Medical Health

The number of Americans with a disability rose 7.7 percent, or by 3.4 million people, to nearly 48 million between 1999 and 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
“The number of adults reporting a disability likely will increase, along with the need for appropriate medical and public health services, [...]

“Six out of ten Americans live in areas dirty enough to send people to the emergency room, to shape how kids’ lungs develop and even dirty enough to kill,” Charles D. Connor, president and CEO of the American Lung Association said during a teleconference Tuesday to present the findings of the [...]

“It’s a weird situation right now,” said Aaron Armelin, a telecommunications technician in Los Angeles.
“Everyone’s a little leery of anyone coughing. Even though the news makes it seem really, really bad, it doesn’t seem like it’s actually that much of a concern,” Armelin added.
Interviews with people around the United States [...]

“Dance Your Ass Off”, starting in June on the Oxygen cable TV channel, features 12 contestants battling their bulge on the dance floor and weight scales, hoping to win -100,000.
Judges whittle down the contestants each episode by combining scores for their hip-hop, jazz, tango and pole dancing routines and the number of [...]

She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the safety of commercial food supplies and popular views that organic food is better for you.
There is also a growing sense [...]

These gaps in coverage, however, are shorter than they used to be because people are getting insurance through public programs, such as Medicaid.
“The bad news is the continuing reduction of private health insurance,” said a co-author of the survey, David Cutler, an applied economics professor at Harvard University [...]

There have been no solid estimates until now, said Joseph Canose, vice president of quality of life for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which released the survey Tuesday. The foundation was created by the late actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995, and his late [...]

The Thomson Reuters survey found 21 percent of U.S. adults expected to have difficulty paying for health insurance or healthcare services in the next three months.
“The results of this survey have serious implications for public health officials, hospital administrators, and healthcare consumers,” Gary Pickens of the Healthcare division of Thomson Reuters, who [...]

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, told U.S. senators that insuring every American was one goal in the overhaul of the -2.5 trillion healthcare system the president wants enacted by the end of the year. “There may be variations on how best to reach the goal,” she [...]

“Clearly, the focus in this country has been on cholesterol levels,” said Dr. Earl S. Ford, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and lead author of a report in the March 23 Archives of Internal Medicine. “But there are a fair number of studies that suggest that triglycerides [...]