FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve just lost weight and are trying to keep it off, don’t rely on diet alone to keep those unwanted pounds at bay. It may not be enough, no matter what kind of “maintenance” diet you follow, researchers say.
A team from Denmark found that people following three very different diets regained weight, anyway.
So to avoid regaining weight, “the best plan is to stick to a diet that works for you — in combination Read the rest of this entry »
Fresh inquests are to be held into the deaths of three patients whom a County Durham doctor was cleared of murdering.
Dr Howard Martin was acquitted of the murders of Frank Moss, 59, Harry Gittins, 74 and Stanley Weldon, 74, in 2005.
But last year a challenge by the daughter of Mr Moss resulted in a judge ordering a new inquest into his death.
Now the families of Mr Gittins and Mr Stanley have been told there will be renewed inquests into their Read the rest of this entry »
The coverage at issue was established in 1996 by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. A key goal was ensuring that people who lost their jobs were able to remain insured. HIPAA works in tandem with COBRA, a federal law that extends job-based group insurance coverage, entirely at the individual’s expense, for up to three years after a person leaves or loses a job. (COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) With the holidays starting to bear down on you, you are probably making plans for your holiday celebrations. For those of you who are entering into your first holiday season on a restricted diet of some sort (vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan) there could be some difficult decisions ahead of you. You may be inclined to hide away from friends and family and stay home where you don’t have to worry about being chastised for, and quizzed about, Read the rest of this entry »
Four construction workers badly hurt in Friday’s collapse of a skywalk under construction at the Atlanta Botanical Garden were expected to be transferred Tuesday to the Shepherd Center.
Shepherd Center spokesman Larry Bowie said the workers were being transferred from Grady Memorial Hospital to the center, which specializes in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord and brain injuries.
Shepherd Center officials planned Read the rest of this entry »
In most health care settings, the married mother of three who arrived in the emergency room with severe back and abdominal pain would not have been considered for an HIV test.
The 39-year-old office assistant said she’s been in a committed marriage for 15 years and was screened for the virus that causes AIDS while pregnant with her youngest, now 4.
But when Maria Zaldivar’s blood was drawn at the Memorial Hermann-The Texas Medical Read the rest of this entry »
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Shares of Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. ticked higher Thursday after the company said it plans to send the Food and Drug Administration a response to the rejection of its experimental schizophrenia drug iloperidone.
The stock gained 4 cents, or 3.9 percent, to end at $1.07. Shares have traded between 76 cents and $19.40 over the last 52 weeks, and are off 84 percent since January.
Shares lost most Read the rest of this entry »
TopoTarget A/S (OMX: TOPO) announced that a positive reply from the FDA
was received on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for a phase III trial for
belinostat in PTCL (Peripheral T-Celle Lymphoma). This pivotal trial is to
enrol approximately 120 patients and is to begin in Q4 2008. In June Fast
Track designation was granted for the development of belinostat in this
indication which supports TopoTarget’s rapid market entry strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
This time, health authorities are putting out a call for people to get an annual flu vaccine to protect themselves.
“Since so many of these pneumonias are associated with influenza, the best prevention is to prevent influenza,” said Jeffrey C. Hageman, a CDC epidemiologist.
. About 1 in 3 people carries some variety of
in the nose or skin, usually without harm.
, or MRSA, has been a known killer since it emerged in hospitals in the 1960s, Read the rest of this entry »
Nov. 24, 2008 — Uloric should be the first new
drug to be approved in over 40 years, an FDA
expert panel recommends.
Currently, allopurinol (trade name, Zyloprim) is the only FDA-approved drug
that prevents formation of the uric acid crystals that cause gout. However,
side effects — including potentially fatal reactions — limit the amount of
allopurinol that can be tolerated. Most gout patients do not receive fully
effective doses of allopurinol. Read the rest of this entry »