All Flex, Inc.
Release date: October 22, 2008
Northfield (Minnesota, US), October 17, 2008 – All Flex, manufacturer of flexible circuitry presents its portfolio of flexible circuits at the international exhibition for high tech solutions for medical technology COMPAMED from November 19 to 21, 2008 in Dusseldorf, Germany at booth C 23 in hall 8a: The rising attendance of medical electronics exhibitions over the past years shows that the medical Read the rest of this entry »

BOSTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joe Moore, President and CEO of the International Health Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), announced IHRSA’s commitment to promoting the first-ever government-issued 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Moore delivered his remarks to more than 100 people at the “Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Launch and Partnership Forum” hosted by The President’s Council on Physical Fitness Read the rest of this entry »

Two 16-year-olds are in the hospital Sunday night following a single car wreck.
The wreck happened early Sunday morning in Walton County at the intersection of State Road 20 and County Road 83-A.
The driver of the land rover SUV, Elyse Bushee, was traveling northbound on County Road 83-A when she failed to stop at a stop sign.
As Bushee continued through the stop sign, her vehicle landed on the shoulder of the road–where it then collided with Read the rest of this entry »

Established in 1961, the 399-bed, not-for-profit El Camino Hospital has
delivered the highest level of medical services to the community for
more than four decades. Its quality programs and high customer
satisfaction rankings have been recognized locally and nationally. Since
2005, HealthGrades, a national rating company, has named El Camino
Hospital a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence, placing Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a “right of conscience” allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to on moral grounds, including abortion but possibly birth control and other health care as well.
In transition offices across town, officials in the incoming Obama administration have begun considering how and when to undo it.
The regulation is one Read the rest of this entry »

December 22, 2008 12:08:00
A Melbourne academic fears that the ‘Close the Gap’ campaign aimed at minimising the differences between mortality rates in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is already running out of puff.
Associate Professor Jane Freemantle, from VicHealth’s Koori Health Unit, says more personnel and money are needed for health data collection programs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
She says that if Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK – Barack Obama says he wishes he had more time for staying fit. And the Democratic presidential candidate admits that he still occasionally smokes a cigarette.
“Most of my workouts have to come before my day starts,” Obama told the magazine Men’s Health in an interview for its November issue. “There’s always a trade-off between sleep and working out. Usually I get in about 45 minutes, six days a week. I’ll lift one day, do cardio the next.”
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10:08am UK, Monday October 06, 2008
Ten people have died and dozens are injured after a bus overturned in northern California.
Highway Patrol officials said the crash happened at around 6pm on Sunday evening, on a rural road 60 miles north of
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, near the town of Williams.
The bus ran off the road and rolled over. No other vehicles appeared to be involved.
A spokesman for the Highway Patrol said at least 37 passengers, including the driver, Read the rest of this entry »

TAIPEI: Former president Chen Shui-bian was taken from his jail cell to hospital yesterday when a doctor found an irregular heartbeat after a five-day hunger strike.
Mr Chen arrived at the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in Panchiao city, 10 minutes after his ambulance left the Tucheng detention centre outside Taipei, TVBS said, where he had been held on graft allegations since last Wednesday.
‘Go! Go! Ah-Bian!’ chanted dozens of Mr Chen’s supporters Read the rest of this entry »

LAS VEGAS—Las Vegas police say a woman has been shot and critically wounded outside a downtown Las Vegas casino by her ex-lover.
Police spokesman Bill Cassell said the Monday afternoon shooting appeared to be the result of a custody dispute. Cassell says the woman was shot in the head or face outside the Gold Spike casino and was taken to University Medical Center in extremely critical condition.
The woman was meeting her former lover, who Read the rest of this entry »