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AMARILLO—It's four days until News Year's Eve, and so if you're like us, you've probably already started thinking about your New Year's resolutions.
One of the most popular, is losing weight.
Fitness experts have four tips on how you can get started for the New Years.
The key to start now.
“Start today, start now, what's the point of waiting four days when you can start now,” says fitness trainer Darin Roberts. Read the rest of this entry »
MADISON (MedStar) — A lot of people choose weight loss for their New Year's resolution.
In this Medical Minute, we offer up the top fitness picks for 2009.
The future of fitness is fusion.
This laid back class fuses yoga and pilates to make yoga-lates.
Trainer Anne Wilkinson said, ”fusion takes a little bit of cardio, a little bit of resistance training, or like in a yoga-lates, a little bit of mind body connection with Read the rest of this entry »
I used to know a guy who explained everything in terms of our caveman ancestry.
Anything that men do that seems silly – obsess about cars, play video games or watch other guys fighting on TV – was excused by the fact that this gender is wired to run around and club stuff.
In the absence of this prehistoric activity, men need to find an outlet for their adrenaline rushes.
When looking at everyone’s predictable resolutions this year to diet and Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) – China will launch a pre-Lunar New Year crackdown on food safety, the Health Ministry said on Monday, focusing on illegal use of additives after a milk scandal last year killed at least six babies and made thousands sick. The campaign would focus on seven provinces, including Hebei where the milk contamination scandal began, ministry spokesman Mao Qunan told a news conference.
“Groups and individuals who have broken the Read the rest of this entry »
by Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D. and Yi-An Ko
Past U.S. Presidents have provided innovative leadership that shaped the landscape for our national health and science institutions. President Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences; President Truman’s foreign policies inspired the creation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation that established Medicaid and Medicare; and Read the rest of this entry »
Health insurers set rates so late in year, companies find budgeting hard
Every year at this time, Chuck Fried is faced with a dilemma.
The owner of technology firm TxMQ in Amherst must prepare a budget for the next year and get employees to enroll for health coverage. His wife has the same task with her adoption agency, Adoption STAR.
The problem: They usually don’t know how much the health insurance will cost, because the insurers Read the rest of this entry »
Make 2009 the year to go from good health to great. It’s easier than you think. “The trick is to make small adjustments and let them add up,” says David Katz, MD, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University. Check out the list of 52 specific, doable mini-changes in this article, then try a new one each week to make 2009 your healthiest year yet.
Eat breakfast. Study after study shows that people who eat a morning Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese Health Ministry says a second person has died from bird flu in China this year.
The ministry said on its Web site late Sunday that the latest victim was a 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang who lived in Jinan city of northern China’s Shandong province. She died Saturday.
Earlier this month, a 19-year-old woman died from the bird flu virus in a Beijing hospital after contact with ducks in a market in a neighboring Read the rest of this entry »
Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX)
reported today its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year
ended December 31, 2008. Net loss for the fourth quarter and full year of
2008 was $15.9 million and $93.6 million, respectively, compared with $33.1
million and $160.0 million for the same periods of 2007. Net loss per
share was $0.26 and $1.53 for the fourth quarter and full year of 2008,
respectively, compared with a net loss per share of Read the rest of this entry »