Cancer panel attacks U.S. food subsidies
A new presidential report on cancer takes on not only tobacco companies but the food industry while calling on the federal government to “cease being a purveyor of unhealthy foods” and switch to policies that encourage Americans to eat vegetables and exercise.
The report, issued on Thursday, also urges changes in public and private insurance policies to encourage doctors to spend more time counseling patients on how to stay healthy by eating right, exercising and avoiding tobacco.
Control tobacco, food ads to beat cancer -panel
A new presidential report on cancer takes on not only tobacco companies but the food industry while calling on the federal government to “cease being a purveyor of unhealthy foods” and switch to policies that encourage Americans to eat vegetables and exercise.
The report, issued on Thursday, also urged changes in public and private insurance policies to encourage doctors to spend more time counseling patients on how to stay healthy by eating right, exercising and avoiding tobacco.
Obese people tend to pick overweight mates
A new UK study provides additional evidence that heavy people are more likely to choose other overweight individuals as mates.
This phenomenon is known as “assortative mating” - when men and women tend to select partners according to nonrandom attributes such as height, religion, age and smoking habits.
Fake dentist has 29-year career in Malaysia
Malaysian police have arrested a man who practiced as a dentist for 29 years although he had no medical training and treated patients at his home in a cast-off examining chair.
The impostor’s closest brush with the dental profession was during the years 1962 to 1978, when he assisted an army dentist by carrying his bag on visits to plantation workers’ homes, the New Straits Times reported Wednesday.
U.S. OKs heart failure warning on diabetes drugs
Diabetes drugs made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd will carry new, stronger warnings saying they may or cause or worsen heart failure, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
The warnings will appear in a “black box” on Glaxo’s Avandia, Avandaryl and Avandamet, as well as on Takeda’s Actos and Duetact, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. A black box is the strongest type of warning in the United States for prescription drugs.
