Twirling a hula hoop isn’t just kiddie business these days. Some adults are channeling their younger selves and gaining health benefits by hooping, rolling their hips and performing tricks they may not have attempted the first time around.
Marketed as aerobic exercise, hooping improves flexibility and works the abdominal muscles — and legs and arms for people who can spin a hoop around those limbs.
A little mental flexibility is also involved, Read the rest of this entry »
About The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation’s first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, Children’s Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program Read the rest of this entry »
SALISBURY The Wicomico County Narcotics Task Force seize more than $40,000 worth of drugs following an investigation this month.
The Wicomico County States Attorneys Office said while task force members were trying to serve arrest warrants on Princeton Feaster, 26, of Salisbury, they found him at a local motel and seized about $42,229 worth of cocaine, heroin and money.
Three other people who were not identified this morning were Read the rest of this entry »
Kenyan Medics are sounding alarm over surge in hypertension and other lifestyle diseases-and have dispelled the long held notion that the diseases are confined to the developed World.
The warning comes against a backdrop of a recent report by World Health Organization (WHO) which contends that lifestyle diseases are posing formidable challenge to heath care provision in the West.
The report further points out that these diseases are fast catching Read the rest of this entry »
Two 20-year-old men have been arrested after Queensland police seized more than $1 million worth of drugs they fear may have been destined for schoolies week celebrations.
Superintendent John Pointing, of the State Drug and Property Crime Group, said police found $17,500 in cash, two firearms and a stash of drugs, believed to be heroin, cocaine, methylamphetamine and MDMA, in two south Brisbane homes.
He said it was possible the drugs were to Read the rest of this entry »
Dyax Corp. (NASDAQ: DYAX) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing the Companys Biologics
License Application (BLA) for DX-88 (ecallantide) for the treatment of
acute attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) and has designated the
application for Priority Review. Based on this designation, the FDA
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date is March 23,
2009, or six months from the BLA Read the rest of this entry »
ROANOKE, Va. — Democrat Barack Obama on Friday sought to undercut Republican John McCain's support among older voters, warning that McCain wants to cut Medicare to pay for other plans.
McCain, whose aides said Obama was distorting facts to scare seniors, called Obama's tax plans “welfare” and argued that policies the Democrat is promoting as middle-class are more akin to socialism.
Obama delivered his message while campaigning in Read the rest of this entry »
FRESNO, Calif.—Fresno County leaders are set to meet next month to consider closing the region’s only 24-hour psychiatric-treatment center.
County health officials say the closure would save the county $2.5 million as its mental health department faces a budget shortfall.
With no similar urgent care centers in neighboring counties, family members of the mentally ill say the closure would leave them with few options. They say the burden would Read the rest of this entry »
A 26-year-old San Jose man died early today after he was shot with a Taser by Campbell police who had been called to help quell a “disturbance” at Valley Medical Center apparently involving the man.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Don Morrissey did not identify the man, saying that the coroner had not yet given permission because his next of kin had not been properly notified.
Morrissey added that he didn’t have many details since Read the rest of this entry »
Two hospitals, Harrington Hospital and Hubbard Regional Hospital, have taken the first step toward consolidation with Harrington taking over the day-to-day operations of Hubbard.
The hospitals, located in Southborough and Webster, Mass., sit 12 miles apart.
The hospitals “are envisioning the possibility of a consolidated health care system in south central Massachusetts in the long term,” said Chris Robert, who chairs the board of Read the rest of this entry »