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Health agency offers e-card for dads

Friday, June 19

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is offering an e-card for fathers. The card offers tips for men about when they should get preventive screenings and more.

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Building a world class cancer center

Obtaining designation as a National Cancer Institute is a top priority for Kansas University. Millions of dollars are going toward this goal, which has the potential to save the lives of Kansans.

Lifetime battle: From FDR to Obama, a fight for health care
By Hillel Italie/Associated Press
July 5, 2009
As Congress takes on President Obama’s call for overhauling health care, the desire for change will be tested — by the expense, by politics, by resistance and by the general fear by some of “socialized medicine.”
Book examines worries
July 5, 2009
Worry.
Restaurant inspector stresses education
Assuring public’s safety is top concern in assessing food handling practices
By Karrey Britt
July 5, 2009
Andrew Stull walks into a downtown Lawrence restaurant. He looks like an ordinary customer dressed in khaki pants, brown shoes and a green-and-white striped shirt. But he’s not.
Health officials tackle swine flu challenges
July 3, 2009
Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico.
Few survive cardiac arrest, even with CPR
July 2, 2009
You don’t have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. Only about 18 percent of such patients live long enough to leave the hospital, researchers found. Blacks fared worse than whites — a disparity only partly explained by more of them being treated in hospitals that did a poorer job of CPR.
FDA requires Chantix, Zyban to have warning
July 2, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency’s strongest safety warning over side effects including depression and suicidal thoughts.
Officials: Tannery not cause of brain tumors
By Bill Draper - Associated Press Writer
July 2, 2009
Health and environmental officials have concluded that sludge from a St. Joseph, Mo., tannery did not contain enough of a cancer-causing chemical to cause health problems in areas where the sludge was used to fertilize farmland.
Mississippi still the most obese state; Alabama gaining
The Associated Press
July 2, 2009
Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It’s time for the nation’s annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there’s little good news. In 31 states, more than one in four adults are obese, says a new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Study: More sex may help damaged sperm
By Maria Cheng - Associated Press Writer
July 1, 2009
For men with fertility problems, some doctors are prescribing a very conventional way to have a baby: more sex. In a study of 118 Australian men with damaged sperm, doctors found that having sex every day for a week significantly reduced the amount of DNA damage in their patients’ sperm. Previous studies have linked better sperm quality to higher pregnancy rates.
Panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol
July 1, 2009
Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet.
Ambulance rates rise for overweight patients
July 1, 2009
A Topeka company will begin charging some overweight and critical care patients more to ride in its ambulances. The Shawnee County Commission on Monday agreed to allow American Medical Response to raise ambulance costs, from $629 to $1,172, for critical care patients and overweight people, whose transport requires special equipment and extra manpower.
Learn how to snack without the guilt
July 1, 2009
Maybe you’re at work and a deadline is barreling down on you. And that vending machine in the hallway is calling your name. Loudly. Or you’re vegging out in front of the television and you have cheese puffs — or chocolate cake or corn chips — on the brain.
FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions
June 30, 2009
Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.
Homelessness, mental illness issues addressed at public forum
By Shaun Hittle
June 30, 2009
Area residents struggling with mental illness and homelessness had the opportunity to share their experiences at a forum Monday night at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
Experiment seeks to head off Type 1 diabetes
By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press Writer
June 30, 2009
The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton’s abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old’s immune system — part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes.

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