I am often asked, ‘What is a good diet?’ and, I often have to explain that a diet, as we know it, does not work since it is usually not sustainable. It is often more sensible to make small positive but cumulative changes. Since it is often difficult to make changes as adults, it is wise to prevent our children from falling into our trap by giving them positive examples.
Various ways of eating have been studied to understand their impact on populations, Read the rest of this entry »
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY’S glittering 13-story medical school has risen along an entire block of North Broad Street just across Venango from historic Zion Baptist Church.
The school’s Web site glows with pride over the imposing $160 million education-and-research center, fronted by an all-glass front tower:
“More than just a collection of classrooms, labs and libraries, the contemporary, iconic structure will be a beacon on North Broad Street, a symbol Read the rest of this entry »
This story has everything! Sex, drugs, politics, and a moral! You don’t get that often these days. And – trust me – it has a Denver angle.
He met her in the bar of the swank hotel and invited her to his room. Once there, the woman fixed the drinks and told him to get undressed.” What a lede! That’s the kind of stuff most newspaper reporters never get to write.
That’s where our hero got slipped a mickey. When he woke up, the woman was gone, along Read the rest of this entry »
It is discussed for several years by the authorities that the Russian healthcare system needs to be improved. There is a tendency that the younger generations get the diseases that used to be typical only for the elderly. Authorities are threatened with the fact that almost a half of the population of Russia doesn’t trust the doctors and every third Russian prefers to doctor himself. Many local hospitals haven’t been overhauled for decades. Read the rest of this entry »
Oscar Juliuss Grant III died at Highland Hospital in Oakland several hours after he was shot on BART’s Fruitvale Station platform by an unidentified officer.
The Alameda County coroner performed an autopsy Friday, but BART officials said they received neither a written nor a verbal report of the conclusions.
BART officials said that the incident occurred as officers responded to a report at about 2 a.m. that two groups of young men, apparently Read the rest of this entry »
CONTRARY TO the conclusions of your Sept. 27 editorial ”
,” there is a sure-fire way to bolster drug safety and better serve patients: a strong, well-funded Food and Drug Administration.
Mass tort suits that challenge the adequacy of a medicine’s labeling are no substitute for the FDA’s expert scientific judgment.
Importantly, in the Wyeth v. Levine case before the Supreme Court, the FDA’s actions led to appropriate warnings on the drug’s label. Read the rest of this entry »
As increasing numbers of the unemployed and uninsured turn to the nation’s emergency rooms as a medical last resort, doctors warn that the centers — many already overburdened — could have even more trouble handling the heart attacks, broken bones and other traumas that define their core mission.
Even before the recession became evident, many emergency rooms around the country were already overcrowded, with dangerously long waits Read the rest of this entry »
George Shultz (Secretary of State 1982 – 1989) after leaving public office in 1989 called for the legalization of recreational drugs. He said ” we believe the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than the drug abuse itself”.
Walter Cronkite (retired anchorman CBS Evening News) has said (in support of the Drug Policy Alliance) “the war on drugs is a failure … it”s casualties are the wasted lives of our own citizens”.
I personally don’t Read the rest of this entry »
A lawsuit filed Wednesday over the Snohomish County E. coli outbreak details an alarming scenario in which a 9-year-old girl in severe pain went to the emergency room three times with bloody diarrhea and vomiting after eating at a Lake Stevens restaurant.
Snohomish Health District officials also updated their investigation, saying more people than previously thought became ill after eating at the restaurant, Ixtapa Family Mexican Restaurant.
The Read the rest of this entry »
With total pharmaceutical production reaching RMB 648.9bn. in 2007, the
Chinese pharmaceutical market has continued to maintain a two-digit
growth dynamics. On the other hand, there remain a number of issues to
be addressed before meeting the world standards. Over the past several
years, the Chinese government has intensified its efforts to resolve the
issues associated with intellectual property, drug quality, Read the rest of this entry »