Tips For Your Family's Health

Important safety changes to the labeling for some widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are being announced today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These products, when used with diet and exercise, help to lower a person’s “bad” cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol). The products include: Lipitor (atorvastatin), Lescol (fluvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin), Altoprev (lovastatin extended-release), Livalo (pitavastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin), and Zocor (simvastatin). Combination products include: Advicor (lovastatin/niacin extended-release), Simcor (simvastatin/niacin extended-release), and Vytorin (simvastatin/ezetimibe). “We

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Crash diets can be extremely harmful to your health, and can cause ineffective weight loss. Most people who crash diet end up gaining the weight back because, instead of making a healthy change to their lifestyle, they starve themselves to lose the weight. As soon as they are finished dieting, they end up gaining the weight back. This can be terrible for your body, self-esteem, and overall health in many different ways. What is Yo-yo Dieting? Yo-yo dieting is extreme dieting. Full Post…

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“Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.” — Cole Porter

We commonly refer to something simple as mere child’s play.

However, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University say there is nothing “mere” about child’s play. Children are actually performing complex experiments.

They are little scientists, Wired magazine reports.

To prove just how scientifically children approach their work, researchers gave a group of them a toy that lights up and plays music when the child places certain beads on. Full Post…

A mere hours after Kourtney Kardashian admitted she is expecting a baby girl, more reports suggested that Jessica Simpson may be having a girl as well!

Simpson was recently spotted at L.A.s Bel Bambini boutique to pick out items for her baby. And Jessica seemed to be picking up a lot of pink items!

Jessica and her mom [Tina Simpson] spent over an hour at the store, a source tells PEOPLE. She took her time picking out the perfect baby items.

Candidiasis or yeast infection is a serious health problem that may cause terrible consequences such as itching and burning sensation. As you may know not only females are affected by this disease. If a man consumes a lot of junk food or has a lot of stress, he can be affected by yeast infection as well. Below you will find natural treatments for male yeast infection. You do not have to use over the counter drugs when there are several home remedies for fast and effective yeast infection treatment.

How can plain yogurt help?

As well as eating plain yogurt, you can apply it directly on the infected parts of body making it a great remedy for male Candida infection. Full Post…

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes acute and chronic infection of the liver leading to substantial morbidity and mortality. In the United States, since 1996, a total of 29 outbreaks of HBV infection in one or multiple long-term–care (LTC) facilities, including nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, were reported to CDC; of these, 25 involved adults with diabetes receiving assisted blood glucose monitoring (1; CDC, unpublished data, 2011). These outbreaks prompted the Hepatitis Vaccines Work Group of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to evaluate the risk for HBV infection among all adults with diagnosed diabetes. Th

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