Some blood clots in the leg veins do not cause any symptoms. However, when the blood clots involve larger veins, they generally cause redness, warmth, tenderness, swelling (edema), and a sensation of heaviness in the leg, particularly when you’ve been standing. You can check for edema by pressing your finger into your lower leg. If [...]
July 27, 2007
Furry grim reaper? Imagine that
Oscar, a hospice cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I., sits outside a patient’s room on Monday. (Stew Milne/Associated Press)
Cat who lives in a nursing home has an uncanny knack for predicting when patients are about to die
RAY HENRY
Associated Press
July 26, 2007 at 3:39 AM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Oscar the [...]
July 27, 2007
Aging: Having Moles May Mean Younger Skin Cells
July 24, 2007
Vital Signs
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
People with many moles may be more susceptible to skin cancer, but a new study suggests that their cells may age more slowly than those of people with fewer moles.
As cells age, telomeres, the DNA at the ends of chromosomes, become shorter. Shorter telomere length has been linked to chronic [...]
July 27, 2007
Swabs in Hand, Hospital Cuts Deadly Infections
July 27, 2007
PITTSBURGH — At a veterans’ hospital here, nurses swab the nasal passages of every arriving patient to test them for drug-resistant bacteria. Those found positive are housed in isolation rooms behind red painted lines that warn workers not to approach without wearing gowns and gloves.
Every room and corridor is equipped with dispensers of [...]
July 27, 2007
An Idea Whose Time Has Come!
Fare-Free Public Transit Could
Be Headed to a City Near You
By Dave Olsen, The Tyee
Posted on July 26, 2007, Printed on July 27, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/57802/
The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit.
Why do we have any barriers to using buses and urban trains? The threat of global warming is no longer in [...]
July 27, 2007
Ease up on the houswork mothers
Women’s Health: Housework causes as much illness and stress as other jobs
Survey shows working mothers suffer from aches and pains, as well as insomnia and irritability
Housework is as likely to cause illness as any other job, according to research by German scientists.
The survey showed that housewives suffered just as much from stress and other work-related [...]
