Topic: Silvia Priori

Health Highlights: Sept. 4, 2008

Drugs.com - 1258 days ago
About 59 percent of U.S. companies plan to control rising health costs in 2009 by increasing employees' deductibles, co-pays or out-of-pocket spending limits, according to a survey released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm.. Mercer said health care costs for both ...

Health Highlights: Sept. 3, 2008

Drugs.com - 1259 days ago
At least one person has died and 206 have been sickened in an E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in Locust Grove, Okla., a community of 1,500 people about 50 miles east of Tulsa. The outbreak was first reported by ...

Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's

AP News - 1259 days ago
Women who smoke have heart attacks about several years earlier than non-smoking womenWomen typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks more than a dozen years ...

Study: Smoking hurts women more than men

AP Features - 1260 days ago
Women who smoke may develop heart disease at almost the same age as male smokers, wiping out the natural difference between the sexes, doctors said Tuesday.In research presented to the European Society of Cardiology, Norwegian researchers said that women who smoke ...