Weight loss OTC diet pill Alli works with regular physical activity, exercise and good food with low calorie diet. The first and only over-the-counter product for weight loss approved by the Food and Drug Administration is available in US now.
Breastfeeding for a period of thirteen months or more has been shown to reduce the mother?s the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to new data presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain.
The best way to protect your heart is to follow a healthy diet and lifestyle and curb intake of trans fats, experts at the Health Essayists and Authors League (HEAL) and Diabetes Foundation (India) have opined.
The rights of patients and the public will be strengthened by new amendments to the Mental Health Bill published by the UK Government.
Obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and inactivity: they?re not just your father?s problems any more, University of New Hampshire research finds. New data on the widely unstudied demographic of college students indicates that this group of 18 ? 24-year-olds are on the path toward chronic health diseases. Although limited, national data suggest the trend is not unique to UNH.
New data presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain, sheds light on the role of environmental and genetic risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
New data presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain, suggests that alcohol may protect against rheumatoid arthritis, with three units a week exhibiting protective effects and ten units a week being more protective still. An alcohol consumption of three units per week or more also reduced the risk by smoking or by a genetic predisposition to RA.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today launched the three-year pilot phase of a new program that will help bring state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in community hospitals across the United States.
A symposium, sponsored by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, Joslin Diabetes Center and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing identified barriers to, and strategies for, more effective diabetes self management and reaffirmed the nurse’s critical role to facilitate better patient self care. These results are published in a special supplement to the June issue of AJN.
Diabetes is often called a lifestyle disease, and now a new study from the University of Missouri-Columbia verifies that a lifestyle change brings strong improvements.