BOSTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joe Moore, President and CEO of the International Health Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), announced IHRSA’s commitment to promoting the first-ever government-issued 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Moore delivered his remarks to more than 100 people at the “Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Launch and Partnership Forum” hosted by The President’s Council on Physical Fitness Read the rest of this entry »
RENO, Nev.—As long as Janet Simpson heard the familiar beep of the brain scan monitor, everything was OK.
But the wrong beep could signal too much pressure on her son’s brain—too much stimulation for a young brain that had experienced severe trauma. The wrong beep could’ve been triggered just by touching her son’s hand.
“We couldn’t talk more than a whisper,” she said.
Reno High graduate and baseball fanatic Drew Simpson was barely Read the rest of this entry »
Patients served by home health providers aren’t exactly having the time of their lives. After all, there’s nothing fun about needing to bring someone into your home to take care of you. But that doesn’t mean that
of home health providers can’t have a little fun. In fact, for shareholders of some companies, the past five years have been an absolute blast!
have risen eightfold in the past five years, even as the current bear market wiped out the Read the rest of this entry »
Gov. David Paterson’s proposal to invest more in preventive and primary medical care is just the right prescription for New York’s sick-as-a-dog health system.
Bolstering primary care makes sense in a lot of ways. People overall would be healthier and live longer. Health disparities between people of different races and incomes would become less severe. And the state would be in a better position to control the burgeoning cost of medical services Read the rest of this entry »
The prime minister has telephoned his support to the family of car bomb hero John Smeaton, who remains in a hospital intensive care unit.
Mr Smeaton, 32, who helped foil the attack on Glasgow airport in June last year, suffered a serious asthma attack on Thursday night.
He has been in “stable” condition in the Royal Alexandra hospital in his home town of Paisley ever since.
His fiance Christy MacPhedran has flown in from the US to be by his Read the rest of this entry »
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers looking into the long-term health effects of hormone replacement therapy said on Wednesday they had made the strongest case yet that the pills raise the risk of breast cancer.
But other experts and one company that makes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills said they still dispute the conclusion that a recent drop in U.S. breast cancer cases means that HRT was responsible Read the rest of this entry »
Fast Food Causes Alzheimer’s Disease, Makes Population Stupid
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, November 29, 2008
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What happens when you feed a mouse a nine-month diet of high-fat, high-sugar junk foods? They develop signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
That’s what Swedish researchers discovered in recent findings published by the Karolinska Institutet’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. They were attempting to test the effects of fast food and Read the rest of this entry »
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Mexico has made “important achievements” in fighting drugs under the current administration, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Sunday.
Some 43 tons of cocaine have been seized in the littorals of the country since his government took office in December 2006, Calderon said at the welcoming ceremony in Acapulco Port for the arrival of School Vessel “Cuauhtemoc” after its international tour.
“The trafficking Read the rest of this entry »
MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) — As a pediatric resident in a hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Romina M. Barros sat in on a regular first-grade class at a local elementary school. Classes started at 8:30 in the morning, lasting till noon, with one 10-minute break during which children were not allowed to talk or move from their chairs.
“It was winter, and I thought maybe they didn’t go outside because of the weather,” said Barros, now an assistant Read the rest of this entry »
It is a well known fact that most of us have heard of women’s health and well women clinics, which today has become a commonly talked about topic among the general public. However just as much as women age and experience hormonal related changes at some point of their lives, men too age and undergo similar changes, which is termed as andropause.
This term is most often used to describe a medical phenomenon in middle aged men popularly referred to Read the rest of this entry »