As you know, the anti-inflammatory diet can help prevent the chronic inflammation that contributes to the development of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and other age-related disorders. It is also a cornerstone of treatment for such autoimmune diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
In addition to reducing inflammation, the diet provides steady energy and ample vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and dietary Read the rest of this entry »
New Yorkers would pay more for everything from clothing to non-diet soda under the budget proposal Governor Paterson will submit to lawmakers on Tuesday.
The New York Times reports the govenor wants to reinstate the sales tax on clothing and footwear costing $115 or less, and levy what many call an “obesity tax” on non-diet sodas as a way to curb sugar intake in young people. The taxes are part of Paterson’s attempt to close a $15 billion budget Read the rest of this entry »
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If you want to see the consequences of the recent wave of attempts to endorse “provider conscience rules”, in which health care providers are permitted to freely exercise their whims and biases in providing clients and patients their services, read this story. As usual, it’s all about controlling the reproductive choices of women: we’ve had politicians blocking access to
. Beyond simply passive denial of Read the rest of this entry »
Common cold is often dismissed as a nuisance, but doctors say it can be debilitating, particularly in the very young and in older individuals. Besides being a factor in bronchitis, sinusitis, middle-ear infections and pneumonia, HRV is also responsible for half of all asthma attacks. “This (asthma correlation) could be even higher in India, as people from lower income groups catch more infection than the middle and higher income groups,” says Read the rest of this entry »
Labopharm Inc.’s
(DDSS) first U.S. drug approval
followed a long and winding road would be an understatement, but the tramadol
saga with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is finally over and investors
aren’t dwelling on the past.
Earlier Wednesday, the Canadian specialty-pharma company announced that the
FDA approved its once-daily formulation of painkiller tramadol, named Ryzolt.
Labopharm, which has been public for 12 years, went through Read the rest of this entry »
EATONTOWN, N.J.
,
Oct. 29
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Osteotech, Inc.
(Nasdaq:
), a leader in the emerging field of biologic solutions for
regenerative healing, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance
from the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for its next
generation grafting material. Osteotech received 510(k) clearance for this
material as a bone graft substitute, and as a bone void filler, for use in the
spine, Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CDT on Monday, October 20, 2008
Pamela Edwards waited on a park bench outside Parkland Memorial Hospital with dozens of other patients who had spilled out of the busy pharmacy department.
She had brought her lunch, knowing it would take hours to get her monthly prescriptions filled.
“I need to take my medication with a little food, so I just bring it along with me,” the 57-year-old Garland woman said last week.
It’s the invariable Read the rest of this entry »
Men’s Health magazine just ranked Miami the nation’s fattest city. Are we going to take that lying on the couch?
Here’s one way to revive those ol’ fat cells and get a new you going: Dr. Etti Ben-Zion’s first Cleanse Miami, a two-day detox seminar program that runs Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Deauville Beach Resort, 6701 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, gives us a chance to renew, rejuvenate and recharge.
The program offers organic green juices, energetic Read the rest of this entry »
Multivitamins appear to have no effect on cancer, heart disease or mortality when taken by women
who are middle-age or older.
The news comes today from one of the largest health studies in the United States, the Women’s
Health Initiative, and adds to a body of research showing little benefit from routine use of
multivitamins.
Researchers analyzing health data on the more-than 161,800 postmenopausal women in the study
found that multivitamin use Read the rest of this entry »
Published November 28, 2008
WEBSTER The investigation of a nurse accused of sexually assaulting a patient in a Harris County hospital emergency room has police inquiring whether the incident was isolated.
Bond for Joseph Holland Gillett, 46, of Midland was set at $30,000 on a charge of sexual assault. He was released from the Galveston County Jail on Wednesday, following his Tuesday arrest on a warrant while working at the University of Texas Read the rest of this entry »