The Philippines should move quickly and purposely to fill the shortage of fresh bananas in Japan, where the “Banana Morning Diet” has become a huge craze, Cotabato Rep. Emmylou Taliсo-Mendoza said.
Due to the growing popularity of the Banana Morning Diet, Taliсo-Mendoza said that over the last six months, bananas have been flying off supermarket racks in Japan faster show they would be replenished.
Created by a pharmacist in Osaka, Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian health officials have found that infant formulas marketed in that country are safe for consumption, echoing what U.S. food-safety regulators said earlier in the week about U.S. infant formulas.
The results, in a report to be issued as early as Friday, come amid manufacturers’ objections that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration data also generated unnecessary concerns among parents.
Earlier this week, controversy arose in the U.S. when Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — That day in July was one that Tammy Morse won’t soon forget.
Five months earlier, her husband lost his job as a recruiter for the financial services industry. Now it was the summer and the family savings were gone. She saw no way to get health insurance coverage for her family other than to apply for Medicaid.
And that was why she made the drive from her Stratford, Conn., home to the nearest office of the state’s Department Read the rest of this entry »
Lawrence, KS Dec 21, 2008 in
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The state still has lots of flu vaccine for kids and teens.
For help finding an immunization clinic in your area, call the Family Health Hotline at 1-800-322-2588.
Flu season unusually peaks between January and March, state health officials say, so it’s not too late to get a shot.
Annual flu shots are recommended for all children between 6 months and 18 years. Last year, two children died from the flu in the state.
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TWINSBURG, Ohio –
A child and two firefighters were taken to a hospital after a blaze at a Twinsburg Township home on Sunday.
The Twinsburg Fire Department responded to a fire in a house on Sara Fletcher Court in Twinsburg Township at about 12:48 p.m.
Chief Richard M. Racine said a juvenile was transported to University Hospitals-Bedford Medical Center for non-life-threatening burn injuries. Two firefighters were also transported to area facilities Read the rest of this entry »
Is Texas looking out for you? Health-care outsourcing is rolling on, but many patients suffer from silent treatment
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, January 4, 2009
gjones@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News
Ryan McNeill contributed to this report.
Evercare of Texas was supposed to coordinate medical and long-term care for more than 80,000 elderly, blind or disabled North Texans. “We help make it easier to get the care you deserve,” the company Read the rest of this entry »
Bev Anderson, president of the Northern California Chapter of the Neuropathy Association, remembers struggling with neuropathy as a child.
“I have had it since I was in preschool,” said the 73-year-old Anderson, who is from Colfax. “Kids that can do the balance beam well without looking is not something that I can do. I have to watch where I’m walking.”
Neuropathy is any disease of the nervous system, and peripheral neuropathy is a deranged function Read the rest of this entry »
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A minivan swerved across a road and collided with a school bus carrying high school students, sending 10 students and three other people to hospitals, the State Highway Patrol said.
None of the injuries to the students was serious, said a patrol spokesman, Lt. John Altman. All were treated at a hospital and released. Injuries to the two occupants of the minivan were serious, Altman said.
Elmer Johnson Jr., 32, and Angela Read the rest of this entry »
Do you need to share your diet?
One of the crazy things about being on a diet, and losing weight, is that everyone around begins to feel that they should offer advice and comments. Have you heard any of the following:
1. “Should you really be eating that baked potato? It’s full of carbs you know? Carbs are the enemy!”
2. “How can you eat that rabbit food? Just eat normal food, but on saucer, then you can eat what you like!”
3. “Come on, one Read the rest of this entry »