Month: September 2013

Therefore, it's important to find balance to prevent a seemingly healthy diet from … losing weight in your life, look for signs of bingeing or unusual food restriction.

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than one in ten patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) was at some point receiving what doctors deemed to be futile care, in a new study. In those cases, critical care doctors believed people would never survive outside an ICU or that the burdens of their care “grossly outweighed” any benefits. And, researchers found, treating each of those patients cost about $4,000 every day. “Many physicians find that the provision of futile care is not only contradictory to their professional responsibility, but harmful to patients,” Dr. …

(Reuters) – A Florida man has pleaded guilty to switching his pregnant girlfriend’s antibiotic with a drug known to cause abortion. John Andrew Welden, 28, pleaded guilty in Tampa federal court on Monday to reduced charges of tampering with a consumer product resulting in bodily injury and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The plea agreement does not require proof that the prescription drug Cytotec actually caused Remee Jo Lee to miscarry about seven weeks into her pregnancy, but Welden admitted he tricked her into taking the drug because he hoped it would end the pregnancy. …