BARCELONA, Spain, Oct 09, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Conservation and health organizations should work together to support human development and protect biodiversity hotspots, said experts at the World Conservation Congress on October 8, 2008. An international panel sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Population Reference Bureau presented evidence that development programs combining population, Read the rest of this entry »

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No Ruling in Hospital’s Bid to Pull Plug on Brain-Dead Boy, Arguments Resume Thursday
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A Washington D.C. judge made no decision Monday in legal battle between a hospital that wants to remove a brain-dead boy from life support and his parents who say the boy is still alive under their religious beliefs, Agence France-Presse reported.
Motl Brody, 12, of Brooklyn, fell into a coma in June after an operation on a brain Read the rest of this entry »

AKRON — Thirty-nine babies were moved from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Akron Children’s Hospital after a sprinkler system pipe burst early Sunday morning.
Officials with the hospital say the burst caused water to pour into some areas of the hospital, including the emergency department making the move necessary.
“The move went smoothly, the babies are fine,” said Grace Wakulchik, Vice President for Patient Services. “Our staff contacted Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday the FDA posted its first quarterly report of drugs currently
under evaluation for potential safety issues.
The drugs included on the list were identified based on a review of
reports in the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System, according to a press
release. The following are some of the drugs included on the list and the
potential signals of serious risks associated with the drugs:
fluorouracil cream (Carac, Sanofi-Aventis) Read the rest of this entry »

Published November 23, 2008
GALVESTON — Randy McCoy had made only two mortgage payments on his house in the 100 block of Marlin Avenue when Hurricane Ike filled it with 5 feet of floodwater.
He had just finished a remodeling project and was looking forward to enjoying a break from the constant construction work.
Now with four mortgage payments under his belt, McCoy has a half-gutted house with a “for sale by owner” sign in the front yard.
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used for pain, colds, and other problems, the Associated Press reports. The Food and Drug Administration says that it is trying to squeeze unapproved drugs from the market, but certain federal laws allow Medicaid to continue to cover the drugs. Officials in charge of the Medicaid program say they are aware of the issue, but they say congressional assistance is needed to fix the problem. Both Medicaid and the FDA are under the umbrella of the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

VALHALLA – Westchester Medical Center will close its nursing home and lay off about 400 staff members hospital-wide to help offset a $70 million gap left by proposed state health care cuts.
About 100 residents of the Taylor Care Center nursing home will have to find another place to live by April 1, when the home will close. Twenty of those residents depend on ventilators.
“We do this with a heavy heart,” said John Heimerdinger, chairman of the Read the rest of this entry »

The findings for vitamin C are not surprising given the results of numerous studies that reached the same conclusion, says Howard Sesso, a professor at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the study. It will be published Wednesday in the
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But the findings for vitamin E are new because this was the first large, strictly controlled study to assess the supplement and how it affects the heart and blood vessels, Sesso says.
The men enrolled Read the rest of this entry »

No, you’re not seeing things. Osteoporosis drugs have been in the news
quite a bit lately and this time the bisphosphonates — like Fosomax,
Actonel, Didronel, and Boniva — seem to have been related to at least 50 cases of esophageal cancer since 1995.
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Diane Wysowski of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) division of risk assessment called for research on the potential links between the Read the rest of this entry »