Month: August 2015

New York officials expect by Sunday to complete a city-ordered cleaning of cooling towers in the South Bronx that were tied to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has killed 10 people, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Saturday. The outbreak appears to have peaked with no new cases diagnosed over the last four days, but the inspection and cleaning of cooling towers will continue as the city battles the Legionella bacteria, which thrive in warm water, de Blasio said. Some 108 people were sickened in the outbreak, with 18 still hospitalized, de Blasio said.

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Sadia Salman, nutritionist and CEO of Diet by Design, a company that provides healthy meal plans to assist in weight management, has seen many a …
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(Reuters) – Eli Lilly on Friday was cleared of liability in the first trial involving claims that its antidepressant Cymbalta caused severe withdrawal symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and electric shock-like sensations, the company said. Eli Lily has been sued by roughly 250 plaintiffs who say that the company downplayed warnings about symptoms that can occur when patients quit the popular drug, which has annual sales of about $3.9 billion. The trial this week on the lawsuit filed by Claudia Herrera in federal court in California is the first of four trials over Cymbalta withdrawal scheduled for this month. “While Lilly is sympathetic to Ms. Herrera’s conditions, we are pleased with the jury’s verdict,” Lilly spokeswoman Celeste Stanley said.
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But it's a business built around self-treatment, leading to the rise of Weight Watchers and other diet companies, weight–loss supplements, health clubs …
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Toddlers are to be referred to weekly weight–loss classes on the NHS to curb … GPs and health visitors are being urged to send obese youngsters to the … will learn the importance of limiting portion sizes and eating healthy foods.
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Owners of cooling towers have 14 days to comply with the order, which comes as 100 people have been reported sick with the disease, according to city health department figures. The disease, a severe kind of pneumonia, is contracted by breathing in mist from cooling towers containing the bacteria Legionella. The incubation period for Legionnaires’ disease is 10 days.
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