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Specials

Couch Potatoes Have Now Something to Fear: Ban on Fast Food Adverts

Couch Potatoes Have Now Something to Fear: Ban on Fast Food Adverts

A new study demonstrates that banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 16:00
Obesity Is in Your Genes and...Brain!

Obesity Is in Your Genes and...Brain!

Eating too much to simply satisfy your pleasure for food? Then you’re probably one of those people...
» read full story October 20th, 2008 - 15:28
Popular Supplements Glucosamine and Chondroitin No Good for Arthritis

Popular Supplements Glucosamine and Chondroitin No Good for Arthritis

Popular dietary supplements – glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate – proved no better than placebos...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 15:46
Update: Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis

Update: Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis

If people suffering from osteoarthritis were looking at arthroscopic knee surgery as their...
» read full story September 12th, 2008 - 08:40
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World

Court Hearing In the Parking Lot for 500-Pound Man

Court Hearing In the Parking Lot for 500-Pound Man

A music shop owner from Long Island charged with selling fake Gibson Les Paul guitars has been...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 16:37

500-Pound Man Arraigned in Courthouse Parking Lot

A Long Island man accused of making use of his business, Oakdale Music, to sell counterfeit Gibson...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 15:04
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Health

Obesity Raises Risk of Joint Replacement in People with Osteoarthritis

Obesity Raises Risk of Joint Replacement in People with Osteoarthritis

We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
» read full story March 05th, 2009 - 18:22
Multnomah County Chain Restaurants Required to List Calories on Their Menus

Multnomah County Chain Restaurants Required to List Calories on Their Menus

Multnomah County (Oregon) commissioners have approved a new set of rules that will require chain...
» read full story February 15th, 2009 - 13:30
Good News for Pozen’s PN 400

Good News for Pozen’s PN 400

Pharmaceutical company Pozen Inc. saw its stock soar Thursday on the news that the FDA accepted its...
» read full story January 30th, 2009 - 00:28
Study Shows Tai Chi May Benefit Patients with Knee Arthritis

Study Shows Tai Chi May Benefit Patients with Knee Arthritis

The traditional Chinese form of exercise – tai chi – proved to be efficient in reducing pain and...
» read full story October 26th, 2008 - 13:30
Study Concludes Brain Signals Can Predict Weight Gain

Study Concludes Brain Signals Can Predict Weight Gain

A study published in the October 17 issue of the journal Science has revealed that overweight...
» read full story October 19th, 2008 - 13:13
Pediatricians Urge Doubling of Children’s Vitamin D Doses

Pediatricians Urge Doubling of Children’s Vitamin D Doses

Infants, children and adolescents should get double the recommended amount of vitamin D because of...
» read full story October 13th, 2008 - 14:41
Two Popular Supplements Don’t Help Arthritis Patients

Two Popular Supplements Don’t Help Arthritis Patients

Two popular supplements used against arthritis and joint pain, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate,...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 18:30
Pfizer Halts Development of at least 11 Medications

Pfizer Halts Development of at least 11 Medications

New York - US pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc. is ending the early-stage development of at least...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 15:53
Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate Show Little Promise in Fighting Osteoarthritis

Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate Show Little Promise in Fighting Osteoarthritis

A new research published in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism shows that glucosamine and...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 14:00
Study Shows No Benefit from Arthroscopic Surgery for Knee Osteoarthritis

Study Shows No Benefit from Arthroscopic Surgery for Knee Osteoarthritis

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that arthroscopic knee surgery does not...
» read full story September 15th, 2008 - 14:30

Knee Surgery Seems To Be Useless, Study Shows

Researchers have just found that knee arthroscopy surgery, a surgical procedure to relieve knee...
» read full story September 13th, 2008 - 17:29

Alternative Treatments Can Successfully Replace Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

One of the most common surgical procedures to treat osteoarthritis – arthroscopic knee surgery –...
» read full story September 12th, 2008 - 14:00

Arthroscopy In Patients With Osteoarthritis Is No Longer Necessary?

The September 11 issue of New England Journal of Medicine presented a very interesting and yet not...
» read full story September 11th, 2008 - 18:43

Physical Therapy,Herbal Extracts,Alternatives for Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

Arthroscopic knee surgery, one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United...
» read full story September 11th, 2008 - 15:25
Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis Patients

Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis Patients

Arthroscopic knee surgery is no better than exercise, physiotherapy and painkillers for people...
» read full story September 11th, 2008 - 14:15
Update: Physical Activity Can Reverse Effects Of Obesity Gene

Update: Physical Activity Can Reverse Effects Of Obesity Gene

As obesity increasingly becomes a global health concern, researchers all over the world try to...
» read full story September 09th, 2008 - 14:15
Report Says Obesity Rates Worsen In 37 US States

Report Says Obesity Rates Worsen In 37 US States

Obesity-related risks don’t seem to scare too many people in the US if considering the findings...
» read full story August 20th, 2008 - 14:35
Merck’s Study on Vioxx Had Marketing Purposes, Not Scientific

Merck’s Study on Vioxx Had Marketing Purposes, Not Scientific

A report appeared in the August 19 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that a 1999...
» read full story August 19th, 2008 - 14:30
Indian Herb Extract Frankincense Reduces Osteoarthritis Symptoms

Indian Herb Extract Frankincense Reduces Osteoarthritis Symptoms

A new study led by an Indian scientist found that a herbal extract of an Indian Frankincense Salai,...
» read full story July 30th, 2008 - 19:56
CDC Survey Shows US Obesity Rates Are on the Rise

CDC Survey Shows US Obesity Rates Are on the Rise

Since mid-1970s, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased sharply for the US and...
» read full story July 18th, 2008 - 11:50

Study: Growth Hormone’s Effects May Be Rather Mental

A recent study conducted at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, showed...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 15:33
Low Levels Of Vitamin D Might Increase Heart Attack Risk

Low Levels Of Vitamin D Might Increase Heart Attack Risk

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that has recently been found to play a role in a wide...
» read full story June 09th, 2008 - 23:49
Report Warns on Widespread Vitamin D Deficiency among Kids

Report Warns on Widespread Vitamin D Deficiency among Kids

Many infants appear to lack vitamin D, which doesn’t necessarily show immediate symptoms but can...
» read full story June 03rd, 2008 - 15:32
Child Obesity May Level Off, but That's No Good News

Child Obesity May Level Off, but That's No Good News

Rates of childhood obesity in the U.S. appear to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, results...
» read full story May 30th, 2008 - 21:29
Low Levels of Vitamin D May Lead to Aggressive Breast Cancer

Low Levels of Vitamin D May Lead to Aggressive Breast Cancer

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that has recently been found to play a role in a wide...
» read full story May 16th, 2008 - 11:20
CDC: Arthritis Affects Half of US Diabetics

CDC: Arthritis Affects Half of US Diabetics

Forty-six million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis, which is the most common cause of...
» read full story May 09th, 2008 - 11:08
Glucosamine Shows No Promise in Osteoarthritis Treatment

Glucosamine Shows No Promise in Osteoarthritis Treatment

A new research has reveled that glucosamine sulfate, a dietary supplement used as a treatment for...
» read full story February 20th, 2008 - 15:53
Glaxo, XenoPort Report Positive Results for RLS Drug

Glaxo, XenoPort Report Positive Results for RLS Drug

A potential treatment for restless leg syndrome (RLS) shows effectiveness in a Phase III clinical...
» read full story January 16th, 2008 - 15:52
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Science

By 2015, 75% of Americans Could Be Fat

By 2015, 75% of Americans Could Be Fat

A new study from John Hopkins University reveals that if Americans continue with their bad habits...
» read full story July 22nd, 2007 - 18:38
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