… vaccine candidate, made with pieces of the parasite, protects only about a third of children. Still, the World Health Organization plans pilot projects in Africa in 2018 to test whether the partial protection offers enough benefit for widespread …
Month: January 2017
Survey: Confusion reigns among health insurance shoppers
Despite the fevered rhetoric surrounding health insurance, people remain quite fuzzy about what it all means and especially what to buy. A new survey of 2,000 adults in selected major cities, including Houston, found that only 4 percent of Americans understood four basic insurance terms.
Former MATC President Dies
A former President of Muskingum Area Technical College/Zane State has died. Lynn Willett passed away Wednesday after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease.
NY estimates $3.7B loss from Obamacare repeal
About 2.7 million New Yorkers would lose health insurance and the state would incur a $3.7 billion budget hit if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act. NY estimates $3.7B loss from Obamacare repeal About 2.7 million New Yorkers would lose health insurance and the state would incur a $3.7 billion budget hit if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act.
Cheese Has These 5 Secret Health Benefits
… of others, as proof that the thousands of molecules that come together to form cheese actually make it good for our health. Can we get an amen?! Cheese contains tons of protein, which bodies need to build cell structures, and helps you stay full …
Fully repealing Obamacare will cost $350 billion
President-elect Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans love to say how unaffordable Obamacare is. But completely repealing the health reform law would be pretty costly to the federal budget.
K12 school leaders forecast top 2017 trends
Patricia Baltzley, board chair of the Gardiner School District in Montana, many high schools will to redesigned to meet new instructional needs. “The way high schools are currently designed-both with architecture and teaching and learning-needs to be revisioned in all high schools, not just those considered innovative.
Study connecting meat to asthma ‘reckless,’ NAMI says
… that of previous research that indicated a harmful association between cured meat and different measures of lung health in several countries, but it diverged from two large prospective American studies that found consumption of bacon, hot dogs and …
New Trends in Laser Therapy
Let’s face it: While most Americans are familiar with the concept of physical therapy, very few actually know about the wide range of treatments it can entail. New patients tend to come in with a set of ideas about physical therapy and, generally, these ideas aren’t wrong.
Social Security reform: If you’re under 50, watch out
Some San Antonio businesses are finding that fully paid health insurance and a generous 401 plan are not enough to attract and retain top talent in today’s tight labor market. Here are cool employee perks offered by San Antonio companies.
Tuilagi knee injury may rule him out of Lions tour
England centre Manu Tuilagi will miss the Six Nations and the rest of the Premiership season after suffering a knee injury at the weekend, Leicester’s interim coach Aaron Mauger said on Wednesday. Tuilagi, who had just been recalled by England after persistent groin and hamstring injuries, went off after 10 minutes of the Tigers’ 16-12 home defeat by Saracens.
Escaping work for a mid-day massage
For the last year, Erica Purcell has enjoyed a monthly lunchtime spa escape to Spa Terme Di Aroma for a half-hour massage, facial, or reflexology. It costs less than a full-hour service, and with Uber, she can be back at her office within an hour, feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.
Flu season hitting Greenwich hard: hospital
The emergency department at Greenwich Hospital has already seen 18 positive cases of the flu since Sunday, Jan. 1, according to hospital staff. The numbers have been steadily increasing during December.
Commodity trader ED&F Man acquires UK pulses specialist Maviga
Jan 4 Agricultural commodity trading group ED&F Man has acquired Maviga Plc, a British firm specialising in pulses, as it targets rising demand for protein crops for use in food, the companies said on Wednesday. Maviga sources and ships around 250,000 tons of bagged and bulk products annually, including dried edible pulses and other niche crops like sesame seeds.
U.K. Disposable Gloves Demand Spurred by Growing Requirement in Medical Applications, Reports TMR
The market for disposable gloves in the U.K. is moderately consolidated. Top Glove, Supermax Corporation Berhad, and Semperit AG Holding were the three leading manufacturers of disposable gloves in the U.K in 2014.
Ostomy Drainage Bags Market Expected to Reach $3,524 Million by 2022, …
According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Ostomy Drainage Bags Market: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014-2022,” the ostomy drainage bags market was valued at $2,742 million in 2015, and is expected to reach $3,524 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 3.6% from 2016 to 2022. High prevalence of colorectal cancer owing to the increase in geriatric population drives the market growth.
Thousands of people are returning to Aleppo despite freezing weather…
… the education system through remedial classes to rebuild their confidence, Malik said. People stand at a destroyed health care center in the east Aleppo neighborhood of al-Sakhour, Syria on January 4, 2017. There was no register of births, deaths …
BRIEF-Cytrx granted type b pre-nda meeting with U.S. FDA for registration pathway with aldoxorubicin
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Sport24.co.za | England’s Tuilagi out for season
Injury-prone England centre Manu Tuilagi will miss the rest of the season because of a knee ligament problem, his club Leicester Tigers announced on Wednesday. The 25-year-old – who had already been on the sidelines for two months of this season with a groin injury – suffered the latest blow in his side’s 16-12 Premiership loss to champions Saracens on Sunday.
Gamma Medica, Alpha Imaging and Major Health Partners (MHP) Announce…
Gamma Medica, Alpha Imaging and Major Health Partners Announce New Partnership to Provide First LumaGEM in Indiana and First MBI at MHP Medical Center as a Secondary Breast Cancer Screening Option for Women with Dense Breast Tissue Gamma Medica, Alpha Imaging and Major Health Partners Announce New Partnership to Provide First LumaGEM in Indiana and First MBI at MHP Medical Center as a Secondary Breast Cancer Screening Option for Women with Dense Breast Tissue Gamma Medica , a leader in molecular breast imaging technology announced today that through its collaboration with Ohio-based Alpha Imaging , Indiana-based Major Health Partners has purchased and installed Gamma Medica’s LumaGEM Molecular Breast Imaging system, the state’s first LumaGEM and the hospital’s first MBI.
Can a continuous coverage requirement produce a healthy insurance market?
Regardless of how the Affordable Care Act is changed, Republican leaders appear likely to eliminate the individual mandate, which requires people to purchase health insurance or pay a tax penalty. At the same time, proposed reforms retain the consumer protections in the ACA that prohibit insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Spectrum Generations t…
Spectrum Generations will be hosting Tai Chi classes starting on January 4, 2017, at the Muskie Community Center at 38 Gold St, in Waterville from 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., Mondays and Wednesdays. Classes will be taught by certified, trained professionals who will help participants improve balance, strength, and improve overall health and wellness.
Sophie Turner Shares First Photo of Boyfriend Joe Jonas
Did Sophie Turner just make things Instagram official with new beau Joe Jonas ? As they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words and this snap is saying all the right ones. The Game of Thrones star posted a candid shot of the DNCE frontman smoking a cigar on a boat in Miami.
‘We could make that!’ – Chance meeting leads to creation of antibiotic spider silk
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at The University of Nottingham has developed a technique to produce chemically functionalised spider silk that can be tailored to applications used in drug delivery, regenerative medicine and wound healing. A chance meeting between a spider expert and a chemist has led to the development of antibiotic synthetic spider silk.
Emma Stone sucks her thumb
The 28-year-old actress can’t help but slip her fingers into her mouth when she’s feeling stressed out because it helps to soothe her mind but she has admitted the habit caused her teeth to deviate from natural growth and she had to wear braces for seven years. Speaking to the new issue W magazine, she said: “I had braces for seven years so any play that I did for the most part I would just have whatever lip color I was wearing in the braces for the whole play … It was a very interesting orthodontist.
Oncology Drug Report – Kadcyla – ado-trastuzumab emtansine -…
Kadcyla : Armed antibody is a comprehensive report on the first USFDA approved drug with antibody-drug conjugate for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer treatment. Kadcyla falls in the monoclonal antibody, HER 2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate, class of drugs belonging to the targeted therapy.
Bipolar mother and daughter struggle to connect
… dysfunction. When I was overweight I was happy enough not to have relations with him. Now I’ve got control of my health and would like to step it up in the bedroom. He suggests, regularly, that I seek another partner. Besides being hurt by these …
Affimed and MD Anderson Announce Clinical Immuno-Oncology Development Collaboration
… of the past 10 years. MD Anderson receives a cancer center support grant from the NCI of the National Institutes of Health (P30 CA016672). Affimed (Nasdaq:AFMD) engineers targeted immunotherapies, seeking to cure patients by harnessing the power of …
Poultry owners have been advised to take special measures to avoid the spread of avian flu
… a prevention zone in Wales restricting movements of poultry and urging owners to take bio-security measures. Public Health Wales has said the risk to public health was “very low” with the Food Standards Agency having also said avian flu does not …
Moment a drunk taxi passenger tries to pay the driver for his ride…
Moment a drunk taxi passenger tries to pay the driver for his ride with RIZLAS and attempts to hand over the cigarette rolling papers 13 times This is the bizarre moment a drunk passenger tries to pay for his taxi with cigarette papers that he thought were notes. Taxi driver Lee Goodall was working on New Year’s Eve when a middle-aged man slurring his words tried to pay for his fare using rolling papers.
Public urged to learn first aid to help save lives in terror attacks
Members of the public are being encouraged to learn first aid skills in case they are caught up in a terrorist attack. CitizenAID has been developed by military and civilian medics to teach people about how to provide potentially life-saving treatment before the arrival of emergency services in the event of an incident.
CityFox taxi firm in Bristol is forced to pull ‘derogatory and sexist’ ad campaign
Cab firm is forced to pull ‘derogatory and sexist’ ad campaign featuring an overweight model with the slogan ‘If I start to look sexy book a taxi’ A cab firm has been forced to pull a ‘derogatory’ advert featuring a middle aged overweight woman with the caption ‘if I start to look sexy, book a taxi’ after it was slammed for being sexist. The poster, created by Bristol-based CityFox, showed an older, voluptuous woman with her finger in her mouth telling people to call a taxi if they find her attractive.
The persuasion equation: Balancing reason and coercion
Companies have been nudging prospects for years, subtly and not-so-subtly, with their marketing efforts. But in recent years governments, armed with the latest insights of behavioural sciences, have also set up so-called “nudge units” to promote worthwhile ends.
Quitting smoking is the hardest resolution to keep
… quit taking the habit up again by the end of January, according to new data released by the Royal Society of Public Health in the UK. Of more than 2,000 people surveyed about their resolutions at the end of 2016 by research consultancy Populus, 175 …
Not rich, not poor, and not ready for the cost of growing old
… age.” They were among a small army of readers who responded to my Nov. 20 column about my 87-year-old mom’s failing health and the tough choices families are forced to make. Many thanks, by the way, for all the well wishes. To update the situation, …
Chicago, public housing agencies to implement federal smoking ban
… agencies $153 million every year in repairs and preventable fires, including $94 million in secondhand smoke-related health care, $43 million in renovation of smoking-permitted units and $16 million in smoking-related fire losses. “Every child …
new New hope to treat problem gamblers
New findings suggest the key to helping people with serious gambling problems might involve the same area of the brain linked to substance abuse. Parts of the brain that light up when drug addicts have cravings also react when problem gamblers are shown gaming related images, say researchers at the University Of British Columbia.
ZAK Chairperson unhappy, Minister justifies closure
Mysuru, Jan. 4- Even as the Zoo Authority of Karnataka decided to close the Mysuru Zoo for a month, the ZAK Chairperson Mallige Veeresh is not happy with the decision. ‘I was not informed about the decision and there was no need to close the Zoo for one month as the avian influenza virus does not affect humans,’ she said.
Number of farms in Bulgaria hit by bird flu doubles in under a week
A bird flu outbreak in Bulgaria has spread to at least 26 farms, the Agriculture Ministry said, nearly double the figure announced on Dec. 30. A nation-wide ban on hunting of game birds would take immediate effect and a mass cull of birds would be launched in a bid to contain the outbreak, the ministry said in a statement. “By Thursday, the veterinary authorities will cull more than 110,000 birds, mainly ducks,” Food Safety Agency spokesman Martin Radev told Reuters.
Sex with 15 men a day, 69p tins of custard and blokes in nappies:…
The secrets of a Sheffield brothel are set to be revealed to a nationwide television audience tonight – including tales of a girl who has sex 15 times a day, a man who enjoys rolling in 69p tins of custard and customers who wear nappies. Sheffield’s City Sauna will come under the spotlight once more in A Very British Brothel, which airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 4 and sees cameras return to the venue following an original eye-opening documentary in 2015.