HEALTH AND FITNESS

Northeast OH Healthy Living and Medical Consumer News

The Ohio Department of Health relaxes requirements that health-care workers use N95 respirator masks while caring for flu patients. Full story »

Perpheral arterial disease generally refers to blockage of arteries in lower extremities that can diminish circulation in the legs, but it also is an independent predictor of heart disease and related heart and stroke conditions.  Full story »

Melanie Root and Justin Haas met through an Internet dating site. It was a perfect match – a lifesaving one, as it turned out.  Full story »

Some of New York City's largest employers -- including Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and big universities -- have started receiving doses of the much-in-demand swine flu vaccine for their at-risk employees. Full story »

Ohio health officials narrow criteria, but conflicting priority lists for who is eligible to get the H1N1 vaccine create confusion. Full story »

Long days. Abnormal shifts. Inconsistent schedules. These work conditions may not only affect your job satisfaction, but also your diet.  Full story »

The Cleveland Clinic plans a $96 million, 190,000 sq. ft Twinsburg Family Health & Surgery Center, which is slated to open in 2011.  Full story »

The new system gives doctors access to medical records for 1.5 million patients at any of MetroHealth's clinics or at it's main hospital. Full story »

The Ohio State Medical Association, which represents a majority of doctors in Ohio, will oppose the health reform bill being considered this week in Congress. Meantime a number of Democratic congressmen and women from Ohio say they haven't made up their minds, which might put them among a minority of Americans. Full story »

Many of those employees work in low-wage jobs in food service and hospitality, where they could make others sick. House Education and Labor Committee chairman George Miller says those workers shouldn't have to choose between their paychecks and the health of co-workers or customers. Full story »

If you must offend someone, wait until they're lying down: A brain-scan study shows that people may contain their anger better when horizontal.  Full story »

"The Fight to Survive" relates the story of Elizabeth Hughes in intimate detail. Its author perused her teenage diaries and letters to her family from Lake George, N.Y., where she rested in the summer, and Bermuda, where she and her nurse spent the winter. Full story »

Peanut and other nut butters (as well as nuts that are unsalted and roasted in their own oils) contain polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which can help lower lousy cholesterol (LDL) without lowering healthy cholesterol (HDL). Full story »

A prominent heart transplant surgeon at University Hospitals Case Medical Center cancels a trip to Egypt in protest of recent political events.  Full story »