Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa's Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food crisis, experts say.
The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, which was established by the Korean Armistice Agreement that brought about an end to the Korean War, will supervise the exercise, South Korea and the United States military said in a joint statement.
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Groundbreaking work with lab mice has boosted hopes for a male contraceptive pill, researchers in the United States reported on Thursday.
(Reuters) – When a surgeon-in-training, or resident, takes part in an operation, the patient’s risk of serious complications appears to be no greater than normal, according to a recently published U.S. study. Looking at data about more than 60,000 surgeries conducted in the United States between 2005 and 2007, researchers whose findings appeared in the Annals of Surgery said that when a resident was involved, just under 6 percent of patients had a major complication such as severe bleeding or a serious infection. The rate was the same for surgeries in which no residents participated. …
Swiss pharma giant Roche said Monday it will sell in the United States a drug that treats a diabetes-related illness linked to blindness after getting the regulatory green light.
Swiss pharma giant Roche said Monday it will sell in the United States a drug that treats a diabetes-related illness linked to blindness after getting the regulatory green light.
27-29, according to a news release from the joint Canadian-U.S. organization. The exercise began as an initiative the United States had been pursuing, jointly, with the Russian military to transform their relationship and improve cooperation, NORAD notes.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Investors in U.S. hospital companies can expect more scrutiny of billing practices and the medical need for expensive treatments as the federal government faces greater pressure to recoup billions in fraudulent claims, analysts said. HCA Holdings Inc, the largest for-profit hospital operator in the United States, said earlier this week that federal authorities were investigating whether heart procedures performed at some of its facilities were medically necessary. This isn’t the first time that HCA has been in the government’s crosshairs. …
| Accra, Aug 9, GNA – Ghanaians were on Thursday advised to exercise proper decorum in their activities to mark the three-day funeral commemoration of the Late President John Evans Atta Mills. Mr Fiifi Pratt, a United States-based Ghanaian who gave the … See all stories on this topic » |
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Jacob Dalton of the United States competes on the floor during the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Floor Exercise Final on Day 9 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at North Greenwich Arena on August 5, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty …
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Guest opinion: Regular exercise can save lives. We face an obesity epidemic not only in Minnesota and the United States but also on a global basis. Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states in the past year and have not shown a reduction in any state.
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Researchers randomly assigned more than 2300 heart failure patients in the United States to receive either education and usual care or supervised aerobic exercise for 90 minutes a week for the first three months followed by at-home aerobic exercise 120 …
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