Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Wii strategy was conceived from the get-go to encourage a less sedentary form of gaming. Now the company is unveiling its calorie-burning coup de grce, Wii Fit.
Wii Fit is Nintendo’s second act to the wildly popular Wii console, which has sold nearly 10 million units in the U.S. since launching in 2006. The $90 pressure-sensitive plastic slab, released May 19, comes packaged with sophisticated exercise and fitness tracking software. Read the rest of this entry »
– Three people were killed and 10 wounded when a hospital treating victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war was shelled for a fourth time in two days, the International Committee of the Red Cross told CNN Tuesday.
Artillery shells slammed into the hospital in the northern district of Mullaittivu on Monday evening. Strikes on the hospital on Sunday — including one that hit the pediatric ward — left 11 people dead, including some children, according Read the rest of this entry »
Dressed in a special birthday kimono and receiving a present of a giant tea
cup engraved with his name and date of birth, the world’s oldest man turned
113 on Thursday and declared that he wanted to live for at least another
five years.
Tomoji Tanabe, who was born September 18, 1895, celebrated his milestone in
his hometown of Miyakonojo, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu.
Mr Tanabe said he wants to live for “another five years Read the rest of this entry »
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Free prostate screenings: 3 to 4 p.m. Sept. 17-18, Silver Cross Hospital in partnership with Advanced Urology Associates in the Brown Cardiovascular Institute on the hospital’s campus, 1300 Cooperfield Ave. in Joliet. To schedule an appointment, visit www.silvercross.org or call (888) 660-4325.
Sept. 18
Program: Sept. 18, Lemont Township Hall, 1115 Warner Ave. in Lemont. Join Bob Gilliand as he teaches this “Amazing Natural Healing Read the rest of this entry »
For scientist-speak, the language was scathing. Last October, an expert panel effectively demolished the Food and Drug Administration’s study clearing bisphenol A, a common plastic additive, of any health risk.
The agency’s work, the scientists said, lacked “reasonable and scientific support.”
Now the FDA has responded, sort of. The agency recently issued a polite letter admitting that its research on the chemical was incomplete and that it would Read the rest of this entry »
How the program is administered varies by state. Some states use a Medicaid expansion program, where SCHIP money is handed out according to the rules and regulations of Medicaid but with expanded coverage of older children and those that do not qualify for Medicaid. Other states create a separate plan for SCHIP that is administered more like private health insurance plans. SCHIP in Michigan, also known as MIChild, is ordered as a combination of the Read the rest of this entry »
I believe that it is the ethical responsibility of all involved to work together to ensure that Tenet’s early closure of Community Hospital of Los Gatos does not disrupt health services to the community.
I have let both parties know of my concerns and am proposing that Tenet provide the El Camino Hospital transition team supervised access to the hospital as soon as possible and give ECH unrestricted access to the facility after it closes on April Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey left George Washington Hospital early Friday afternoon, apparently headed for his office, after collapsing while giving an speech at a Washington hotel Thursday night.
Mukasey, 67, was hospitalized overnight for observation and underwent routine tests, earning “completely normal” results on a stress test this morning, spokeswoman Gina Talamona said.
The Justice Department chief later made light Read the rest of this entry »
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers
have solved a mystery surrounding a “rogue protein” that plays a
role in the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the
brain.
The scientists found abundant amounts of the
puzzling protein — whose main location and function were unknown
– in a specific area of the pituitary gland. Like someone at a
control knob, the protein may adjust the release of two hormones –
oxytocin, which controls many Read the rest of this entry »
In February 2003, more than 60 organizations assembled at the Public
Health Leadership Conference on Deep-Vein Thrombosis in Washington, D.C. to
discuss the urgent need to make DVT a major U.S. public health priority. As a
result of this meeting, which was co-hosted by the American Public Health
Association and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and funded by
sanofi-aventis, participants agreed to establish a Coalition of organizations
committed Read the rest of this entry »