Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Drumsticks, pounded on gym floors, clinked overhead and bounced on exercise balls, are among the latest workout tools to tap into the group fitness scene, according to fitness experts. Drumming classes do more than conjure …
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Facing a recurrence of her breast cancer since March, Wanda Forster said the exercise class she goes to at Oxygen Fitness Studio is helping. “It just makes your muscles feel better and your joints feel better,” she said. “Mentally, too,” Janna Malchow …
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In a study published in the journal Neurology of almost 700 people born in 1936, researchers found physically active people showed fewer signs of brain shrinkage and other deterioration than those who got less exercise. At the same time, social and …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Sanctions imposed on Syria by the European Union, the United States and others over its 19-month conflict are “immoral and illegal” and harming Syrian children, the government wrote in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released on Monday. The letter from the Syrian government was in response to a recent report by Leila Zerrougui, Ban’s special representative for children and armed conflict, who accused both sides in Syria of targeting children with bomb attacks, sexual violence and torture. …
(Reuters) – The number of cases of meningitis from tainted injections of a steroid medication reached 294, up 12 from a day earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. There were three other cases of joint infections from the steroid medication that have not resulted in meningitis cases, bringing the national total of infections to 297, according to the CDC. There were no new deaths reported, leaving the total number of fatalities at 23, the CDC said. The number of cases has continued to mount despite recall of the product by New England Compounding Center. …
(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators approved Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co Ltd’s Fycompa tablets to treat partial seizures in epileptic patients, saying current treatments on the market were unsatisfactory in controlling seizures in some patients. Eisai’s drug, chemically known as perampanel, works by blocking the action of the neurotransmitter glutamate, which may cause excessive electrical activity in the brain, resulting in seizures. “It is important to have a variety of treatment options available for patients with epilepsy,” said Russell Katz, an official at the U.S. …
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most women can wait three to five years between Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer, according to guidelines released Monday by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). The recommendations fall in line with two separate sets of guidelines released earlier this year – one by the American Cancer Society and other medical groups, and another from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed panel. All of the new recommendations mark a further shift away from annual Pap testing, which was once the standard advice. …
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Californian sunglasses maker Oakley has ended a sponsorship of Lance Armstrong that began 25 years ago when he was a teenage triathlete after the American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles over a doping scandal. Oakley, owned by Italy’s Luxottica, became the latest sponsor to drop Armstrong after the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Monday ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s sanctions against the 41-year-old, banning him for life. …
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Most U.S. Catholics think the church should focus more on social justice and helping the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion, according to a poll released Monday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute. The 2012 American Values Survey finding on Catholics goes against the focus of many U.S. Catholic bishops, who have stressed the church's ban on abortion and artificial contraception in their public policy statements. …
