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Juicing: Healthy detox or diet trap? (CNN) -- Juicing -- if you believe its avid fans -- is a great way to detox the body, prevent disease and lose weight. There's something appealing about being able to blend up broccoli, kale and cucumbers and mask them with the sweet taste of strawberries.
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| Intercept's liver disease drug proves highly effective in study (Reuters) - A drug being developed by Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc led to significant improvement in signs of a rare liver disease that primarily affects middle-aged women, likely reducing the risk of need for liver transplant and of death, according to results of ...
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| Edwards Wins Limit on US Sales of Medtronic CoreValve (1) Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (EW:US) won a court order limiting U.S. sales of Medtronic Inc. (MDT:US)'s CoreValve system, a device approved by the Food and Drug Administration in January that was found to infringe Edwards patents. The preliminary order ...
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Sunday conversation with … Amanda HuffmanMother advocates for 'gifts of life' The story of Silas Huffman, who turns one April 29, has captured the imaginations of people nationwide. At four months old, the McDonough infant began having difficulty breathing and was diagnosed with an oversized and underperforming heart.
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Doctor's 'People Skills' Could Influence Patients' Weight, Blood Pressure, And ... Doctors can better-help motivate patients to lose weight and lower blood pressure by having better "people skills." (Photo : Reuters). A doctor's attitude could directly affect patients' health. Researchers reviewed 13 clinical trials that determined doctors who ...
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Hepatitis C: New drug treatment 'is a breakthrough' A new treatment for hepatitis C "cured" 90% of patients with the infection in 12 weeks, scientists said. The study is a "major breakthrough" and marks a "turning point" in hepatitis C treatment, said experts. More than 200,000 people are infected with hepatitis in ...
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Human Infection With MERS Coronavirus Reported In Jordan: WHO The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday the health ministry of Jordan has informed it of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). The patient is a 52 ...
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Green is Good Move over spinach! Green tomatoes could be the key to stronger muscles.Photo credit: Chris Haines, Wikimedia CommonsAs unlikely as it sounds, green tomatoes may hold the answer to bigger, stronger muscles. Using a screening method that previously ...
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More Than 100 Get Virus on California Cruise More than 100 passengers have contracted the highly contagious norovirus on a ship that is touring the California coast. But the cruise line says it has no plans to end the voyage early. Some 104 passengers and 25 crew members on the Crown Princess had ...
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Prostate cancer tests miss severity in half of cases Prostate cancer tests, which predict how aggressive a tumour is, underestimate disease severity in half of cases, scientists say. In the study of 847 men with prostate cancer, 209 out of the 415 who were initially told their cancer was slow-growing were found to ...
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Iraq scrambles to fight polio surge amid conflict BAGHDAD • Across parts of Iraq, medical teams in white coats and gloves again roam the streets giving children polio vaccines and marking the walls of their homes, fighting a resurgent virus taking advantage of the country's turmoil. The World Health ...
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| FDA Approves Medtronic CRT Devices for Mild HF With AV Block WASHINGTON, DC — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 10 Medtronic biventricular pacemakers, some with defibrillators and some without, for use in patients with "less severe" systolic heart failure and atrioventricular block indicating ...
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Look out, romantics: Half of all sexts are lies Shockingly, sexters aren't always wearing or doing what they say they are, according to the new study. (Reuters). SummaryIn a survey of college students, nearly half of those who had ever sent a sexy text had lied while doing so.
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Massachusetts' Medicare Millionaires More than 28,000 Massachusetts doctors and other providers of health care services in the Commonwealth received over $1.8 billion in Medicare reimbursements in 2012, according to new federal data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
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VIDEO: WHO guidelines focus on low- and middle-income countries LONDON — Stefan Wiktor, MD, team leader of the WHO Global Hepatitis Program, discussed the new hepatitis C treatment guidelines issued by WHO at the International Liver Congress in London. Wiktor said the WHO guidelines are different from others ...
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Songs Mentioning Alcohol Brand Names Influence Teen Drinking: Study Music might be playing a subtle role in encouraging teens to drink alcohol, a latest research says. (Photo : REUTERS/Nir Elias). Music might be playing a subtle role in encouraging teens to drink alcohol, a latest research says. The study conducted by the ...
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Waiter tests positive for hepatitis A at La Fontana restaurant in Nyack You need the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view the video related to this article. Download Now. The Rockland Department of Health is offering free vaccines for employees and patrons. (4/11/14) ...
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Reproductive organs grown in lab Scientists in the United States, Mexico and Switzerland grew reproductive organs and nasal cartilage in labs, and successfully implanted them in patients, according to two studies released in The Lancet on Thursday. It is not the first time scientists have ...
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