Glucose Metabolism and Acarbose in Aging

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is progress in medicine: building new classes of therapy to repair and reverse the known root causes of aging.

UBC to retire jersey of Kelowna goalie

Members of the University of British Columbia women’s hockey team pose with goaltender Laura Taylor’s jersey and photo at Thunderbird Arena in Vancouver on Thursday, Jan.5, 2017. On Friday, UBC will honour former women’s hockey goalie Taylor by retiring her jersey.

Ryan: GOP to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood in Obamacare repeal

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday Republicans would strip federal dollars for Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP effort to repeal the health care law, prompting an outcry from the century-old organization and Democrats promising to fight the move. Ryan spoke a day after a special House panel issued a report criticizing the organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women’s health services, for its practices regarding providing tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers.

Idaho woman marks fourth flu-related death of the season

The first flu-related death in Eastern Idaho Public Health’s boundaries was reported around Christmas, taking the state’s total death toll due to the illness to four as of Thursday. The woman, who was over the age of 70, lived in the area covered by Idaho Health District 7, which includes Bonneville, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison and Teton counties.

Network opens doors

TEAM APPROACH: Yvonne Richards, centre, felt well supported by Community Nursing manager Erica Anderson and breast care nurse Sally Timmins. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE The Northeast Health Wangaratta registered nurse recently finished treatment for breast cancer and is now going through the process of reconstruction.

Biosimilars in Europe: 2016 Year in Review and What’s Ahead

Europe’s biosimilar market continues to develop, with biosimilars in new classes approved and pending in applications before the European Medicines Agency . 22 biosimilars are approved in eight different product classes and 16 biosimilar applications, including applications in four new product classes, are pending as of December 1, 2016.

Why CVS Health Stock Dropped 18.2% in 2016

… S&P Global Market Intelligence . That vastly underperformed the company’s biggest rival, Walgreens Boots Alliance CVS Health’s year was going just fine up until August. The company produced a string of earnings reports that showed double-digit …

The ‘Delicate Dance’ of Replacing Obamacare

Although the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is considered the most significant and comprehensive overhaul of the American health care system since the 1960s, when Medicaid and Medicare were established, it has been the target of reform virtually since its enactment in 2010. Last year, the words “repeal and replace” became the mantra of Republican congressional leaders looking to dismantle the legislation and was a key talking point for Donald Trump while on the campaign trail.

George Michael’s mother worried about his sexuality

The late singer – who was found dead at his home on Christmas Day after suffering heart failure aged 53 – admits his mum Lesley was very protective of him and feared he would suffer mental health problems if he was homosexual as she felt his father Kyriacos Panayiotou wouldn’t accept him. And Lesley was particularly concerned because her brother Colin, who was believed to have been secretly gay, and their father committed suicide after George was born in 1963, sparking her fears of a hereditary connection.

Ryan: GOP to ‘Defund’ Planned Parenthood in Obamacare Repeal

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Dr. Brad Miller, D.C. Accepted for Exceptional Performance

The American Institute of Chiropractors has recognized the exceptional performance of California’s Chiropractor Dr. Brad Miller, D.C. as 2016 10 Best Chiropractors for Client Satisfaction. The American Institute of Chiropractors is a third-party rating organization that publishes an annual list of the Top 10 Chiropractors in each state.

Legendary Irish athlete and former Olympian Frank Murphy has died aged 69

Murphy was a stalwart of Irish athletics and won a European silver medal in the 1969 European Athletics Championships 1500m in Athens with a time of 3.39.51, a then Irish record. He added another silver to his collection a year later in the 1500m at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna and represented Ireland at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and the Munich games four years later.

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Striking stories rescue Yiddish and Ladino from oblivion

Silent movie fans like myself tend to be haunted by the sobering knowledge that the vast majority of films made during the silent era are permanently lost and will never be seen again. Literature composed in Jewish languages occupies a related place, but with a difference – copies of most books exist, but only a small percentage of them are likely to be translated, rendering them inaccessible to all but a relatively small number of readers.

Positive Results Reported for Potential Humira Biosimilar

The comparative, confirmatory REFLECTIONS B538-02 study has met its primary objective by demonstrating equivalent efficacy, as measured by the American College of Rheumatology 20 response rate at week 12, between PF-06410293 and Humira . PF-06410293, a monoclonal antibody, is being developed as a potential biosimilar to Humira.

Northwell Health takes $1M stake in telehealth firm

Northwell Health’s venture capital arm has invested $1 million in Avizia , a telemedicine provider based in Reston, Va., and plans to both use the service and seek to market it to other providers. The two plan to “expand the depth and reach” of Northwell’s telehealth service, while also reaching out to providers around the nation Telehealth is being used more widely lately, due to changes in regulations allowing doctors to practice medicine remotely, improvements in technology and efforts to save money while easing access to expertise.