A federal appeals court said on Tuesday that a new rule requiring New York City fast food restaurants to post calorie information on menu boards is effective immediately. A spokeswoman for the city law department said the city expects restaurants to begin complying with the rule by midnight on Tuesday. The health code
Global food shortages and higher prices are more likely to cause malnutrition than outright famine, at least in the near term, the coordinator of a new United Nations task force said on Wednesday. John Holmes, who also serves as the U.N.'s top humanitarian aid official, said it was too early to estimate
MK-0974, a novel oral antagonist to calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor, is effective for the acute treatment of migraine, according to a report in the April 15th issue of Neurology. "MK-0974 utilizes a new mechanism to provide pain relief that is unique from currently available anti-migraine therapies," Dr. Tony W. Ho from
Giving carefully calibrated doses of smoked marijuana to people with neuropathic pain, which can be difficult-to-treat and extremely painful, can ease their pain without clouding their minds, California researchers report. Neuropathic pain can result from spinal cord injury, diabetes-related nerve damage, multiple sclerosis, or other types of nerve injury, and is
Girls are participating in organized sports in record numbers -from youth sports, to interscholastic sports and even extreme sports like skateboarding, up through Olympic competition -according to a new report from the University of Minnesota's Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sports. "That's good news," Nicole LaVoi, associate
Interpol and the World Anti-Doping Agency are close to signing an agreement as part of a strategy to stop drug trafficking in sport. WADA president John Fahey said on Wednesday he had met with officials from the world's largest international police organisation in France earlier this year and that the two bodies
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Acupuncture, as practiced in traditional Chinese medicine, may offer some relief from migraine pain, a new study suggests. Italian researchers found that regular treatments with "true" acupuncture helped improve symptoms in 32 patients whose migraines had been resistant to standard preventive medication. Moreover, the therapy worked better than two forms of "sham"
Substances isolated from bitter melon, a plant eaten and used medicinally in much of Asia, could provide the basis of new drugs for treating diabetes and obesity, an international team of researchers reports. Also known as balsam pear, the vegetable has been shown to reduce blood sugar in animal and human studies,
The ancient art of tai chi may help in controlling or lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes, two small studies suggest. In one study, Taiwanese researchers found that tai chi helped lower long-term blood sugar levels in 30 middle-aged adults with type 2 diabetes. In the second, an Australian team found