| Drive promotes women's diabetes awareness
Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble, particularly if you're over 40 and female. Because there are no obvious symptoms of high blood sugar or insulin resistance, few people realize it is creeping up and putting them on the path to diabetes and heart disease, experts say. The National Women's Health Resource Center, based in Red Bank, N.J., is hoping to change that with a new public health campaign targeting women ages 40 to 65 - a group whose members are at greater risk than others, and often hold the role of Dr. Mom. "Women are the gatekeepers to the health of the family, so I do think it's appropriate to let them know it's stalking their children," said David Katz, a preventive health expert who is an adviser to the center.
September 2006 Clinical Briefs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month approved Chantix (varenicline tartrate) tablets, to help cigarette smokers stop smoking. The active ingredient in Chantix, varenicline tartrate, is a new molecular entity that received a priority FDA review because of its significant potential benefit to public health. Chantix acts at sites in the brain affected by nicotine and may help those who wish to give up smoking in two ways: by providing some nicotine effects to ease the withdrawal symptoms and by blocking the effects of nicotine from cigarettes if they resume smoking. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 44.5 million adults in the United States smoke cigarettes and more than 8.6 million of them have at least one serious illness caused by smoking.
Know Any Florida Residents Who Got Cancer (or Other Serious ...
A recent Florida Supreme Court ruling may allow certain cigarette smokers or their families to file individual monetary claims against tobacco companies. The key requirement is that the smoker must have had symptoms or was diagnosed with cancer (or some other serious disease) as a result of smoking cigarettes before Nov. 21, 1996. Pensacola, FL (PRWEB) September 14, 2006 -- Tobacco companies must be furious. A recent ruling by the Florida Supreme Court (No. SC03-1856) is expected to incite a hailstorm of litigation from all over the Sunshine State.
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