http://health-center.orly-owl.org Home Health Care Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:30:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oct. 8, 2009 -- As the debate over health reform rages on, Vermonters can rejoice: Their state has the best-performing health system in the nation.Meanwhile, states across the South and West are still struggling with high rates of uninsured residents, poor quality of health care, and wasteful spending.That's according to ... http://health-center.orly-owl.org/5934-vermont-tops-list-of-best-health-systems.html Oct. 8, 2009 - Data from Australia and New Zealand's winter flu season suggest H1N1 swine flu will stress U.S. intensive care units in hard-hit areas.Down Under hospitals are well equipped. Yet many had to struggle to keep up with severely ill swine flu patients, who have to ... http://health-center.orly-owl.org/5933-swine-flu-may-stress-icus-this-winter.html Oct. 8, 2009 - Some 10 million Americans may carry a recently discovered retrovirus now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome.The virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus or XMRV, was detected in 67% of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome by Vincent C. Lombardi, PhD, of the Whittemore Peterson Institute ... http://health-center.orly-owl.org/5935-retrovirus-linked-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.html Oct. 8, 2009 -- Adults with shingles are at increased risk for stroke, especially if they have shingles that affects the eyes, a study shows.The study is not the first to show an elevated stroke risk associated with shingles, but it is the first to quantify the risk, researchers say.Compared ... http://health-center.orly-owl.org/5937-shingles-may-raise-risk-of-stroke.html Oct. 8, 2009 -- A single gene variant predicts breast cancer survival after tamoxifen treatment, a new study finds.In the 46% of women with the "good" gene, tamoxifen works as well as newer drugs. For women with the gene variant linked to poor response to tamoxifen treatment, ... http://health-center.orly-owl.org/5936-gene-predicts-tamoxifen-success-in-breast-cancer.html