Health & Fitness

By LEE BOWMAN
Monday, November 20, 2006
Medicaid patients with heart trouble are less likely to get recommended levels of care compared to people with private insurance, researchers have found.

A team led by Dr.

By ALLAN APPEL
Friday, November 17, 2006
There's more to a kitchen than merely cooking dinner.

For many people, the kitchen is the centerpiece of the household. So the appliances should be user-friendly to everyone, including those of us with disabilities.

The concept of universal design usually conjures thoughts of the overall layout and accessibility of the house itself.

By SHEENA McFARLAND
Friday, November 17, 2006
During the holidays, food seems to come out of every nook and cranny. And it's always a struggle to stop salivating sugarplum visions from becoming waistlines of bowls full of jelly.

By LEE BOWMAN
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Women who smoke and also carry high levels of the virus associated with cervical cancer are up to 27 times more likely to develop the most common form of cervical cancer compared with uninfected women who also smoke, results of a new study show.

The study by Swedish researchers involved data from Pap tests of more than 100,000 women, and identified 499 with cervical cancer that had not extended beyond the outer layer of tissue.

By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY
Thursday, November 16, 2006
When Libbi Zeien talks about childbirth with her friends, they all agree on one thing.

"Drugs," said Zeien, 28, who gave birth to her second child this month.

By LEE BOWMAN
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
If you're among the masses hitting the highways or boarding ramps for the holidays, there are some health matters, new and old, to consider.

Along with those tubes of liquids and gels, some air travelers may find they've got security issues that they just can't check in baggage or leave home.

A growing number of airport checkpoints have sensors for radiation.

By LEE BOWMAN
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
If you're among the masses hitting the highways or boarding ramps for the holidays, there are some health matters, new and old, to consider.

Along with those tubes of liquids and gels, some air travelers may find they've got security issues that they just can't check in baggage or leave home.

A growing number of airport checkpoints have sensors for radiation.

By RONNIE LYNN
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The holidays are approaching and here come the treats: foil-wrapped chocolates on every counter. Already, you can feel your waistline expanding.

Heed the usual survival strategies.

By LEE BOWMAN
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
In a finding that challenges the way American cardiologists treat tens of thousands for heart attacks each year, a new study concludes patients who undergo a balloon angioplasty to open a blocked artery days after a heart attack gain no advantage over drug treatment.

Opening arteries that are 100 percent blocked within the first 12 hours after a heart attack through angioplasty to quickly restore blood flow to the heart is considered the gold standard for cardiac care.

But many doctors believe that eliminating the blockage, even well beyond the initial treatment window, is still a good strategy to prevent another heart attack, heart failure or death.

Each year, about 1 million people in the United States have a heart attack, and about half of them die.

By LEE BOWMAN
Monday, November 13, 2006
Counseling people who are caring for a husband or wife with Alzheimer's disease can delay by an average of one-and-a-half years their need to put their spouse in a nursing home, a long-term study has found.

Researchers studied 406 spouse caregivers in New York City over a 19-year period.