Elizabeth Edwards says the admission by her husband, John Edwards, of an affair has helped her focus on the importance of her children and issues like health reform as she goes through “an ongoing process of finding your feet again.”
“There’s a lot of adjustment to make,” the wife of the former Democratic presidential candidate said in an exclusive interview with the Free Press this week. “When you mention trust, that’s probably the most difficult Read the rest of this entry »
The “male menopause” does not exist, says a visiting expert who instead attributes the term to drug company efforts to develop a new market.
Epidemiologist Dr John McKinlay says the term refers only to the natural ageing process in men and efforts to “medicalise” this for commercial reasons should be resisted.
Dr McKinlay is senior vice president of New England Research Institutes in the US. He is in New Zealand this week but will give a series Read the rest of this entry »
DC Councilman Marion Barry continues to make good progress after his kidney transplant at Howard University Hospital.
A hospital spokesperson said Barry is doing well and, if he continues to make good progress, he’ll be out of the ICU by Monday or Tuesday. He will not be available to speak to the media until at least Thursday. In an earlier report, WTOP Radio reported that he would be released from the hospital on Thursday.
Barry’s donor, Kim Read the rest of this entry »
FDA hires 1,300 new doctors and scientists
FDA hires 1,300 new doctors and scientists
11 September, 2008
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has hired more than 1,300 professional staffers in a move that officials hope will help the beleaguered agency better protect the public health Read the rest of this entry »
With a team of professional game designers at Vivity Labs, award-winning
neuropsychologist, Dr. Paul Nussbaum, an adjunct Associate Professor in
Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
designed the fun and casual games found on Fit Brains. Research has
shown that the brain begins to slow down as early as age 25, but with
regular brain exercise, it can create new neural connections Read the rest of this entry »
I believe that an ideal diet varies from person to person, but one thing I’m clear about is that many health professionals and even our governments advise intakes of carbohydrate that are greater than what is good for us.
In particular, while starchy carbs such as bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, and breakfast cereals have for a long time been promoted as wholesome, nutritious, and healthy, the reality is that they tend to be disruptive of blood Read the rest of this entry »
Hyderabad:
With rice prices soaring, the demand for Hyderabadi’s staple food item is
dipping. Grocery store owners say the demand for rice has gone down
significantly .
“Earlier while we would keep 2-3 varieties of rice,
now we have restricted it to mere one, as the procurement cost is high and there
is not much margin for profit . Even the demand has gone down by 50 per cent due
to prices escalating high,” says a grocery store owner in Sindhi Read the rest of this entry »
MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Fougera, a division of Nycomed US Inc., today announced the FDA has approved its Clotrimazole Cream USP 1%. The generic formulation compares to Taro’s Referenced Listed Drug (RLD) and is available in three sizes: 15g tubes (NDC # 0168-0133-15), 30g tubes (NDC # 0168-0133-30) and 45g tubes (NDC # 0168-0133-46).
A Nashville, Tenn.-area medical facilities developer is planning a private hospital in Franklin County that would cost more than $100 million to build.
The 100-bed, for-profit hospital is years away, but it would create about 1,000 jobs, said Lanson Hyde III, senior vice president and chief operating officer of
.
The head of Surgical Development Partners is familiar with Central Ohio. CEO Edward Alexander was with the company that worked with Read the rest of this entry »
At stake in Diana Levine’s suit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is whether drug manufacturers are immune from claims they have faced from customers in thousands of cases – that the product label, despite approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, failed to warn the buyer about all known side effects.
The ruling, due by the end of the 2008-09 term next June, should illuminate not only the court’s stance on business regulation and consumer protection Read the rest of this entry »