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It takes less than a minute for a stroke to change a person's life forever, but taking the time to make a few simple lifestyle adjustments and finding out how to recognize an attack when it happens can save thousands of lives.

The BlackBerry has been turned into a life-saving tool by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.

SAN RAFAEL, CA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2009) - Goodman Marketing Partners (GMP), a full service, multi-channel, direct marketing company in San Rafael, Calif., announced today that Reliable Caregivers, Inc. has chosen GMP to refurbish its brand, and develop and execute new marketing strategies to increase their business. The assignment includes designing a new logo and Web site for the San Francisco-based home care agency. A preeminent home care agency, Reliable serves an affluent clientele in San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo and Alameda Counties. Believing that the best healing takes place at home, their caregivers allow elderly and physically or mentally challenged individuals to maintain their daily routines. Services include light housework, meal preparation, bathing, companionship, transfer assistance and other activities of daily living.

The cost of travel can deter cancer patients from going to medical meccas like Philadelphia for their treatment. With the help of some big donors, the American Cancer Society yesterday made it a little easier for patients who live more than 40 miles from here to afford treatment in this region's cancer hospitals.

A new health series following the lives of six South Asian people, and offering diet and healthy lifestyle advice, will be hitting our screens on Sunday 17 May. The programme called Simply Health is jointly sponsored by Diabetes UK, the cholesterol charity HEART UK and the Food Standard Agency (FSA). It will air on the satellite channel Sony TV Asia on Fridays at 6.30pm, Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 11.30am.

Objective: To examine the association of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) with cumulative illness burden, physical function, and bodily pain (BP) in a sample of male and female psychiatric patients ≥50 years of age. Previous research on the health consequences of sexual abuse has focused on nonpsychiatric samples of younger-age adults, especially women. The health implications of abuse for mixed-gender samples of older psychiatric patients have not been explored. Methods: Participants were 163 patients with primary mood disorders. Sexual abuse histories were collected via patient self-report, as was BP. The measure of medical illness burden was based on chart review. Clinical interviewers rated physical function, using the activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) scales. Linear and logistic regressions examined the association between CSA and health outcomes. Results: As hypothesized, severe childhood sexual abuse was associated with high

Aging adults living in nursing homes and relying on the care of others are often susceptible to a long list of medical problems. These problems are debilitating for the residents and cost facilities millions of dollars. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher found that long-term care facilities in Missouri saved more than $6 million in the past three years after implementing a quality care improvement program. Savings for the facilities were more than 10 times the program costs.

Objectives: To determine whether neuroticism, cognitive ability, and their interaction predicted mortality and to test whether neuroticism or cognitive ability effects were mediated by socioeconomic status (SES), physical health, mental health, or health behaviors. Methods: Participants were 4200 men followed up for > 15 years. Participants took part in telephone interviews and medical and psychological evaluations. The neuroticism measure was based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, which was administered during the psychological examination. Cognitive ability was measured via the Army General Technical Test given at induction and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale subtests administered during the psychological examination, approximately 17 years later. We used covariance structure modeling to analyze the data because it enabled us to conduct Cox proportional hazards analyses with latent variables and mediator variables. Results: Even after adjusting for age, ethni

Sin taxes are easy to get enacted for several reasons, but the biggest is that each allegedly sinful product is consumed by a minority of the public. So it's the classic danger of democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville warned about two centuries ago: the tyranny of the majority. Fleecing the minority is made much easier by an army of busybodies who make a comfortable living feeding 'studies' to the media, proclaiming that Americans eat the wrong foods, drink the wrong beverages, don't exercise enough, and are generally sinful. These modern-day Carrie Nations' denunciations of nearly every commonplace pleasure - from Girl Scout Cookies to movie theater popcorn - are fodder for the nightly news. To dispel the notion that their sin taxes go too far, the nanny-staters rely on a clever sleight-of-hand: Instead of pitching the tax as a punishment for sin, they claim they're merely compensating society for costs imposed by bad habits. These claims are often unsupported by science, but many me

While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options and may simply have to learn to live with poor vision.