Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Take a deep breath and while exhaling, tighten your abs and pull your belly button towards your spine. Key point—Contract your muscles without arching or flattening your lower back. Contract and Relax. *Consult your doctor before starting a new …
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Exercise is the single most important component in maintaining healthy balance and preventing falls. In fact, exercise is so effective in not only reducing fall risk but also eliminating many types of chronic dizziness. The main question is "What kind …
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| The Navy conducted "Great Green Fleet" test exercises on July 18 in waters near Hawaii as part of the Rim of the Pacific event, the world's largest international maritime exercise. During the test, an aircraft carrier, jets and vessels were powered by … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Why is it so difficult for people to move when governments around the world are only recommending 150-minutes a week of moderate exercise, which includes on the most simple level, brisk walking and gardening? Do you want to be in decent shape? See all stories on this topic » |
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The U.S. appears headed for its worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades, with the number of cases rising at an epidemic rate that experts say may reflect a problem with the effectiveness of the vaccine.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A team of global scientists has devised a strategy to find a cure for AIDS, an effort inspired by the remarkable story of a single U.S. patient named Timothy Ray Brown who was cured from the disease. Brown’s treatment in Berlin involved the destruction of his immune system and a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. The procedure is too costly and too difficult to replicate on a large scale. …
(Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co on Thursday said its experimental drug brivanib failed in a late-stage trial to match Nexavar, a cancer treatment sold by Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc, in prolonging the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer The Bristol-Myers drug is an oral once-daily treatment that blocks receptors to VEGF, a protein involved in many cancers, and also blocks enzymes called FGFR tyrosine kinases that have been linked to cancer. The company said it will continue other trials of the medicine in kidney cancer and against other tumor types. …
An Ohio man wouldn’t sign off on his daughter’s Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World after she finished her leukemia treatments because he doesn’t think children who are “cured” should be eligible.
THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Lack of health insurance is a major predictor of whether women will be diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer, a new study suggests.
