Wednesday, August 09, 2000
Body and Mind
Gannett News Service
News
New partner: Mercy Health Partners has joined the National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation for the 2001 national conference.
The new partnership will allow Mercy to expand its holistic health focus, says Julie Hanser, president and CEO of Mercy Health Partners of Southeast Ohio, and Dianne Dunkelman, founder and CEO of the National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation.
Speaking of Women's Health began in Cincinnati five years ago, and has expanded to more than 23 cities. The conference is designed to help women make informed choices about their health, well-being and personal safety.
Through the conferences, SWH helps raise funds for public television stations and other beneficiary organizations in participating communities.
Shelf help
Big change: Dr. Michele Moore outlines symptoms, health concerns and allopathic, herbal, complementary and homeopathic therapies for managing the stages of menopause in The Only Menopause Guide You'll Ever Need (The Johns Hopkins University Press; $13.95 paperback, $42.50 hardcover). The book also includes dietary guidelines and a chart for outlining symptoms, test results and treatments, along with a resource list.
On the trail: Chris Kilham tracks down the roots of popular alternative remedies in Tales from the Medicine Trail (Rodale Reach, $19.95). The book includes recipes along with secrets from shamans, mystics, herbalists and yogis to be incorporated into daily health plans.
Research:
New light: For you acne sufferers, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. To be exact, a combination of blue and red wavelengths. A British doctor says the combination attacks bacteria contributing to acne and promotes healing of the skin without the potentially damaging effects of treatments with ultraviolet light. Other scientists, however, rebut the findings reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, saying acne bacteria are used to living in normal light, which has red and blue light in it.
Risk factors: One of the most famous outbreaks of waterborne diseases occurred in Milwaukee in the early 1990s, when hundreds of thousands fell ill with cryptosporidium infection from contaminated water supplies and hundreds more — mostly those with weakened immune systems — died. A new study in Connecticut narrows down the categories of immuno-compromised people at risk for the disease. The researchers say that doctors should consider cryptosporidium infection as a cause of diarrheal disease in people with weak immune systems, especially children, if it occurs in the summer or early fall, and they should ask about travel, farm visits and swimming habits.
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