Health Highlights: June 25, 2012

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

Bagged Salads Recalled from Kroger, Wal Mart
Stores

The Dole company is recalling fresh bagged salads from Kroger and Wal
Mart stores across 6 states due to potential contamination with listeria,
the company announced Saturday.

No illnesses have yet been reported in the “precautionary” recall of
1,077 cases of bagged salads that were distributed in Georgia, Kentucky,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

The products under recall include Kroger Fresh Selections Greener
Supreme coded N158 211B 1613 KR04 with Use-by date of June 19 and UPC
11110 91039, Kroger Fresh Selections Leafy Romaine coded N158 111B KR11
with Use-by date of June 19 and UPC 11110 91046 and Wal Mart Marketside
Leafy Romaine coded N158111B with Use-by date of June19 and UPC code 81131
02781.

The Product Code and Use-by dates are located in the upper right-hand
corner of the salads’ packaging, and the UPC is found on the reverse side
of the package.

Dole is asking that consumers who have these products discard them.
Retailers and consumers can find out more by calling Dole at
1-800-356-3111.

Listeria monocytigenes can trigger illness with symptoms sych as fever,
muscle ache and gastrointestinal symptoms, with pregnant women and people
with compromised immune systems most at risk for serious illness.

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‘Jeopardy!’ Host Alex Trebek Has Mild Heart
Attack

Alex Trebek, the long-time host of TV’s ‘Jeopardy!,’ suffered a mild
heart attack on Saturday, according to a statement released Sunday by the
show’s distributor, Sony Television.

Trebek, 71, is being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, Sony spokeswoman Paula Askanas told The New York Times.

A statement released Sunday by Sony said that Trebek “is in good
spirits and is currently under observation and undergoing further testing.
He is expected to fully recover and be back at Jeopardy! when production
begins taping in July for the new season, the show’s 29th.”

According to the Times, Trebek had a prior heart attack in 2007
but returned to work quickly.

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Low Testosterone Not Part of Normal Aging:
Study

Factors other than aging are likely responsible for the drop in
testosterone some older men experience, a new study finds.

Researchers in Australia tracked the testosterone levels of more than
1,500 men, ages 35 to 80, who had their testosterone levels sampled at
clinic visits spaced five years apart, UPI reported.

The study found that testosterone levels didn’t undergo a steep
decline — instead they only fell less than 1 percent per year. And
certain health or lifestyle factors seemed linked to those slight
declines.

“Men who had declines in testosterone were more likely to be those who
became obese, had stopped smoking or were depressed at either clinic
visit,” lead author Dr. Gary Wittert, professor of medicine at the
University of Adelaide in Adelaide, said in a statement. “While stopping
smoking may be a cause of a slight decrease in testosterone, the benefit
of quitting smoking is huge.”

Wittert and his team believe, therefore, that a drop in testosterone is
not an inevitable part of the aging process in men.

The study was presented at the Endocrine Society’s 94th annual meeting
in Houston.

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