I enjoyed reading about Conscious Ohio’s weekly healthy vegan lunches. However, the article may have perpetuated the common misconception that plant-based diets are deficient in iron. In fact, a balanced vegan diet, including beans, grains and leafy greens, easily provides adequate iron. According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, “Studies have shown that the incidence of iron deficiency anemia is not greater among individuals Read the rest of this entry »
Wu Yi Tea, an ancient diet tea remedy, is now being used as a modern day weight loss tea
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If you havent had a look at whats hot in the weight loss tea area for a while now, then you may not have heard of wu yi tea. The simple fact is that this diet tea has been around for thousands of years and has been helping people maintain their weight and to live healthy, fulfilling lives. The secret behind this wonder Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON (Reuters) – A Colombian woman has received the world’s first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday.
The success of the operation, performed in June using tissue generated from the woman’s own bone marrow, raises the prospect that transplanting other organs may be possible without drugs to dampen the immune Read the rest of this entry »
The government and local charities should help with research and development of orphan drugs that are needed to treat rare diseases, also known as orphan diseases, an Academia Sinica academinician urged Saturday.
Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist who served as Department of Health minister from 2003-2005, made the pitch in a speech delivered at a ceremony marking the 80th founding anniversary of Academia Sinica, the country’s top Read the rest of this entry »
. Community Health Programs has been awarded a three-year contract by the Massachusetts Department of Health to implement a new health care model designed to reduce barriers to service for uninsured and underinsured individuals in south and central Berkshire County. The new program combines the Women’s Health Network and the Men’s Health Partnership Care Coordination Program into one entity to be administered by CHP. Similar women’s services were Read the rest of this entry »
If you are a male from the baby boomer generation – that is, aged between 45 and 62 – you should be taking better care of your health.
After all, a Straits Times report, 'Men losing sex drive at younger age', on Nov 7 noted that one in five Singaporean men aged 45 and above experiences low testosterone levels for their age.
The condition, known as hypogonadism, can lead to falling libido, male osteoporosis (brittle bones) and fatigue in Read the rest of this entry »
RIFLE, COLORADO – Who knew that a Canadian couple’s decision to only eat food grown within a 100-mile radius of their home for a year would lead to a new word to describe their diet?
The New Oxford American Dictionary named “locavore,” meaning one who eats only (or mostly) locally-grown food, the 2007 Word of the Year.
Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon of Vancouver, British Columbia chronicled their year-long effort in a book, “Plenty: Eating Read the rest of this entry »
Services at one of England’s leading children’s hospitals are being investigated after complaints from its own consultants.
A review of services at Birmingham Children’s Hospital was commissioned after management meetings in August.
The Observer newspaper said the review has been highly critical but the hospital said the paper was not quoting an official report from the review.
The hospital said none of the concerns related to serious clinical Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 29, 2008 (The Bakersfield Californian – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
In just five minutes, a new breast cancer screening test offered at her doctor’s office confirmed what Judy Esqueda’s annual mammograms couldn’t: she had abnormal cells in her breast, a condition known to increase the risk of developing the disease.
A biopsy confirmed the 46-year-old Bakersfield resident had early-stage cancer in her left breast. Read the rest of this entry »
One In Four Teenage Girls Received HPV Vaccine In Its First Full Year Of Distribution, CDC Says
on Thursday said 25% of teenage girls in the U.S. between ages 13 and 17 received at least one dose of
’s three-shot human papillomavirus vaccine,
, last year, the
reports (Corbett Dooren,
, 10/10). The report indicates that about 2.5 million girls in the U.S. received at least one shot of the vaccine. It was the first look at how many teenage Read the rest of this entry »