Year: 2014

LONDON (Reuters) – Experts at the European Medicines Agency have recommended measures to reduce the risks associated with a drug from private French company Servier that helps lower the heart rate and which was licensed to U.S. group Amgen last year. Ivabradine is not currently approved in the United States but it is sold in Europe for treating stable angina, or chest pain due to obstruction of heart arteries, and for heart failure, when the heart fails to pump blood effectively. …
Go to Source

By Tom Miles and Shihar Aneez GENEVA/COLOMBO (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday accused Sri Lanka of trying to “sabotage” a war crimes inquiry, creating a “wall of fear” to prevent witnesses from giving evidence. The U.N. Human Rights Council set up the inquiry in March to investigate crimes allegedly committed by both government forces and Tamil rebels during the final stages of a 26-year conflict that ended in 2009. …
Go to Source

(Reuters) – U.S. health insurer Humana Inc on Friday reported a lower third-quarter profit that missed Wall Street estimates as it paid for costly hepatitis C treatments and invested in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges and state-based health contracts. For 2015, the company said earnings would rise as it spends less on those state-based health contracts and its large Medicare business benefits from a new government ratings system that should offset planned cuts to payments in the program for the elderly and disabled. …
Go to Source

LONDON (AP) — As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to get a handle on the epidemic:

Go to Source

The most effective diet for losing weight, reducing cravings, boosting energy and improving your overall health is a whole foods diet, period. "Whole …
Go to Source

“It promotes health by finding balance in your diet and without cutting out whole … This approach to dietary planning looks at a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, … health improvement and is not necessarily one that promotes weight–loss.
Go to Source