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If you skip breakfast, there's no need to feel guilty. Despite what we've been told for years, new Australian research now suggests that breakfast is not the most important meal of the day to prevent weight gain or the onset of hunger.
“We found that breakfast is not the most important time of the day to eat, even though that belief is really entrenched in our society and around the world,” says study co-author, Monash University professor and head of rheumatology at Alfred Hospital, Flavia Cicuttini.
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Pyush Misra
Editor-in-Chief
Perhaps vaping should be viewed as a “lesser of evils” for current cigarette smokers. Still, it’s clear that there is a lot about vaping we don’t know. E-cigarettes have the potential to benefit adult smokers who are not pregnant if used as a complete substitute for regular cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products.
Robert H. Shmerling, MD
Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing
Hyderabad, 30 Sept 2019: Five days after allegations surfaced over unauthorised clinical trials being conducted on poor patients at Niloufer Hospital without their consent, Health department officials have denied the charges and clarified that only legally permitted clinical trials are performed in government hospitals.
NEW DELHI, 20 SEPT 2019: Healthcare industry on Friday welcomed the government's decision to slash corporate tax, and said rationalisation of tax structure will provide much-awaited booster dose to the sector. In a major fiscal booster, the government on Friday slashed effective corporate tax to 25.17 per cent inclusive of all cess and surcharges for domestic companies.
Amino Acid Variants Responsible For Reduced Response To Hepatitis C Treatment
London, 6 Sept 2019: New insights show why a certain hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype is resistant to a common drug used to treat the viral infection.
Vaccines: Trends, Mistrust And Consequences
Paris, 13 Sept 2019: Vaccines have saved tens of millions of lives but immunisation rates have stagnated in recent years due in part to fake news stories claiming vaccinations can cause measles, autism or sterility.
What You Eat May Change The Way That Antibiotics Affect Your Gut Providence
16 Sept 2019: A new study by researchers at Brown University in Rhode Island has found that diet can influence how the gut microbiome is affected by treatment with antibiotics. The scientists examined how antibiotics change the gut bacteria in mice and then looked at how diet may exacerbate or mitigate these changes.
US FDA Explains Plans For New Pharmaceutical Quality Assessment System
Maryland, 16 Sept 2019: As part of its work to improve and modernize the quality assessment of drug applications, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a new, more standardized system, to be known as the Knowledge-aided Assessment & Structured Application (KASA), according to an article authored by officials from FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
Deaths From Counterfeit Pills In Alaska, California And Washington
September 23, 2019 : Counterfeits ICE confiscated in California in 2016.
Virtually every state in the Union has a serious problem with counterfeit pills made with fentanyl. During the month of September we have found reports of counterfeit pill deaths in Alaska, California, and Washington.
Former FDA Associate Commissioner Says Canada Cannot Be America’s Pharmacy
September 12, 2019 : This editorial by Peter J. Pitts was published in The Washington Times on September 11, 2019. Mr. Pitts is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a former FDA associate commissioner.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a Sound Healer do?
Sound Healing is a perfectly natural complement to many other types of therapy, having the power to enhance and amplify the healing effects of massage, Reiki, reflexology, crystal and gem therapy, Bach and other Flower Essence therapies and many others…
A Sound Healer or Sound Therapist uses their voice and other musical instruments and tools such as tuning forks, to help restore balance to the body. These instruments are more powerful than most people realise and also operate on a mental, psychological and energetic level. Certain sound healing tools are used directly on the body, tuning forks, singing bowls and therapy monochords for example.
Manufacturing Of Methylcobalamin Badly Impacted In Gujarat Due To Notification On Its Ban
Mumbai, 30 Sept 2019: Manufacturing of methylcobalamin has been badly impacted due to the ambiguous nature of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) ban on methylcobalamin in Gujarat. Methylcobalamine is an important pharmacopoeial ingredient used in drugs as well as in food supplements.
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