Unless you’re a professional or Olympic athlete, you may not have heard of Paul Chek, but this fitness evangelist is truly a man on a mission — to spread the concepts of holistic fitness and being functionally fit. A world-renowned expert in the areas of “corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology,” Chek has been teaching his unique, holistic approach to fitness for more than 25 years. In 1995, he founded the C.H.E.K Read the rest of this entry »
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GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Co. (GE:
), and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, or UPMC, Thursday announced a collaboration to develop international oncology centers to help meet the growing demand for cancer treatment.
Under the collaboration, GE Healthcare will provide and service all the medical equipment that it is capable of supplying to these facilities. GE Healthcare has Read the rest of this entry »
’s chief executive,
, held a breakfast for venture capitalists atop a hotel in San Francisco. Some guests took it as a sign that Pfizer was serious about buying young biotechnology companies or licensing their technology.
But Pfizer’s deal to buy a big pharmaceuticals rival,
, raises questions about how willing — or able — Pfizer will be to enter deals anytime soon with biotechnology companies, many of which are struggling Read the rest of this entry »
,
,
,
are five friends who have stuck together through thick and thin — but now they are focusing on the thin!
.
“The ‘Diet Tribe’ concept is unique in that it explores how the very friendships that enable us to make poor eating and lifestyle choices can be the same friendships that encourage healthier ways of living,” says
, executive vice president, Lifetime Networks.
“Diet Tribe” premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on Lifetime TV.
he report landed like a missile on the desks of Ontario’s 2,500 hospital administrators and medical decision-makers.
“Health system leaders who believe there will be another bailout need a reality check. We have hit the brick wall on finances.”
The author of the 15-page analysis, Ted Ball, is one of the best-informed health policy analysts in the province. He has worked in the field for 25 years, first as chief of staff to former health minister Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The rise of serious heart risks in drugs that treat chronic conditions has become one of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s top worries and is changing how the agency weighs new medicines, a top FDA official said on Tuesday.
The agency is thinking about how to weigh such possible side effects as more drugs that treat diabetes, pain and other conditions also appear linked to heart attacks and other complications, Dr. John Read the rest of this entry »
’s Q4 results showed, again, how dependent the company is on the FDA coming up with a solid approval for
, its osteoporosis drug.
Revenues were down a little bit to $3.6 billion, but expenses ballooned. The revenue yield on its sales dollars collapsed 23 percent from the prior quarter as expenses went up to $1.1 billion. Amgen now gets just $3.31 in revenues for evry dollar its spends on reps et al, when it used to get consistently above Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, October 3, 2008
I once confessed to my friend that I rarely did breast self-exams.
“Why not?” she asked.
“I don’t wanna,” I said. Too scary.
“Well, you hafta,” she replied.
OK, she’s right; ignorance in these situations is not bliss. So last fall, I had my first mammogram. It was painless. (For me anyway; I’m sure those techs get sick of patients asking, “How’s it look?” We know good and well they can’t tell us. But Read the rest of this entry »
Surgeons, it seems, are discovering what airline pilots learned decades ago: The human brain can’t remember everything, so it’s best to focus on the complicated challenges and leave the simple reminders to a cheat sheet.
“You take something as complex as surgery, and you think there isn’t a lot that can be done to make it better,” said
, a Boston physician who led the study being published in the
. “A checklist seems like a no-brainer, but the Read the rest of this entry »
The United
Nations said Tuesday that the death toll from the cholera epidemic sweeping Zimbabwe has risen to 366, compared with a fatalities count of 281 issued Monday by the government, saying the disease has spread to more than half the country.
The U.N. humanitarian coordination office in Geneva said 8,887 cases have been documented. The World Health Organization said it was concerned the disease could spread further, and has sent medicine and Read the rest of this entry »