How Being Active Can Actually Help With Depression

Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2014


How Being Active Can Actually Help With Depression

The estimated 19 million adults across the country who suffer from depression know that there is no way to appropriately express how crippling it can be. For those not familiar with the illness, the National Institute of Mental Health defines it as "a common but serious illness...[that] interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you...

Ever-present endemic Ebola now major concern for disease experts

Students of Goverment Secondary School Garki wash their hands, as school resumes in AbujaBy Kate Kelland LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - West Africa's Ebola epidemic is the largest the world has ever seen, but infectious disease experts are almost as fearful of a long-term legacy in humans as they are about the deaths it is causing right now. While the current outbreak is vast and out of control, even pessimistic forecasts suggest it will eventually recede. But if the virus continues to transmit from person to person for a year or more, the risk is that Ebola will become endemic in humans and constitute an ever-present threat to people in the region and the rest of the world. ...



Study of smoking cancer patients fuels e-cigarette debate

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The fierce debate over whether e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking took another twist on Monday as a research paper on their use by cancer patients was criticized as flawed. The study of cancer patients who smoke found that those using e-cigarettes as well as tobacco cigarettes were more nicotine dependent and equally or less likely to have quit than those who didn't use e-cigarettes. ...

U.S. nutrition program for mothers, infants sees falling demand

A WIC voucher for food at the Women, Infants and Children offices is seen at a Salt Lake County health clinic in South Salt Lake City, UtahBy Annika McGinnis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A government nutrition program for pregnant mothers and small children has not kept pace with technology and U.S. poverty experts say its paper voucher system is driving low-income women away from the program when they need it most. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, has seen a sharp drop in participation since 2010, unlike food stamps and other anti-poverty programs that ballooned during the 2007-9 recession and the economic recovery that followed, government figures show. ...



Gain from adding Roche's Avastin to immune drug unclear

A worker makes its way on a bridge at Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche plant in BaselBy Ben Hirschler MADRID (Reuters) - It is too early to say whether combining Roche's best-selling Avastin cancer drug with the company's experimental immune-boosting medicine MPDL3280A gives a better outcome in fighting tumors. That is the verdict of experts following a presentation of a small clinical study assessing the combination in patients with a variety of solid tumors. ...



Swiss reject switch from private to state health insurance

A campaign poster against a single health insurance public system is seen on September 28, 2014 in VeveyGeneva (AFP) - Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan for a seismic shift from the country's all-private health insurance system to a state-run scheme.



Gain from adding Roche's Avastin to immune drug unclear

A worker makes its way on a bridge at Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche plant in BaselBy Ben Hirschler MADRID (Reuters) - It is too early to say whether combining Roche's best-selling Avastin cancer drug with the company's experimental immune-boosting medicine MPDL3280A gives a better outcome in fighting tumors. That is the verdict of experts following a presentation of a small clinical study assessing the combination in patients with a variety of solid tumors. ...







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