Authorities said that most of the injuries were minor but that one student, a 17-year-old male, suffered a head injury during a fall and was knocked unconscious. They said the youth was taken by ambulance to Howard University Hospital and regained consciousness on the way.
Alan Etter, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said that about 15 students complained of injuries and that five were treated at hospitals.
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The days of returning home from a cruise with 10 pounds of all-you-can-eat buffet around your waist are over. Major cruise lines have upped the fitness ante on ships with state-of-the-art gym facilities, wellness programs and spas that will help you stick to your workout routine and maybe even help you discover a new one.
For some travelers, making sure they can stay committed to their fitness program while at sea is priority No. 1. “I’m an avid Read the rest of this entry »

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15 (UPI) –
Eating an excessively high fat-diet during pregnancy can lead to liver disease in newborns, U.S. researchers have found.
Many Americans assume that being fat during pregnancy equates as being unhealthy for the baby and being skinny results in a healthy pregnancy; however, that is not necessarily true,
Kevin Grove of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore., said in a statement.
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Using bold images and personal anecdotes Hill led the enraptured crowd through her life story as a standard-setting athelete. From her invincible teenage years in the 1970’s learning the ropes on the granite walls of Yosemite and Joshua Tree through her history-making first free ascent of “The Nose”, a difficult route on the steep prow of Yosemite’s El Capitan, Hill highlighted how her flexibility, strength, and dedication helped her “find Read the rest of this entry »

THE KNOCKDOWN fight between Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts over the reimbursement rate for doctors at the hospital is Exhibit B of the dysfunction of the state’s health insurance system. Exhibit A, of course, is the much better rate that Partners HealthCare muscled Blue Cross into granting to its teaching hospitals, Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s, in 2000. Two sides of the same coin, these deals cry out for Read the rest of this entry »

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it has ordered the makers of the clot-reducing drug clopidogrel — also known as Plavix — to conduct studies into the possible interaction of Plavix and a class of acid-reflux medicines called proton pump inhibitors. Until those studies have been assessed by the FDA, federal regulators are advising physicians to reconsider whether to start or continue patients on drug therapy that combines the two drugs.
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(NaturalNews) Children whose mothers ate a high-fat diet while pregnant with them and while breastfeeding are more likely to hit puberty early and to become obese as adults, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Liggins Institute of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in San Francisco.
Researchers fed female rats either a normal or a high-fat diet throughout Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the latest exercise equipment may be able to take your mind off your workout while using high-tech advances to help add some variety to your routine. NY1’s Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
NY1 recently stopped in at Reebok Sports Club/NY and The Sports Club/LA for a firsthand look.
First up — “Kranking”. The mobile pieces of equipment are similar to spinning machines, except it is for the upper body. Fitness instructors say it’s Read the rest of this entry »

. I had some great visions too… moments when the puzzle pieces of the universe seem to fit together… and in the next beat… the insights would evade me. Too soon, the high would fade and I would forget all the answers I had gleamed from the blaze of a drug induced state.
After a long stint of bleak colored hangovers and highs and lows, both becoming progressively lower, I decided to try something different. Prying my consciousness open with Read the rest of this entry »

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2008)
— A secondary analysis of a large, multicenter clinical trial has shown that a diet loaded with fruits, vegetables and fiber and somewhat lower in fat compared to standard federal dietary recommendations cuts the risk of recurrence in a subgroup of early-stage breast cancer survivors – women who didn’t have hot flashes – by approximately 31 percent. These patients typically have higher recurrence and Read the rest of this entry »