Wrap Up: New Drugs in 2008
Published on Tuesday 30 December 2008 - 13:20 - http://www.basilandspice.com/Suzy Cohen, R. Ph., is a licensed pharmacist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. The author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist (HarperCollins, July '07) and Drug Muggers; she is "America's Most...
Weight Loss Surgery Reverses Diabetes in Teens
Published on Tuesday 30 December 2008 - 01:03 - http://www.ireallyshouldstudy.com/New York - In a recently concluded study done on extremely obese diabetic adolescents, it was determined that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery not only helped the teens lose weight but also helped...
Study: Gastric Bypass Reverses Diabetes In Obese Teens
Published on Monday 29 December 2008 - 20:21 - http://www.injuryboard.com/LEARN MORE' ' Pediatrics 12/29/08' Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens' InjuryBoard on Diabetes' American Diabetes Association' Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation' Children with Diabetes...
Older Adults Have More Drug Interactions
Published on Monday 29 December 2008 - 15:24 - http://honolulu.injuryboard.com/ScienceDaily reports on Christmas day on a report from the University of Chicago Medical Center that concludes that in the U. S. 1 in 25 older adults, about 2.2 million people, take multiple drugs...
Eat, drink and be merry: dieting's new philosophy
Published on Sunday 28 December 2008 - 01:07 - http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/There is a new lifestyle ethos taking the most fashionable by storm. It is less of a diet, more of a magic cure-all. According to a range of A-list celebrities, this universal remedy promises to...
DRHOOK- Off-putting: Why '08 really was year of the rat
Published on Thursday 25 December 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.readthehook.com/2008 was the Chinese Year of the Rat, the first of the 12 calendar animals. If I were to make my own interpretation of the year, it would be the Year of the Dirty Rat (said like James Cagney...
Boosting blood flow may fight Alzheimer's
Published on Wednesday 24 December 2008 - 21:07 - http://www.redorbit.com/Improving blood flow to the brain appears key to delaying or preventing some forms of Alzheimer's, says Chicago's Feinberg School of Medicine.'Depriving the brain of sugar glucose carried in the...
Older Patient's At Risk From Dangerous Drug Combos
Published on Wednesday 24 December 2008 - 00:16 - http://www.injuryboard.com/LEARN MORE' ' JAMA 12/24/08' InjuryBoard on FDA use of over-the-counter medications (OTC), dietary supplements and prescription drugs has surged, writes researchers in the December 24 issue of the...
'Podginess' raises heart risk
Published on Tuesday 23 December 2008 - 12:26 - http://www.nhs.uk/“Being just a little overweight dramatically raises the risk of heart attacks,” reports the Daily Express. It claims that it is not only the obese who have a higher risk of heart attacks, but that...
A Few Extra Pounds Can Hurt The Heart
Published on Tuesday 23 December 2008 - 11:47 - http://bangor-augusta.injuryboard.com/LEARN MORE' ' Circulation, 12/23/08' InjuryBoard on Heart Failure' CDC on Obesity' InjuryBoard on Obesity' InjuryBoard Obesity News' ' ' ' IMAGE SOURCE:© Wikimedia Commons/ diagram of a heart...
