On Saturday, August 23, 2008, just days before the start of the Democratic National Convention began in Denver, Colorado, the then-presumptive Democratic nominee for President, Barack Obama, chose Senator Joe Biden as his vice-presidential nominee. Since then, Obama has become the nominee, and Biden has accepted the number two spot on the ticket.
Biden has a long history in the United States Congress, having been first elected as a U.S. Senator Read the rest of this entry »
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DOCTORS are unwittingly putting patients’ lives at risk by carrying the wrong type of pagers, it has been claimed.
Health Ministry Medical Equipment director Dr Ebrahim Yaqoob said devices not designed for use in hospitals were interfering with life-saving machines and causing inaccurate readings.
He told the GDN doctors at Salmaniya Medical Complex, who automatically carry pagers, were most to blame for problem as well as visitors who do not Read the rest of this entry »
… , creating the risk that small amounts of blood from one patient could be injected into others.
John Lucas, The Journal
When the needle was withdrawn, there was a chance that some blood and contaminated medication could come up the IV line into the syringe, infecting the next patient needing.
The correct practice — and the one put in place at the High Prairie Health Complex after the problem was discovered Oct. 2 — is to have separate Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
jroberson@dallasnews.com
Karen Yates has a discerning ear.
A language specialist, she hears native Chinese speakers learning English failing to pronounce the consonants at the end of their syllables, so they’ll say “blah” instead of “blood.”
Indian speakers, she says, often reverse “W” and “V” and, as a result, “heart valve” becomes “heart wow.”
It’s precisely these kinds of language issues Read the rest of this entry »
By Jennifer Corbett Dooren Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that data submitted by Theravance Inc. (THRX) in support of a proposed antibiotic to treat drug-resistant skin infections were “reliable,” despite violations uncovered at some of the drug-study sites.
The FDA said it was tossing data from five sites involved in pivotal studies of the drug because of deficiencies in good clinical Read the rest of this entry »
BC-China-Tainted Eggs, 1st Health News China investigates tainted eggs in new food scare BEIJING – Chinese authorities said Wednesday they were investigating how eggs came to be contaminated with the same industrial chemical at the center of a milk scandal that sickened thousands of babies, as more tainted eggs turned up in Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — A panel of science experts said the Food and Drug Administration’s conclusion that a chemical commonly used in plastic food containers is safe isn’t supported by available data and science.
Independent studies suggesting the chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, isn’t safe at current levels deserve more consideration by the FDA, according to a review of the FDA’s assessment on BPA obtained by Dow Jones Newswires.
Overall, the panel said Read the rest of this entry »
OHSU leads drugs, biofuels project
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Health & Science University is leading a $4
million research project to find potential drugs and
biofuels in the Philippines.
Scientists hope the project funded by the National Institutes
of Health will aid in the discovery of new chemicals from
marine life clustered among a string of Philippine islands
inhabited by an estimated 10,000 marine mollusk species —
about a fifth Read the rest of this entry »
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