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Healthcare
Willpower Woes: How a Rotten Resolve Can Hurt You
An argument that weak self-discipline undermines work performance, leadership, habits and efforts to manage compulsions and addictions, drawing on coach Kanika Tolver, author of "Life Rehab," for ways to build willpower through practice, progression and patience.
Healthcare
Dermatologists Share Tips For Reducing Scars
Board-certified dermatologist Ellen Marmur says a scar's appearance often depends on how well the wound heals. She advises washing minor cuts with mild soap and water, keeping them moist with petroleum jelly instead of letting a scab form, and changing an adhesive bandage daily.
Drug
Use of statins linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus in HIV patients
Among 5,692 patients with HIV, diabetes incidence ran 14% higher in those who took statins for a year, and risk climbed with more years of use. The researchers say patients should not avoid statins their doctors recommend for heart risk.
Drug
HBOT may help insulin sensitivity or type 2 diabetes mellitus in overweight men
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy raised insulin sensitivity 29 percent in 11 overweight men without diabetes and 57 percent in eight men with type 2 diabetes, with the gain lasting at least 30 minutes. Shifts in inflammatory cytokines may partly explain the effect.
Drug
Carefusion Provides Update on Voluntary Global Recall of Avea® Ventilator
CareFusion says FDA has designated its global AVEA ventilator recall Class I. A 5 psi pressure transducer can fail over time, triggering false alarms, opening the safety valve and stopping ventilation. Units made or serviced between July 2011 and March 2015 are affected; no injuries reported.
Miscellaneous
WellCare Announces Pricing Of Notes
WellCare Health Plans priced $300 million of additional 5.75% senior notes at 104.5% of principal, maturing November 15, 2020, with proceeds earmarked for general corporate purposes including organic growth and working capital.
Drug
EPAM Life Sciences Awarded Grand Prize at Bio-IT World Best Practices Competition 2015
EPAM Systems and UCB won the Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for Research and Drug Discovery for AccelEpi, which detects epileptic seizures in rodents non-invasively using accelerometry. UCB says it allows testing against natural rather than induced seizures.
Environment
Food & Water Watch and Water Defense Call For Halt to Irrigating Food Crops with Oil Field Wastewater in Nation’s Produce Basket
Food & Water Watch and Water Defense called on Governor Jerry Brown to end the irrigation of Central Valley crops with treated oil field wastewater, after Water Defense sampling of water sold to the Cawelo Water District turned up tar balls, oil slicks and toxic industrial chemicals.
Environment
Urgent action needed re: asbestos
EWG Action Fund asks readers to contact Congress against Rep. Blake Farenthold's Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act, which it says would delay and reduce compensation for asbestos victims and force them to disclose detailed personal information.
Miscellaneous
Shift Happens: 2nd Annual ShiftCon Social Media Conference Brings Together More than 500 Eco-Wellness Bloggers and Other Key Healthy Lifestyles Influencers
Blogger Leah Segedie announced the second annual ShiftCon eco-wellness social media conference for Sept. 24-26 at the Marriott Manhattan Beach Hotel in California. Speakers include Gary Hirshberg, Anna Lappe, Robyn O'Brien and Thrive Market CEO Gunnar Lovelace.
Lifestyle
AICR eNEWS: The Truth about Grilling and Cancer Risk
The May 2015 AICR newsletter rounds up five cancer-fighting vegetables to grow at home, prevention beliefs that research has since revised, a grilling safety quiz, a cruciferous salad recipe, and a profile of Team AICR marathon runner Chris Ford.
Government
FDA Updates for Health Professionals - 050615
An FDA bulletin for health professionals summarizing early May 2015 announcements, comment opportunities, product approvals, safety items, meetings and resources, including the new AccessGUDID portal for medical device identification data.
Environment
Don't let DuPont get away with this
An EWG petition drive over C-8, or PFOA, the Teflon ingredient that drew a record $16.5 million EPA fine against DuPont in 2005 for a decades-long cover-up. EWG says that a decade on, DuPont has not cleaned up water supplies and is fighting damages in court.
Miscellaneous
Alpine Sausage Kitchen Recalls Beef And Pork Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
Alpine Sausage Kitchen of Albuquerque recalled roughly 3,350 pounds of Vienna sausage and cooked bratwurst sent to a Texas retailer after a routine FSIS label review found undeclared soy. FSIS classed it a low-risk Class II recall, and no reactions were reported.
Miscellaneous
Expert: U.S. agricultural trade to Cuba could exceed $1 billion
Texas A&M economist Parr Rosson told the Senate Agriculture Committee that US food and farm exports to Cuba could exceed $1 billion a year, and reach $1.2 billion if regulations ease, supporting some 6,000 jobs. He said Cuban income growth and better infrastructure would be needed first.
Miscellaneous
Crawford® Strengthens Aviation Team in the Americas
Ken Forsyth joins Crawford Global Technical Services as managing director of aviation for the Americas on April 23, 2015, based in Miami. He brings 37 years in aviation claims, most recently as a regional director of McLarens Aviation and before that president of Airclaims.
Government
FDA Updates for Health Professional -042215
An FDA roundup for health professionals: highlights from the commissioner's keynote to the Food and Drug Law Institute on science-based decisions, an invitation to the Public Health Service's May 6 virtual Nurse Recognition Day, and a warning against the supplement Tri-Methyl Xtreme.
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