Shelburne welcomes Dr. Simenhoff as newest doctor
The sun shone on the Mel Lloyd Health Centre Tuesday as Mayor Ed Crewson and fellow board members welcomed Dr. Jacques Simenhoff to the health care team.
“This is a significant step in addressing the shortage of family doctors in north Dufferin County,” board chair Don Stewart said in a statement released to the press.
At 43, Dr. Simenhoff has 14 years’ medical experience in South Africa and Read the rest of this entry »
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday voted for the approval of a reformulated version of
Genzyme Corp.
’s injectable osteoarthritis treatment.
) has asked the FDA to approve a single-dose version of Synvisc, a formula that relives knee pain by providing cushioning between the joints. Synvisc is already approved to be given in a three-injection regimen, but Genzyme wants approval to market the product as a one-time injection. Read the rest of this entry »
Q: What is the permissible level of melamine in food?
A: The permissible level established by the Health Ministry is one milligramme per kilogramme for infant foods and 2.5 mg/kg for other foods.
This level will be reviewed from time to time based on scientific developments and new information.
Q: How much melamine-contaminated food would a person have to eat before his health is affected?
A: There are no direct human studies on Read the rest of this entry »
MARION Jones has said she would have won gold at the Sydney Olympics without the drugs that led to her disgrace.
The US athlete spoke to chat show queen Oprah Winfrey in her first interview since a jail term for lying about doping, the Associated Press reported.
“I’ll ask myself, ‘Well, if you hadn’t been given (steroid) “the clear” do you think you would’ve won?’ I usually answer, ‘Yes’,” she said.
Jones said it was fairthat she was stripped Read the rest of this entry »
Cornell takes $1.4B hit to endowment, announces cuts and ups tuition
Monday, January 26th 2009, 9:01 PM
hemorrhaged more than a quarter of its endowment in the past six months – roughly $1.45 billion – and will slash budgets and hike tuition to shore up.
The steps are “necessary to confront a persistent negative financial outlook sweeping the entire higher education sector,” University
, who will take a 10% salary cut, wrote in a memo to Read the rest of this entry »
in a speech tonight before a joint session of Congress, the Associated Press reports. His speech comes just as a report is out from the Department of Health and Human Services that says healthcare costs in the United States will average more than $8,000 per person this year. Medicare’s hospital trust fund is running out of money and may become insolvent by 2016, which is three years earlier than previously predicted. And the government’s portion of Read the rest of this entry »
Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., 24 Hour Fitness, an innovative
leader in the health and fitness industry, serves more than 3 million
members in more than 425 clubs. Founded in 1983 as a one-club operation,
24 Hour Fitness pioneered the concept of making fitness accessible,
affordable and a way of life for everyone. 24 Hour Fitness has partnered
with superstar athletes and celebrities like Magic Johnson, Read the rest of this entry »
Rules on the use of pesticides by farmers will have to be reviewed after a High Court judge said yesterday there was evidence that exposure to crop chemicals caused illness.
The ruling was the culmination of a long campaign by Georgina Downs, who says her health and that of many other rural-dwellers has been damaged by pesticides.
Mr Justice Collins, allowing Ms Down’s application for a judicial review, said: “I recognise it is not easy to attribute Read the rest of this entry »
Daschle earned $220,000 from health care industry
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL –
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama wants him to reform as the administration’s health secretary.
That was just a portion of the more than $5.2 million the former South Dakota senator earned as he advised insurers and hospitals Read the rest of this entry »
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mylan Inc. (NYSE: MYL) today
announced that its subsidiary, Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., received tentative
approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated
New Drug Application (ANDA) for Venlafaxine Hydrochloride (HCl)
Extended-release (ER) Capsules, 37.5 mg (base), 75 mg (base) and 150 mg
(base).
Venlafaxine HCl ER Capsules, indicated for the treatment of major
depressive Read the rest of this entry »