Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
2012-08-21T10:50:00Z 2012-08-22T15:24:06Z Exercise could help stave off onset of Alzheimer's diseaseBy Dolly A. Butz [email protected] Sioux City Journal. August 21, 2012 10:50 am • By Dolly A. Butz [email protected]. In the coming …
See all stories on this topic »
Sure, benching seems simple enough (lay down, plant your feet, lower a bar to your chest, pop it back up) but, like any good compound exercise, it draws upon your whole upper body family of muscles. Positioning yourself to handle the most weight …
See all stories on this topic »
“China has had eye exercises for 49 years,” posted a microblooger under the alias “Live from Shanghai.” “Of all the countries in the world, only China uses these eye exercises. The eye exercises are no good for people's vision. Today, more than 360 …
See all stories on this topic »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A mobile DNA testing facility that looks more like a motor home than a medical clinic is raising questions about the ramifications of quick and easy tests to determine paternity and other biological connections. Once a time-consuming and complicated process, DNA testing has become so accessible that experts worry families and individuals may not be properly prepared for the results. A 28-foot (8. …
Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.
Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health locked down patients, cleaned with bleach, even ripped out plumbing — and still the germ persisted.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating obese people with weight loss surgery dramatically delays or prevents the onset of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. “We saw a marked delay (in the development of diabetes) over 15 years,” said coauthor Dr. Lars Sjostrom of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. “Some of those surgical patients will probably develop diabetes later. But over a lifetime, there will be a large difference.” Among the 1,658 volunteers who received surgery, mostly stomach stapling, the risk of developing diabetes was about one in 150 per year. …
preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contaminated tattoo ink caused at least 22 skin and soft tissue infections last fall in four U.S. states, according to an analysis released on Wednesday. The infections prompted an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that uncovered 22 confirmed cases, 4 probable cases, and 27 possible cases of contamination-related infections in New York, Washington, Iowa and Colorado. Products from four companies were implicated during the probe. …
The current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year, federal health officials said Wednesday.