Are you frustrated with diets that don’t work, or they work but their virtually impossible to stay on? Have these diets left you disappointed and discouraged? If you’ve been trying to lose weight for any length of time, then you know just how difficult it can be.
What if there was a weight loss system where you could eat just about anything you wanted and still melt off fat, without having to spend hours in the gym. And what if I told you it Read the rest of this entry »
Unlike most industries, health care still adding jobs
11:53 AM CST on Sunday, January 25, 2009
jroberson@dallasnews.com
Rosemary Hill used to earn more than $200,000 a year as an executive for an information systems company.
Rosemary Hill, a nurse in the bone marrow transfer unit at Baylor Medical Center, checks the vital signs of Dan Thornburg. Hill left a career as a highly paid information systems executive to become Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eating a tiny bit of a melamine, the chemical responsible for a global food safety scare, is not harmful — except when it’s in baby formula, U.S. food safety officials said Friday.
Melamine-tainted formula has sickened more than 54,000 children in China and is being blamed for the deaths of at least four tots. The chemical has also turned up in products sold across Asia, ranging from candies, to chocolates, to coffee Read the rest of this entry »
But ever since she got sick after getting a shot a few years ago, she’s sworn off the vaccine.
“I rarely get sick. The only thing I could narrow it down to is that I had gotten this shot,” said Taylor, who works at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. “I know that it’s not a live virus. It just seemed pretty coincidental.”
Such stories frustrate Dr. William Schaffner.
As chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt Read the rest of this entry »
South Dakota Abortion Ban Out Of Step With Most Americans’ Views, USA Today Editorial Says
“For all the furor over abortion in the past 35 years, Americans have remained remarkably steadfast in their opinions” on the issue, a
editorial states. According to Gallup
data, about 54% of Americans in May said that abortion should be legal under certain circumstances — precisely the same number as in a 1975 Gallup poll — and an additional 28% said Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) — A majority of the guidelines for cardiac care issued by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology are not supported by the kind of gold-standard evidence that doctors respect most, a new study finds.
That conclusion does not come from heretics crying in the wilderness. One author of the report, published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association,
is Dr. Sidney Smith, a Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) – D.C. health officials say that most hospitals will not be available for non-emergency care during inaugural activities.
Pierre Vigilance, the city’s health department director, says D.C. emergency rooms will likely be busier than usual. He is urging inaugural attendees to seek medical attention from their primary care doctor before Jan. 19 or after Jan. 20.
Health officials are asking patients and health care providers to give Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tiny traces of melamine, the chemical that has set off a global food safety scare, are not harmful in most foods, except baby formula, government experts said Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday its safety experts have concluded that eating a minuscule amount of melamine — 2.5 parts per million — would not raise health concerns, even if a person ate food every day that was tainted with the Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tiny traces of melamine, the chemical that has set off a global food safety scare, are not harmful in most foods, except baby formula, government experts said Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday its safety experts have concluded that eating a minuscule amount of melamine — 2.5 parts per million — would not raise health concerns, even if a person ate food every day that was tainted with the Read the rest of this entry »
Insightra Medical, Inc. Gains FDA clearance for the Most Complete Range of 7Fr Intra Aortic Balloon (IAB) Catheters
Insightra Medical announced 510(k) clearance of their full range of 7Fr IAB catheters and immediate release in the United States.
Irvine, CA (
) January 19, 2009 –
, a privately held medical device company based in Irvine, California, markets the most complete range of 7Fr IAB catheters in sizes including: 40cc, 35cc, 30cc, Read the rest of this entry »