Month: October 2013

Exercise may be at least as effective as some drugs in reducing the risk of death in stroke patients or people with heart disease, a study published on Wednesday said.

There are weight loss pills, liposuction process and crash dieting available everywhere these days but the safest way to lose weight is natural way. … These foods act slowly inside the stomach and need more calories to burn than what they …

Rankings of the best and worst countries to grow old, according to the UN-backed Global AgeWatch Index 2013 released on Tuesday, the first survey of its kind to collect global data on the wellbeing of the elderly in a rapidly ageing world.

Sweden is the best place to grow old and Afghanistan the worst, according to a UN-backed study on Tuesday that warns many countries are ill-prepared to deal with the old age time bomb.

LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. court has lifted a temporary block stopping South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical from launching a close relative of AstraZeneca’s Nexium stomach-acid drug in the United States. AstraZeneca said on Wednesday that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had removed the temporary injunction on Hanmi’s esomeprazole strontium product that had been imposed last month while a legal dispute continues. …

CHICAGO (AP) — For millions of Americans trying to log in, the online insurance marketplaces created by the new health care law began with a stalled website, an error message or a menu that didn't work.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, controlled by Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, is planning to float its healthcare and beauty retail business Watsons within the next 12 to 18 months, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Hong Kong Economic Times, quoting market sources, said the initial public offering could raise between $8-$10 billion. The report did not specify whether the listing is related to A S Watson Group, which is the retail arm of Hutchison, or just the chain stores operated under the Watsons brand. Hutchison Whampoa shares rose more than 3. …

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