THURSDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) — Most deaths on Mount Everest occur during descents from the summit in the so-called “death zone” above 8,000 meters, and high-altitude cerebral edema appears to be associated with an increased risk of death.
That’s the conclusion of researchers who analyzed the reported 212 deaths on the 29,000-foot mountain between 1921 and 2006.
The American, British and Canadian researchers found that the overall death Read the rest of this entry »

Video rentals, Jambu Juice also prompt reader correspondence.
Now is the time of year when business at the gym usually picks up. So it is natural for us to receive some inquiries about fitness center expansion plans.
The biggest question on the workout front has been related to Cardinal Fitness and its plans to add more locations in our region.
Do you have any more information on the status of a Cardinal Fitness Center on the south side? Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON—The $787 billion economic stimulus legislation includes $19 billion to modernize health care information technology systems, a move that’s intended to lead to the computerization of all Americans’ medical records by 2014. Is that $19 billion intended to create much-needed jobs and fix a health care system that’s choking on paper? Or is it a stealthy opening move toward national health care?
Many economists and Read the rest of this entry »

HYDERABAD:
Finally, one industry sector seems to be in good shape and it only has New Year
resolutions to thank for it. Well, gym owners across the city are witnessing a
surge in registrations before January 1 ticks in with many denizens vowing to
stay in shape this year, gulp their last beer (they promise it’s their last) on
December 31 midnight. Gymnasium owners say they are now in the pink of their
health.
Major gyms in the city have observed Read the rest of this entry »

With online sales decreasing 3% during the recently concluded holiday shopping season, web measurement firm comScore Inc. says only three of 14 retail categories registered sales gains over last year in the Dec. 1-24 period—Sport & Fitness, Video Games, Consoles & Accessories, and Apparel & Accessories.
And while the less affluent cut back on web shopping, households with annual incomes above $100,000 increased spending by 7% during that period Read the rest of this entry »

Two Phoenix-area hospital systems will end their training programs for family-practice physicians, cutting off a path for young doctors who want to learn and practice family medicine in Arizona.
Both John C. Lincoln Health Network and Mayo Clinic cited the struggle to pay for the programs because government funds are tight and fewer young doctors are choosing family medicine.
“The programs are an expensive thing to maintain,” said Dr. Joseph Read the rest of this entry »

Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted its supplemental new drug application for the HIV drug Isentress.
The company wants approval to market the drug for use with other medicines in new patients. It is now approved only for patients already treated with other medicines for the virus that causes AIDS.
Isentress works by blocking the integrase enzyme, which takes DNA from the HIV virus and puts it inside Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health insurance premiums rose 5 percent on average this year and more companies shifted an additional share of the cost to workers, an annual survey of businesses said on Wednesday.
The average premium for a family’s health insurance provided by an employer rose to $12,680. Employees paid $3,354 of that cost on average, according to the survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Read the rest of this entry »

Joe the plumber looks more like Joe the Nazi. I bet he was planted by the Republicans to attack Obama on his Ohio tour.
What dumb people like him dont realize is Obama is on HIS side. If the working class and middle class prospers, the country prospers and that is good for everybody! Because THEY constitute 80% of the populace. How hard is it to figure that one out?
Does Joe really earn more than 250,000 a year as a plumber? Wow! That must be Read the rest of this entry »

, who is expected to call for a health care overhaul in a speech tonight to a joint session of Congress. The report shows the economy is making the job of reform harder. Health care costs will top $8,000 per person this year, consuming an ever-bigger slice of a shrinking economic pie, says the report by the Department of Health and Human Services, due out today. Medicare’s giant hospital trust fund could become insolvent as early as 2016, the report Read the rest of this entry »