This Harris Poll(R) was
conducted online within the United States between October 16 and 20,
2008 among 2,119 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex,
race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted
where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in
the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for
respondents’ propensity to be online. Read the rest of this entry »
- A new diet craze isn’t just sweeping the nation, it’s sweeping the world.
People are going bananas for the morning banana diet.
When a famous Japanese opera singer announced she’d lost 15 pounds in six weeks — simply by eating bananas in the morning — you could say the Japanese went bananas.
Banana sales in Japan shot up 80 percent. There was even a nationwide banana shortage.
American dieters quickly found the so-called “morning banana Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Jose Biller treats hundreds of stroke patients each year. But few cases were as baffling as the one he received late one afternoon on Dec. 3, 2007.
What puzzled Biller, chairman of the department of neurology at the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, was that this patient didn’t fit the profile of a typical stroke sufferer. The patient was a 35-year-old woman with no known cardiovascular risk factors. In short, she was a young, healthy, Read the rest of this entry »
The owner of a Belltown hookah lounge — one of two Seattle restaurants sued by health officials last week for repeated violations of a statewide smoking ban — says King County’s enforcement efforts may cost him his livelihood.
“If I lose the hookah business, I’m out. I’m broke,” said Shaher Abuelkhair, owner of Zaina Café, a Middle Eastern restaurant. “I have kids. I have a mortgage. I have a lease. I can’t just stop.”
Zaina and a Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Even a slight delay in treatment can result in the loss of a testicle, writes
VERY OFTEN when we talk about men’s health we are talking about long-term health issues – diseases or illnesses which take a considerable length of time to materialise and remedy.
Testicular torsion (where the spermatic cord becomes twisted, cutting off the blood supply to the testis), on the other hand, is a medical emergency that affects Read the rest of this entry »
Mohnton, PA -
nName: Susie J. Roth.
•Age: 51.
•Address: Mohnton.
•Occupation: Travel agent with Boscov’s Travel, Exeter Township.
•When and why you began to exercise: I’ve been involved in various aerobic programs throughout the years, but there was a period of time when my kids were growing up when it got put on the back burner. It just seemed that with all the kids’ activities and my own work schedule, I couldn’t Read the rest of this entry »
Life Time Fitness clubs continue to attract new members, but the number of people dropping the fancy clubs has started to creep up. And those that stay are cutting back on services such as spas and personal training.
In a conference call with analysts Thursday, CEO Bahram Akradi said that until recently, a lot of people might keep their memberships for several months even though they weren’t using the clubs. “That’s changed in this environment,” Read the rest of this entry »
After enduring more ownership changes over the years than she can count on one hand, nurse Denise VanHosen is hard-pressed to believe OSU Medical Center is taking its last gasps as Tulsa’s de facto indigent hospital.
“I’ve been down that road before,” she said with a sigh.
The Broken Arrow registered nurse works in the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, 744 W. Ninth St.
On her first day of work more than 25 years ago, VanHosen’s boss Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, September 5, 2008
Life can change in just two short years.
magazine first put Derek Ramsay on its cover in 2006,
giving exposure to the upstart actor who was then just learning the ropes of
the business—starting out as a fixture in TV commercials and as an MTV VJ.
Now,
Derek has a string of both supporting and leading roles in TV shows and movies,
and looks forward to future projects like soaps and movies where he'll Read the rest of this entry »
Earlier this morning,
he was “healing up quickly” and would be out of the hospital “b4 you know it.”
He wasn’t kidding.
On Friday, exactly four weeks after surviving a
, the former
drummer was released from Sherman Oaks’ Grossman Burn Center, the Los Angeles-area facility where he has been receiving treatment since Sept. 29.
The 32-year-old rocker will continue his recovery at home and has requested privacy while he continues to recover Read the rest of this entry »