Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
LONDON (Reuters) – A painful British economic recession, rising unemployment and biting austerity measures may have driven more than 1,000 people in England to commit suicide, according to a scientific study published on Wednesday. The study, a so-called time-trend analysis which compared the actual number of suicides with those expected if pre-recession trends had continued, reflects findings elsewhere in Europe where suicides are also on the rise. …
MILAN (Reuters) – The Italian government is ready to appeal to the constitutional court against a ruling to halt production at Europe’s biggest steel plant, an official said on Monday, as it seeks to head off thousands of potential job losses in southern Italy. Prosecutors in the southern city of Taranto late last month ordered the partial closure of the privately owned ILVA steel plant, which employs about 12,000 people, because of concerns its fumes were seriously harming the health of workers and local residents. …
After years of getting a bad rap as "senior-cize," water workouts are finally moving into the younger mainstream, as they did years ago in Europe, Japan and South America, says Lori Templeman, a Sacramento trainer with the Aquatic Exercise Assn. "You …
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LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s sales tumbled 21 percent in the second quarter, punished by generic competition to its best-selling antipsychotic medicine Seroquel and pressure on health spending in Europe. Continued supply chain disruptions triggered by problems with a new IT system at a plant in Sweden added to the group’s woes and the shares fell 1.8 percent by 04.30 a.m. EDT in a flat market for European drug stocks. …
Food (diet) & beverages segment accounted for the largest share at 36.1% of Europe weight management market in 2011. Weight … The driving forces identified for the weight management market are aging population, growing number of obese people …
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Sunbed users run a 20 percent higher risk than non-users of developing skin cancer, according to a report that blamed some 800 melanoma deaths in Europe every year on indoor tanning.
Europe's pharmaceutical watchdog announced on Thursday that it had launched a database to inform the public and health professionals of suspected side effects in medicines.
European teens cut back on binge drinking and showed no increase in illegal drug use in recent years, while cigarettes remained as popular as in 2007, an EU agency said Thursday.
Novel Alternative Treatment Option Now Available to Millions of American Women with Hormone Imbalance and Infertility. Jupiter, FL, May 09, 2012 –(PR.com)– A natural supplement previously exclusively available in Europe has been released in US …
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kids who grow up on farms and have contact with cows and cow milk are less likely to have allergies and asthma than kids raised nearby but not on a farm, according to a new study from Europe. Researchers had previously noticed that kids raised on European farms have lower rates of asthma and allergies than other children (see Reuters Health story of June 1, 2010). But the new findings help identify, at least in part, what specifically may protect some farm-raised youngsters against developing asthma or allergies. “Nature can really teach us something here,” said Dr. …
