Year: 2016

According to the “National Obesity Forum” in association with the “Public Health Collaboration”, encouraging people to eat a low-fat diet is making …
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Chicago (AFP) – Using a patient's individual tumor biomarkers to determine the best treatment can improve success rates, studies showed Saturday.

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Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, unprecedented flair for showmanship, and controversial stands made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74. Ali's death was confirmed in a statement issued by family spokesman Bob Gunnell late Friday evening, a day after he was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital with a respiratory ailment. Ali had long suffered from Parkinson&039;s syndrome, which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body.

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The idea of cutting out grain-based foods and legumes is not backed by science. Quite the contrary, with a wealth of sound scientific evidence …
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – An HIV drug first approved less than three years ago is to be rolled out in Botswana as a core medicine for newly diagnosed patients, following the largest ever tender secured by GlaxoSmithKline's HIV business in Africa. ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GSK, said on Friday it was the first time that Tivicay, or dolutegravir, was being made available as a first-line treatment as part of a national health programme in sub-Saharan Africa. Campaign groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres have been pushing for the new drug to be offered to people in developing countries since it was first approved in the United States in 2013, as the drug is well tolerated and extremely effective.

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The newsroom looked at the cost of eating healthy recommended diets for a week, as well as the cost of exercising, using walking, cycling and gym …
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