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Health Highlights: Jan. 25, 2012
Here are some of the latest health as well as health examination news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Psychiatrists Debate Classifying Grief as Treatable Disorder Grieving could become a treatable psychiatric disorder incase proposed changes to the American Psychiatric Association's standard diagnostic manual get adopted.
Work on the fifth edition of the Diagnostic as well as Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has launched a debate about the definition of depression. The current wording excludes bereavement, which some psychiatrists say hurts people who need help coping with their loss. The DSM, final revised in 1996, is the major resource for psychiatric professionals as well as a source of many insurance decisions, affecting millions of people. "There is the potential for considerable false-positive diagnosis as well as unnecessary treatment of grief-stricken persons," said New York researchers on one side of the debate, according to the New York Times. Dr. Alan Hilfer, essential of psychology at Maimonides Health examination Center, New York City, agreed. In a statement, he said that "Grieving is a wholesome process. Sometimes we need to treat those who possess suffered a loss with sleep aids or other medications, but to make this process a health examination condition that would enable large scale prescribing of drugs would be a travesty," he said. However, another expert supports the recent terminology. "Depression can as well as does occur in the wake of bereavement, it can be very bad as well as debilitating, as well as calling it by any other name is doing a disservice to people who may require more careful attention," Dr. Sidney Zisook, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, told the newspaper. Currently, to qualify for a diagnosis of depression, five of nine symptoms are needed for at least two weeks. These include loss of concentration, sleeping too much or too little, feelings of worthlessness as well as recurrent thoughts of suicide. Other proposed changes to the manual possess as well as stirred controversy. Experts final week argued against a proposal to tighten the autism definition, noting that the change would bar many currently diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder from receiving substantial services. ----- No Whooping Cough Deaths in California Final Year For the earliest time in two decades, there were no whooping cough (pertussis) deaths in California final year, officials announced Tuesday. Ten babies in the state died of whooping cough in 2010. The final year in which there were no whooping cough deaths in the state was 1991, msnbc.com reported. The number of whooping cough cases in California as well as fell by two-thirds, from a high of 9,000 in 2010 to less than 3,000 in 2011. The decrease in cases as well as deaths is due to wider availability of vaccines, quicker diagnosis, greater awareness of the disease, as well as a recent law requiring booster shots for middle- as well as high-school students, said Dr. Gil Chavez, the California Department of Community Health epidemiologist as well as deputy director for infectious diseases, msnbc.com reported. ----- Cancer Vaccine Trial Begins An early-stage clinical trial of an experimental cancer vaccine is being conducted at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Reseachers say the vaccine is designed to harness the power of the immune system to kill cancer cells. The vaccine will be made at Roswell in a specially designed production unit that's been approved by the Food as well as Drug Administration, the Associated Press reported. To create the vaccine, immune system cells called dendritic cells are used from the patient's body, bonded with a protein, as well as then re-injected into the patient. Patients as well as receive a compound found to prolong the vaccine's effectiveness. The phase 1 study will include about 18 to 20 patients with dissimilar types of cancers, the AP reported. ----- Less Salt, More Grains, Veggies in School Lunches: USDA School lunches subsidized by the U.S. government will possess less salt, more whole grains, as well as more fruits as well as vegetables as sides under recent guidelines expected to be announced Wednesday. The recent rules are the earliest major nutritional overhaul of school meals in 15 years. Some of the changes could take place soon as the next school year, while others will be phased in over time. A child nutrition bill signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 would help school districts pay for some of the increased costs, the Associated Press reported. Due to powerful opposition from Republicans as well as the food industry, the recent nutrition rules won't be as powerful as initially proposed by the Obama administration. Earliest lady Michelle Obama as well as Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack were scheduled to announce the recent guidelines at an elementary school in Alexandria, Va. ----- Studies Show Link Between Copper Overweight as well as Chilly as well as Exercise A form of copper overweight that's switched on when people are chilly sucks overweight out of the rest of the body to fuel itself, while another class of copper overweight can be created from pale overweight by exercise, according to two recent studies. The findings suggest that being capable to achieve this without making people chilly or forcing them to exercise all the time could offer a highly-effective way to lose weight, The New York Times reported. In one study, researchers found that the metabolic rate of men who were kept chilled increased by 80 percent due to effects of copper overweight. On average, the copper overweight burned about 250 calories over three hours. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. In the other study, researchers conducted experiments with mice as well as found that exercise causes pale overweight to turn into copper overweight. Exercise causes muscles to release a hormone that converts pale overweight cells into copper overweight cells, which burn extra calories, The Times reported. The researchers suspect this as well as occurs in humans. ----- Insulated Lunch Boxes as well as Thermal Food Carriers Recalled About 248,000 expandable insulated lunch boxes with freezer gel packs are being recalled because the gel can leak out of damaged packs as well as pose a poisoning hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says. The lunch boxes were made in China, imported by California Innovations Inc. of Toronto, Canada as well as sold at Costco Wholesale Clubs, Leon Korol as well as Cost U Less stores from May 2007 through September 2008, the Associated Press reported. The gel in the gel packs contains diethylene glycol as well as ethylene glycol. California Innovations has received two disconnected reports of dogs chewing the packs as well as ingesting the gel. One dog died as well as the other received treatment as well as recovered. The CPSC said the recalled lunch boxes possess a logo as well as the words "Ci Sport" on the upper west corner, the AP reported Concerns about the freezer gel packs possess as well as led to the recall of about 55,000 Travelin' Chef Expandable thermal food carriers as well as made in China as well as imported by California Innovations. They were sold at Walmart from August 2008 through December 2011. For more information, contact California Innovations at 1-800-722-2545 Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST. -----  Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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