An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten in Brooklyn last weekend in what the police have described as a possible bias attack was declared brain-dead on Tuesday, a law enforcement official said. But the man was being kept on life support while his family decides whether to donate his organs, the official said.
There have been no arrests in the attack, which came four weeks after the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant on Long Island Read the rest of this entry »

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TYRX, Inc., an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 certified medical device manufacturer, commercializes implantable combination drug, including the AIGISRxTM Anti-bacterial Envelope. AIGISRx CRMD contains the antimicrobial agents, rifampin and minocycline, which have been shown to reduce infection by organisms representing a majority of the infections reported in CRMD related endocarditis, including “superbugs” or MRSA. In addition, AIGISRx is intended Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deadlocked over the risks of long-acting asthma drugs, government health officials Wednesday asked outside advisers if four medications used by millions of patients should remain on the market.
An unusually large panel of some 30 medical and scientific advisers will vote Thursday on whether the risks of the drugs_Advair, Foradil, Serevent and Symbicort_ outweigh the benefits. The Food and Drug Administration, whose own scientists Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) — U.S. President
Saturday said the nation is “making good progress” in the fight against illegal drugs.
“New data show that illicit drug use amongst young people continues to decline,” the president said in his weekly radio address, “and that we are making good progress in our efforts to help thousands of Americans renew their health and hope.”
Bush said the United States has “made great strides” to reduce substance Read the rest of this entry »

It’s like clockwork. Every year at this time, popular magazines and think tanks roll out their year-end ratings, rankings and report cards measuring all things Utah.
There are the benign: Utah was named “Best State for Worker Freedom” by none other than the Alliance for Worker Freedom. The solemn: Utah is fourth in food insecurity, a way of saying people can’t put food on the table. And the obscure: We’re the least neurotic, if you believe a psychological Read the rest of this entry »

Pioneering trials using “good bacteria” to combat potentially fatal hospital bugs could turn the UK into a world leader in the field, it has been claimed.
A series of UK hospitals are linking up for the £1.2m three-year clinical trials into the use of probiotics.
In their sights is the potential killer C difficile bug which is an increasing worry for older patients heading for hospital.
If the results prove positive, lives and millions of pounds Read the rest of this entry »

GDF SUEZ Energy North America owns and/or operates a total of 63* power,
cogeneration, steam, and chilled-water facilities, including those in
construction, representing a capacity of 7,400* MW of electricity
generation, 6.0 million pounds per hour of steam, and 41,973 tons per
hour of chilled water. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Distrigas
of Massachusetts, owns and operates an LNG receiving terminal Read the rest of this entry »

“Until now, we did not have much information on young men who hurt their partners,” said Elizabeth Miller, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of pediatrics at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. “This is a critically important piece of the puzzle in terms of designing meaningful prevention and intervention programs to prevent adolescent relationship violence.”
The study, “The Social and Emotional Contexts of Adolescent and Young Adult Read the rest of this entry »

As Economy Falters, Many States Cut Back on Medicaid
as revenue falls and more people are out of work and without private health insurance, the
reports. Nineteen states have already lowered payments made to nursing homes and hospitals and ended coverage of certain treatments. Some states have stopped payments for services that the federal government doesn’t require them to cover, such as physical therapy, hospice care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. Read the rest of this entry »