WALTHAM, Mass.
,
Oct. 8
/PRNewswire/ — Decision Resources, one of the
world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare
issues, finds that, despite the anticipated approval of only one
disease-modifying therapy over the next decade, the market for
disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs will experience exponential growth,
increasing from
$3.8 billion
in 2017.
report entitled Osteoarthritis: Disease-Modifying
Therapies, Read the rest of this entry »
By Karissa Stewart, Rome News-Tribune, staff writer
Danny Wade, a Vebena, Ala. motorcyclist, was treated and released from Floyd Medical Center Saturday after he struck a vehicle and flipped at the intersection of
early Saturday night.
According to Rome police officer A.R. Tiller:
Wade was headed southbound on U.S. 411 and ran through a red light and struck a white sedan traveling northbound in the 1050 block of U.S. 411 around 6 p.m.
“The Read the rest of this entry »
Men Value Health, Honor Over Sex, Study Finds
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
German researchers conducted telephone interviews with nearly 28,000 men, ages 20 to 75, from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Brazil, AAP reported.
Overwhelmingly, men said they preferred honor, good health and a happy family over sex, according to the report.
About one-third of respondents said being healthy was the most Read the rest of this entry »
Earlier surveys showed that students who spend a lot of time on the computer, watching TV or playing video games were more likely to engage in other unhealthful habits such as eating fast food, Ehlinger said. Now it’s clear that these activities cut significantly into their grades as well. Four or more hours of screen time a day resulted in an average GPA of 3.04 or less. Less than an hour a day bumped it up to 3.3 or better.
The same pattern held Read the rest of this entry »
Published October 12, 2008
Almost a month has passed since Hurricane Ike came churning ashore from the Gulf of Mexico, altering the future of Galveston County and its residents in ways and to degrees neither fully calculated nor realized.
People already were celebrating a return to normality, but that word didnt necessarily mean what it had just 30 days before.
Even the story of the dead had not been fully told. The official count was 72 killed Read the rest of this entry »
announced plans to close its Dallas Rehabilitation Hospital and eliminate up to 176 staff positions.
The layoff and closing take effect Oct. 31, HealthSouth said Friday in a letter to the
. The hospital is located at 2124 Research Row in Dallas.
A spokesman for HealthSouth said the company hopes to relocate employees impacted by the closing to other HealthSouth facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
HealthSouth still has four remaining Read the rest of this entry »
Operation Nets Drugs, Suspect
A two-month long undercover operation by local, state and federal authorities has broken up a drug-distribution ring in Central Texas.
A 28-year-old Duncanville man was arrested on the parking lot of an east Hillsboro business about 7 p.m. Thursday, October 9.
The suspect was attempting to deliver six pounds of methamphetamine to undercover agents. He was also carrying a loaded .45 caliber pistol at the time of Read the rest of this entry »