Weight Loss :: Product Alert – Detox Peptide – Health Canada
Detox Peptide is promoted as a weight-loss product. The white-coloured capsules are packaged in a rounded green and white container.
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Health Care :: New, Easy-to-Read Booklet Offers Cold-Weather Tips for Older Adults
A new, easy-to-read booklet ? Stay Safe in Cold Weather! ? offers older adults tips on avoiding a dangerous condition called hypothermia. This free 12-page publication is now available from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Kidney Cancer :: Avastin shows positive outcomes in patients with advanced kidney cancer
An interim analysis of a phase III study in advanced renal cell cancer has shown that Avastin significantly prolongs the time patients live without their disease progressing.
Taco Bell :: FDA Continues Investigation of E. Coli O157:H7 Cases Associated with Taco Bell
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to eating food from Taco Bell restaurants in 5 states. FDA is collaborating with state and local health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the firm to identify the cause of the outbreak.
Malaria :: Stop marketing unapproved drug products containing quinine – FDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today ordered firms to stop marketing unapproved drug products containing quinine, a drug used to treat malaria, citing serious safety concerns, including deaths, associated with quinine products. There are multiple unapproved products containing quinine currently marketed. However, there is only one quinine product approved by the FDA.
Folic Acid :: Folic acid won’t cut heart, stroke risk
An analysis of previous studies suggests that for people with a history of vascular disease, folic acid supplementation does not decrease the risk of coronary heart disease or stroke, as has been suggested in some research, according to a review article in the December 13 issue of JAMA.
Healthcare :: Home health-care workers have few legal protections
A University of Iowa law professor has found that most home health-care workers are protected by few of the federal labor standards that other Americans take for granted.
Prostate Cancer :: Prescribing inconsistencies in prostate cancer treatment in the UK when using LHRHAs
Majority of healthcare professionals surveyed agree that patients with prostate cancer should receive a licensed treatment wherever possible.
HIV :: Lessons learned highlighted as global politics of HIV/AIDS examined in new research
Even as the world commemorated World Aids Day 10 days ago, scholars are still coming to grips with the complex politics that have characterized the response of states and societies across the world to the HIV/AIDS pandemic since 1981. Compelling new assessments of the politics of HIV/AIDS in seven countries appear as a research symposium in the December issue of Perspectives on Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Schizophrenia :: High risk of chronic health conditions plagues those with schizophrenia
Both men and women with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to have one or more of 46 common chronic health conditions than individuals without mental illness, according to study led by Caroline Carney Doebbeling, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc.