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Daily exercise is key to good health
Published on 17 Feb, 2010 at 16:04 in Health | Viewed 68 views times | No Comments
There is a lot of talk in the media about the issue of “healthcare,” but in reality they are not talking about health at all–they are talking about reactions to sickness. They best way to address the issue of healthcare is to do all that you can to keep yourself healthy and out of the
FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids
Published on 10 Feb, 2010 at 11:44 in Health | Viewed 67 views times | No Comments
The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products — that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine — could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker
S.Korea court says automakers not to blame for asthma
Published on 10 Feb, 2010 at 11:42 in Health | Viewed 68 views times | No Comments
A court ruled Wednesday that South Korea’s government and five main automakers are not responsible for respiratory diseases allegedly caused by air pollution. A group of 23 patients suffering from asthma or other respiratory diseases brought the rare lawsuit in February 2007, claiming 30 million won (26,000 dollars) in damages for each plaintiff. They claimed
Merck reps banned from US AIDS clinics over drug costs
Published on 10 Feb, 2010 at 11:41 in Health | Viewed 77 views times | No Comments
The largest US HIV/AIDS health care provider on Monday accused Merck Pharmaceuticals of price-gouging its AIDS treatment Isentress and banned the drug giant’s sales reps from its clinics in protest. “We’ve banned representatives from Merck Pharmaceuticals from calling on our physicians in our clinics, which is a common marketing strategy. We are instituting this ban
US swine flu epidemic shows signs of being over
Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won’t go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. cases have been declining since October. An official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
Obama proposes “bipartisan” sick care summit
Published on 9 Feb, 2010 at 19:04 in Health | Viewed 84 views times | No Comments
When you read anything in the mainstream news, you have to realize that it is pure propaganda intended to spin an underpinning of untruths and use them so frequently that they become facts to the casual observer. This is an old tactic and it has been used by everyone from Hitler to Lenin to George
Swine Flu Can Batter Kids With Sickle Cell
Published on 17 Dec, 2009 at 17:25 in Health | Viewed 97 views times | No Comments
Swine flu is more likely than seasonal flu to cause life-threatening complications in children with sickle cell disease, a new study has found. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers analyzed the medical records of 118 children with sickle cell disease treated for any kind of flu between September 1993 and November 2009. Of those patients, 28
Glaxo’s swine flu shot may give kids fever
Published on 17 Dec, 2009 at 17:24 in Health | Viewed 90 views times | No Comments
The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline’s swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose. In a statement issued Friday, the European drug regulator said data from GlaxoSmithKline PLC showed a higher number of children aged six months to 3 years had a fever after their second dose of
EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health
Published on 17 Dec, 2009 at 17:23 in Health | Viewed 97 views times | No Comments
The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference that the United States is aggressively taking actions to combat global warming, even
BPA found in 90 percent of newborns
Published on 8 Dec, 2009 at 16:00 in Health | Viewed 126 views times | No Comments
A recent study has found that nine of 10 babies tested were born with bisphenol A in their systems, causing renewed calls for the chemical to be banned. In the Wednesday-released study, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, scientists reported they had found the chemical in nine of 10 randomly selected samples of umbilical cord
