A one-stop wellness solution for youth, the club offers a means to develop ’smart brains and dynamic bodies’ through unique fitness solutions called Exergames.
This new concept of combining entertainment and exercise comes as a solution to the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and lifestyle related illnesses. ‘Obesity has reached alarming levels in the Middle East with over 45 per cent in the age group of 15 and 49 being overweight’, says Dr. Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — The panda pair from the mainland began to eat local bamboo as their entire staple diet in the Taipei Zoo on Friday, 11 days after their arrival in Taiwan.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, “have very good appetites,” said Ming Cheih Chao, director of the zoo’s animal department.
Chao said they ate 33 kilograms of bamboo plus steamed corn bread, apples and radishes between 9 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. on Friday.
He Read the rest of this entry »
HOUSTON
— For years it’s been known as the hospital of last resort for the uninsured and indigent in Texas.
Whether they drove hundreds of miles on their own or were shuttled in vans and buses by their local governments, they have come to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston from 160 of the state’s 254 counties.
“People from all across the state knew they could go there and get charity care,” said Karen Love, president Read the rest of this entry »
All residents across western Sydney need to be concerned about health and issues affecting men.
Some health problems disproportionately affect men, such as 70 per cent of all injury-related disease, 78 per cent of suicide and 73 per cent of road accidents.
Life expectancy for Australian men is 4.8 years less than women, and men under 75 are almost three times more likely to die from coronary heart disease, stroke and vascular disease than women, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’re looking for a little help shedding extra pounds after the holidays, the government is warning you to stay away from nearly 30 weight-loss products that contain unlisted and possibly dangerous ingredients.
The pills are advertised as “natural” fat busters and have intriguing names like Imelda Perfect Slim and Zhen de Shou. Some suggest they are innovative “herbal” remedies from Asia.
But the Food and Drug Administration Read the rest of this entry »
Exeter Township, PA -
nName: Karyn Algeo,
•Age: 40.
•Address: Exeter Township.
•Occupation: Autistic support teacher in the Exeter School District.
•When and why you began to exercise: I’ve always been active, but I guess I began to get serious about four years ago. A friend asked me to participate on a triathlon relay team, where one person does each of the three events. It was my first experience in a triathlon, Read the rest of this entry »
A federal investigation into the marketing of a bone-healing product made by Hopkinton, Mass.-based Stryker Biotech is moving forward after prosecutors secured guilty pleas from two former salesmen.
Those pleas include an acknowledgement by the former salesmen that they promoted the use of the products in a way the company knew had created problems in the past under some circumstances.
, a Michigan company with nearly $7 billion in annual sales. Read the rest of this entry »
AUSTIN
— At least 36,000 children living in the areas affected by Hurricane Ike may not have health coverage next year because their families have not re-enrolled them in government health insurance programs for 2009, state officials said.
Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said more than half of the 72,000 children statewide who did not re-enroll in Medicaid are from the Houston and Beaumont Read the rest of this entry »
in New Port Richey.
In this position, he replaces Mary Ann Knight, who was promoted to chief executive officer at HCA’s
, a release from Community Hospital said.
in Aurora, Colo. He joined HCA in January 2006 as part of the Chief Operating Officer Development Program and was responsibilities that included imaging, pharmacy, lab and therapies.
The COO Development Program, part of HCA’s executive development, assigns a professional Read the rest of this entry »
Health-care cost controls needed, says Public Interest Research Group in Michigan
Without government intervention, the cost of an average employer-provided family health care policy in Michigan will more than double by 2016, according to a report released Wednesday.
Much of the increased costs will benefit special interests and not patients, according to the report, released by the Ann Arbor-based Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, or Read the rest of this entry »