According to a national study published this month in the American Journal of Health Education, moderate-intensity physical activity, such as slow walking, might not be helpful in losing weight.
PG-13 films have lots of “happy violence,” say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is “cool, swift and painless.”
As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family’s bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one’s wishes for end-of-life medical treatment.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional arm of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), called for the elimination of industrial trans fats from food supplies throughout the Americas in order to prevent heart attacks.
As baby boomers age and women with young children return to the work force, families are increasingly turning to paid workers to care for children and elderly parents and grandparents. Yet those direct care and child care workers receive low wages, change jobs often, lack health insurance, and live in low-income families at a greater rate than all female workers, according to a new policy brief by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Zen meditation, a Buddhist practice centered on attentional and postural self-regulation, has been speculated to bring about beneficial long-term effects for the individual, ranging from stress reduction to improvement of cognitive function.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US? largest provider of HIV/AIDS healthcare, education and prevention and operator of free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today blasted the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the industry?s powerful and deep-pocketed lobbying group, for successfully jockeying language opposing the issuance of compulsory licenses for the manufacturing or importation of generic drugs?including lifesaving AIDS drugs?by certain countries into the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act under the ?Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007? clause.
Doug Reycraft, President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), today welcomed Environment Minister Laurel Broten?s announcement of practical new water testing and treatment measures to reduce lead leaching in water pipes in older homes throughout Ontario.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. (TPNA) announced that the company will revise warnings related to congestive heart failure (CHF) in the prescribing label of its type 2 diabetes medication ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl).
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US? largest provider of HIV/AIDS healthcare, education and prevention and operator of free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today praised Merck for its decision to offer to reduce the price of its antiretroviral drug, efavirenz (marketed outside the US under the brand name Strocrin), in Thailand, but chided the multinational drug company for making the price cut offer contingent upon the Government of Thailand revoking a compulsory license it had issued in November 2006 for the manufacture and/or importation of a generic version of the drug.