Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
You need to be well versed with how to operate the different functions and tune it according to your fitness needs. Stair training. Calorie burned: Stair training is a cardiovascular exercise that increases the heart rate and burns calories. Eddie …
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(Reuters) – Impax Laboratories Inc said it cut about 110 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, mainly in its Hayward, California plant, more than four months after U.S. health regulators denied approval to the company’s Parkinson’s drug citing concerns about the manufacturing practices at the plant. The company said in early March that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had re-inspected the facility and made 12 observations, three of which had been raised previously. The FDA denied approval to Impax’s experimental Parkinson’s disease drug, Rytary, in January. …
By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kids who don’t get vaccines when they see their pediatrician for a sick visit – despite being due for the shots – are more likely to fall behind on immunizations and routine check-ups, according to a new study. “It’s pretty common that kids will come in (for a sick visit) at a time when they should be getting their shots,” said Steve Robison, the study’s author and a researcher at the Oregon Immunization Program, part of the state’s health department. …
GENEVA (Reuters) – A conference on ending the fighting in Syria may possibly be held in July, international envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said after preparatory talks with U.S. and Russian officials on Wednesday. He said the sole sticking point was that the two Syrian sides themselves were not yet ready to commit to the conference. He will chair a second round of preparatory talks on June 25. (Reporting by Tom Miles, editing by Stephanie Nebehay)
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil's health ministry on Wednesday pulled an outreach campaign urging sex workers to use condoms after coming under fire from conservative lawmakers. "I'm happy being a prostitute" was the slogan on a web campaign for International Prostitute Day that also encouraged sex workers to not be ashamed to seek medical treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. The campaign was published on the health ministry's website and social media sites last weekend, and has since provoked a wave of criticism, especially from evangelical legislators in Brazil's congress. …
By Koh Gui Qing DEHUI, China (Reuters) – Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant's doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility. One 36-year-old worker, who gave her family name as Li, said there had been a fire at the facility, where ammonia is stored for produce refrigeration, three years ago. That was said to have been started by a lighted cigarette. …
Overseas patients can now locate a wealth of information about premier spas through the site's “Medical Providers” section. Whereas medical & wellness spas typically blend Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAMs) with traditional Western care and …
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Local NAACP members call participating in the “Moral Monday” protests in Raleigh an exercise in justice. “The spirit is one that wants togetherness and unity – it hasn't been about any particular race or any particular party,” said Terence Williams …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Drugmaker Cadila Healthcare Ltd received regulatory approval to market a new diabetes drug in India that it developed and is aiming for more than $1 billion in sales globally, the company said on Wednesday. Cadila, India’s sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India, the company’s chairman, Pankaj Patel, said. …