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OBESE people may have to pay for their own health care under a State Government plan as the annual cost of treating preventable diseases hits $5 billion. Queensland's health system spends almost $5 billion a year treating preventable medical ...
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Lifestyle excess costs $5 billion in obesity, cancer control - News.com.au
PHILADELPHIA, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Shire Pharmaceuticals launched "On the Road Again," an informative patient education program for people with ulcerative colitis (UC), a disease that affects nearly 700,000 individuals in the United States ...
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Shire Launches Patient Education Forums on Better Managing the ... - PR Newswire
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure, continues to prove DaVita.com and its DaVita Diet Helper(R) online ...
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DaVita Diet Helper at DaVita.com Assists More Than 6,000 Kidney Care ... - PR Newswire
Cutting-edge employers are climbing over one another to help employees lose weight, quit smoking, stop drinking, get buff, and turn into all-around better human beings. Welcome to the wholesome workplace of the 21st century. Right? Wrong. How’s ...
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Employee Wellness Is Ill-Conceived - BusinessWeek
Take control and declare war on diabetes at Lodi's first-ever "Reversing Diabetes and Obesity" seminar Sunday through Tuesday. Dr. George Chen, one of six Lodi eye doctors sponsoring the event, said he has seen more diabetics in his office, and some ...
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Seminar teaches techniques to fight diabetes through lifestyle - Lodi News-Sentinel
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - (Business Wire) As Hurricane Ike rapidly approaches the Texas and Louisiana coast, DaVita ’ s Emergency Response Team has hundreds of teammates supplying the necessary materials and generators to maintain dialysis treatment ...
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DaVita Prepares 180 Dialysis Centers for Hurricane Ike - Earthtimes
It was just a decade ago that doctors were telling us to eat more pasta and pizza to stay healthy and live longer. Then the flavor of the day became oily fish and nuts, the buzzword being the seemingly magic cure-all: omega-3. Over the past two ...
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Eat Right, Live Well - Egypt Today
In a single generation's time, type 2 diabetes has become so prevalent in children it's no longer known by its traditional label of "adult-onset" diabetes. With the link between diabetes and obesity firmly established, worries about weight gain and ...
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Children facing adult-size health issues - Honolulu Advertiser
I WAS amazed to learn that GPs now prescribe an average of 14 items of drugs and medical kit per person a year, at an average cost of £11 per item - that's £154 per annum. I see three possible explanations for this. The first is that we are a ...
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Physician, heal thyself – please - Sunday Herald
The FDA has approved Ranexa (ranolazine) to treat chronic angina. Ranexa is the first drug approved to treat this condition in over 10 years. Because Ranexa affects electrical conduction in the heart, it should be used only by people who have not ...
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