The UN has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing a serious health and food crisis,
as Israeli air strikes continued for a seventh straight day. The UN’s chief aid co-ordinator
for the territory, Maxwell Gaylard, said the “critical emergency” comes despite an
increase in humanitarian shipments. Israel said people in Gaza were continuing to
receive sufficient food and medicines. Palestinian officials say the death toll in the fighting
has Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA has determined that several dozen products sold as
weight-loss supplements contain potentially harmful drugs that aren't
on the labels.
One example, according to
: A product called StarCaps, billed as a natural
with papaya. It illegally contains a pharmaceutical called bumetanide, which can have serious side effects.
StarCaps is made in Peru, peddled in the United States. The offending products were made mostly in China, however.
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Nov. 17, 2008 – 1:02 p.m.
to take office next year or for the 111th Congress to convene, Senate Democratic leaders this week are escalating discussions about an ambitious overhaul of the health care system.
, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee, and
, D-Mass., who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, plan to meet Tuesday to discuss how to craft an overhaul that would fall under the jurisdiction of both committees. Read the rest of this entry »

PRAGUE (AFP) — Former Czech President Vaclav Havel was in “stabilised but serious” condition on Tuesday following surgery, a hospital spokeswoman said, after being treated for an inflammatory disease.
“His condition is stabilised but serious,” said Eva Jurinova, spokeswoman for the Prague-Motol hospital.
“He is doing breathing exercises. We can’t offer a prognosis now, further steps will be decided tomorrow,” she added.
website earlier Read the rest of this entry »

Girls and women who are heavy substance users face serious long-term health effects unique to women, a B.C.-based researcher told Yukon front-line workers Wednesday.
Nancy Poole, a research associate with the B.C. Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, said it’s important that everyone — from transition home counsellors to physicians — understand how women’s bodies react differently than men’s when it comes to substance abuse.
“They have Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA has determined that several dozen products sold as
weight-loss supplements contain potentially harmful drugs that aren't
on the labels.
One example, according to
: A product called StarCaps, billed as a natural
with papaya. It illegally contains a pharmaceutical called bumetanide, which can have serious side effects.
StarCaps is made in Peru, peddled in the United States. The offending products were made mostly in China, however.
Read the rest of this entry »

Why smokers are more susceptible is not known for sure, but some scientists believe it has to do with smoking-caused damage that allows the bacteria to more easily attach to the lungs and windpipe, said Dr. Pekka Nuorti, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC.
The number of serious drug reactions and deaths reported to the government shot up in the first three months of this year to set a new record, a health industry watchdog group said Wednesday.
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Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (R-MT) has just unveiled a comprehensive health plan in the form of a white paper, which he sees as framing the upcoming debate on health care reform.
The introduction of Senator Baucus’s plan is a welcome development in that it puts some flesh on the bones of ideas that have been circulating in policy circles. It also indicates a more open conversation about health reform than occurred during the last major effort Read the rest of this entry »

Barbara Bush’s surgeon said she told him her recent bout with a perforated ulcer was “the worst pain she had ever felt” at a Wednesday press conference on the 83-year-old former first lady’s condition.
Bush, who was admitted to the Methodist Hospital in Houston Tuesday with abdominal pains, was suffering from a perforated ulcer, the hospital confirmed in a statement.
Dr. Pat Reardon, director of the Methodist Hospital Advanced Minimally Invasive Read the rest of this entry »

@ 10:41 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008
It would be real nice to see Gov. Palin’s actual medical records. She said she would release them weeks ago.
What is she hiding?
Does she take medication for depression, mania, schizophrenia or some other mental illness? She obviously has delusions of grandeur if she actually believes she is qualified to be president.
Does she have a life threatening illness that voters have a right to know about?
Has she been Read the rest of this entry »