Healthy Food Guide emerged as the most popular with year-on-year sales of 24 per cent.
The second spot went to HealthSmart with up to 19 per cent sales, followed by Women’s Health with 15.3 per cent sales on the third.
Men’s Health came third with 10.7 per cent and followed by Diabetic Living with 9.6 per cent sales at fourth.
“The overall market for the six months to December 08 is exhibiting some early effects of the global economic crisis,” Read the rest of this entry »

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) –
the world’s largest
maker of drugs for rare genetic disorders, said fourth-quarter
profit rose 9.8 percent on sales of Myozyme for the rare genetic
disorder Pompe disease.
Net income increased to $86.7 million, or 31 cents a share,
from $78.9 million, or 29 cents, a year earlier, the Cambridge,
Massachusetts-based company said today in a statement. Earnings
excluding some costs beat by 2 cents the average
of
analysts Read the rest of this entry »

SHERMAN, Tex. ― If you have ever made the New Year’s resolution to lose weight and get in shape, you are not alone. But several people this year are finding a new way to stick to it.
A recent survey by nutritionists and dieticians shows less people are signing up for gym memberships than in previous years and more are instead turning to fitness books.
Many folks are turning to bookstores and buying fitness books instead of buying Read the rest of this entry »

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Eli Lilly & Co.
(LLY) expects to swing to a profit in
2009 from an anticipated loss in 2008 but sees sales growth slowing due to less
favorable currency exchange rates as well as generic competition for one of its
cancer drugs.
$6.5 billion
acquisition of ImClone Systems would result in a large charge for the fourth
quarter, causing the full-year net loss. The Read the rest of this entry »

The Department of Environmental Health cites an obscure law banning food businesses in private homes.
Jack Melton of Redding gave away many of his pecan-filled fruitcakes. But health officials saw a small handmade window sign offering some for sale.
Health specialist Fern Hastings says Melton must use a commercial bakery that has passed a health inspection even if he gives his cakes to the public.
Melton says the 10- to 14-dozen fruitcakes he Read the rest of this entry »

A recent article by Reuters pointed to the growing use of “brain-boosting drugs” in the workplace. Long a trend at colleges and universities, where students need help to cram for exams, older Americans are now turning to natural stimulants to help increase their mental capabilities and maintain their focus. And according to many physicians and psychologists, there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, boosting your ability to focus is really a “smart” Read the rest of this entry »

Medical device maker
Stryker Corp.
lowered its financial guidance Friday, saying the weakening economy has hurt sales of surgical equipment to hospitals.
Stryker blamed the sales shortfall on contracting hospital budgets, which has reduced demand for the company’s MedSurg products, which include hospital beds and endoscopes.
As a result of the reduced sales, currency rates and other restructuring costs, Stryker now expects net earnings to Read the rest of this entry »

THURSDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) — Cereal giant Kellogg has asked stores to stop selling its popular Keebler and Austin brand peanut butter crackers, as health officials reported two more deaths in the nationwide salmonella outbreak that is linked to peanut butter.
Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., said it hadn’t received any complaints or discovered any problems with the crackers, but took the action as a “precautionary measure” after one Read the rest of this entry »

LifeScript is the #1 website dedicated to women’s health. The company
provides practical, female-friendly content on diet and fitness, weight
loss, anti-aging, relationships, family health and other topics. Through
its newly redesigned portal (
),
LifeScript inspires women to be proactive about their health. It also
provides a platform for advertisers to reach the Internet’s most active
health decision-makers. Read the rest of this entry »

Prime Minister Taro Aso is expected to use his policy speech at the Diet to reiterate his determination to raise the consumption tax in fiscal 2011 on the assumption the economic crisis will have improved by then.
According to a draft of the policy speech obtained by The Yomiuri Shimbun on Saturday, Aso also plans to develop measures to create 1.6 million jobs over three years in response to the sharply deteriorating employment situation.
The Read the rest of this entry »