Month: April 2016

Between the never-ending array of diets, calorie-counters and conveniently confusing nutrition labels, weight loss can feel about as complicated as it …
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India’s IPCA Laboratories Ltd said on Thursday that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, would no longer buy the company’s anti-malarial treatments after a U.S. regulatory warning about quality lapses at its factories. IPCA said in February that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had issued it with a warning letter outlining manufacturing quality lapses observed at three of its Indian factories. The Global Fund will no longer source Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACTs), an anti-malarial treatment, from IPCA following a “risk consideration exercise”, the drugmaker said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are heading to Flint, Michigan, this weekend to interview residents who complained early on to the federal government about problems with the city’s water supply.
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Peters noted that weight–loss surgery is dramatically more effective in the treatment of type 2 diabetes than a conventional treatment of diet changes …
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U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and Ireland-based Allergan Plc walked away from their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, a major win for President Barack Obama, who has been pushing to curb deals in which companies move overseas to cut taxes. Pfizer said the decision was driven by new U.S. Treasury rules aimed at such deals, called inversions. The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by an estimated $1 billion annually by domiciling in Ireland, where tax rates are lower.

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In new research out of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, doctors say that a daily helping of these foods – about three-quarters of a cup – could help …
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This week I attended an international scientific and nutritional advisory board meeting in Toronto. The hosting company invited me to speak about issues related to cooking in my patient population, but topics of weight loss, weight maintenance, weight cycling, and set-point theory were also on the agenda.Set-point theory and weight…

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