Rockville, MD (Jan. 22)—
Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a
for industry,
, and launched a
to help protect the pharmaceutical supply chain.
The guidance is part of the agency’s efforts to implement Section 913 of the 2007 Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) and recommends standards industry should use to identify individual packages of prescription drugs. Section 913 requires the Secretary Read the rest of this entry »
January 30, 2009 (WLS) –
There is new concern about the possibility of a dangerous drug interaction in some heart attack patients.
A study tracking thousands of patients finds those taking acid reflux medications along with the blood thinner Plavix were more likely to suffer a heart attack.
The report in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association” theorizes the reflux drugs interfere with an enzyme, which just happens to be necessary Read the rest of this entry »
Alan B. Krueger is an economics professor at Princeton.
After waiting more than an hour in a doctor’s waiting room, a friend of mine once presented his doctor with a bill for his time.
My friend’s frustration probably sounds familiar to anyone who has been kept waiting at a physician’s office. And while his response may seem a little extreme, perhaps he was on to something. After all, time is money. So, although it doesn’t currently enter Read the rest of this entry »
111And while she’s at it, the enterprising former Winnipegger is turning herself into a North American brand.
After living in Los Angeles for nearly a decade, the exercise expert/entrepreneur — whose clients include Keanu Reeves, Gabrielle Union and Christina Milian — has written her first book,
. In it, she urges people to stop idolizing unusually skinny celebs.
“I don’t think that doing 10 squats and having a perfect ass is going to make Read the rest of this entry »
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Weber State football coach Ron McBride has been released from a hospital after becoming ill during a game.
McBride, who coached at the University of Utah for 13 years, was released from the Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, on Sunday.
McBride, 69, began feeling lightheaded and his heart rate was high during Weber State’s 59-27 win over Idaho State on Saturday. All hospital tests were negative, but he spent the night Read the rest of this entry »
Vitamins, which many consider beneficial wonder pills, are now giving scientists cause to wonder if they are as beneficial as once touted. Since the 1990s, research has suggested that vitamins hold promise in the battle against multiple cancers, heart disease, stroke, and other ailments. Researchers have studied many vitamins alone as well as in various combinations, searching for benefits that combat against a broad range of diseases.
One study Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2009)
— If you have trouble keeping weight off and you’re wondering why – the surprising answer may well be the cheeseburgers you ate – when you were a toddler.
Surprising new research by University of Calgary, Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Raylene Reimer, published in an international journal, indicates a direct connection between an adult’s propensity to put on weight and our early childhood diet. Read the rest of this entry »
Dallas hospital’s team helps families, doctors navigate difficult process at end of life
03:20 PM CST on Sunday, December 14, 2008
Min Patel huddled in a fourth-floor hallway with Dr. Edward Taylor near an intensive care unit, where the trauma surgeon’s patient lay tethered to a ventilator. Seven intravenous pumps pushed a cocktail of chemicals into his body to fight infection and keep his heart pumping.
The stakes didn’t Read the rest of this entry »
We haven’t looked at the research on the ketogenic diet in as much detail as we’ve looked at the research on most of the treatments we cover. (To read more, see .) But we’ve included some information because you may have heard of this treatment or be interested in it.
. Foods that are high in fat include double cream, cheese and avocado pears. Foods that contain a lot of carbohydrate include bread, rice and potatoes. The research on this treatment Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday night and is now in a rehabilitation facility, his family said Thursday.
Just over two weeks after Peters underwent a liver transplant, he was doing well enough to leave the hospital, begin physical therapy and begin rebuilding his strength.
“He’s very weak, but he’s getting better all the time,” said his sister, Geraldine Sullivan. “Every day is a little improvement.”
Sullivan said she did not know how long Peters would be in the Read the rest of this entry »