Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
However, with the advent of Chinese traditional medicine, the focus shifted from the indigenous method to the use of Chinese alternative medicine, whose constituents are basically the use of herbs and roots as well as dietary therapies. Packaged under …
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A firefighter died during a water rescue exercise at an Olympic venue after choking on a McDonald's breakfast he'd eaten earlier, an inquest heard. Alan Soards, 38, was on a training day with three colleagues from Suffolk Fire and Rescue at the Lee …
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First PacTrust Announces Exercise of Underwriters' Overallotment Option in Connection with Common Stock Offering. IRVINE, Calif., Jun 28, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:BANC) , the holding company for …
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Les and Joyce Brown are retired from Gardner-Webb University. They write this column each month, sometimes separately and sometimes together. The Browns enjoy reading, writing, music and anything Appalachian. Les is a potter while Joyce tries to write …
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In a new video and report recommended by DietRecommendations.com, they talk about the best foods to eat before bed disposing some of the myths about what foods to avoid at night for optimal health and weight loss. The report holds information that will …
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“When it comes to weight loss, diet is at the foundation for everything,” said Powell, the host of ABC's Extreme Weight Loss. So while healthy foods form the basis, exercise accelerates the results. And it might be surprising to know that cheating on …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is urging the National Football League and other professional sports leagues not to support President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, calling Obamacare divisive and unpopular. In a June 27 letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, McConnell and fellow Republican Senator John Cornyn accused the Obama administration of drawing the league into "one of the most divisive and polarizing issues of our day" by trying to enlist its help in promoting subsidized health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. …
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Friday made it final that employees of religiously affiliated, nonprofit institutions would receive insurance coverage for birth control amid mounting legal challenges to a rule in the recent healthcare law. The White House proposed in early 2012 an arrangement that allows universities, hospitals and other employers with a religious affiliation to avoid paying directly for contraceptives. Instead, insurance companies provide coverage and foot the bill under the law. …
CHICAGO (AP) — The emotional pain and practical demands facing Nelson Mandela's family are universal: confronting the final days of an elderly loved one. There are no rules for how or when the end may arrive. Some choose to let go with little medical interference; others seek aggressive treatment. Mandela's status as a respected global figure only complicates the situation, doctors and end-of-life experts say.
By Francesca Trianni NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who sparked a national debate about child access to organ donation took her first independent breath this week on a second set of donor lungs after her first transplant failed, the girl’s family said on Friday. Sarah Murnaghan, who had cystic fibrosis and needed a lung transplant, had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age restriction. She became eligible for an adult pair of lungs only after a judge’s order. …
By Esteban Israel SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff's plan to import foreign doctors to work in rural and poor parts of Brazil, part of a move to quell massive street protests over poor public services, has run into stiff opposition from the powerful medical lobby. Public dissatisfaction over the quality of healthcare has helped fuel nationwide protests over the past month and spurred Rousseff, a pragmatic leftist, to announce earlier this week the "emergency action" plan to bring in foreign doctors. …