said Burke Whitman, president and chief executive, is leaving the company and Gary Newsom was named to succeed him.
(NYSE: CYH). He oversaw hospitals in Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia. From 1993 to 1998, he was a senior executive with HMA.
Whitman has served as president and chief executive since June 2007. Prior to that he was president and chief operating officer. He is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Early data from a 4-year clinical trial show no increased risk of stroke in patients given Pfizer Inc’s lung drug Spiriva compared with placebo, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
Favorable results from the trial contrast with retrospective pooled analyses of dozens of previous studies that had suggested a higher risk of stroke among patients taking the once-daily inhaled medicine.
The FDA said a clearer Read the rest of this entry »

Oct. 8, 2008 – The FDA has cleared the NeuroStar TMS brain-stimulating device for treating depressed adults for whom one
has failed to work.
It’s the first transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device to pass FDA muster. An FDA spokesperson tells WebMD that because the NeuroStar device is not implanted and carries only “moderate” risk, the FDA needed to only “clear” the device and not formally “approve” it.
said clinical trials failed to establish Read the rest of this entry »

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 3 — Any level of melamine in baby formula, no matter how small, is a safety concern, but the precise level of risk cannot be quantified, the FDA said today.
But the agency added in an interim safety and risk assessment that in food products other than baby formula, melamine concentrations of less than 2.5 parts per million “do not raise concerns.”
For baby feeding, confounding factors such as infant size, maturity, and whether Read the rest of this entry »

Friday, October 10, 2008, 07:30
IMAGINE starting a 10k race by hurling yourself over a ten-foot stack of hay bales…
Decathlete Dean Macey will be doing just that this weekend – with about 1,000 others – when Nottingham hosts the country’s first Survival of the Fittest challenge.
The bale-test is just one of ten obstacles that runners will have to face at the event, organised by Men’s Health magazine. There will also be an Army-style Read the rest of this entry »

The State House passed a bill to enact a new insurance program Access to Basic Care (ABC) in February 2008, but the Republican Senate leadership has yet to bring the bill for a vote. Only 9 sessions days are currently scheduled before the Senate adjourns for the year. “71% of the uninsured work,” says John Meyerson of UFCW Local 1776, part of the PHAN coalition, “and more and more employers are dropping insurance or raising employee contributions. Read the rest of this entry »

Located at 5656 S. Power Rd., a half mile south of Ray Rd., Gilbert Hospital (
) is licensed as an, acute-care general hospital with 24/7 services including emergency; expanded in-patient including ICU; diagnostic imaging; pharmacy; laboratory; and surgery services. Designated as a Level II trauma center, Gilbert Hospital provides health care services to the communities located throughout the east and southeast valley. Initial evaluations of all Read the rest of this entry »

FARGO – A former state mental hospital psychologist pleaded guilty this morning to two federal charges of receiving of child pornography.
Joseph Tudor Belanger, 61, of Jamestown, N.D., entered the pleas openly, meaning there is no plea agreement for the judge to consider. He faces a minimum mandatory five years in prison.
As part of his position, Belanger, who worked at the State Hospital in Jamestown for more than 20 years, testified in court Read the rest of this entry »