If the gym fits, join it: 15 ways to keep your New Year's fitness resolution
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Heather Newman
DETROIT (MCT) - The snow has fallen, the holiday meals have piled up, and your exercise regimen has ground to a halt.
New Year's resolution season is in full swing, and it's past time to find a gym. You won't be alone in that quest. January is a huge month for health clubs, with about a million ...
What's good for the horse … may be a balm for the rider, too
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Sarah Vos
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Eight years ago, Scott Pierce, a horse doctor, began experimenting with hyaluronic acid as an oral supplement for horses. Veterinarians have traditionally injected the acid into horse joints to treat pain and swelling. Pierce, who works with Thoroughbreds at Rood and ...
6-year-old is only child to ever survive relapse of type of cancer
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Ashley Smith
The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (MCT) - Entering Aleigha Sweet's home, all you could see was a streak of pink across the room. Playing with the cat, then coloring, then teasing her sisters, then back to the cat. You'd never have known this 6-year-old had been battling cancer for the past 2½ ...
Try a winter wellness weekend
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Kathy Van Mullekom
Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) (MCT) - When winter's shorter days keep you indoors, take full advantage of those slower hours. Think, contemplate, sort and work through issues, goals and dreams. "Coming through the winter solstice, from dark into light, is a great time to reflect on your past, ...
Child safety law a challenge for thrift stores
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Jennifer L. Boen
The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (MCT) - A new consumer protection law, which takes effect Feb. 10, has had resale and thrift shop owners worried that the mandated testing of children's clothing and toys for lead and certain chemicals could prove too costly to stay in business. Some retailers ...
Buck Institute making progress on aging process
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Sam McManis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Downhill from the I.M. Pei-designed, Ponce de Leon-inspired and worm-saturated Buck Institute for Age Research lies the rustically tony downtown of this Marin County, Calif., city. There, in a three-block stretch, is brick-and-mortar retail evidence that the deep ...
Cancer code-breakers: N.J. team pinpoints gene that helps tumors spread
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Lindy Washburn
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - A gene that makes breast cancer tumors more likely to resist chemotherapy and to spread to other organs has been identified by a team of New Jersey researchers. The "metastasis gene" is turned on in 30 percent to 40 percent of breast cancer patients. When ...
Blind teen who ‘sees' with sound looks at death without fear
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Cynthia Hubert
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Time is growing short for the boy who "sees" with sound. Ben Underwood, the blind teenager who has dazzled people all over the world with his ability to navigate using a tongue-clicking skill called echolocation, is getting weaker day by day.
The cancer that took ...
More medical myths: Turkey doesn't make you tired?
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Jennifer Muir
The Orange County Register (MCT) - What if someone told you turkey doesn't make you tired, or that you nails really don't keep growing after you die? The answer: The British medical journal BMJ. Last month, the journal published a list of health myths related to the holidays.
It was the journal's ...
Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout
McClatchy Newspapers
1/6/2009, by Robert Kelly
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later in life. It's the latest step in a study ...
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