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UPDATE 1-Australian Sigma gets bids for two drug arms – report

July 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

MELBOURNE, July 19 (Reuters) – Australia’s Sigma Pharmaceuticals (SIP.AX) has received three bids for its Herron drugs arm and three bids for its Orphan Australia drugs business, as it seeks an improved bid from South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare (APNJ.J), a newspaper reported on Monday.

Sigma declined to comment on the report.

The company is battling to pay off A$100 million in debt by March under pressure from its lenders after it broke its loan covenants, reporting a loss for the year to January 2010. The first A$40 million is due in September.

The bidders for Herron and Orphan are local and overseas-based drug and healthcare companies, The Age newspaper reported.

Their bids are dependent on the outcome of talks with Aspen on its A$648 million ($563 million) offer.

Sigma’s shares jumped 1.2 percent to A$0.425, bucking a slide in the broader market on hopes it might be able to ease its debt woes, but remained well below Aspen’s offer price of A$0.55 a share.

Orphan licenses specialty drugs from foreign pharmaceutical companies to treat life-threatening diseases, which are mostly sold to hospitals. Herron owns a portfolio of over-the-counter pain killers and vitamins, which struggled to expand sales last year due to tough competition in supermarkets. (Reporting by Sonali Paul; editing by Balazs Koranyi)

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Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

June 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

KANKAKEE, IL, Jun 29 (MARKET WIRE) —
Riverside Healthcare is proud to have their new website up and running.
Current users of www.RiversideHealthcare.org will notice that the new
website has maintained the overall look and feel of the original site and
also offers new information in an easy to navigate format. As one of the
top hospitals in Illinois, this website only makes Riverside’s services
that much better.

With just a quick visit to this website you will see that they offer a
wide range of services online. This Chicago south suburbs healthcare
provider allows you to find a physician online with a basic search.
Whether you need a dentist, family doctor, oncologist or even a plastic
surgeon, this website can help you find one. If you need to schedule a
mammogram or bone density scan, you can make this appointment directly
online. There is no need to make telephone call and wait on hold anymore.
Simply logon to get started today.

We all know that paying our medical bills can get hectic at times.
Through Riverside Healthcare’s new website you can pay your medical bills
with their bill payment center. This system makes paying your bills
simple and convenient.

If you are not a patient at the hospital, but know someone staying at the
southern Chicago healthcare center, there are services online that can
help you as well. This website is great for those people who live out of
town and can’t make it to the hospital to be there in person. You can go
online and order flowers to be sent to your loved one. You can choose
from a wide range of beautiful arrangements that will be delivered
directly to their room. The website also offers access to The Market
Place, where you can shop for all different types of medical goods. If
you need books, gifts, strollers, or vitamins, this website has it all.
One of the most popular features of the website is the online nursery. If
someone you are close to just had a baby you can access the online
nursery through their website as well.

Riverside Healthcare’s new website has something to offer everyone. You
can visit the website every day to read up on the latest medical news.
www.RiversideHealthcare.org is just what the doctor ordered!

Media Contact:
Carl Maronich
815-935-7256
Carl-Maronich@riversidehealthcare.net

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Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

June 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Media Contact:
Carl Maronich
815-935-7256
Carl-Maronich@riversidehealthcare.net

For women, marriage comes with ””numerous health risks””

May 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 20 (ANI): Marriage comes with numerous health risks, especially for brides, according to a new book.

Tara Parker-Pope””s new book,” For Better (For Worse): The Science Of A Good Marriage” analyses more than 200 matrimony studies to show that an unhappy marriage can be more harmful to long-term health than becoming single again.

Leading British marriage counsellor Andrew G. Marshall feels most of us tend to ignore marriage””s powerful effect on physical wellbeing.

“Forget eating your five a day and taking vitamins, it would be far better for your health to tell your partner you love them. Devoting time to them would be more effective in increasing health and happiness than going for a jog,” the Sun quoted him, as saying.

Marshall went on: “I can””t think of anything more important than your relationship with your partner.

“But because we have this rosy view of love conquering all, we think we can neglect it and things will just keep trundling along.

“We don””t realise that if this building block in our lives collapses, our health goes with it. I””ve had clients who get terrible migraines, panic attacks and depression.”

Marshall believes marriages can particularly affect women””s health.

He said: “For a man, marriage is wonderful because you don””t really have to think about looking after yourself.

“But women end up doing the worrying for two.” (ANI)

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Scarlett Johansson urges politician to help pass Healthy School Meals Act

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, March 24 (ANI): Actress Scarlett Johansson has urged a U.S. Congressman to help pass a new bill to promote healthy eating in American schools.

The Lost In Translation star shot off a letter California Congressman George Miller, seeking his support for the Healthy School Meals Act.

“I”m asking you to support the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010. It is our responsibility, as adults, to give school children the nutrients and vitamins they so vitally need, especially during school hours where their food intake may be monitored,” The Daily Express quoted her as saying in the letter.

“I am so thankful that the National School Lunch Program (a scheme to give low-cost or free lunches to school children) exists and helps children around the nation get enough to eat. But right now, many of the foods served through this program do not support children”s healthy development,” she added. (ANI)

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‘Skinny’ Courtney Love advised by doctor to ‘start eating’

July 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, July 02(ANI): Courtney Love, who has been spotted looking skinny in recent months, has been advised by a doctor to take proper meals to avoid her health from deteriorating.

The former Hole lead singer told U.K.’s Daily Mirror that a doctor has prescribed her a shot of vitamins and told her to “start eating.”

“I know I’ve got too skinny. I know I need to sort it out,” the New York Daily News quoted Love as saying.

Love is also in a financial crisis.

It began from March 2008 when she reported to the police that identity thieves had posed as the late Cobain in order to buy a 3 million dollars New Jersey mansion and loot as much as 72 million dollars from his estate.

It has gone from bad to worse for Love as it was reportedly estimated that she was suffering losses as high as 750 million dollars, or basically the entire fortune Cobain left to Love and their daughter, Frances Bean, earlier this year. (ANI)

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Mia Farrow bulks up to prepare for starvation stunt

April 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 24 (ANI): Mia Farrow has bulked up in a bid to prepare for a three-week fast, which has been planned to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.

The actress will begin her water only strike from the end of April (09), despite doctors fears she could cause irreversible damage to her body.

Farrow has admitted that she’s a ‘little bit’ scared about going on the strike, but has gained weight to help her body cope with 21 days without food.

“I gained nine pounds. That is about as much as I could gain in a month because I know I am going to lose a fourth of my body mass. But that will quickly go. I am just eating fruit and vegetables this week and I am reading certain things and spending time with my kids, trying to be quiet, because among other things it is a very personal and spiritual journey,” Contactmusic quoted Farrow, as telling People.

“I’m taking vitamins this week, but when I wake up on Monday, April 27, it will be strictly water,” she added.

Farrow also admitted that the strike may not last the full three weeks – because of her small frame.

“I am going to try for three weeks. Given my weight, that may not come to pass. I am going to get my blood tested after two weeks and if there is organ damage, I will have to stop. But my goal is three weeks,” she said.

“I won’t be able to go to the doctor at that point, someone is going to have to come to the house and give me a blood test,” she added. (ANI)

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Lack of vitamins A and C could up asthma risk

April 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 16 (ANI): A diet low in vitamins A and C could raise the risk of asthma, says a new study.

A Nottingham University-led team reviewed 40 studies carried out over the past 30 years and found that people with a low intake of vitamin C had a 12 percent increased risk of asthma, the Thorax journal reported.

The team said, for vitamin A the raised risk was less clear cut but there was still a significant association.

To reach the conclusion, researchers analysed the relevant reports on both children and adults published since 1980. They found no link for vitamin E, but said the associations for A and C were significant.

They concluded low levels of vitamin C – found in fruit and vegetables – increased the risk of asthma by 12 percent. They were unable to put an exact figure on vitamin A – found in cheese, eggs and oily fish – but noted that those with severe asthma consumed on average half of the recommended intake of the vitamin.

“Our findings indicate that low levels of vitamin C intake and to a lesser extent vitamin A are consistently associated with asthma risk to a degree that, if causal, would be sufficient to be clinically relevant,” The BBC quoted lead researcher Dr Jo Leonardi-Bee, as saying. (ANI)

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Halle Berry blasts slim celebs’ ‘exercise lies’

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Apr 10 (ANI): Halle Berry doesn’t believe celebrities who claim that they stay slim without exercising.

The 42-year-old actress – who has a one-year-old daughter, Nahla, with her partner Gabriel Aubrey – says she works really hard to keep extra pounds at bay, reports The China Daily.

She said: “God bless them if they’re telling the truth. It’s questionable if they are. I always had to diet. I’m diabetic, so it’s a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.”

Halle had to change her diet and exercise regime after giving birth to ensure she didn’t pile on the pounds.

She revealed to Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “Having a baby takes so much from you. It’s the most glorious thing you’ll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious! So now I’m having to exercise, eat a little bit differently, take a lot more vitamins.

“I used to work a lot because I had nothing better to do. What I’ve learned, especially by having a baby, is that you can’t bring that stuff home anymore.” (ANI)

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How negative statements are processed in the brain

February 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, February 12 (ANI): While previous research has suggested that including negative words like “not” in the middle of a sentence can make it more difficult to understand, an American study now shows that a useful and informative negation does not make it more challenging for the brain to understand the statement.

Psychologists Mante S. Nieuwland and Gina R. Kuperberg from Tufts University came to this conclusion after studying how different types of negative statements-pragmatically licensed or pragmatically unlicensed-are processed in the brain.

Pragmatically licensed statements are informative and sound natural. For example, “In moderation, drinking red wine isn’t bad for your health.”

Pragmatically unlicensed statements, on the other hand, are unnatural and not helpful. For example, “Vitamins and proteins aren’t very bad for your health.” This statement is unlicensed because including the negative word “aren’t” implies that vitamins and proteins may be bad for your health, which we know is not true. egative words in such statements renders them trivial and not very useful.or their study, the researchers measured event related potential responses (ERPs) as the subjects read statements containing critical, mid-sentence words that made the statement true or false.

The participants read statements that were either pragmatically licensed or pragmatically unlicensed.

Reporting their findings in the journal Psychological Science, the researchers say that the way negative statements are processed in the brain depends on the structure of the sentence itself.

Just as in true statements, false words elicited larger ERPs than true words in pragmatically-licensed negative sentences, which suggests that there was greater brain activity when the participants came across a word which rendered the statement false.

However, in the pragmatically unlicensed sentences, true and false words elicited similar ERPs.

The researchers said that their results indicated that negation, when it is useful and informative, as in pragmatically licensed statements, does not make it more challenging for the brain to understand the negative meaning of the statement. (ANI)

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How negative statements are processed in the brain

February 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Pragmatically licensed statements are informative and sound natural. For example, “In moderation, drinking red wine isn’t bad for your health.”

Negative words in such statements renders them trivial and not very useful.

For their study, the researchers measured event related potential responses (ERPs) as the subjects read statements containing critical, mid-sentence words that made the statement true or false.

The participants read statements that were either pragmatically licensed or pragmatically unlicensed.

Reporting their findings in the journal Psychological Science, the researchers say that the way negative statements are processed in the brain depends on the structure of the sentence itself.

However, in the pragmatically unlicensed sentences, true and false words elicited similar ERPs.

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Vitamins E and C supplements do not reduce men’s cardiovascular disease risk

November 13, 2008 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Washington: A new study has revealed that neither vitamin E nor vitamin C supplements reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in men.

Previous studies have suggested that vitamin E, vitamin C, and other antioxidants reduce cardiovascular disease by trapping organic free radicals, by deactivating excited oxygen molecules, or both, to prevent tissue damage.

In this study, known as the Physicians” Health Study II, Howard D. Sesso, Sc. D, M. P. H., and colleagues from Brigham and Women”s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, assessed the effects of vitamin E and vitamin C supplements on the risk of major cardiovascular disease events among 14,641 male physicians.

These physicians were 50 years or older and at low risk of cardiovascular disease at the beginning of the study in 1997, and 754 (5.1 percent) had prevalent cardiovascular disease. The study participants were randomized to receive 400 IU of vitamin E every other day or a placebo and 500 mg of vitamin C daily or a placebo.

“During a mean (average) follow-up of 8 years, there were 1,245 confirmed major cardiovascular events,” the researchers report.

There were 511 total myocardial infarctions (heart attacks), 464 total strokes, and 509 cardiovascular deaths, with some men experiencing multiple events.

A total of 1,661 men died during follow-up. Compared with placebo, neither vitamin E nor vitamin C had an effect on the prevention of major cardiovascular events.

“Neither vitamin E nor vitamin C had a significant effect on total mortality, but vitamin E was associated with an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke,” the researchers said.

“In this large, long-term trial of male physicians, neither vitamin E nor vitamin C supplementation reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events. These data provide no support for the use of these supplements for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older men,” they added.

The study is published in the November 12 issue of JAMA. (ANI)

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UPDATE 1-Australian Sigma gets bids for two drug arms – report

Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

For women, marriage comes with ””numerous health risks””

Scarlett Johansson urges politician to help pass Healthy School Meals Act

‘Skinny’ Courtney Love advised by doctor to ‘start eating’

Mia Farrow bulks up to prepare for starvation stunt

Lack of vitamins A and C could up asthma risk

Halle Berry blasts slim celebs’ ‘exercise lies’

How negative statements are processed in the brain

How negative statements are processed in the brain

Vitamins E and C supplements do not reduce men’s cardiovascular disease risk

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