TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Nov 04, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) –
Aruba Networks, Inc.
,
,
, a global leader in wireless
LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that Taiwan’s
Taichung Veterans General Hospital has selected Aruba to supply its
wireless medical network. Founded in 1982, the 1,515 bed hospital has
2,918 doctors and staff, and serves 5,000 outpatients daily. The
hospital is accredited at the highest levels by the Taiwan Read the rest of this entry »
Bartlett, SEARHC pair up to bring mobile mammograms to Southeast
It’s difficult to get health care services in many of Alaska’s remote communities. Services may not be offered locally, so women need to travel to get routine screening tests such as their annual mammogram.
For the past 16 years, Alaska’s original mobile mammogram program has been bringing this valuable breast cancer screening tool to remote communities in Southeast Alaska. Already Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of
In a statement posted on the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Corp., of Lynchburg, Va., said all customers should “not distribute or further use” any food products received from its now-closed Blakely, Ga., and Plainview, Texas, production facilities.
The recall notice expands greatly the company’s voluntary actions last month, which Read the rest of this entry »
Cole Puffinburger is the latest victim in a war that has claimed 3,700 lives this year. Photograph: AP
Police in the United States are desperately searching for a six-year-old boy after he was taken from his home at gunpoint four days ago by three men posing as police. It is feared that the boy could be a pawn in the border drug war that has cost 3,700 lives this year alone and that he may have been abducted by a Mexican gang.
Cole Puffinburger Read the rest of this entry »
December
15, 2008 -
– Puna, Hawaii
The Hawaii Police Department has called
off the search for Randal K. Randrup.
The 60-year-old Puna man was involved in
a one-car traffic crash on Hawaii Belt Road
in Captain Cook at 9 a.m. Saturday (December
13). He Read the rest of this entry »
Some good news for the injured Delek Refining worker still in a Dallas hospital. James Hammett, 52 remains in ICU in critical condition at Parkland Hospital, but hospital officials tell us he is stable.
Hammett's neighbors say he was known as Jim. Hammett had worked at the refinery for years. Hammett and his wife had two grown children, a daughter and a son. The neighbor also said she hasn't seen them since the blast.
“I saw the Read the rest of this entry »
It was just a building, without a name. When we first saw it, the front door glass was cracked, the floors were worn out and the ceiling vents were so crusted with dirt, it took an hour to clean one of them.
But slowly, slowly.
Volunteers came with brooms and rags. They came with mops. They came with brushes.
Then a generous man named Tom Montie brought gallons of paint.
Then a generous man named Rick Krupske brought boxes of new tiles. Read the rest of this entry »
, but now
” on drug plans.
warned seniors to “beware of extra charges.”
The system, known as reference-based pricing, is used by dozens of plans offering coverage through Medicare’s Part D drug-insurance program. Under reference-based pricing, patients who insist on certain brand-name drugs when a cheaper generic version is available are charged a much higher price — typically representing the difference between the cost of the two drugs, plus Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An experimental drug cured guinea pigs infected with a fatal hemorrhagic fever virus, raising hope for its use in a broad range of viral diseases including influenza, hepatitis C, HIV, Ebola and others, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
“This is a whole new strategy for making antiviral drugs,” said Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, whose research appears Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) The Veterans Administration (VA) is issuing a warning that the popular anti-smoking drug Chantix has been linked to an elevated risk of suicide. This warning comes months after the FDA first expressed concerns over the psychiatric effects of the drug.
Chantix helps people quit smoking by simulating the effects of nicotine in the brain, while at the same time making real nicotine less effective. As early as November 2007, the FDA warned Read the rest of this entry »