Fitness expert Jillian Michaels is best known as a trainer on the NBC weight-loss reality show “Biggest Loser.” Her passion for exercise stems in part, from a personal history that saw her lose 55 pounds during her teen years.
“I was 175 pounds, which is about 55 pounds heavier than I am now,” she said recently during a telephone interview. “I got into martial arts. I was 13 years old and found a martial arts instructor Read the rest of this entry »
MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee police say a 15-year-old girl has
died, three days after she was stabbed in the head with a
screwdriver during an after-school fight.
Police say Liliana Razo died Monday after spending the weekend
at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee
suburb.
Police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer says investigators have a suspect and
will seek an arrest warrant against him. He says one 18-year-old
man was arrested Friday and Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING — A 21-year-old woman in central China has been infected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s eighth reported case this year, the Health Ministry said.
The woman, a farmer in the central province of Hunan, fell ill Jan. 23 after handling poultry that died from the virus, the ministry said on its Web site. She was in stable condition, it said.
Five of the eight cases of H5N1 reported this year were fatal. The disease is hard Read the rest of this entry »
The high cost of cancer drugs could lead the NHS into “meltdown”, a leading expert has said.
Professor Karol Sikora said the next generation of drugs would keep people alive for longer but they were so expensive they could swallow half of the current NHS budget within four years.
He calculated they could cost the NHS £50 billion – around half the current budget, which tops £100 billion.
The professor, who is director of Cancer Partners UK, Read the rest of this entry »
special diet that reverses diabetes and heart disease
).
Under the diet, Dr. Baxter Montgomery encourages patients to eat plant-based foods, minimally processed foods (that means all those foods that come prepared in a box or package), and to eat whole foods, as close to their natural state as possible.
For instance, you could shuck a corn on the cob and just eat it uncooked. He says it’s actually delicious that way, plus you get all Read the rest of this entry »
– Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros could be moved from intensive care next week as he continues to recover from an operation to remove a brain tumor, a hospital statement said Friday.
The La Paz hospital in Madrid issued a short statement to say that the 51-year-old’s neurplogical condition was “evolving favorably.”
Last month, the hospital revealed Ballesteros had also undergone a tracheotomy — a procedure it called common in cases like his Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, Januay 6, 2009
Arkansas City Police Chief Sean Wallace believes there are a lot of drugs passing through the city, and he wants a police dog to help him stop them.
He has been lobbying the city commission for some time for such a dog, and Monday night he brought in a dog and handler to give commissioners a demonstration.
Sgt. Chad McCluskey, of the Augusta Dept of Public Safety, brought his dog Basko, and showed the commission how Read the rest of this entry »
Medfinders Inc., based in Arlington, TX, provides nursing, allied
healthcare and physician placement services through its Nursefinders,
Nursefinders Travel, Club Staffing, National Healthcare Staffing,
Resources on Call, TVL Healthcare, Linde Healthcare, and Kendall & Davis
brands.Nursefinders’ Patient Care Division also provides home care
services in 25 U.S. markets. Through its SingleSource Division, Read the rest of this entry »
Though breakthroughs in new drugs, devices and surgeries have
contributed to a longer life expectancy in
, they
haven’t come cheaply. Spending on health care in the United States
tops $2 trillion a year and has risen nearly 10 percent annually since
1970.
“We need to put more resources into research to know what works
and doesn’t work for same medical conditions,” said Joel Miller,
senior vice president for operations at the National Coalition Read the rest of this entry »
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Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (OSIR:
) Thursday revealed U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to broaden its expanded access program for Prochymal, now making the investigational stem cell product available to adults with life-threatening Graft vs. Host Disease. In May of 2008, FDA approved the first Prochymal EAP for the treatment of pediatric GvHD patients. GvHD is a life-threatening immune Read the rest of this entry »