A new study shows that fish oil supplements may help more then the usually prescribed cholesterol-reducing drugs that help patients with chronic heart failure. Chronic heart failure is a condition that happens when a person’s heart is enlarged and cannot effectively pump blood around the body.
When it comes to eating out there are dozens of restaurants to choose from. However, we can be quite picky some days. There are days that we want to be quick and bring food back home so we hit the closest drive-thru and pick up some fast food. Other days we feel like taking it easy and go to a nice sit down restaurant.
The FDA stated this week that they will be increasing the warnings about the life threatening pancreas problems when connected to the drug Byetta - used for type 2 diabetes. Already two deaths have been reported as well as four hospitalizations.
Those patients had hemorrhagic pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas with bleeding) or necrotizing pancreatitis (in which the inflamed pancreas destroys itself). All six patients were hospitalized, and their Byetta treatment was stopped. The four survivors were still recovering at the time that the FDA learned of their illness.
Research shows that many of the commonly used moisturizers increase the risk of melanoma skin cancer when tested on mice. The researchers from Rutgers university in Piscataway examined the mice after they were exposed to ultraviolet rays - which are similar to that of sun rays.
Another food recall is being conducted and investigated by the Whole Foods Market. Fresh ground beef that has been sold from June 2 to August 6 of 2008 is being recalled due to an E. coli outbreak that allegedly originated in Austin, Texas.
New studies show that estrogen and the standard antipsychotic drugs might be able to relieve symptoms of schizophrenia in women. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that has affected 1% of the general population. It is one of the many mental illnesses that is still mysterious to researchers because the brain is still intact. It is not like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease in which the brain is deteriorated.