Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
A recent study found that a walking program did not offer the same results for obese men and women. Researcher Jill Kanaley says obese women with Type 2 diabetes might benefit from longer durations or higher intensity exercise. (Credit: "pink sneakers" …
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NEW YORK (AP) — The city defended its groundbreaking size limit on sugary drinks Wednesday as an imperfect but meaningful rein on obesity, while critics said it would hurt small and minority-owned businesses while doing little to help health.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the use of Roche’s Avastin for patients whose colorectal cancer has worsened despite previous treatment with the drug. The new use will allow patients first treated with Avastin plus chemotherapy to be treated again with the biotechnology drug in combination with a different chemotherapy regimen. A pivotal clinical trial showed that such a treatment strategy improved survival. …
(Reuters) – A top U.S. insurance industry executive on Wednesday predicted that most states will agree to expand their Medicaid programs under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, despite opposition from more than a dozen Republican governors. “In the long run, the economic benefits to the states will be such that most states will eventually expand Medicaid,” said Richard Zoretic, the executive vice president who oversees Medicaid programs at WellPoint Inc., the-second largest U.S. health insurer. …
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession's toll on revenue and, in some cases, a new zeal to shrink government.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors should ask teen girls and women whether their partners are trying to force them to get pregnant or otherwise “reproductively coercing” them, according to a group of ob-gyns. That could include pressuring women to have sex – possibly without a condom or other birth control, forcing them to continue (or end) a pregnancy or intentionally exposing them to sexually transmitted infections, according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). …
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said unidentified groups had entered the country with the aim of assassinating him and the head of the National Assembly as President Hugo Chavez recovers from cancer in Cuba. Maduro provided no proof of the claim, made at a rally on Wednesday to mark the end of a dictatorship in the OPEC nation 55 years ago, but he said action would be taken shortly. …
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alternative nutrition labels that clearly display the total number of calories and other nutrients in an entire package might help consumers make healthier food choices, according to a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA researchers found people were best at assessing chips and frozen meals – and comparing the healthfulness of multiple products – when nutrition facts were presented for the entire container’s worth of food or for both one serving and the whole container. …
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Michelle Francis keeps one eye on Utah’s air quality index and the other on her 9-year-old daughter’s chronic asthma these days. The air pollution is so awful in her Salt Lake City suburb that Francis keeps her daughter indoors on many days to prevent her cough from being aggravated.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The family of former San Diego Chargers star Junior Seau, who killed himself last year, sued the National Football League on Wednesday, claiming that his suicide resulted from brain disease caused by repeated hits to the head during his football career. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in San Diego Superior Court by Seau's children and ex-wife, as well as the trustee of his estate, also claims that the NFL concealed the risks of brain damage in the sport, court documents showed. …
