TweetShareMother’s Day In New Zealand, the Specsavers stores partnered with the Fred Hollows Foundation NZ (FHFNZ) http://www.hollows.org/ to sell $25 Mothers’ Day gift cards for cataract surgeries to restore the sight of blind Pacific Islanders. On Tuesday, Specsavers Auckland co-owner and retail director Guy Parbury decided to get involved after hearing about a blind 58 [...]
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Mother’s Day and Macular Degeneration
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on April 28th, 2011
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Tags: acupuncture, arkansas, arkansas acupuncture, blind, blindness, cataracts, fred hollows, fred hollows foundation, lizbeth ryan, macular degeneration, mothers day, retinitis pigmentosa, vision 
Comments OffMom of Newborn Almost Arrested Only Hours After Giving Birth
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on April 3rd, 2011
TweetShareLas Vegas police threatened to arrest Cecilia Rogers only hours after giving birth. Her husband Lincoln Rogers was also threatened with arrest. The couple tried to take their newborn baby Lilia home from Summerlin Hospital against the will of a nurse. The nurse called Child Protective Services, who in turn called the police. “They said, [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, TRENDS Tags: baby, cecilia rogers, child protective services, hospital, jaundice, las vegas, lilia rogers, lincoln rogers, new born, summerlin, summerlin hospital Comments OffFood Coloring Link to Hyperactivity in Children?
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on March 31st, 2011
TweetShare Food colors An independent panel of experts advised the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to restrict the use of certain food dyes due to a correlation with hyperactivity in children. In an article on the Center for Science in the Public Interest website titled “Strong FDA Action on Food Dyes Urged,” CSPI Executive Director [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, TRENDS Tags: add, adhd, attention deficit, center for science in the public interest, CSPI, FDA, food color, food coloring, food drug administration, food dye, food dyes, gma, grocery manufacturers association, health news, hyperactive, hyperactivity Comments OffCoffee Reduces Stroke Risk in Women
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on March 12th, 2011
TweetShareThe research journal Stroke reports that women who drink a cup or more a day of coffee have a reduced risk for stroke. Greater consumption did not reduce the risk further. The study followed 34,670 women aged 49 to 83 and found a 23% to 25% reduction in incidence of stroke compared to those who [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE Tags: coffee, coffee health, coffee reduces stroke, coffee stroke, reduced risk of stroke, Stroke, stroke coffee, stroke health Comments OffGrammy Reporter Serene Branson Fine
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on February 15th, 2011
TweetShareCBS reporter Serene Branson is home and feeling fine. She expressed gratitude to all the people who have been concerned and wished her well. She said she hoped to be back to work soon. Branson was covering the Grammys Sunday night when she began having trouble pronouncing her words, finally, she was only speaking gibberish. [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, TRENDS Tags: branson, cbs, grammys, serene branson, Stroke, TIA, transient ischemic attack Comments OffStudy Links Diet Soda To Heart Attack And Stroke
Posted by Lateesha Jackson on February 10th, 2011
TweetShareA new study of 2,500 New Yorkers over a period of nine years shows that diet soda drinkers have a 61 percent higher risk for heart attack and stroke compared to those who avoided diet drinks altogether. The study was done by a team led by Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Tags: aspartame, diet, diet drinks, diet soda, diet sodas, Health, heart attack, soda, sodas, soft drinks, Stroke, vascular, vascular disease Comments OffCancer Sniffing Dog Good As Colonoscopy
Posted by Dominic Costillio on January 31st, 2011
TweetShareA nine year-old Labrador retriever named Marine can sniff out colorectal cancer in patients with 90 percent accuracy. The dog is trained to smell breath and other biological samples. The experiment was conducted over a period from November 2008 to June 2009. About 300 patients were sampled. The experiment was conducted at the St. [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE Tags: Cancer, cancer sniff, colorectal, dog, gut, labrador, labrador retriever, sniffing Comments OffUSDA Part of Mysterious Mass Bird Deaths
Posted by Lateesha Jackson on January 27th, 2011
TweetShareThe mysterious mass bird deaths that have alarmed the nation have been solved in part. Some of the birds have been poisoned by the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA contracts with farmers to cull certain species that have become an economic problem. Most recently, the USDA poisoned hundreds of starlings in Yankton, S.D. [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TRENDS Tags: bebee, bird, bird death, blackbird, mass bird death, mysterious bird death, starling, usda Comments OffTaco Bell Beef In Class Action Suit
Posted by Lateesha Jackson on January 25th, 2011
TweetShareUnless you are a chemist, Taco Bell’s “taco meat filling” really is “mystery meat.” At least that’s what Amanda Obney alleges in her class action suite against the franchise giant. Obney, who is not seeking monetary damages, says Taco Bell’s use of the word “beef” constitutes false advertising. The suit was filed by the law [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, TRENDS Tags: beef, class action, extenders, false advertising, fillers, obney, taco bell Comments OffJack LaLanne Dead at 96
Posted by Tom Carroll on January 24th, 2011
TweetShareJack LaLanne, the timeless fitness guru, who has always been with us and seemingly always would, has died in his Morro Bay, California home from pneumona. He was 96. LaLanne had a TV workout show in San Francisco in the 1950s, but hit the national consciousness in the early 1960s when his show went national. [...]
Posted in HEALTH NEWS UPDATE, TRENDS Tags: exercise, exercise guru, glamor strecher, jack lalanne, lalanne, power juicer, richard simmons, tv workout Comments Off
