Health inspectors found marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine and scales during an inspection at a pizza restaurant Wednesday.
The health inspectors were at Tony’s Pizza & Chicken Wings on the 2900 block of North 16th Street performing an inspection around 4 p.m. when they found the marijuana inside a walk-in cooler, according to a police report from Detective Cindy Scott with the Phoenix Police Department.
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With Hurricane Ike projected to hit the South Florida coast, dialysis patients are especially at risk because they need treatment every other day to survive.
Today, Fresenius Medical Care is ramping up preparedness efforts for dialysis patients, including running extra treatment shifts and equipping patients with waterproof wristbands and neck wallets with pertinent medical information. In addition, the majority of Fresenius Medical Care’s South Read the rest of this entry »
Physio-Control, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the FDA has classified as a Class I action the company’s recently initiated and completed voluntary urgent medical device recall of 249 fully automatic LIFEPAK CR Plus automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Certain fully automated devices manufactured from May 2004 through April 2007 are mis-configured with the software intended for semi-automatic AEDs. With Read the rest of this entry »
In addition to the two lead gifts, Parkland has received several others:
$1.5 million from Nexen Petroleum U.S.A., $1.25 million from the Parkland
Auxiliary, $1 million from the Hirsch Family Foundation, $100,000 from Balfour
Beatty Construction and Shari and Eric Krueger, $100,000 from the Boone Family
Foundation, $100,000 from Nancy and Jeremy Halbreich and the Theodore H. and
Annette G. Strauss Family Foundation, $100,000 from Mike A. Myers, Read the rest of this entry »
In this mass-media age, the health and fitness of presidential candidates often is equated with their fitness to lead. But should someone’s health, vigor and resting pulse rate make a difference as a barometer of performance? And is it fair to compare the health and wellness of candidates who have a 25-year age gap, as is the case with Barack Obama and John McCain? Yes, says presidential historian Allan Lichtman, author of “The Keys to the White House” Read the rest of this entry »
“I urge the Governor not to lose sight of
this important opportunity to signal to the rest of the country that we
will not stand in this day and age to have 25% of Californians living
with HIV/AIDS unaware of their infection or to have 70% of new
infections occurring in minority communities,”
said Mark Cloutier, CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “The
Governor should sign AB 1894 because the current Read the rest of this entry »
Olympus America has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (Beta-HCG) assay.
The assay is calibrated against the fourth WHO Standard 75/589 for human Beta-HCG, and has an approximate measuring range of 0.05-1,000 IU/L.
For samples with Beta-HCG concentration exceeding 1,000 IU/L (1,000 mIU/mL), the AU3000i can automatically perform a 1:200 dilution.
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