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Be Nutrition Savvy: Seven Simple Ways To Eat Healthy (includes A Recipe For Strawberry Orange Sorbet)
The key to better health is learning the difference between healthy and unhealthy nutrients. The choices we make greatly affect our health. Making a few simple healthy and nutritious changes in our dietary choices can have a profound and positive...
Doleful Tales of an Insomniac
Copyright 2005 Gobala Krishnan I tried with all my might but I just could not stay awake. My eyelids grew heavier by the moment until I finally caved in and dozed off. When I was abruptly awakened 15 minutes later, by an old lady poking my ribs...
Erectile Dysfunction and Pollution
Erectile dysfunction is a known topic of
discussion now among men and healthcare providers. People are
curious to know more and more about this problem. There are
various factors which cause ED; some are physical and some are
psychological in...
Immunity and the Immune System
Since the 1930's the western diet has dramatically changed. This
change is due to the change in farming from the natural farming
process which has developed over 1000's of years to a modern
scientific farming which has changed farming into an...
Weight Loss: It's Not Always What You Eat, But What You Don't Eat
On a little island half way in between Guam and the Philippines there is a rampant epidemic affecting the inhabitants. This tiny island of approximately 8,200 people is not afflicted with famine or a deadly disease as you might think when talking...
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Tobacco Could Provide Anthrax Vaccine
Linknet Health News Digest - December 20, 2005 - In a recent story that sounds too good to be true, it has been reported that a molecular biologist, Professor Henry Daniell of the University of Central Florida, has developed a method of using genetically engineered tobacco to grow anthrax vaccine.
The anthrax vaccine gene is injected into the chloroplast genome of tobacco cells. The plant then grows seeds -- roughly a million seeds per plant -- which contain the vaccine.
According to Daniell this technology produces anthrax vaccine that is free of the anthrax toxin contamination that plagues traditionally fermented vaccines. The process could also be used for growing treatments for diabetes, hepatitis C, plague and cholera.
But don't go putting tobacco into the back forty just yet. Seeds are so plentiful in the tobacco plant that if this process works, one acre of tobacco would produce enough vaccine to supply the entire U.S.
==>Websites Selling TamiFlu Vaccine Identified by British Authorities
According to an AFX report, 18 websites worldwide have been identified as claiming to sell Tamiflu online. Seven sites were in the US, three in the UK, and two in Canada. Sting operatings have been mounted to track down and catch the would-be drug suppliers.
Tamiflu is made by Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland, and is condidered the most effective treatment against the much-publicized H5N1 strain of bird flu.
US, Austrian and Dutch authorities have traced counterfeit pills back to producers in Asia. Online sales of counterfeit copies of hard-to-get drugs are widely feared to pose serious risks to public health.
==>Women Still Live Longer, but Men Are Closing the Gap
The current "Longevity Index" put out by Credit Suisse First Boston indicates that the longevity gap between men and women is gradually decreasing. Women (in the U.S.) now live to be an average of 82.6 years, and men 78.1 years.
The average annual improvement rate for the last 10 years has been 2% per year for
men, and only 1% per year for women. So the gap is slowly closing.
The reasons, according to researchers, are that men are smoking less (less lung cancer), and learning better how to avoid heart disease. Women, on the other hand, are smoking more (relatively speaking), and living more stressful lives, and are therefore more susceptible to more heart diseases.
==>Pharmacists set to Challenge Contraception Law
An Illinois law passed in August, requires pharmacies to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control "without delay" if they have the prescribed contraception medications in stock. If the medications are not in stock, they must either get it or transfer the patient to another pharmacy that has it.
Some pharmacists object to this law on moral and religious grounds claiming their opposition to specific kinds of contraception. But the law does not make exception for these pharmacists. Abby Ottenhoff, a spokesperson for the Illinois governor said, "If a pharmacist objects (to the rule), he or she is free to work in a pharmacy that doesn't stock and dispense" emergency contraception.
A group of pharmacisits who object to dispensing contraceptives is challenging this law in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Illinois. The group is funded by evangelist Pat Robertson's organization, American Center for Law and Justice.
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National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse |
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Diabetes Overview |
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Diabetes News - The New York Times |
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children with DIABETES Online Community |
An online community for kids, families, and adults with diabetes, featuring message boards, chat rooms, and questions/answers from medical professionals. |
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The International Diabetes Institute is the leading national and international centre for diabetes research, diabetes education and diabetes care. |
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