The American Red Cross is holding a blood drive this week at UAB Hospital’s North Pavilion to get more blood from the donors.
To kick off National Blood Donor Month, the Northeast Pennsylvania Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross will be conducting a series of special blood drives this month to help overcome the problem.
The drive will be from …
WINSTON-SALEM: Local gyms are attracting members in the down market. According to a report, local gyms are feeling the pinch of the recession as some members are deciding not to renew.
Gyms are having to find different ways to entice new and old members beyond the typical “no enrollment fees” gimmick.
YMCA spokesman Darryl Head said “From past years we can tell …
EL PASO: Now Texas people would be puffing “fire-safe” cigarettes. A new law requiring cigarettes sold in Texas be “fire-safe” just went into effect. The goal is to prevent house fires.
The new law comes as a relief for firefighters. “Cigarette fires are the leading cause of deaths in residential fires. With this new law it’s hopefully going to cut down …
A recent study reported that religious teens lose their virginity later than those who are not religious — waiting on average three years longer than their peers.
Janet Rosenbaum, a post doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in this month’s issue of “Pediatrics” that those with strong religious backgrounds became sexually active at about 21 on …
ATLANTA: According to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, implementing smoke-free policies can lead to fewer hospitalizations resulting from heart attacks.
The Pueblo Heart Study found that although 399 people were hospitalized for heart attacks before any smoke-free laws went into effect, that number dropped to 237 three years after the law’s introduction, a 41 …
SALT LAKE CITY: Utah bars would be now no smoking zone. Thousands of revelers celebrated the New Year with their last drags on a cigarette or their first breaths of smoke-free air in a private club.
Lawmakers passed a law banning smoking in private clubs and taverns in 2006, but it only applied to newly licensed clubs.
Under the new law, …
If you want to live long, you need to quit smoking, researchers said in a new study. The study was published in the online journal of Neurology. The study suggests that family history of stroke makes smokers six times more likely to also suffer a stroke.
Smokers who successfully quit tend to recruit multiple resources—and sometimes more than one resource at …
LONDON: A new study has showed that giving antibiotics to patients in intensive care units as a precaution saves lives. The major Dutch study was published on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization cites hospital-acquired infections as a major cause of death and disability worldwide and experts have been saying for year that poor hospital practices spread dangerous bacteria.
According to the researchers …
London: Too much thinking ‘can make you fat’, according to the findings of a new study. Researchers at the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada, have concluded that too much thinking can make you fat.
Researchers have found the stress of thinking caused overeating, with heavy thinkers reaching higher calorific heights. According to Jean-Philippe Chaput, the study’’s main author, …
Washington: smokers with a family history of brain aneurysm are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke from a brain aneurysm themselves, said a new research.
Scientists associated with the American Academy of Neurology said that people who smoke and have a family history of stroke have a significantly increased risk for suffering a stroke themselves.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati …
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