The US monthly on fitness to hit the stands this summer.
Fitness enthusiasts will soon have help at hand. All those body-building tips they yearn for will be available in a monthly package. Muscle & Fitness, a US monthly magazine on body building and fitness, is set to hit the stands this summer. Its publisher, American Media Inc, has secured the magazine’s title rights from a local publisher who had been printing the magazine without permission. Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2008 – The Department of Health and Human Services published today a broad new so-called “Right of Conscience” regulation that would limit patients’ access to reproductive health services and information. In response to this regulation, Mark Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement:
We are deeply concerned by the Bush Read the rest of this entry »
Gerhard McNeary, 51, of Pontiac.
None since 1998, when he was laid off from his General Motors assembly line job.
Too costly. “I could afford health care, but I wouldn’t have a place to live,” he said.
Part-time substance abuse worker in Waterford.
What if he gets sick?
Goes to the Gary Burnstein Community Health Center, a free clinic with a growing number of patients, in Pontiac; has no primary care doctor.
He waited two months to have Read the rest of this entry »
Studies say we’re losing the battle of the bulge, though getting fit is more than just slimming down
The South County Spotlight,
Jan 14, 2009
Wade Lewis makes a good case for why appearances are deceiving.
It’s rare for Lewis to enter a room without clutching a cup of black coffee, and while his midsection wouldn’t draw too much attention in a typical Pacific Northwest crowd, it’s a far cry from six-pack abs.
Is he Read the rest of this entry »
that launches tomorrow. Entitled “Style Series,” the not-yet-released webisodes will feature interviews with trendsetters such as Rihanna, designer Cynthia Rowley, and artist Robin Thicke. Certainly, Coca-Cola is looking to tap into the success of fashion-focused reality programs from
Model.Live
. But the driving concept of this series is significantly different.
, the show will be hosted by
magazine’s West Coast editor Rachel Zalis Read the rest of this entry »
Autism tops Barack Obama’s medical to-do list, according to the new president’s website. Whitehouse.gov launched at 12:01 pm yesterday, even before the new president had taken his oath of office on the Capitol’s West Front. Autism is the only disorder or disease mentioned explicitly in Obama’s 24-point agenda.
don’t get the call. Neither does
, or other chronic diseases. But there are four hefty bullet points addressing autism.
1. Increased Read the rest of this entry »
10% of U.S. Hispanics Have Type 2 Diabetes
U.S. to Detain Milk Products From China
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of
Hurricane’ Ike’s devastation is still being felt, even though the storm hit Galveston Island more than two months ago. The latest fallout, the
reports, is the loss of 3,800 jobs from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston’s largest employer.
Those jobs represent Read the rest of this entry »
UK’s Ramon Harris has been released from a Tuscaloosa hospital and is returning to Lexington on the team’s charter plane.
Harris fainted outside UK’s locker room before the second half of the game against Alabama. He regained consciousness quickly, but was taken by ambulance to DCH Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, where he was alert while being checked out.
All test of his vitals were good and Harris was released at 5:00 central time. He’ll visit Read the rest of this entry »
Successful separation of twins, conjoined from the breastbone to the groin, has occurred only 20 times in the world and never before at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
But in December, a team of 50 doctors and nurses from Children’s — including general and orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists and experts in plastic surgery, urology and organ systems — separated 2-year-old twins Dagian and Danielle Lee of Cleveland during a 24-hour Read the rest of this entry »
Tension increased further yesterday between the US and the allies of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela when Washington announ-ced that Bolivia had failed to co-operate adequately in fighting the drugs trade and offered to evacuate its citizens from La Paz.
In the past week Bol-ivia and Venezuela have expelled US ambassadors, with Washington reciprocating in an intensifying dispute over the battle with drugs.
US officials are angry that Bolivia, Read the rest of this entry »