Think the thinner you are the healthier you are? Think again. Researchers in the UK have identified a gene that links lower body fat and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. More than 75,000 people were studied in a project by the Medical Research Council (MRC) with the goal of finding [...]
Fibromyalgia tender points Millions of Americans suffer from a chronic condition known as fibromyalgia. According to the Mayo Clinic, the affliction is characterized by “widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points.” Fibromyalgia is often misdiagnosed and mistreated. There is no cure — only small steps that [...]
Former Vice-President Richard B. Cheney, 69, is said to be recovering after doctors at a Virginia hospital recently implanted a battery-operated heart pump device designed to compensate for his badly damaged organ.
“A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure,” Cheney said in a statement released on Wednesday.
“After a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, I decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available…”
Considered one of the most common and safest methods used to removed gallstones or to remove an infected or inflamed gallbladder, cholecystectomy is a surgical procedure that has some risks associated with it.
According to the American College of Surgeons, infections, bile duct injury, bleeding, or injury to the intestines or abdominal organs are all possible health conditions that may result from the procedure. Death, however, is an “extremely rare” consequence in healthy people, with 0 to 1 per 1,000 patients reported…
In a letter dated December 30, 2009, C-SPAN called upon President Obama and United States Congressional leaders to conduct final health care overhaul deliberations in public view. The single-page request, written by C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian P. Lamb, was prompted by House and Senate leaders’ recent decision to hold reconciliation discussions in private. “Many [...]
The nation’s public cable network wants Congress to debate in the open. In a letter dated December 30, 2009, C-SPAN called upon President Obama and United States Congressional leaders to conduct final health care overhaul deliberations in public view.
The single-page request, written by C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian P. Lamb, was prompted by House and Senate leaders’ recent decision to hold reconciliation discussions in private…
Grassroots activists from all 50 states– riding on some 450 buses — on Saturday rallied at the nation’s capitol to protest what they called an encroachment of federal government power in their lives. The event, sponsored nationally by FreedomWorks, was the culmination of nearly six months of tea-party protest rallies held across America since February 27. Organizers said nearly 200 events in 45 states were being held…
Grassroots activists from all 50 states– riding on some 450 buses — on Saturday rallied at the nation’s capitol to protest what they called an encroachment of federal government power in their lives. The event, sponsored nationally by FreedomWorks, was the culmination of nearly six months of tea-party protest rallies held across America since February 27. Organizers said nearly 200 events in 45 states were being held…
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