Medical Properties Trust Q3 net income declines, Adj. FFO rises – Quick Facts
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Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW:
) reported a decreased net income for the third quarter of $7.5 million or $0.12 per share, compared to $11.6 million or $0.24 per share for the year ago period.
Adjusted Funds from Operations rose to $20.9 million or $0.32 per share for the quarter from $13.3 million or $0.27 per share Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 7 2008, 11:44 AM EST
will acquire Molecular Diagnostics Technologiesâ HPV-DNA biosensor chip and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based analysis system for about $345 million. The fee will be paid in installments with the final payment to be made one year after the closing of the acquisition, which is expected in December 2008 or January 2009.
The HPV chip is a label-free DNA chip for the diagnosis of HPV infection and genotyping of HPV. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent watchdog group says the government has quietly scaled back enforcement of federal quality regulations at labs that develop medical devices.
The Project on Government Oversight found that the Food and Drug Administration has dramatically reduced inspections of “good laboratory practices” at facilities that do the earliest testing of medical devices. Such inspections declined from 33 in 2005, to seven in 2007, Read the rest of this entry »
LAS VEGAS—The Southern Nevada Health District says unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for 1- to 44-year-olds in Clark County.
The manager of the district’s Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System says suicides, homicides and motor vehicle accidents are the biggest problems in the area.
Other findings in the report released this week include that homicide is the second leading cause of death for kids ages 1 Read the rest of this entry »
Texture: “Moist and spongy.” “Sort of like a scouring pad.”
Taste of nonchocolate cookies: “No flavor whatsoever.” “Sawdust comes to mind.”
Taste of chocolate cookies: “This actually smells chocolaty.” “I like this one.”
Instead of breakfast and lunch, eat four cookies and then have a sensible dinner. It’s recommended to space out the cookies — breakfast, midmorning snack, lunch, midafternoon snack. Suggestions for dinner recipes are given. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on: Saturday, 17 January 2009, 15:05 CST
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs continues to raise concern among investors and employees, as he has yet to announce what is ailing him.
Pancreatic cancer experts can only speculate as to how serious his health problems are or how directly they relate to his bout with cancer.
Jobs stated early last week that he was suffering from an easily treatable “hormonal imbalance” that was robbing his body Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday, February 15, 2009
FREMONT, Ohio — A northwest Ohio elementary school principal has been charged with felony theft of prescription medications intended for his students.
Police say 43-year-old Timothy Wilhelm was arrested on suspicion of stealing drugs from the clinic at Fremont’s Stamm Elementary School.
Fremont police Sgt. T.J. Woolf says medications have been stolen on three occasions since September, two of which appeared Read the rest of this entry »
Iwelumo had to pull out of Saturday’s 3-1 win against Charlton at The Valley after tweaking a previous groin injury in the warm-up, however boss Mick McCarthy revealed he may be fit to face the Eagles.
“Chris was suffering from a tight groin so whether he’s fit for Tuesday we’ll have to see,” McCarthy told the club’s official website. “We’ll give him every chance.”
However, new signing Hill has strained a medial knee ligament and faces three to Read the rest of this entry »
A CNN poll released today shows 75 percent of Americans think the economy is the most important issue facing the country. Healthcare came in second — at a very distant 7 percent.
Many health policy specialists and political strategists, though, say the two issues are inseparable in people’s minds — views of the economy are closely aligned with people’s personal economic situations, which are in turn strongly influenced by the cost of healthcare Read the rest of this entry »
On-demand access to advanced visualization has become a necessity for
physicians. However, such access is limited by increasing image data
volumes, network congestion, Internet bandwidth, limited client hardware
resources, and viewing software that occupies too large of a footprint.
As a result some physicians are confined to viewing reformatted images
in dedicated reading rooms, using expensive and obsolete Read the rest of this entry »