Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Exercise is an important and necessary factor in keeping your metabolism operating at its highest rate. Did you know that exercise makes up between 15 and 30 percent of your total daily energy expenditure? The remaining percent is due to your resting …
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According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages currently have Alzheimer’s disease. And the number of people with the disease will increase each year as the proportion of the U.S. population over age 65 continues to grow—and it’s predicated it will escalate rapidly as the baby boom generation ages.
It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A 46-year-old woman has died in Hong Kong and three others are fighting for their lives following a beauty parlor treatment that involves blood transfusion, highlighting a lack of regulation in the city’s cosmetic industry. The cases have prompted an investigation by police and medical authorities, and renewed calls by health experts for tighter regulation of Hong Kong’s beauty industry. “Yes, the woman aged 46 died (Wednesday morning) of septic shock,” a government spokeswoman said. Three others, aged 56, 59 and 60, were in hospital with the eldest in critical condition. …
A lot of people around the country have been reporting that health food stores and pharmacies are having a hard time keeping green coffee bean extract diet pills on the shelves because so many people are excited about trying them for themselves.
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PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – Lawyers for 12 Oregon National Guardsmen suing contractor KBR Inc for negligence and fraud told a jury in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday that the soldiers were knowingly exposed to toxic chemicals in Iraq that made them ill. The Oregon Guardsmen said the exposure took place while they were in Iraq in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion to provide security for civilian workers restoring an oil industry water treatment plant that was contaminated with sodium dichromate. KBR was contracted to run the project at the plant at that time. …
DALLAS (Reuters) – The outbreak of West Nile disease in the United States moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the second worst on record with federal health authorities reporting 280 cases of the virus-caused illness over the past week. There have now been 4,249 cases of West Nile recorded this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 cases fewer than in 2006, the second-largest outbreak on record. The number of deaths rose by five to 168 since last week, the CDC said. …
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts company that mixes drugs for hospitals on Wednesday gave up an attempt to distance itself from an affiliated pharmacy linked to a deadly U.S. outbreak of fungal meningitis. Ameridose LLC agreed to close down for 12 days while state and federal officials investigate the New England Compounding Center, which distributed thousands of vials of a contaminated steroid made at a shabby brick complex next to a waste and recycling operation in a western suburb of Boston. …
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer has been pushing for a Chinese worker left brain-damaged in a factory accident to be removed from hospital in a case that throws a harsh new spotlight on labor rights in China. Zhang Tingzhen, 26, an employee of Taiwan firm Foxconn, had nearly half his brain surgically removed after surviving an electric shock at a plant in southern China a year ago. He remains in hospital under close observation by doctors, unable to speak or walk properly. …
PITTSBURG — It's an annual emergency operations drill that provides dozens of firefighters and other first-responders with the opportunity to practice lifesaving skills in the massive industrial environment of the Dow Chemical plant. This year, the …
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What, exactly, was the point of the labor board exercise? Had the players' association been successful and the lockout been deemed unlawful in Alberta, two of 30 teams — the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers — would have had to pay their players …
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – In an embarrassing mistake, Florida Governor Rick Scott gave out a phone sex hotline number to Floridians seeking information on a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak. Scott was providing an update on the outbreak at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday when he announced what he said was the hotline's toll-free phone line, but gave out the wrong number. The governor's office was alerted by a public radio station in Tampa, WUSF, which was monitoring the cabinet meeting and posted the number on its website. …