Dr. Dev GnanaDev, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center medical director and advocate of quality health care for those who are less fortunate, was installed as president of the California Medical Association (CMA) Sunday in Sacramento.
Dr. GnanaDev, chief of surgery and medical director at ARMC since 2000, becomes only the third physician from San Bernardino or Riverside counties to serve as president in the CMA's 152-year history.
The CMA, formed Read the rest of this entry »

SACRAMENTO—A ninth victim of a charter bus crash in Northern California died Friday, officials said.
E. Vang Saelee, who had been hospitalized since the Sunday night crash, succumbed to his injuries at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, according to hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Brown. She would provide no details.
Saelee’s son, Rick, told The Sacramento Bee that his father was 74 years old and that his mother also died in the crash. Read the rest of this entry »

First lady. First mom. Mom in chief. No – none of these titles works. And therein lies the problem.
When Michelle Obama moves into the White House, she will inherit a title with no job description as the world watches to see how she performs. So far, media coverage has focused on what she will not be doing – she is taking a sabbatical from her paid career.
Media reports have focused on her Ivy League pedigree and her distinguished career as a Read the rest of this entry »

The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren’t helpful in protecting users against heart disease.
“At least in the context of two very common outcomes — cardioprotection and chemoprevention — we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Howard Sesso, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Read the rest of this entry »

at some point in their lives since the birth control pill’s introduction in the 1960s. But while this form of birth control has made life easier in many ways for women, big questions remain about its safety, especially among women at elevated risk of
.
spells out what we know about oral contraceptives’ safety — and how much remains unclear.
Frankly, I find it shocking. After close to half a century of the pill’s use, those gaps in knowledge Read the rest of this entry »

COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk
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) said on Thursday it had received a letter from U.S.
regulators regarding its once-weekly version of liraglutide,
setting out future requirements for extra cardiovascular
studies.
The letter from the Food and Drug Administration relates to
Novo’s experimental product NN9535, which is currently in Phase
II clinical trials, and contains general requirements, a
spokesman Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine that you have been diagnosed with cancer. You need weekly chemotherapy treatments, but your insurance plan limits the number of times you may visit a doctor each year. Or your plan’s high deductibles and co-pays force you to choose between paying for treatment and paying the mortgage. Or your employer dropped its health plan and now you can’t afford one yourself.
Millions of people in America face harsh circumstances like these Read the rest of this entry »

Adelaide United coach Aurelio Vidmar will recall Brazilian import Diego from injury for Wednesday’s Asian Champions League football semi-final second leg against Bunyodkor in Tashkent.
A place in the final and also the world club championship will be fought out in front of a capacity crowd of around 18,000.
But Vidmar has lost the services of veteran striker Paul Agostino to a suspected torn calf muscle which he suffered at a training session Read the rest of this entry »

For their New Year’s resolutions this year, millions of people resolved to
, but not everyone can afford expensive gym memberships, classes, equipment and dietary aids. With the crumbling economy weighing on many of our minds and wallets this year, one of the most popular fitness trends will be low-cost and no-frills workouts with back-to-basics staples such as running. According to the
, budget-friendly and boot-camp style workouts will be among Read the rest of this entry »

With a hint of panic in his voice, a concerned reader called to ask how safe canola oil is because there’s been a spate of e-mails going around about it, and his family has been cooking with this kind of oil for so long now. Okay, oil right, nutritionist Dr. Angel Respicio Jr. tells us everything there is to know about canola — the good, the bad, and the oily.
According to Dr. Jun Respicio, much has been said about the virtues of canola Read the rest of this entry »