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Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...any serves about 40,000 customers per year. It has promoted a "lifestyle-based diet combined with herbal supplements and grocery store bought food," for the past decade with few complaints. An estimated 20 per cent of Canadians regularly use natural remedies because they believe they are safer than man-made...

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...kthrough has been achieved. Scientists in New York promoted the growth of new neurons in the brains of mice using a magnetic stimulus in the region associated with memory. The results were presented at the American Academy for Neuroscience conference. If proven, the technique is could help slow down the p...

Natural Compound in Grapes, Tea and Cocoa Helps to Enhance Memory

...mbination of exercise, and a diet with epicatechin promoted structural and functional changes in the dentate gyrus, a part of the brain involved in the formation of learning and memory. Published in The Journal of Neuroscience, their findings suggest that a diet rich in flavonols may help reduce the inciden...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...g bloodshed. The idea behind cupping, which was promoted by ancient Greek physician Galen and medieval Islamic philosopher Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the West), is to stimulate the skin and muscles to release toxins and improve blood and lymph circulation. The process is also believed to stimulate the ...

Experts Question Whether Expert Patient Programmes Cut Healthcare Use

The expert patient programme has been heavily promoted by the UK government as part of a drive to reduce use of acute health care and deliver long term cost savings . But researchers in this weeks BMJ examine the evidence and question whether expert patients consume fewer health resources. In 2001, the...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...way. Breastfeeding in a sitting-up position only promoted the three normally seen reflexes - routing, latching and sucking. Mothers whom breastfed lying down seemed to have more success and, although the majority of women in the study had initially reported problems with breastfeeding, after using the tec...

CELL THERAPEUTICS PAYS Heavily to Resolve Dispute FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL MARKETING OF CANCER DRUG

...th. According to the government's complaint, CTI promoted the drug for various uses that were unapproved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The alleged "off-label" uses caused doctors to prescribe Trisenox to treat various forms of cancer for which the drug was neither approved by the FDA, nor pr...

Breast Fed Children also Likely to Gain Weight on Adulthood

...es for both mother and child. But it should not be promoted as a solution for either the childhood or adult obesity epidemic.” This new study involved 14,500 women who were breastfed in childhood and 21,000 who were not. And it was found that many of the breasts fed women were at the risk of being obese ju...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...sor of health policy at York University, the drugs promoted most likely happen to be the newer ones. A case in point is the aggressively marketed drug Vioxx, which was found to have adverse side effects after it hit the market. The drug did not have years of evidence to back its safety. AV/B...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

... experts. ? Cadaver–based transplantation to be promoted Due to the severity of the present verification protocol there is, already, a huge reprieve from the tardiness associated with organ transplant. Detailed and proper documentation of all the organ transplants are perhaps happening for the first ...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

...ine, beer or any other form of alcohol couldn't be promoted as a health enhancer. "I have gone through nearly 1.6 crores (16 million) articles on health and alcohol but none has proved that alcohol is good for health especially for heart," said H. K. Chopra, chief cardiologist at Moolchand Medicity here. ...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...ears, glucosamine and chondroitin have been widely promoted as a treatment for osteoarthritis.While arthritis means inflammation of the joints, and is the name given to a group of over 200 diseases, osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis. The most commonly affected joints are the knees, the ...

Fluids Could Aid in Weight Loss

...t im Griff (Weight Under Control), a how-to manual promoted by the consumer centre and recently reprinted, fluids spur metabolism and also improve skin tone. The body frequently has to "learn" thirst. People not used to drinking a lot of fluids have less of an urge to drink than those who drink fluids regul...

Vitamin E- Take Its Benefits With A Pinch Of Salt

...f serving as an anti-oxidant, Vitamin E might have promoted oxidation; by displacing other antioxidants within the cells of the body, these cells might have become more vulnerable to damage from oxidation. People who are undergoing radiation therapy should inform their physicians of all non-prescription m...

FDA Approves INFUSE Bone Graft for Use in Dentistry

... Mark went on to say, "the accelerated bone growth promoted by this morphogenetic protein-2 will enable patients who were previously poor candidates for dental implants to revisit this procedure as a more permanent means to help restore their natural bite characteristics." Source- Emediawire/L...

Schoolgirls Spark Court Cases Against Drug Giant

...contained about 22mg of vitamin C. The company had promoted the product by claiming that black currants had four times the vitamin C of oranges, the newspaper said. It quoted the Commerce Commission as saying that although black currants had more vitamin C than oranges, the same was not true of Ribena and al...

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo - Announce They Are To Introduce Healthy Drink

...t Coke Plus and Tava respectively and they will be promoted as "sparkling beverages". The companies are not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity, the report said. The idea of healthy soda is not e...

AMA Wants Government Action To Make Models ‘Models Of Good Health

...o// introduce guidelines to control the body image promoted by fashion models. Such guidelines would help prevent low self esteem and poor health among people who are influenced by unrealistic body images portrayed by fashion models in the media. Dr Haikerwal said there are serious physical and mental hea...

Chemicals Used To Make Synthetic Color Can Cause Cancer And Permanent Blindness

...man application. A majority of synthetic colors promoted in the market have some form of toxins and chemicals present in them. The only difference between most brands is the quantity used of these toxins and chemicals. Many of these colors sold are in fact dyes meant for industrial use, i.e. dyes for texti...

Incidence of Malaria Has Come Down, Says Economic Survey

...as. Use of insecticide treated bed nets is being promoted for personal protection. Besides, the use of larvivorous fish in stagnant water collection is being encouraged for control of mosquito breeding. In 2005, India had reported 1.82 million malaria cases of which 963 were fatal. Expressing concern ov...

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