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“I suspect he’ll get a little extra tender loving care this spring training,” Cashman said. “I expect he’ll come into spring training as a rehab player because of this, and fully expect him to be ready for the season.”
Cashman did not seem overly concerned. It was good news that nothing more than a scope was necessary once Altchek began the operation.
Rivera had one of the best seasons of his career. The 38-year-old closer posted a 1.40 ERA in Read the rest of this entry »
• Published October 12, 2008
TACOMA, Wash. – Grant Fulton is a busy boy.
Seated at a child-sized table in his family’s Lacey living room, the 5-year-old kneads a ball of soft, claylike material. He talks about its colors, shapes and textures.
Laurie Waguespack, his therapist, subtly switches between play and learning. Her goal is to help Grant, who has autism, gain cognitive skills.
Waguespack grabs a deck of picture cards, and Read the rest of this entry »
KOKOMO, Ind. – Howard Regional Health System of Kokomo says
it has cut the equivalent of 75 full-time jobs, citing a decline in
patients.
Howard Regional said Monday that it has cut a total of 95
positions since mid-July and that since last October it’s left more
180 positions vacant through attrition.
CEO James P. Alender said that the drop in patients had been
expected, the decline — especially in elective procedures — has
been faster than Read the rest of this entry »
accused drug companies on Friday of adding billions of dollars to health care costs by delaying or blocking the sale of less expensive generic medicines.
One common tactic, said Neelie Kroes, the European competition commissioner, was for drug companies to amass patents to protect active ingredients in the medicines — in one case, 1,300 patents for a single drug. Another tactic, she said, was for pharmaceutical companies to sue the makers Read the rest of this entry »
DES MOINES, Iowa -
’s drug czar wants to extend a
statewide database of prescription drugs to fight the abuse of
medications, especially by young people.
The law that created the program expires June 30. Gary Kendell,
director of the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy, wants
lawmakers to extend it for a year.
The monitoring programs, used in 38 states, are designed to
catch users who forge prescriptions and buy and sell non-prescribed
drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
“The FDA is always looking for ways to employ newer and better technologyto support research toward a safer environment for patients and their decisionto utilize our unique, longitudinal drug data fits right into thisprogression,” said Mark Spiers, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health’sHealthcare Analytics business. “We were able to deliver the right balance ofpower and speed, that is, ongoing access to national drug utilization patternswith Read the rest of this entry »
American researchers found that women who used HRT were at lower risk of the
cancer than women of a similar age who had never used the hormones.
The size of the reduction varied according to what HRT regime women were on,
how long they took it for and whether they were using it at the time of the
study.
The findings are important, experts said, because colorectal cancer is the
third most common cancer in the UK and is the most common Read the rest of this entry »
By BRENDA BROWN knhedit@kilgorenewsherald.com
Donna Hargrave describes her big brother Guy as “a very, very humble man” and says he would never ask for help from others.
But Guy Hargrave, 60, was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and next month is scheduled for surgery at M.D. Anderson Medical Center in Houston. It’s hard enough to find out you’ve got cancer — and even harder when you have no insurance and you’re self-employed. Read the rest of this entry »
Tattoo needles are not the source of HIV exposure among up to 50 Normandy High School students, health officials said Friday.
Responding to rumors in the community, the St. Louis County Health Department said there was no indication that tattoos or any tattoo business is involved.
Voluntary, confidential and free testing of Normandy students started this week at the school after an investigation into one HIV diagnosis led to concerns about a number Read the rest of this entry »