BURLINGTON, Ont. — Health officials in southern Ontario are investigating eight new possible cases of E. coli.
Officials in the Niagara and Halton regions have reported four new cases each and are now co-ordinating their efforts to determine if the cases are linked.
The source of the outbreak has yet to be confirmed.
“We’re trying to sort out, are there common suppliers (of food to the restaurants in question)?†said Dr. Doug Sider, Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drug makers, insurers and other health care companies are preparing for possibly dramatic changes to the U.S. health care system as Democrats increase their power in Washington next year.
Companies such as Pfizer Inc (PFE.N:
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Police on Sunday released no new information about the accident, in which a Honda Accord veered off the road, became airborne and crashed into two trees. Police said the car was headed eastbound on Albany Avenue, toward
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Police were called to the scene just before 6 a.m., responding to a report of a person lying in the road. The person, Whitehead, had been ejected from the vehicle before it went down a 15-foot embankment to a spot where it was Read the rest of this entry »
We have always felt essential elements in educating “healthy” children should involve both physical and mental fitness along with social skills.In today’s economy we feel it is important to add another fitness to the equation, the one of “Fiscal Fitness”. There is a bank in Denver, Colorado that does just that!It is called the Young Americans Bank. This bank is the only one in the world that is designed for children ages Read the rest of this entry »
“Extra” has obtained an interview with Michael Phelps and the swimming phenomenon states, “I don’t take drugs. I get drug tested all the time. You look at the records and you can see.”
, saying, “It’s times like these where you really do get true support. I’ve been able to really find out who my friends and family are through this. By no means has it been easy… it’s a bad judgment and a bad mistake and something I’ll learn from.”
What do you Read the rest of this entry »
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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (PWRM.OB:
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The company noted that with its recently published patent application on human bone marrow stem cell protein biomarkers for drug resistance in leukemia patients, the usefulness of its biomarker discovery technology for stem cell therapy applications has already been demonstrated.
The Read the rest of this entry »
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The Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) on Friday said it has started fielding some 600 volunteers, emergency response units (ERU) as well as ambulances in cemeteries nationwide for the All Saints' weekend.
said this is aside from a roving team that will be on standby at the PNRC headquarters in Manila.
PNRC chairman Sen. Richard Gordon said the PNRC volunteers and ERU are equipped with medical equipment and first Read the rest of this entry »
A new report gives Georgia a passing grade for its readiness to distribute stockpiled medicine and vaccines during a pandemic or terrorist attack —- but not by much.
The report, released Tuesday by the Trust for America’s Health, found that Georgia has “adequate plans” to dole out emergency medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile in a catastrophe.
The stockpile is controlled by the Centers for Disease Read the rest of this entry »
Exercise, Calcium Rich Diet Could Cut Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome
Adopting daily exercise sessions and a calcium-rich diet could reduce the risk of a group of health risk factors called the metabolic syndrome, finds a new study of Illinois adults.
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of symptoms large abdominal girth, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and insulin insensitivity that together signal a significantly higher risk for heart disease Read the rest of this entry »
Jane Clarke: Bloated and painful gut? Blame the junk food diet
Every Tuesday, Britain’s leading nutritionist explains how to eat your way to health. This week Jane explains how junk food harms our digestive system and reveals the healthiest foods to snack on after a heart attack…
When did we stop realising that what we do – or don’t – put into our body is bound to have an impact on our digestive system? I ask this because I’ve noticed a rise Read the rest of this entry »