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KANPUR:
For the proper management of diabetes, it is must for patients to take their
medicines and the blood sugar levels checked regularly. This was claimed by the
experts, here on Sunday.
Addressing the audience during a programme
organised by the Society for Prevention and Awareness of Diabetes, the president
of Society, Dr Rishi Shukla said, “the most common problems faced by the
diabetic patients is to control the sugar levels and other Read the rest of this entry »
ihealthtube adds videos with Ori Hofmekler, author of “The Anti-Estrogenic Diet” and discusses why 66% of the U.S. population is considered overweight or obese.
Fargo, ND (
) December 29, 2008 — Today 66% of the U.S. population is considered overweight or obese, which is defined as 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight.
sits down with Ori Hofmekler, author of “The Anti-Estrogenic Diet,” a revolutionary diet book that discusses the over-exposure Read the rest of this entry »
Health care premiums soared five times faster than increases in salaries in California between 2000 and 2007, according to a report released Wednesday.
And there’s no end in sight for this growing disparity between income and health care costs, creating the prospect of “diminishing economic and health security” for many Californians, added the report, released by Families USA, a national nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C.
But the grim Read the rest of this entry »
January 31, 2009 10:53 pm
Organizers of Saturday’s Palestine Community Fitness Fair hoped to entice plenty of people to come learn more about ways to improve their physical fitness.
They weren’t disappointed.
Large crowds strolled through the Palestine Civic Center during the morning to see the various fitness-related booths and demonstrations, take part in a variety of games and challenges and pick up useful tips and information Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON (AFP) — One of Britain’s leading children’s hospitals has been heavily criticised in a report by senior doctors.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Observer, claimed that doctors at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital had lied to parents about why their child had undergone a major operation as they could not admit they lacked the personnel and infrastructure to conduct safer procedures.
The report also claimed that transplant Read the rest of this entry »
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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Keep your health insurance you already have. I will try to cut premiums by $2,500 a year (but he doesn’t say how).
Obama says others without health care will get choice of doctors, at low cost, just like Congress does. Again, Obama doesn’t talk about how to afford this, beyond cutting out bureaucracy. But he admits it will “cost some money on the front end.”
wants to give individual Read the rest of this entry »
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It took a wedgie and a headlock to pin down a man suspected of breaking into a car. Yvonne Morris, a technician at the Brickyard Animal Hospital, said she chased a man who broke into a co-worker’s car, but he kept squirming away from her.
Morris eventually grabbed the man’s boxer shorts and pulled. Salt Lake City police said she then she put a headlock on the man until help could arrive.
The man was booked into the Read the rest of this entry »
11:54 PM CST on Sunday, February 8, 2009
Dallas County’s cost for transporting sick inmates to Parkland Memorial Hospital more than doubled in two years, as inadequate health facilities in the jail continue to drive inmate hospitalizations, county records show.
Parkland doctors in the jail have been authorizing more hospital trips since taking over jail-health duties from a contractor in March 2006. An infirmary Read the rest of this entry »