<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Health News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=22&amp;catid=407</link><description>News Feed for - Health</description><item><title>Health Tip: Caring for Baby's Umbilical Cord</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96568002&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T02:24:00</pubDate><description>(HealthDay News) -- Newborns still have a little stump of what's left of the umbilical cord. Though it should fall off on its own by the end of the third week, some doctors recommend that parents take </description><source>KOTA Territory News</source></item><item><title>YouNews: American Cancer Society Relay For Life L</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96476535&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T03:19:00</pubDate><description>» 0 Comments This story should be flagged for moderation. Please choose from one of the following options: American Cancer Society Relay For Life L Channel: Local News Location: Madison South Dakota </description><source>KSFY</source></item><item><title>Moms-To-Be Smoke Less After Workplace Smoking Ban</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96470540&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T03:21:00</pubDate><description>Ireland's implementation of a workplace smoking ban in 2004 appears tied to a decline in maternal smoking rates as well as lower risk for preterm births, study findings hint. Compared with the year prior </description><source>Post Chronicle</source></item><item><title>BRIEF: Nutrition program gets grant for food</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96617739&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T02:14:00</pubDate><description>After experiencing more than $50,000 in state funding cuts, the Mid America Nutrition Program has been awarded a $1,000 grant to help feed seniors in Franklin and surrounding counties this December. The </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>RCN workshops on improving nutritional care in your organisation</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96614951&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T01:34:00</pubDate><description>These nutritional care workshops have been developed in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing, the National Patient Safety Agency and the British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. </description><source>Royal College of Nursing</source></item><item><title>What may be causing painful swallowing</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96481995&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T01:27:00</pubDate><description>Eating is no fun if it hurts to swallow. Uncomfortable squeezing or burning could be felt anywhere from the upper neck to behind the breastbone. The US National Library of Medicine list these possible </description><source>The News International</source></item><item><title>Antiviral Therapy to Treat Hepatitis C Declining In the United States</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609539&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:38:00</pubDate><description>-- Researchers have determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates appear </description><source>Doctors Guide</source></item><item><title>Women With MS No More Likely to Have Pregnancy Complications Than General Population</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609485&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:37:00</pubDate><description>-- There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more </description><source>Doctors Guide</source></item><item><title>Endoscopic Ultrasound-Fine Needle Aspiration Feasible, Safe for Children</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609434&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:36:00</pubDate><description>-- In the November issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, a study examining endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) found that EUS and EUS-fine needle aspiration (FNA) is feasible and safe in paediatric patients, </description><source>Doctors Guide</source></item><item><title>Obesity Leading Risk Factor of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609375&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:35:00</pubDate><description>-- Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation, stroke, and death, according to findings published </description><source>Doctors Guide</source></item><item><title>Vitamin D might be just as important as vaccine to prevent effects of H1N1 swine </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96572670&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:52:00</pubDate><description>The world's leading vitamin D experts say that raising your levels of "the sunshine vitamin" this winter might be the best way to help your body naturally raise its resistance to all forms of the flu </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital due to appalling care</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96598155&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:20:00</pubDate><description>Hundreds of patients may have died needlessly at an NHS hospital due to appalling standards of care, a damning report has found. Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon and </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>No Grocery Store of Its Own? Community Takes Action</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96586350&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:14:00</pubDate><description>'It looks so sad on your eyes where P&amp;C was,' said Mabel Wilson, remembering how she used to walk down the street to the store. 'There were a lot of cars there, and the neighbors would be shopping. I </description><source>ABC News</source></item><item><title>'Get Off Your Knees!' Living Without Arms, Legs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96574102&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T15:41:00</pubDate><description>But Robinson's story is unlike any other. Robinson, 40, was born without elbows, forearms, wrists, hands, knees or thighs. He's currently featured in a PBS documentary called 'Get Off Your Knees' and </description><source>ABC News</source></item><item><title>Kids Taste Healthy Treats on Nutrition Night</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96565493&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T14:14:00</pubDate><description>Mission Loc@l    Teachers, community members, students and their families were invited to  Sanchez Elementary 's Fourth Annual Health and Nutrition Night on Thursday. About 200 were expected to attend </description><source>San Francisco Chronicle</source></item><item><title>Fertility: stop all the clocks</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551411&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T07:57:00</pubDate><description>As an increasing number of women delay motherhood at the risk of losing their fertility, one doctor believes he has found the answer: pausing biological time by freezing ovarian tissue. Victoria Lambert </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Girls aged 3 worry about weight</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551408&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T07:57:00</pubDate><description>Girls begin worrying about their appearance and weight from the age of three, a study has found. Preschool girls worry about their weight, a study has found Photo: GETTY Research among preschool girls </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. (WNI) Corporate Event Announ...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96529681&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T03:25:00</pubDate><description>Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. (WNI) Expected next earnings release: Announcement date: 12/17/2009 - Before Market Earnings Quarter: Q2 Announcement Status: Unconfirmed</description><source>Zibb</source></item><item><title>Lobbyist: Smoking Ban Could Cost Video Lottery $30-million</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96470638&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T22:47:00</pubDate><description>Enacting the statewide smoking ban that voters will consider in November of next year could cost the state $20-$30-million in proceeds from the state's video lottery establishments. Lottery lobbyist Larry </description><source>KOTA Territory News</source></item><item><title>Cutting holiday calories</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96459421&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T11:11:00</pubDate><description>Or maybe you could just use smaller plates. That's the premise of 'The 9-Inch 'Diet' ' (PowerHouse), a book published last November by a pair of advertising executives that makes a strong visual and verbal </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Health Tip: Managing Herniated Disk Pain</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96568003&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T15:05:00</pubDate><description>(HealthDay News) -- A herniated disk occurs when the nucleus of a disk in the back or neck pushes out of the disk toward the spinal canal, putting pressure on surrounding nerves. The American Academy </description><source>US News</source></item><item><title>Ailing boy's parents face deportation</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96563903&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T14:00:00</pubDate><description>The disease likely to put 8-year-old Mohamed Ali Fathi in a wheelchair by his teens and end his life by 25 is in an early stage. When he runs, he falters. When he climbs stairs, he must press his palms </description><source>Philadelphia Inquirer</source></item><item><title>Time for holiday giving</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96554860&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T08:39:00</pubDate><description>It's the season of the can of corn, the box of pasta, the creamy peanut butter. Americans donate more food to the less fortunate during the holidays than at any other time. And while those who battle </description><source>Philadelphia Inquirer</source></item><item><title>60-minutes of sudoku 'burns calories'...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96475765&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T03:19:00</pubDate><description>Mental exercises such as puzzles and quizzes are thought to burn an average of 90 calories every hour, according to research by mental agility experts. Tim Forrester, from brain training website cannyminds.com, </description><source>Marieclaire.co.uk</source></item><item><title>First-strike Ration Aims for Better Nutrition</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96524410&amp;Channel_ID=22&amp;Category_ID=407</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T02:18:00</pubDate><description>By Christen N. McCluney Special to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2009 Several military organizations are working together to provide soldiers with healthy, good-tasting, sustainable </description><source>GlobalSecurity.org</source></item></channel></rss>