A device that promises to reduce pain from kidney stones dramatically —and then dissolve the kidney stones themselves totally, both without affecting the organ appears to be a hoax, Health Care Zone determined.
On Feb. 5, Yahoo News and San Francisco Gate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, picked up a press release from PR Web and published this in full.
FDA: HCG weight-loss products are illegal and may be unsafe
They are tremendously popular—a Google search pulls up over 27 million results.
They claim to be all-natural, and promise consumers using it that they will lose one to two pounds a day, while feeling “healthy and energetic” all the while.
Oral HIV tests: 2 % less accurate, but good enough?
Recent news that a saliva-based HIV diagnostic test is only two percent less accurate than traditional blood tests has intrigued HIV activists and health experts across the world, with many hoping that this will lead to widespread self-testing that can help curb the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
In the 31 years since it was first recognized by the United States Centers for Disease and Prevention in 1981, the disease has reached epidemic proportions. It claimed about 2.1 million lives in 2007, despite improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many parts of the world.
Fujifilm Corp’s new anti-aging skin cream is picture-perfect in more ways than one. For one, it’s a way the company turned its lemons into lemonade.
As market intelligence site Brand Channel points out, in recent years, photography and film have “shifted 180 degrees,” leaving Fujifilm’s main competitor, Eastman Kodak Co, bankrupt and “in the digital dust.”
Now, can you get more “organic” than that?
What seems to be a modern-day fatal fascination with vampires and blood has just spilled over from the realm of fantasy lit for teens — ”Interview with a Vampire,” the “Twilight series” — and TV fare (“True Blood”) to fashion and…scent.
Yes, scent, or to be more precise: perfumes.
