Health Reports

1. Heart Disease in Kids? Fat Chance -- Literally
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   The typical adolescent diet consisting largely of high-fat junk food is likely to send a young person into the emergency room as an adult.
    
2. LLU Medical Staff on Animal Planet Channel
   One of the lesser-known life-saving procedures of Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is being featured on Animal Planet's "Venom ER" series through June 1.
    
3. Adventist Surgeon Reattaches Hand
   An Adventist plastic surgeon practicing in Honduras recently reattached the hand of a man who had been assaulted in a robbery attempt.
    
4. Adventist GI Dies in Iraq
   The Adventist Review has learned that Army Spec. Frank K. Rivers, Jr., of Newark, New Jersey, is the first reported Seventh-day Adventist to die in military service in Iraq.
    
5. Add a Decade to Your Life
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   The Keys: Vegetarian Diet, Regular Exercise, No Smoking
    
6. Reduce Your Cancer Risk
   Several studies show that meat, which has a high amount of saturated fat and cholesterol, can increase the risk of heart disease in both men and women. The risk of developing heart disease among meat-eaters is 50 percent higher than that of vegetarians.
    
7. WebMD - Dean Ornish, MD Q & A - Thoughts on Soy and Caner
   A study tracking 12,395 Seventh-day Adventist men found that those who drank soy milk more than once a day were 70% less likely to get prostate cancer.
    

8. Brain Tumor_Treated at Adventist Hospital
   The trip to nearby Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Md., was brief, but it began a day-long effort to solve my unexplained medical condition.
    

9. Treatment for Severe Angina
   In what is being described as a first for the United States, a 53-year old man with severe angina has been treated for the crippling condition Wednesday with a tiny, spinning needle that poked 15 precisely arrayed holes in the left ventricle of his heart.
    
10. New Aide For Smokers
    35%   (WebMD Medical Reference from Action on Smoking and Health)
    The Nicotine Inhaler is a new product designed to help smokers quit even while it lets them keep the hand-to-mouth sensation of smoking. This article describes how it works.
     

11. Heart-Healthy Oils

    [A] Harvard study isn't the first to link nuts to lower heart disease risk. In a study published in the July 1992 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from Loma Linda, sifting through data from 34,000 men and women in what's known as the Seventh Day Adventist Study, found that nut eaters were half as likely as those who didn't eat nuts to suffer both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks. Four years later, in findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1996, scientists showed that eating nuts was associated with a 40% reduction in heart disease risk among women enrolled in the Iowa Women's Study.

     

    For more information see article at WebMD: Going Nuts Might Be Good For You

     

12. Colon cancer - Health Professional Information (Prevention) - [Cancer.gov] -- EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
    6%   (WebMD Public Information from the National Cancer Institute)