HLAC Health News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating claims that several deaths have been caused by Monster Energy®, an energy drink manufactured by Monster Beverage Corporation. Last year, a teenage girl died after drinking two 24 ounce cans of Monster Energy® over one day. Autopsy reports showed her death was due to heart complications from caffeine toxicity. However, she had a genetic heart condition, making it unclear if her death resulted from the energy drinks.

Plumpy'nut is a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), which means that it can be safely administered at home by anyone, not just by a doctor or nurse in a hospital. The paste is shelf-stable for 24 months, does not need to be refrigerated, and requires no special equipment. Plumpy'nut is more effective than both traditional IV treatments and F-100 in promoting weight gain in children[2]. Two or three 92g packets a day of the sweet stuff can bring a severely underweight child to a healthy weight range in three to six weeks. In some regions, Plumpy'nut treatments boast a 90 percent success rate. The paste has been embraced wholeheartedly by humanitarian organizations like UNICEF, WHO, and the World Food Programme (WFP), which buy thousands of tons of Plumpy'nut each year.

But industry and some health experts say the food may not be so dangerous.

Belviq and Qsymia

Link to study: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e4026.pdf%2Bhtml

lorcaserin (Belviq)

More than 50 countries look set to miss both millennium development goal targets for cutting mortality rates for young children and mothers by the 2015 deadline, according to a report

LONDON - One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful "breakbone fever" which that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight. The U.S.

New topic?

"...many men who are treated for prostate cancer picked up by PSA screening have tumors they never would have noticed otherwise. These men would suffer more from prostate cancer treatment than they would from the cancer itself."