Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
My boss at the paragraph factory thought readers might want to know how Parkinson's Disease has transformed me from a vital wordsmith into a shriveled husk with the vitality of road kill. Neal Simon apologized for the lame joke and sought a description …
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An F-15 takes off as part of RED FLAG-Alaska Thursday morning, October 18, 2012 at Eielson Air Force Base. Warfighters from around the globe have assembled at Eielson Air Force Base to participate in RED FLAG-Alaska, Alaska's premier combat training …
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Guerrilla Girls, the anonymous women's political art collective that often appears in gorilla masks, has lent its talents to the bid to defeat a proposed amendment that would write a ban on same-sex marriage into Minnesota's state constitution. Its …
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Myanmar's military, long criticized for human rights abuses, may be invited as an observer at annual U.S-Thai joint military exercise next year, a Thai official said Friday in what would represent another reward for the new government's recent …
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FIRST PERSON | My breast cancer diagnosis floored me, as I did not think I had any risk factors other than my weight. This prompted me to look into why and how I got this disease. I know that I am not alone in this quest. Most women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are not at a higher risk for breast cancer than the general population.
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s supreme court has upheld a ruling that said there was a link between a business executive’s brain tumor and his heavy mobile phone usage, potentially opening the door to further legal claims. The court’s decision flies in the face of much scientific opinion, which generally says there is not enough evidence to declare a link between mobile phone use and diseases such as cancer and some experts said the Italian ruling should not be used to draw wider conclusions about the subject. …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The city of Fresno, Calif., will be the first municipality in the United States to see whether “social impact bonds,” an innovative security that promotes a societal benefit, can be used to tackle a major healthcare problem like asthma. Fresno is using this new pay-for-success model, which will reward investors providing the financing for the program, if incidents of chronic asthma are reduced in this community where 20 percent of the city’s population suffers from the ailment, compared to 8 percent nationally, according to a California Health Interview Survey. …
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Norwegian children attending schools where free fruit was on offer ate less junk food and drank less soda than before the fruit was available, according to a new study that also found kids from disadvantaged households seemed to benefit the most. Although fruit promotion programs are thought to succeed in getting kids to eat more fruit, it’s been unclear whether children were just adding those snacks on top of what they were already eating. …
LONDON/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s ultra long-acting insulin Tresiba has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency in an important boost for the Danish drugmaker’s key new product. The European endorsement, announced by the London-based agency and the company on Friday, follows regulatory delays for the diabetes treatment in the United States, where the bulk of future sales are expected to be generated. …
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Three people have died in southwest Uganda from an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, officials said on Friday, a severe and highly fatal infection, just two weeks after the east African nation said it was free of the deadly Ebola virus. Another four people who have died since October 4 were also suspected to have been killed by the disease, the Ugandan government said in a statement. …
BOSTON (Reuters) – The people behind New England Compounding Center have been targeted in a lawsuit that seeks to get an attachment against their personal assets, the latest fallout for the pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak. Peter McGrath, a former federal prosecutor, said he is spearheading a civil case that alleges NECC and company officers Barry and Lisa Cadden and Greg Conigliaro are responsible for the tainted steroid injections that have killed 20 people so far, according to a statement on Friday. …