As thousands of Katy residents make their New Year fitness resolutions, one place that is making it easier to keep them is the YMCA.
“(The fitness festival) is a way for us to promote a healthy lifestyle for you and your family,” Greater Houston area YMCA director of communications Trazanna Moreno said.
“Our members love to come to the YMCA because they feel part of a force in the community that drives them to not only get started Read the rest of this entry »
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON-If you’re thinking about New Year’s resolutions, consider making 2009 the year you try eating the Mediterranean way. It’s not only delicious but also appears to protect against heart disease and many other chronic conditions. The January 2009 issue of Harvard Women’s Health Watch suggests some ways to get started eating Mediterranean-style.
1. Pile on the vegetables: The key is variety, so eat many different¯and Read the rest of this entry »
Signs of the economic meltdown affecting the booming medical tourism industry in India have already started showing up. Providers of medical tourism claim that demand for surgeries that are not life-threatening has gone down this year.
Agents or mediators of medical tourism – companies specialising in mediating between surgical clinics and patients – are receiving far lesser number of queries from abroad this year. This time of the year is usually Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A person’s fitness level in childhood seems to influence certain measures of their health as young adults, new study findings suggest.
The study followed Norwegian students and found that those who were more physically fit at age 13 were less likely to become obese or have elevated blood pressure in early adulthood.
By the age of 40, however, that effect had faded, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. Read the rest of this entry »
: The harsh interrogation techniques used on detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo Bay were not the work of “a few bad apples,” the Senate Armed Services Committee finds. “The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate Read the rest of this entry »
An extra committee and a number of working groups were established at the last meeting of the Medical Council. At the Council meeting held on September 24, it was agreed to form an Audit Committee, which brings the overall number of Council committees to four.
It is also intended to form a new Fitness to Practice Committee. In addition, the following working groups have been established by the Council: primary medical qualification, intern year, Read the rest of this entry »
By Bina Venkataraman, Globe Correspondent
People living in cities where air pollution decreased in recent decades saw their life expectancy increase an average of five months as a result of cleaner air, a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham Young University strongly suggests.
The researchers looked at the amount of small particle pollutants in 51 US cities, including Boston, Worcester, and Providence, R.I., during the Read the rest of this entry »
(Among stroke survivors and patients suffering from other neurological or muscular disorders, one common difficulty they face is foot drop, a partial leg paralysis that prevents the foot from lifting. Foot drop causes instability and difficulty walking. Now, Rush University Medical Center is offering a high-tech device to help brain injury patients regain the ability to walk more naturally and improve mobility.
The unique, lightweight device called Read the rest of this entry »
Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) may have surprised Wall Street by predicting a fourth-quarter profit, but its lack of further earnings visibility highlights the toll an ailing U.S. economy and tough credit markets are taking on the hospital industry.
Hospitals have struggled for years with tepid volumes of commercially insured patients and large numbers of uninsured patients who can’t pay their medical bills. Now, the credit crisis has prompted many Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama is likely to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days, a senior aide said Saturday, a day after surgeons removed gallstones from the Tibetan spiritual leader.
“He had a minor surgery so he’s resting,” Tenzin Takhla said. “He’s doing very well.”
Takhla said the Nobel Prize-winning Buddhist leader was likely to be released from the hospital Monday or Tuesday.
The Dalai Lama was hospitalized in Read the rest of this entry »