• Rachel Maddow Show: Deja Vu on oil spill in Gulf.

    Updated: 2010-05-28 17:15:52
    While most of the press has jumped around chasing news conferences and walking the oiled beaches and marshes, talking with distressed residents, taking notes at Congressional hearings, and so forth  – all good and necessary tasks – a few outlets have looked away from the now and looked at the ago. Notable example:  that hot [...]

  • Stroke Patients Discharged Without Statins

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    Too many stroke patients get discharged from hospitals with receiving prescriptions for statin medications, according to a new study.

  • Femara (Letrozole) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    Femara (Letrozole) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Depressed RA Patients Disagree With Doctors

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    Patients who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and depression are more likely than patients without mood disorders to agree with doctors about treatment options.

  • Creon (Pancrelipase Capsules) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    Creon (Pancrelipase Capsules) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Catapres-TTS (Clonidine) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    Catapres-TTS (Clonidine) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • 99,000 Die Yearly From Preventable Hospital Infections

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:00:00
    State laws are finally forcing hospitals to report hospital-acquired infections, since nearly 99,000 Americans die every year from these infections.

  • Influenza A H1N1 and the Internet

    Updated: 2010-05-27 16:50:09
    In a U.S. federal report released this month, a major emergency that keeps people in their homes, such as a worsening of the pandemic H1N1, could threaten to overwhelm the Internet, making it unusable to communicate and conduct transactions are vital for public safety and the economy. Although the Department of Homeland Security has undertaken some [...]

  • Many Bipolar Patients Face Other Conditions, Too

    Updated: 2010-05-27 08:00:00
    According to new research, many people with bipolar disorder have high rates of other medical conditions, such as migraines, obesity, epilepsy, and high blood pressure.

  • Hepatitis C Drug Telaprevir Raises Cure Rate

    Updated: 2010-05-27 08:00:00
    75% of newly treated hepatitis C patients were cured by adding the experimental drug telaprevir to standard interferon/ribavirin.

  • FDA: Alli, Xenical Linked to Rare Liver Injury

    Updated: 2010-05-27 08:00:00
    Per the FDA, labels for the popular weight loss products Alli and Xenical must warn of a very small risk of severe liver injury. Worldwide, there have been 13 cases including two deaths.

  • Aptivus (Tipranavir) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2010-05-27 08:00:00
    Aptivus (Tipranavir) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Fight stalls for free prescriptions

    Updated: 2010-05-27 02:00:00
    Six months after it was handed in to the Department of Heath, Professor Gilmore's report on how to deliver free prescriptions in England has finally been published without any indication from the Coalition government that it will act on his recommendations.

  • Benefits system ? fair to the recipient and the tax payer?

    Updated: 2010-05-26 02:00:00
    I was shocked to read in yesterday?s London evening paper a diatribe against people on incapacity benefits. I do acknowledge the need to make sure that our welfare system encourages people who can work to do so. It is fair to make sure that people qualify medically and make efforts to find employment. Several changes have been introduced to the benefits system to strengthen these incentives.

  • Turmeric (curry, curry) effective against certain cancers

    Updated: 2010-05-25 16:49:58
    Curcumin, a substance found in the spice turmeric contained in Indian curry powder and giving it its characteristic yellow-orange, killing the cancer cells of the esophagus in a laboratory study with Irish and Polish results are published in the British Journal of Cancer. Turmeric began to kill these cells in less than 24 hours. The results [...]

  • New device vigilance for nutritional supplements in France

    Updated: 2010-05-23 16:43:16
    In July 2009, Law Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories told the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) “the implementation of the vigilance system on new foods, food supplements, foods that are subject to the addition of substances for nutritional or physiological as well as products intended for particular nutritional. An implementation decree will set the [...]

  • ATS: Asthma in Child May Portend COPD when Grown

    Updated: 2010-05-21 21:36:08
    NEW ORLEANS -- Some of today's adults with chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD) may have started out as severely asthmatic children, Australian investigators reported here.

  • Eat healthy with diabetes type 2: 2 tips

    Updated: 2010-05-20 04:51:33
    A positive diagnosis of type 2 diabetes means lifestyle changes that can be frustrating but are essential to a long and healthy life. At the top of the list of changes is the requirement to adjust your diet to make it suitable with type 2 diabetes. Now a new study on diabetes in overweight and [...]

  • Why sleep disorders affect our body weight?

    Updated: 2010-05-18 01:42:39
    More and more studies associate the weight gain to sleep loss. Experts recommend that adults sleep between seven and nine hours per night to stabilize a healthy body weight. Why should we sleep to maintain a healthy weight? One theory is that the lack of sleep disrupts hormones such as leptin and insulin, which regulate [...]

  • Strangest advice you've had about your asthma

    Updated: 2010-05-17 02:00:00
    Does it help to blow into a paper bag when you're having an asthma attack? It's not something I have ever seriously considered. But it's one of the things people with asthma have apparently been advised to do, according to our latest patient survey.

  • How to get digestive system optimally

    Updated: 2010-05-15 03:29:33
    A good digestion is a matter of making simple changes in lifestyle and eating habits (better nutritional knowledge / dietetics). The reason is that the health of your digestive system depends on the food you eat (or do not eat), how you lead your life and your physical activity level. Healthy living and get [...]

  • Behavioral Therapy May Improve IBS

    Updated: 2010-05-11 13:02:00
    : Natural Standard Blog Fish Oil May Not Benefit Brain Main Peppers for Weight Loss May 11, 2010 Behavioral Therapy May Improve IBS Some patients with irritable bowel syndrome IBS may experience fast-acting symptom relief from cognitive behavioral therapy CBT with benefits lasting several weeks , researchers report in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology IBS is considered functional bowel disorder because the gastrointestinal tract healthy but does not function normally . Lower abdominal pain and bloating associated with constipation and or diarrhea are the most frequent symptoms . It is unclear what causes IBS , although it has been suggested that diet , neurotransmitter imbalances and or infections may play a . role Earlier research suggests that CBT may help alleviate

  • Fish Oil May Not Benefit Brain

    Updated: 2010-05-11 13:00:00
    : Natural Standard Blog Webinar Forum : Weight Loss Hypnosis Main Behavioral Therapy May Improve IBS May 11, 2010 Fish Oil May Not Benefit Brain Fish oil supplementation may not improve cognitive function in older adults , researchers report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Fatty acids , particularly docosahexaenoic acid DHA are important for the growth and functional development of the brain in infants . Earlier evidence has suggested that fish oil , which contains DHA and eicosapentaenoic acid EPA may be beneficial for cognitive decline in older . adults For fish oil supplements , dosing should be based on the amount of EPA and DHA in a product , not on the total amount of fish oil . Supplements vary in the amounts and ratios of EPA and DHA . Five grams of fish oil contains

  • Occupational Asthma/Adult Onset Asthma/COPD

    Updated: 2010-05-06 18:50:19
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  • Take time out on politics, today is World Asthma Day

    Updated: 2010-05-04 02:00:00
    With a General Election only two days away, World Asthma Day was always going to be in direct competition with the political parties for news headlines. And after a busy morning giving interviews, it looks like asthma has triumphed!

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