Wellness Feeds 1.0 http://www.wellness.com/ Wellness Health News en keith@wellness.com ©2007 Wellness 11/7/2009 8:43:21 AM 11/7/2009 8:43:21 AM http://www.wellness.com/pics/header/logo-beta.jpg http://www.wellness.com/ http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091106/20091106NovemberisAlzheimersAwarenessMonth.xml&storyId=21237322 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21237322 2009-11-06 09:13:15.943 Nov. 6--LAKE COUNTY November is National Alzheimer's Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. According to the Alzheimer's Association there are more than five million Americans living with the disease and as many as 10 million family caregivers. Alzheimer's disease is a disorder of the brain that causes damage to brain tissue over a period of time. Alzheimer's accounts for more than half of all organically caused memory loss and is the fourth leading cause of death in the aged following heart disease, cancer and stroke. The disease can linger from two to 25 years before death results. In Lake http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091105/20091105PotentialAllergenInH1N1FluVaccineMayPutChildrenAtRisk.xml&storyId=21239097 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21239097 2009-11-06 09:13:15.833 Nov. 5--Potential Allergen in H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine May Put Children at Risk- New Test Reveals Both Presence and Severity of the Allergy The World Health Organization recently declared H1N1 swine flu a global pandemic, resulting in the creation of rigorous vaccination programs worldwide and anxiety among parents of children with food allergies. Most H1N1 swine flu vaccines are prepared from virus grown in chicken's eggs, resulting in a vaccine that contains remnants of egg proteins. Egg allergy is one of the most common food allergies in infants and young children. The allergy can be mild or severe but oftentimes http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091106/20091106Collegesbraceforfluwave.xml&storyId=21238295 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21238295 2009-11-06 09:13:15.443 Nov. 6--Colleges in North Georgia and Tennessee are bracing for a second wave of "influenzalike illnesses" just as campuses are recovering from a fall surge. "Since the beginning of the fall semester, we've seen 63 students with flulike illness," said Jen Allen, a spokeswoman at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Ga. "We expect there will be another increase this year." At Dalton State College in Dalton, Ga., resident assistants in the on-campus apartments plan to move sick students to empty apartments to prevent the flu from spreading, said Jodi Johnson, vice president for enrollment and student services, and the school http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091106/20091106Facesofdiabetes.xml&storyId=21237611 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21237611 2009-11-06 09:13:15.32 Nov. 6--WORTHINGTON -- More than 15,000 children are diagnosed with type I diabetes in the U.S. each year, which is more than 40 kids a day. A total of 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people ages 20 years or older in 2007. These figures come from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), whose mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. While diagnosis most often occurs http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091106/20091106PolishPMslamsdrugcompaniesoverswinefluvaccine.xml&storyId=21239096 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21239096 2009-11-06 09:12:39.3 http://www.wellness.com/newsfeed.asp?id=20091106/20091106UPMCunittoincreaseuseoforgansfromlivingdonors.xml&storyId=21236740 tag:wellness.com:storyId=21236740 2009-11-06 09:12:39.067 Nov. 6--The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's transplant chief said Thursday he intends to dramatically increase the use of organs from living donors, a move that counters industry trend. About two-thirds of UPMC's kidney transplants and more than a quarter of its liver surgeries could be done using organs from healthy donors, said Dr. Abhinav Humar, chief of transplant surgery. Half of UPMC's kidney transplants this year had live donors, up from 34 percent last year, and Humar wants that to top 60 percent. Eleven percent of liver transplants at UPMC this year had living donors, up from 4 percent