(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC–When a baby is born premature, helping the baby survive is usually the first priority for new parents. The benefits of breastfeeding, including protection from many diseases, are especially critical for premature infants. As the country recognizes Prematurity Awareness Month, many are aware that more than a half million babies–one in every eight–are born prematurely each year in the United States. There is Read the rest of this entry »
Founded in 1957, the HealthPartners (
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family of healthcare companies serves more than one million medical and
dental health plan members nationwide. It is the largest
consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation,
providing care, coverage, research and education to improve the health
of members, patients and the community. For the fourth year in a row,
HealthPartners is rated Read the rest of this entry »
(Update) Wear Red To Support Heart Health For Men, Women
Washington (dbTechno) – When you go to get dressed today, help promote heart disease awareness and overall heart health by wearing something red.
February 6, 2009 marks a big day for the American Heart Association.
This day is known as National Wear Red Day, and is an event that is celebrated all across the U.S.
This is the fifth year for this National Wear Red Day to take place, and Read the rest of this entry »
The international medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, predicts that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe will last well into 2009.
Manuel Lopez, the head of MSF in the country, told the BBC the epidemic was still at a critical level and would not subside until the rains end in March.
Even then, he said, the lack of clean drinking water means that cholera will be endemic in Zimbabwe.
The disease has claimed 1,123 lives and infected more than Read the rest of this entry »
STEPHANIE Rice took her 13-year old sister, Courtenay, as her date to the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.
Rice and fellow Olympians Sally McClelland and Liesel Jones were guests of honour at the event.
, who’s mending his broken heart with bench presses.
The teen heart-throb showed off a new set of bulging biceps with co-star Pippa Black on the orange carpet, telling Confidential he was on an eight-week fitness kick.
The sports lover said Read the rest of this entry »
KC police sweep nets 92 arrests, 20 guns and $100,000 in drugs
More than 150 law enforcement officers flooded four violence-prone areas of Kansas City this week in a two-day operation designed to root out those involved in violent crime.
Officers arrested 92 persons, and confiscated 20 guns and $100,000 worth of narcotics in the sweep, which started at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Weeks of preparation preceded the sweep, which police called one of the largest Read the rest of this entry »
Columbia students who have come into contact with students from the University of Pennsylvania this month may have been exposed to bacterial meningitis, Health Services at Columbia and Barnard said in e-mails sent Monday afternoon.
Representatives from Health Services offices at both Columbia College and Barnard College sent several messages to inform students that individuals who “had direct contact” with Penn students recently may be at risk Read the rest of this entry »
Hackensack, NJ, October 30, 2008 –(
)– BayView Entertainment is proud to announce the first-time retail availability of two new DVDs from New York Times best-selling health and fitness author Joyce Vedral. The DVDs are scheduled to hit the street on December 2, 2008 from BayView Entertainment, one of America’s leading providers of fitness programming. These two new DVDs from one of the most admired and identifiable fitness personalities Read the rest of this entry »
wasn’t sure what to expect from social media when it gave it a test run four years ago.
Things like iPods, MySpace and blogs had exploded onto the social scene, and businesses were looking to cash in. But the health care industry had other considerations, and more rules to play by.
The interest was not exclusively marketing and advertising, but rather how to use the technology to transform the access, delivery and dissemination of health Read the rest of this entry »
has filed a new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration to seek approval for the use of clofarabine in the treatment of adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
The company has requested priority review of this drug application and, if granted, Genzyme could sell clofarabine in the treatment of adults with acute myeloid leukemia in the first half of 2009. The FDA already approved the drug to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Read the rest of this entry »