PATANCHERU, India (AP) — When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.
And it wasn’t just ciprofloxacin being detected. The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet — a soup of 21 different Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hall of Fame basketball player and sacked NBA coach Isiah Thomas was taken to a hospital early on Friday from his suburban New York home after overdosing on sleeping pills, New York media reported.
Thomas, 47, a former coach of the New York Knicks, overdosed at his home in Purchase, a suburb north of New York City, media said.
Local police confirmed they were called to Thomas’ home in Purchase about midnight and rushed someone Read the rest of this entry »
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Mansfield – Donald N. Beddard, M.D., age 73, of Mansfield, died Saturday, October 18, 2008 at MedCentral Hospital in Mansfield.
He was born in Mansfield, Ohio on February 3, 1935 to the late Eleanor Keefer Beddard and Clarence Frederick Beddard.
Dr. Beddard graduated from Mansfield Senior High School and attended Ohio Wesleyan University before transferring to The Ohio State University where he graduated with a B.S. degree. He obtained his medical Read the rest of this entry »
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Orexigen Therapeutics Inc
(
OREX.O
) said on Thursday a first late-stage trial found that
obese patients treated with experimental drug Contrave lost an
average 9.3 percent of their weight, but the results fell short
of the bar set by regulators and its shares slid 34 percent.
Orexigen said patients in the trial who were given a
placebo lost an average 5.1 percent of their Read the rest of this entry »
Greensburg-based state police narcotics investigators, in an update to a report they released Saturday, said more drugs were seized from a suspect’s vehicle.
At 8:21 p.m. Friday, police arrested Justin Colbert, 23, of Pittsburgh, at the Indiana Mall after allegedly buying heroin from him, according to reports. The agents seized a loaded .40-caliber pistol and more than $4,176 from Colbert, police said.
On Saturday, agents armed with a search warrant Read the rest of this entry »
WATSONVILLE — Trisha McGuire hopes that a support group starting this month at Katz Cancer Center will serve a very special function: helping children cope with the knowledge that their parent has cancer.
McGuire, 40, of Watsonville, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, and after treatment, was well for several years. But the cancer returned two years ago, and is now in her brain, her lungs, her bones, her liver.
She undergoes regular treatments Read the rest of this entry »
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An Australian mental health organisation says men living in the Northern Territory face unique pressures and should be able to seek medical help.
Every November, participants in ‘Movember’ grow a moustache to raise money for men’s health issues.
The Territory Government yesterday erected an eight-metre moustache above the entrance to Parliament as part of the campaign.
Beyond Blue chief Read the rest of this entry »
Bulldog Interactive Fitness, a subsidiary of Halifax-based DHX Media, appears to have shut down its office headquarters, as well as its main Dartmouth location.
The interactive fitness and entertainment centre for kids on Portland Street was locked Friday, and garbage bags were taped over the windows and glass front door.
The phone line for the Portland Street centre and the one for Bulldog’s headquarters on Wyse Road are out of service. Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators are
questioning whether clinical trials proposed by ImClone Systems
and Amgen Inc (AMGN.O:
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) will be adequate to show that patients
with a certain type of gene are more likely to be helped by two
cancer drugs, according to documents released on Friday.
Early research has indicated that patients with the normal,
so-called Read the rest of this entry »