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Want To Lose Weight? Stock Up On Avocados And These Four Other Fatty Foods
If you really want to get in shape, let go of “low fat” foods and eat these 5 fatty foods instead.
3 Tricks To Tell If Someone’s Lying To You
Flag a phony with these simple, sneaky strategies.
Why We're Not 'Feeling' Health Literacy
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines health literacy as “the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions.” Initial research suggests that individuals with lower health literacy have poorer health…
U.S. House passes bill to speed new drugs to the market
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill aimed at speeding new drugs to the market, after lawmakers defeated last-minute amendments to the legislation. The House voted 344 to 77 in favor of the bill, known as the 21st Century Cures Act, which would require the FDA to streamline the drug approval process, consider more flexible forms of clinical trials and incorporate patient experience into
Progress for women and children in India health survey may offer global lessons
By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Simple interventions such as using community workers to promote breast-feeding in villages have helped India improve the health of its women and children and could be good global examples, say aid workers, citing early findings from a U.N.-backed survey. The Rapid Survey on Children, conducted by the ministry of women and child development and supported by the U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF,
House bill would speed drug approvals, boost research
WASHINGTON (AP) — Urged on by the medical industry and patients’ groups, the House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill that would speed federal approval of drugs and medical devices and boost biomedical research.
Britain finds suspected bird flu on farm, says 'low risk' to public
Britain said on Friday a suspected case of avian flu had been reported at a poultry farm in northern England, but the risk to public health was very low and it posed no food safety concerns. “We have taken swift precautionary action to limit the risk of disease spreading,” said Britain’s chief vet, Nigel Gibbens. “These measures to control the movement of poultry and humanely cull birds at the farm
FDA strengthens warning label for certain anti-inflammatory drugs
(Reuters) – The U.S. food and Drug Administration said it was strengthening an existing warning label that non-aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke. NSAIDs are used to treat pain and fever from medical conditions such as arthritis, menstrual cramps, headaches, colds, and the flu, and some of the better-known medicines on the market include ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac and celecoxib, all of which
Study links Prozac, Paxil use with birth defects
A sweeping government study of thousands of women has found links between the older antidepressants Prozac and Paxil and birth defects, but has cleared other popular treatments in the class, including Celexa, Lexapro and Pfizer’s Zoloft, which is the subject of a major lawsuit over birth defect claims. Earlier studies had raised questions about antidepressants in a class of drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs, prompting the