When treatment options dwindle or are exhausted, terminally ill-patients often opt for pain management and comfort over life-extending therapies. However, a team of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, University of Rochester Medical Center and Unity Health System, report that a lack of thorough understanding about the laws governing end-of-life care may be leaving many medical providers with an ethical dilemma and causing Read the rest of this entry »

9:45-11:15 a.m. Friday at The Pilates Centre at Ballet Memphis, 1789 Kirby Pkwy., No. 8. Cost: $20 (must be prepaid to ensure a spot). Experience a STOTT-Pilates workout with Ballet Memphis’ ballerina Crystal Brothers; a special post-Thanksgiving power workout. 753-4177 for a reservation.
Saturday in Audubon Park. The Arthritis Foundation is seeking runners and walkers to participate. Event offers a “5K timed race.” Call the Arthritis Foundation Read the rest of this entry »

The statements in this release which are not historical fact are
“forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this release may
be identified by the use of forward-looking words or phrases such as
“anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “planned,”
“potential,” “should,” “will,” “would” or the negative of those terms or other
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The degree of final year MBBS students of the Ghulam Mohammed Mahar Medical College, Sukkur will be recognized, while the efforts are underway to fulfil the requirements of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) so that the college could get its recognition for saving the future of students, said Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed.
Chairing a meeting at his office on Friday, the minister said that professors, associate professors and assistant Read the rest of this entry »

HERCULES — Hercules High School football player Dejon Lloyd suffered a head injury during the teams’s game against Richmond High School and was taken to a hospital Friday night.
Lloyd, a senior wide receiver for the Titans, suffered several hard hits throughout the game. With 47 seconds to go in the fourth quarter, he was hit but got up and ran two more plays. With about 10 seconds to play he was hit again, but got up and walked off the field, Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorneys in New Jersey on Friday filed a lawsuit seeking a shutdown of three Actavis Inc. plants until they are brought into compliance with testing, manufacturing laws and FDA regulations.
The complaint requests that the court prevent Actavis Inc., Actavis Totowa, and executives Sigurdur Olafsson and Douglas Boothe from being involved in the making of drugs until the company is brought into compliance with Food and Read the rest of this entry »

Karl Grimes, 18, fought with two youths the day before Thanksgiving 2005 and died four days later at
. Grimes’s mother, Patricia, filed suit Monday in
, seeking $15 million from the D.C. government. And she is seeking $5 million from the hospital for what the suit alleges was negligent care.
Representatives of the D.C. government and the hospital could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Grimes’s attorney, Gregory L. Lattimer, said the teenager Read the rest of this entry »

A patient at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain has been indicted on charges that he twice raped a 14-year-old hospital volunteer, prosecutors said yesterday.
Vernon Lee Thompson, 38, is tentatively set to be arraigned Friday in Suffolk Superior Court. A hearing scheduled for yesterday was postponed.
Prosecutors said Thompson, a psychiatric patient, raped the girl in a hospital stairwell on the afternoon of July 10. The girl was serving Read the rest of this entry »

(
BSLN.EB) said Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has further
delayed approval of antibiotic ceftobiprole, after the regulator raised issues
about data integrity at partner
(JNJ).
The FDA flagged deficiencies of study conduct in a so-called Complete Response
Letter to Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, and has
asked for additional clinical site audits, as well as information on the
company’s quality assurance Read the rest of this entry »

With polls showing Obama leading in national polls due partly to voter concerns about the economy, McCain is focusing on reclaiming three states won by George W. Bush in the last two elections — Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Today he is in Florida, with stops in Miami and Melbourne. He will be introduced by his friend Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent and fervent McCain supporter who on the Democratic ticket in 2000 was Read the rest of this entry »