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Title: Health Tip: Symptoms of Ketoacidosis
Category: Health News
Created: 3/12/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/15/2010

Title: Start Metformin Early for Best Results
Category: Health News
Created: 3/12/2010 2:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 3/15/2010

Title: 2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the Overweight
Category: Health News
Created: 3/14/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/15/2010

Recent studies have shown that significant health benefits can be derived from practising the Chinese exervise of Tai Chi. These include better balance and co-ordination which is of special importance to elderly people as this reduces falls and associated injuries, lowering of blood pressure and stress levels, strengthening of muscles and joints and improved cardiovascular [...]

Sports nutrition is something you may not think about every day. Many people spend their days wondering why they aren’t developing muscle mass as fast as others. Or, perhaps you can’t get your game to improve any. No matter what that game is that you are playing, the fact is that your [...]

One thing I can certainly relate to is the desire to start building muscle fast. Once you make the decision to bulk up and achieve a better physique, you want it right now. This is completely normal. In fact, it’s how we humans do things. We love instant gratification. We can’t help it. We’ve gotten [...]

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that 20 years ago, "opposition to abortion and opposition to homosexual rights seemed to overlap entirely" and "appeared to be expressions of the same traditionalist moral framework." However, "in the years since, the fortunes of these two social stands have dramatically diverged," according to the conservative columnist, who argues that abortion-rights opponents "have made far less legal progress than have advocates for gay rights, in part because the courts have played an active role in discouraging democracy on abortion...

Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, a veteran master of civil procedure who first joined the office he now leads in 1977, will be center stage if Democrats use a tactic known as budget reconciliation to avoid filibusters as they seek to push through a final health overhaul, The New York Times reports. "As Washington enters the final act of its long-running health care drama, Mr. Frumin - a nonpartisan civil servant who got his start as a precedents writer for the House - is in a starring role...

Health care advertising is revving up again in advance of the final votes on pending congressional legislation. "A slew of interest groups lobbying on the health care overhaul is cranking up the volume of advertising spots and grass-roots organizing this week as Congressional leaders race to put the finishing touches on controversial legislation to remake the nation's medical system," Roll Call reports. The Campaign Media Analysis Group says that groups spent more than $200 million on ads last year, but "there was a steep drop in these spots after the election of Massachusetts Republican Sen...