As a result of a 2004 petition from the Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness (hereafter the Institute) of The Coca-Cola Company, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has amended its osteoporosis risk reduction health claim to reflect the importance of vitamin D, in combination with calcium, in promoting long-term [ Read More ]
Archive for September, 2008
Recent reports of medical studies about Vitamin D deficiency may be causing some people to overreact and take harmful large doses of this naturally occurring, healthful byproduct of sunshine, according to Boyd Lyles, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), an organization specializing in disease prevention. Although there are studies that show that both [ Read More ]
As the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is encouraging foreign leaders to collaborate on a global effort to advance a dialogue about minimizing the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the 26 million people worldwide currently living with the disease and those who will be affected in the [ Read More ]
Lilly CEO Lechleiter detailed registry plans at Indianapolis speech Eli Lilly and Company announced that it is set to become the first pharmaceutical research company to disclose its payments to physicians in the United States. At a speech before the Economic Club of Indiana today, Lilly’s president and chief executive officer, John Lechleiter, Ph.D., outlined [ Read More ]
Painful Joints: An ‘Unspoken’ Barrier To Combating Chronic Health Conditions For African-Americans According to the Centers For Disease Control (CDC), almost one in three African-Americans suffers from joint pain. Joint pain makes it difficult to exercise, which is desperately needed to help combat chronic health conditions like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure that severely [ Read More ]
Press Ganey findings support positive impact of transparency initiative Press Ganey Associates, Inc., the health care industry’s leading provider of quality improvement solutions, today released data showing an unprecedented improvement in patient satisfaction — a result that underscores the impact of public reporting of hospital-by-hospital satisfaction scores. Press Ganey experts analyzed the company’s proprietary patient [ Read More ]