Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
| Sixers exercise caution with Jrue Holiday's injury. Patience is not a virtue that Sixers point guard Jrue Holliday possesses. Actually, few 22-year-olds do. That's where parents, and in Holiday's case coach Doug Collins, come into play. 0. comments … See all stories on this topic » |
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| “Poor food choices and physical inactivity are behaviors that we can target,” she says, “and the expanded program aims to educate children and parents by using innovative approaches to improve knowledge of nutrition and exercise. Gómez Volek says one … See all stories on this topic » |
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People with Type 2 diabetes can reverse their condition with diet and exercise, although remission is not very common, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After one year of regular counseling sessions to …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three workers in a polio eradication campaign were shot in Pakistan on Wednesday, and two of them were killed, the latest in an unprecedented string of attacks over the past three days that has partially halted the U.N.-backed campaign. The United Nations in Pakistan has pulled all staff involved in the campaign off the streets, spokesman Michael Coleman said. The government said immunization was continuing in some areas without U.N. support although many workers refused to go out. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Frustrated by their inability to wring more "fiscal cliff" concessions out of President Barack Obama, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives announced Tuesday night that they expect to pass their own tax bill as a backup plan to avert the tax hikes and automatic budget cuts set to occur in January. No one expects the bill, which would extend low tax rates except on income of $1 million and above, to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate. President Barack Obama's latest position puts the threshold for income tax hikes at $400,000. …
The size of reduction in heart rate immediately after exercise is associated with the presence of arrhythmias in patients with long QT syndrome (LQTS) type 1 (LQT1), report researchers. Symptomatic patients had significantly larger reductions in the …
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Exercise, meditate to reduce stress in work, life. There are year-end deals to close, budgets to meet and gifts to buy, and just thinking about it has your stress level rising. But when does stress turn into distress, and at what point should your …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German drugmaker Merck KGaA’s cancer vaccine Stimuvax has failed to meet its goal of improving the survival of lung cancer patients in a late-stage trial. “It is disappointing that the… trial did not meet its primary endpoint, in particular for patients suffering from NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer),” the trial’s coordinating investigator, Frances Shepherd, said in a statement on Wednesday. …
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BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – At least 18 Somalis drowned when their boat sank and their bodies washed ashore near the port city of Bosaso in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Puntland, a government official said on Tuesday. The Puntland official said authorities believed a boat carrying illegal Somali migrants had capsized, and that it was likely that the death toll could rise. African migrants often use unseaworthy boats to try to reach Yemen, seen as a gateway to wealthier parts of the Middle East and the West. Hundreds of the migrants have perished at sea. …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela, South Africa's 94-year-old former president, is "looking much better" after being treated for a lung infection and gallstones, but will remain in hospital for the time being, the government said on Tuesday. The country's first black president was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8 after being flown from his home village of Qunu in a remote part of the Eastern Cape province. He was treated initially for a recurrent lung infection and then had a successful procedure to have gallstones removed. …