A study in Australia this week found that the Atkins diet is, along with Weight Watchers, the most successful of all time; slimmers lose on average 11 pounds in two months on the carbohydrate-free diet.
The diet, created by Dr Robert Atkins, was first popular in the Seventies and then enjoyed a revival in the early Noughties when an army of skinny Hollywood stars including Jennifer Aniston and Rene Zellweger attributed their weight loss to a protein-only Read the rest of this entry »
New drug mimics low-cal diet, helps keep weight off
Updated Tue. Nov. 4 2008 12:01 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Keeping the extra pounds at bay may soon be as easy as popping a pill, suggests a new study, which found that a new drug may protect against obesity and enhance endurance during exercise by burning more fat.
Researchers found that between 100 and 500 mg per day of the drug, known as SRT1720, kept mice from becoming obese even when they Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Arundel Women Giving Together (AAWGT), a women’s giving circle and a fund of the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County, has available just more than $60,000 in grant funds for programs directed to at-risk county women, families and children, with a focus on education, health and welfare, and violence and abuse prevention.
One-year grants of up to $10,000 will be made to a limited number of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. A downloadable Read the rest of this entry »
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Two FDA-Approved Drugs May Spark Weight Loss, Fight Obesity
Boston (dbTechno) – A new study published this week in the journal Cell Metabolism has revealed that two FDA-approved drugs may be able to actually spark weight loss and fight obesity.
The study was carried out by researchers at the Harvard Medical School, as they have been working to see if drugs already on the market may be able to help people lose weight.
The two drugs focused on Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the growing need for health care, hospitals aren’t immune to the effects of the sickly economy.
Higher supply costs, harder-to-get credit and lower patient spending on elective procedures are all wounding the hospital system.
“Health care providers are now feeling more of a pinch than many economists would have expected,” said Jon Bryan, an economics professor at Bridgewater State College.
At Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »
On a chilly morning last week, Gold’s Gym in Sartell was hopping with the whir of treadmills and elliptical machines.
A new year means new memberships and new hope that this year people will stick with their resolutions to be healthy, lose weight or just feel better. And those good intentions will last for about two weeks.
Then life gets busy, and the last thing people want to do is go to the gym after dealing with their jobs, families and Read the rest of this entry »
that has sickened at least 399 people in 42 states. King Nut Cos., which distributes but does not manufacture the peanut butter, sold to institutions like schools and hospitals, said it would recall all King Nut and Parnell’s Pride brand peanut butter. The company, based in Ohio, also said it would work with the manufacturer of the peanut butter, Peanut Corp. of America, to “inform others of this problem.”
This particular outbreak of salmonella Read the rest of this entry »
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plunged nearly 70 percent Monday after a late-stage clinical
trial cast doubt on its experimental diabetes drug VIAject.
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Humulin.
But a separate Phase III study of volunteers with Type 1
diabetes would not have met the same goal if the company had
not excluded data from India.
U.S.-based Biodel, which plans to meet with the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to discuss Read the rest of this entry »
“The patients are doing fine,” Kelly-McGovern said. “We’re monitoring the situation and we’re in touch with both the hospital and Sunrise.”
The nature of the virus was unknown, officials said. Sara Krueger, a spokeswoman for Sunrise, said: “We have no confirmed diagnosis of Norwalk virus,” a common disease in health care facilities spread through food and human contact.
To stop the virus, Krueger said Sunrise staff cleaned the facility with disinfectant, Read the rest of this entry »