AP - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
AP - Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow ? like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.
HealthDay - SUNDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) — Even though it’s summertime, children shouldn’t be allowed to take a vacation from healthy eating habits, advises Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a pediatrician at Duke University
Medical Center.
“Routines go haywire, and with nothing to do after a few days in the pool, kids head straight for the refrigerator or [...]
Findings just published in the scientific journal Immunity by researchers at the Trudeau Institute shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific influenza-fighting cells to the lung airways during an infection. (Source: Huliq Health News), Mobilizing white blood cells to the lung:, http://www.huliq.com/64000/mobilizing-white-blood-cells-lung, http://www.medworm.com/rss/medicalfeeds/infectiousdiseases/Influenza.xml, MedWorm: Influenza, ,
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The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-5.
Abstract Objective: To characterize patients seeking care at a university-based integrative medicine practice, and to assess short-term changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) associated with integrative medical treatment. Design: Prospective, … (Source: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine), Integrative medicine research [...]
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A chemically modified form of interferon improves the chances that melanoma patients will survive and have no recurrence of the skin cancer, according to a new report.
Dutch researchers, who published their findings in this week’s edition ofThe Lancet, said their study found long-term treatment with pegylated IFNa2b cut the risk of a recurrence by 15 [...]
Reuters - When children see others in pain, their brains respond as if it were happening to them, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
For the study, the researchers showed 17 children aged 7 to 12 animated images of people experiencing pain while they were undergoing a type of imaging known as functional magnetic resonance imaging or [...]
AmeriHealth New Jersey, a health care insurance carrier, has launched AmeriHealth Healthy Lifestyles rewards, a new wellness incentive program that links healthy employee behaviors directly to the accruement of health reimbursement account credits.
The Takoradi branch of the Chiropractic and Wellness Center (TCWC) has celebrated its one year anniversary, with the opening of a new massaging center, at a colourful ceremony last week. The anniversary was on the theme ‘Wellness - It is a choice.’
