The Associated Press
July 29, 2006 PORT CANAVERAL -- Nearly 230 people aboard a cruise ship fell ill with a gastrointestinal illness during a weeklong Caribbean voyage, the cruise line said Saturday.
The illness, believed to be a norovirus brought onto the Mariner of the Seas by a passenger, struck 221 of the ship's 3,660 passengers and six of its 1,202 crew members, said Royal Caribbean spokesman Michael Sheehan. |
By Anne Harding
Reuters Thu Jul 27, 2006 NEW YORK - Being overweight puts a greater burden on women's health than men's, a new study shows.
Dr. Peter Muennig of Columbia University in New York and colleagues calculated the amount of illness due to overweight and obesity in the USA. They found that overweight cost US women 1.8 million years of perfect health, compared to just 270,000 years lost for men. Obesity cost women 3.40 million years of perfect health, compared to 1.94 million years for men. Muennig suggested in an interview that this gender difference could be due to the social stigma that excess weight carries for women but not for men. |
HealthDay News
Fri Jul 28, 2006 FRIDAY -- U.S. researchers say they've identified a protein in nerve cells that acts as a kind of gatekeeper for chronic pain.
This enzyme, called protein kinase G (PKG), is turned on and activated in response to injury or inflammation. Once activated, PKG triggers other processes that generate pain messages that are sent to the brain. As long as PKG is switched on, pain persists. Turning PKG off relieves pain. "We're very optimistic that this discovery and our continued research will ultimately lead to a novel approach to pain relief for the millions suffering from chronic pain," researcher Richard Ambron, professor of cell biology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, said in a prepared statement. The study was published online in the journal Neuroscience and was expected to be in the August print issue. Ambron and his colleague Ying-Ju Sung, an assistant professor of cell biology, have applied for a patent for the pathway that turns on PKG, as well as several molecules that inhibit it. They hope to develop a new class of drugs that target PKG in order to treat chronic pain. |
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