2008-12-27 05:41:00 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com – Health News News)
For those seeking help shedding extra pounds after heavy holiday meals, the government is warning dieters to steer clear of nearly 30 weight-loss products that contain unlisted and perhaps dangerous ingredients
Jacksonville, Florida (CaymanMama.com) — Dieters can take their weight loss to the extreme at times and during the holiday season – and even more so after the holidays Read the rest of this entry »
Shares of drugmaker
Pozen Inc.
soared Thursday after the company said federal regulators reaffirmed the testing approach for two of the company’s experimental drugs.
Pozen is developing a blood thinner and an arthritis medication that would have less risk of stomach ulcers than drugs currently on the market. In October, the company told investors the Food and Drug Administration was reviewing whether reducing the number of stomach ulcers detected Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2009)
— Women who have more years of fertility (the time from first menstruation to menopause) have a lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than women with fewer years, according to a large, new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
“These findings, involving nearly 75,000 women, suggest that longer exposure to the body’s own, or endogenous, hormones, including estrogen, Read the rest of this entry »
Ronald Reagan swore he had none. George W. Bush had a headful, and do did Bill Clinton — of gray hairs, that is.
Now, President-elect Barack Obama, a day away from
, already shows a sprinkling of those pesky white streaks in his first official portrait, which was unveiled last week.
At 47, Obama is nearly a decade younger than his predecessor when he took the oath of office, and
to let the looming presidency stress him out.
“The gray Read the rest of this entry »
GALVESTON, Texas – Drugs are missing from the Galveston Police Department’s property room, officials told KPRC Local 2 Friday.
Police said officers conducted a routine evidence count last week and noticed some of the narcotics from previous and pending court cases weren’t there anymore.
“We are undergoing a comprehensive inventory,” Police Chief Charles Wiley said. “Employees have been restricted access to that property room. Polygraph tests are Read the rest of this entry »
MUKILTEO, Wash., Jan. 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) today announced that former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has joined the company’s Board of Directors. During his term at the FDA, Dr. Gottlieb was the highest-ranking official below the FDA Commissioner.
“Dr. Gottlieb is a leading expert in healthcare policy whose work focuses on providing insights into the Read the rest of this entry »
NEWARK, N.J. – A
couple remains hospitalized one
day after their single-engine plane crashed and burst into flames
following takeoff in Linden.
University Hospital spokeswoman Tiffany Smith says pilot Jason
Snyder is in stable condition. His 34-year-old wife, Jennifer, is
in critical, but stable condition.
Their Beech Sundowner experienced unspecified mechanical
trouble, slammed into some trees and crashed in an industrial area
Sunday.
Linden Read the rest of this entry »
A new study from the US found that moderate weight reduction helped to reduce urinary incontinence among overweight and obese women. The research was the work of first author of Dr Leslee Subak from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and colleagues, and is published online in the 29 January issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Subak is an obstetrician/gynecologist at the Women’s Continence Center in the UCSF Read the rest of this entry »
Health investigators probing three Curry County cases involving an invasive bacteria have found no direct connection between the victims, according to an epidemiologist with the state health department.
Wednesday, the New Mexico Health Department announced that two Curry County residents — a 23-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man — have died and a 58-year-old man is hospitalized, suffering from an invasive bacteria known as group A Read the rest of this entry »
BAGHDAD — For an Iraqi Army soldier patrolling Baghdad’s unpredictable streets, each 12-hour shift is an exercise in terror and uncertainty.
So Ahmed Qasim pops a small white tablet called Artane to help him through his duties.
“For me, it helps me to get the job done,” he said. “I can’t bear working without taking Artane. It makes me happy and high, but I still can control myself.”
The abuse of prescription Read the rest of this entry »