(Credit: Facebook Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Who could not be moved by the fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finished his bountiful week by getting married? [...]
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(CNN) — Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, died Sunday, the [...]
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After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s ri [...]
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LOS ANGELES — Kevin Durant is the most valuable player in these playoffs. Ordinarily it would be foolish to make sweeping generalizations based on one day in one bui [...]
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(CNN) — She likes Target, the Food Network and sun-dried tomatoes. She loves taking pictures of her dog Beast, and admits to checking her phone “ [...]
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After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s ri [...]
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A study of over a hundred thousand trial participants showed that gene variations which change levels of HDL have no effect on heart attack risk. The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over a hundred thousand participants used two [...]
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Featured ArticleAcademic JournalMain Category: Cholesterol Also Included In: Heart Disease; Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 20 May 2012 – 6:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly opinions <!– rate article Patient / Public: 3.75 (4 votes) Healthcare Prof: 5 (1 votes) It appears that in some cases, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, [...]
READ MORE »It’s a “silent epidemic,” an “unrecognized health crisis,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it’s affecting 2.1 million baby boomers in the United States. The CDC announced Friday that it is considering recommending Hepatitis C testing for everyone born between 1945 and 1965. Currently the CDC recommends this testing only for [...]
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is now recommending all baby boomers receive a Hepatitis C test to determine if they have the deadly liver destroying disease. Anyone born between 1945 and 1965 falls into the “boomer” category. A simple one time blood test would put to rest the concern and perhaps [...]
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Share with others: <!—-> The name alone sounds so encouraging: HDL, the “good cholesterol.” The more of it in your blood, the lower your risk of heart disease. So bringing up HDL levels has got to be good for health. Or so the theory went. Now, a new study that makes use of powerful databases [...]
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Recommendation Might Apply To Everyone Born 1945-1965 (CNN) — It’s a “silent epidemic,” an “unrecognized health crisis,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it’s affecting 2.1 million baby boomers in the United States. The CDC announced Friday that it is considering recommending Hepatitis C testing for everyone born between 1945 and [...]
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CDC Advises Baby Boomers To Take Hepatitis C Test If some decades ago, hepatitis C was a pretty challenging disease, nowadays medicine can handle it better. With that in mind, the CDC is advising baby boomers to take the hepatitis C test. The concern is that some 800,000 people will be diagnosed with early hepatitis [...]
READ MORE »Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in draft recommendations issued Friday. Baby boomers account for more than 2 million of the 3.2 million Americans infected with the blood-borne virus. It can take decades [...]
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