It’s not the Food that’s Making You Fat…
Obesity is a multi-layered health issue in America.
New Approach Yields Exciting Results on Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease
“It’s an important step in understanding and ultimately slowing, stopping or even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.”….. Alzheimer’s Reading Room A new approach developed for studying brain synapses has yielded valuable information about the production of Amyloid-Beta oligomers (clumps of the Abeta peptide) known to play a key role…
Marijuana Q & A
My interview with AllTreatment Blog. Denny Chapin at the AllTreatment Blog was recently invited to participate in an extended debate over marijuana withdrawal at the Drug WarRant blog site. I followed that debate with interest, due to the unusually high volume of responses to my own post on that subject…
Judy Berry on Challenging Dementia Behavior
The ONLY Way to Deal with Challenging Behavior in Persons with Dementia IS “To PREVENT IT in the First Place”….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Editor Note: This is not a full blown article by Judy Berry. Instead it is her comment to comments under the original article —…
Canada to reevaluate vaccine system
Federal and provincial health officials have launched a sweeping review of Canada’s flu vaccination system in the wake of the H1N1 scare. In a notice sent to the drug industry yesterday, government officials signalled that they plan to overhaul the supply system and move away from the current model of…
Novartis: Tekturna doesn’t help after heart attack
Novartis will not pursue an outcomes trial of its high blood pressure med Tekturna (aliskiren) in combination with standard therapy for heart attack patients after the drug failed to demonstrate a statistically significant benefit in preventing changes in the heart’s shape and worsening of its blood pumping ability, the company…
How to Get Rid of Bad Habits
We all know the feeling of doing something which seems wrong, but nevertheless we still do it. We all sometimes crave for one more piece of cake, even though we have eaten more than enough….It can also be the cigarettes that some of us wish to smoke, when we consciously…
AZ: We’ll pick our emerging-markets fights
Picky, picky, picky. That’s what AstraZeneca says it will be as it pushes for double-digit growth in emerging markets, Reuters reports. Rather than leaping into branded generics indiscriminately, the company plans to focus on about 100 medicines in 30 markets where it can get the sort of prices that make…
The scramble to save PhRMA’s $80B deal
An honest-to-goodness vote on healthcare reform is getting closer, and you can bet that pharma and its advocates are working double-time behind the scenes. After all, PhRMA has already laid out millions on advertising in support of reform; that was its end of that ballyhooed $80 billion deal with the…
The Truth About Accountability (from Pure Life Ministries)
I’m so thankful to the leadership and wisdom of Jeff Colón at Pure Life Ministries . In one of their recent newsletters he published an article on accountability I really appreciated. I recommend reading the whole thing . Jeff points out four characteristics of biblical accountability: “We are responsible if…