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 Health & Beauty
Mexican Immigrants' Health Status Worsens After Living in U.S., Study Finds
 Business Wire
The University of California and the National Population Council (CONAPO) of the Government of Mexico today released the findings of a landmark study on health trends of Mexican immigrants living in the United States.more »»»
Study Suggests Fish Is Good for Brain
 Carla K. Johnson
Eating fish at least once a week is good for the brain, slowing age-related mental decline by the equivalent of three to four years, a study suggests. The research adds to the growing evidence that a fish-rich diet helps keep the mind sharp. more »»»
Fruit Seeds Fight Dengue
 Wire sevices
Scientists in this Gulf coast city have discovered that seeds from the tropical fruit guanabana are a powerful insecticide against the mosquito responsible for transmitting the dengue virus, even eliminating the insect's larvae.more »»»
Common Problems with a Move to a Foreign Country: or How Come I Feel so Crappy in Paradise!
 Sueanne H. Lineberger
Moving to a foreign country makes enormous demands upon our psyche. Not only do we have to deal with the stress of leaving home, we also have to struggle to find the way to live within a country whose culture, society, and language are so different from our own.more »»»
Medical Students Learn On 'Breathing' Robots
 Reuters
On Monday, Mexico City's UNAM University opened the world's largest "robotic hospital" where medical students practice on everything from delivering a baby from a robotic dummy to injecting the arm of a plastic toddler.more »»»
Dealing with Your Daily Stress: or What to Do if You Can't Take a Vacation to Puerto Vallarta!
 Sueanne H. Lineberger
Is your job a source of stress in your life? Do you feel overworked and unappreciated? Do you feel irritable about minor things at work or home, or need a huge effort to complete the simplest tasks?more »»»
October Events at Cornerstone Hospital
 PVNN
Cornerstone Hospital has just released its community calendar for the month of October, which includes a variety of activities and events ranging from tours of the hospital to seminars and conferences on health-related issues.more »»»
Would You Go to a 'Quickie Clinic?'
 Associated Press
New clinics designed to treat common ailments in 15 minutes with no appointment necessary were set to open in Indianapolis. The clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners trained to diagnose and treat common ailments and provide basic services, such as vaccinations. more »»»
Testing Slimming Powers Of Tequila's Agave
 Reuters
Scientists from Mexico's tequila producing region say juice extracted from the blue agave plant, best known when distilled into the fiery spirit, may help dieters shed pounds and cut cholesterol.more »»»
Miracles in El Tuito
 Bob Cohen
Thursdays are a special day for some kids who live in El Tuito. No, they don't get to skip school nor do they get presents, but instead they receive a special gift from a generous doctor that practices medicine here in Puerto Vallarta.more »»»
WHO: Overweight, Obese Could Swell 50 Percent in a Decade
 Yahoo! News
The number of overweight and obese people worldwide is set to increase by half over the next ten years, heightening their health risks, the World Health Organisation warned. Around one billion people are currently affected worldwide, and the figure is set to rise to 1.5 billion by 2015 if current trends continue.more »»»
Study: Most Newer Schizophrenia Drugs No Better
 Gene Emery
A head-to-head comparison of five schizophrenia drugs found that most newer treatments are no better than an older generic drug, despite their higher cost, a U.S. study released on Monday showed. The lone exception, Eli Lilly and Co.'s Zyprexa.more »»»
Doctor Pushes for First Face Transplant
 Marilynn Marchione
In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world.more »»»
Hypnosis Can Help Shed Weight Without Popping Pills
 ABC News
Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many diseases and health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Hypnosis is an age-old technique designed to speak to your subconscious mind and alter your behavior. Known to work well to quit smoking, can it re-program your eating habits?more »»»
Most US Teens have had Oral Sex: Survey
 Anthony J. Brown, MD
The findings from a new survey indicate that 54 percent of teenage girls and 55 percent of teenage boys have had oral sex, according to a report released Thursday by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy in the United States.more »»»
Doctors Weathered The Storm And Became Heroes
 AP
All week long, women stranded by Hurricane Katrina had been giving birth in primitive conditions at New Orleans' University Hospital, their only after-effect a colorful story to tell their children someday.more »»»
Mozart to a Baby's Ears Helps Ease Birth Trauma
 Agence France Presse
On their little heads, the newborns in the maternity ward are wearing stereo headphones and their tiny hands seem to move to the rhythm of the music. From the first hours of their lives, the babies are tuned into Mozart at the Kosica-Saca hospital in eastern Slovakia.more »»»
More People Turning to Hypnosis for Weight Loss
 AP
Imagine a world where chocolate cake holds no temptation, where celery is an indulgence and food cravings float away in a balloon. Now open your eyes to the trancelike world of Americans who are turning to hypnosis to drop extra poundage.more »»»
Focus Shifts to Disease After Katrina Trauma
 Michael Peltier
Health officials are shifting their focus from trauma care to public health and infectious disease as concerns grow about polluted standing water in the flooded streets of New Orleans.more »»»
More Restaurants Offer Gluten-Free Menus
 Seth Sutel
As a longtime chef in four-star restaurants, Joseph Pace had seen appreciative customers before. But nothing prepared him for the day that a well-dressed man walked into his Greenwich Village restaurant, ordered a pizza and a beer, and broke into tears.more »»»
California Patrol Won't Seize Marijuana Used as Medicine
 Dean E. Murphy
In a turnaround, one of the state's biggest law enforcement agencies says it is taking a hands-off approach to the possession and use of marijuana for medical purposes. The new policy states that an "individual is to be released and the marijuana is not to be seized" if the person qualifies under state law to possess marijuana for medicinal purposes.more »»»
Mexican Health Care: Case studies
 LATimes
The Serratos family of Brawley, Calif., couldn't afford insurance before her husband was hired three years ago at an Imperial Valley farm. In years past, the family would seek treatment only in emergency rooms. Now, their Access Baja plan provides them access to Mexicali doctors, and in emergency situations, U.S. doctors.more »»»
Obesity Rates Climbing in Nearly All States
 AP
The percentage of Americans with bulging waistlines is growing in just about every state, with residents of Alabama joining the obesity ranks the fastest. Only Oregon failed to fatten, according to a report released Tuesday.more »»»
Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border
 Richard Marosi
Thousands of Latinos who live near the border are taking advantage of a benefit increasingly offered by their U.S. employers: cheaper healthcare in Mexico. About 160,000 California workers are getting their annual checkups and having surgeries through health networks south of the border, insurers say.more »»»
Hawaiians Turn to Native Healing
 AP
A growing number of Hawaii residents are turning to traditional healing methods long practiced in these lush Pacific islands as an alternative or supplement to visiting a regular doctor. With skyrocketing drug and health care costs, Native Hawaiian healing is part of a national trend in recent years toward non-conventional approaches to medical care. more »»»
Dolphin Therapy in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico
 PVNN
For years, people suffering from serious illnesses have reported dramatic changes in their physical and emotional state after swimming with dolphins, and now Dolphin Adventures in Nuevo Vallarta Mexico is offering Dolphin Therapy programs.more »»»
New Health Insurance Unveiled In Capital
 Fabiola Cancino
President Vicente Fox and Mexico City Mayor Alejandro Encinas presided over the inauguration of a federal public health program in the capital Wednesday. The president praised his "Seguro Popular" that provides complementary funding for low income Mexicans for certain medical procedures that may not be included in other government health plans.more »»»
Flush the Butts
 Keith Olbermann
I wrote here yesterday of Peter Jennings’ death from lung cancer. Now, about the disease — and you. The statistics are staggering. By the time this day is over, just in this country, 447 people will have died of lung cancer — 1,562 from all forms of cancer.more »»»
Medicine Take Notice
 Peter Wells Scott
There are medical advancements taking place in the Puerto Vallarta community. Perhaps they are not as striking or as significant as occur in the United States or Europe, but the popular illusion of Mexico as a third world country is fading.more »»»
Mexico Seeks Genetic Map Of Its Citizenry
 Theresa Braine
The Mexican government and private companies launched a project to map the genes of Mexicans, in hopes of developing treatments for health problems such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension.more »»»
Kids At Risk From HIV Virus
 Ruth Rodríguez
The problem of children born with the HIV virus is more prevalent among the nation's indigenous population than in the larger society. Because women in indigenous communities do not always have access to good health care, say the activists, those who are HIV-positive are often unaware of their infection.more »»»
Chelation Therapy
 Peter Wells Scott
The process first came to my attention while living in Ajijic, Jalisco. A friend of mine had been working in Alaska, and had a leg amputated. The doctor had recommended that the other leg receive like treatment. Instead, he embarked on a rigid Chelation regiment.more »»»
Cannabis Linked to Biblical Healing
 BBC
Jesus Christ and his apostles may have used a cannabis-based anointing oil to help cure people with crippling diseases, it has been claimed. Researchers in the United States say the oil used in the early days of the Christian church contained a cannabis extract called kaneh-bosem.more »»»
Cosmetic Surgery Firm Riles Spanish Nurses
 Reuters
Spain's nurses have told a cosmetic surgery firm to apologize after it paraded 50 mini-skirted models, sporting uniforms and stethoscopes, onto the stock market for its share launch.more »»»
Sandstorm Over Health
 Jamie Talan
At the beach, it’s the water that often gets tested for bacteria, but studies say E.coli is among risks in sand. A series of recent studies suggest that the nation's beaches are filled with E.coli and other organisms that may threaten human health.more »»»
Study: Men Benefit More From Antioxidants
 Ed Edelson
Antioxidants are compounds that protect cells from harm caused by highly reactive molecules, called free radicals, produced by metabolism in the body. Low dietary intake of antioxidants has been suggested to increase the risk of cancer and heart disease.more »»»
Clinton Takes Cheap AIDS Drugs to African Children
 Reuters
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton hopes his foundation will help treat more than 60,000 children suffering from HIV/AIDS as part of a plan to fight the disease in poor countries, he said on Sunday.more »»»
Armstrong Continues to Inspire Survivors
 Jim Vertuno
Audra Outlaw wakes up each day with the infant son doctors told her she'd never be able to have. She scoops up 3-month-old Gage, clicks on the TV, and mother and son settle back into bed to watch for Lance Armstrong's yellow jersey streaking across the French countryside.more »»»
Actor Michael J. Fox Urges US Senate to Support Stem Cell Bill
 Associated Press
Actor Michael J. Fox is pushing Congress hard to lift President Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. "Embryonic stem cell research holds enormous promise," said Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, in remarks prepared for a Capitol Hill news conference.more »»»
Let a Thousand Licensed Poppies Bloom
 Maia Szalavitz
Even as Afghanistan's immense opium harvest feeds lawlessness and instability, finances terrorism and fuels heroin addiction, the developing world is experiencing a severe shortage of opium-derived pain medications, according to the World Health Organization.more »»»
Mexican Designers Make It Fashionably Cool To Be Uncool
 Laurence Iliff
When Mexico’s status-conscious youths traded in their designer label T-shirts for ones bearing expressions such as “Naco” and “Estar Guars” a few years ago, it should have been fashion suicide. But instead of dying, the T-shirts sparked a craze, demonstrating that “Ser naco es chido,” or “Being uncool is cool.”more »»»
Yoga for Kids
 Sughey Banos
In this modern world it seems harder and harder for children to relax and just be kids; life has become so demanding, and things are passing by so fast, there's hardly time to breathe.more »»»
Mexican Bishops Urge Anti-Euthanasia Law
 Catherine Breme
Mexico's Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday said there was no such thing as a right to death amid pressure by some lawmakers, doctors and academics to have a national debate on euthanasia.more »»»
Mexican Living: Doctors, Doctors, Doctors
 Doug Bower
I am sick. I don't know what's wrong nor if what I have has an official name. Maybe they call it, "Ah-ha-now-you-can't-breathe-well-and-feel-like-you-are-going-to-die virus." I don't know. I will probably go to the doctor tomorrow if I am not feeling better.more »»»
Smoking Damages Your Sex Life
 Reuters
The British government launched a series of tough anti-cigarette adverts Friday with the message that smoking is bad for your sex life because it makes men impotent and women ugly. The campaign is designed to target young Britons' fears about their sexual attractiveness.more »»»
Multinationals to Fight AIDS Discrimination
 Karen Mahabir
Nearly two dozen of the largest international corporations operating in Mexico on Wednesday unveiled their policies aimed at eliminating HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in the workplace.more »»»
Looking for Cures
 Teresa Gordon
Targeting more Hispanics to participate is a goal of the NIH’s new research hospital, opened last fall. Researchers at the NIH Clinical Center are seeking treatments for diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, lupus, and certain cancers.more »»»
Scientists Work To Bring Back Bug Cuisine
 Wire services
With a protein content as much as twice that of beef, bugs could also become a welcome diet supplement among the estimated 20 million extremely poor Mexicans who live on incomes of US1 per day or less.more »»»
Dying to be Tan
 Karen Springen
Getting tan may not be as harmful as smoking. But unprotected exposure to its ultraviolet rays in the teen years dramatically increases the risk of skin cancer, the most common form of the disease in America today - now the top cancer killer of women aged 25 to 30.more »»»
A Revolutionary Method Against Allergies
 Elizabeth Ortega
Every generation or so a pioneer discovers something remarkable. These discoveries are often discredited or even ridiculed for many years until validated by another independent source. One such trailblazer is Dr. Devi Nambutripad, an immigrant from India.more »»»
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