Meal making him fat? The Center for Science in the Public Interest says they are. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald’s Tuesday, charging that the fast food chain “unfairly and deceptively” markets the toys to children. “McDonald’s marketing has...
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Shrek, Dora the Explorer, and other animated TV and movie stars beloved by children have been moonlighting as junk-food pitchmen in recent years. And they’re good at it. Fifty percent of children say that food from a package decorated with a cartoon celebrity such as Shrek tastes better than the same exact food from...
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A South African doctor has developed a new female condom that she hopes will combat rape in the most painful way possible. Dr. Sonnet Ehlers has invented Rape-axe, a female device with jagged hooks that latch onto a man’s penis during penetration. The doctor is distributing 30,000 of these condoms in South Africa during...
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The Senate passed a bill June 18 to block the 21 percent cut to Medicare physician pay for six months, after failing to pass larger tax extender legislation that also included the Medicare provision. The measure will now need to be considered by the House of Representatives, which in May approved a pay fix...
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Tarrytown , NY – ENT and Allergy Associates, LLP (ENTA) is once again pleased to announce that a superb physician has joined the Practice — otolaryngologist Tamekia Wakefield , M.D. She will join ENTA on August 1, 2010, practicing in ENTA’s Bayside Queens office. Dr. Tamekia Wakefield graduated Cum Laude from Rhodes College in...
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The old stereotype of a heroin user had the look of a social outcast: disheveled and scrawny, most often found hanging out on dangerous streets or in cheap apartments. Here’s the new stereotype: well-groomed, well-nourished, most often found in suburban high schools or middle class homes. The prototypical heroin abuser isn’t a junkie shooting...
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