Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
With names like Lose It and My Fitness Pal, mobile diet and fitness apps are the high-tech trend in weight loss with some pretty cool features. They can track exercise, count calories, scan food and provide detailed information about restaurant entrees …
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"You don't have to go on a crash diet or an intensive weight loss diet if you just make healthier food choices then that can have the benefits that most people look for over the longer term. "If you just choose healthier foods over time we've shown …
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Business Writer TRENTON, NJ—Advisers to government health regulators late Thursday recommended that they approve sales of what would be the first new prescription weight–loss drug in the US in more than a decade, despite …
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| It is supposed to be used in combination with a healthy diet and exercise. Patients who started the locaserin trials lost an average of 5% of their weight; those who completed the studies lost an average of 8%, says company spokesman David Schull. See all stories on this topic » |
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US health advisers urged regulators to approve Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/AIDS instead of just a treatment for infected people.
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio juvenile court judge removed a protective order on Thursday in the case of a third-grader who was taken from his mother’s custody last October after he tipped the scales at 219 lbs (99 kg). Juvenile court judge David Stucki ruled in favor of a mother’s petition to permanently restore the boy to her custody and to close the boy’s case with the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services. Social workers were alerted to the child’s medical situation in March 2010 when the boy, then 7, was hospitalized for two weeks with severe breathing problems. …
| Chris Christie has ordered flags to fly at half-staff Thursday to honor a Long Branch servicewoman who died during a training exercise in South Korea. Pictured here is a flag flying at half-staff outside Newark City Hall earlier this year in honor of … See all stories on this topic » |
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By Kathleen Doheny Though exercise during pregnancy has proven benefits for healthy women, many still fear it, according to a new study. "Despite what we have said over the last 10 years, pregnant women are still afraid exercise is going to hurt their …
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IRVINE, CA, May 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Lantronix, Inc. (the "Company") (UTD:LTRX) , a leading global provider of smart M2M connectivity solutions, today announced the sale of 151400 shares of common stock pursuant to the partial exercise …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nancy Keenan will step down as head of the abortion-rights advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America at the end of the year, a change she said on Thursday was timed to coincide with the rise of a new generation voters. Keenan, 60, who has led NARAL for nearly eight years, has chosen not to renew her contract, which expires at the end of December. Under Keenan’s tenure, NARAL has supported dozens of candidates elected to Congress and has earned a reputation for helping to sway close races. …
(Reuters) – More than half of the children who took part in a study on exposure to cigarette smoke tested positive for such exposure, despite only a handful of their parents admitting to lighting up, according to a U.S. study. Parents may think their children are exposed only if they’re around someone actively smoking a cigarette, or are unaware of where else their children may be breathing in smoke – but a blood test may help identify and reduce smoke exposure, said researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. …
(Reuters) – People who eat plenty of fish may have a lower risk of colon cancer and, even more, rectal cancer, according to an analysis of 41 studies from around the world. The analysis, which appeared in the American Journal of Medicine, is the latest report that ties fish consumption to a number of possible health benefits. Jie Liang of Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases in Xi’an, China, and colleagues combined the results from 41 studies published between 1990 and 2011 that measured fish consumption and tracked cancer diagnoses. …