Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
A 37-year-old Virginia man who received the world’s fullest face transplant in March said he no longer lives as a recluse. Richard Lee Norris was disfigured in a 1997 gun accident that claimed his nose, lips and part of his jaw. But during a 36-hour…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new review of more than two dozen studies adds support to the link between the chronic skin disease psoriasis and diabetes. In studies from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, participants with psoriasis had anywhere from an equal risk to an almost four-fold higher risk of developing diabetes than those without the skin condition. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than three percent of adults in the U.S. have psoriasis, which is characterized by itchy, painful plaques on the skin. …
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (Reuters) – President Barack Obama bounced off a strong debate performance to target women voters on Wednesday with a dig at Republican Mitt Romney's comment that he received "binders full of women" for cabinet jobs when he was governor of Massachusetts. Obama and Romney are eager to win over women in swing states such as Iowa and Ohio, where the Democratic incumbent was campaigning a day after his energetic debating rejuvenated his re-election campaign. …
(Reuters) – Parents worried about their toddlers have long turned to the WebMD website to check symptoms, but the popular site now needs a doctor itself as WebMD Health Corp suffers from a fall in advertising by budget-slashing pharmaceutical companies. The ad crunch comes as WebMD struggles to overcome issues with the way consumers use its sites — jumping straight to the information on diabetes, for example, and then not hanging around once they get the information they want. …
The number of people who caught tuberculosis last year inched downward according to an estimate by the World Health Organization, but the agency warned that drug-resistant strains are still spreading.
“In my opinion that phrase is backward,” says Edberg, a registered dietician, personal trainer, and certified weight loss coach at Life Time Fitness, The Healthy Way of Life Company. “People need to get healthy first in order to lose … Certain foods …
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That is, until he found out about the H-E-B Slim Down Showdown, a contest that teaches its contestants about living a healthy lifestyle. “I've been overweight all my life. I've done all the yo-yo diets. On diets (when) you're deprived of food, once you …
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The research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, appears online Oct. 15 in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. For obese men and women who can't control their weight through diet and lifestyle changes, nonsurgical options are …
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THURSDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) — For overweight people with diabetes, intensive exercise and dieting not only aids weight loss, it can also help train …
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October is here as quickly as it left us last year and isn't October a beautiful month? The leaves are changing colors and the crispness of the air just begs us to get outside and enjoy ourselves. But October is a beautiful month for another reason; it …
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Fall is a busy and active time of year. While many have been hectically scurrying to settle in to a new school year, others have been expending enormous amounts of energy winterizing the yard, gathering wood for the stove, and unpacking the shovels in …
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