Conditional release would allow Messenger to live in the community with requirements for treatment and supervision, like probation or parole, according to the Psychiatric Security Review Board website. The board oversees people who have been committed after being acquitted by reason of insanity.
After a hearing in June for Messenger’s conditional release and temporary leave was postponed to this month, board Chairman Robert Berger denied two written Read the rest of this entry »
ALTON – Alton Memorial Hospital’s Women’s Wellness Fair gives women an opportunity to learn about health and wellness issues specific to their gender.
The fair, celebrating its ninth year, attracted nearly 500 women Saturday. They have the chance to do some holiday shopping, receive a massage, eat a free lunch catered by Tony’s in Alton and have health screenings at a reduced price.
“The Women’s Wellness fair is a little bit different than the Read the rest of this entry »
The exergame, Nintendo Wii, which came out in 2006, is an interactive video game that requires players to exert physically in order to simulate the actions of that specific sport featured on each game. If performed as expected, the user may generally burn more calories than when playing a traditional sedentary video game.
Does this take the place of playing the actual sport? American Council on Exercise conducted a study at the University of Wisconsin, Read the rest of this entry »
Women’s Health USA is a leading provider of business services to
physicians in the Northeast, with a focus on providers in the women’s
health field. Among its clients are Physicians for Women’s Health, a
160-physician Ob/Gyn based group practice in Connecticut which is the
largest such group in the country, Women’s Health Professionals in Long
Island, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, and the University of Read the rest of this entry »
Obesity is aging our children before their time.
The Association Press reported that studies presented last week at an American Heart Association conference found about a third of American children are overweight, and one-fifth are obese.
In a sense, that’s old news.
But what made one study depressingly newsworthy was the conclusion by researchers at Children’s Hospital in Kansas City that obese children as young as 10 had the arteries Read the rest of this entry »
Unsuccessful in reaching a critical mass of members,
Health Plan of Arizona is pulling out of the Arizona market.
The health plan serves 16,000 Arizona members, but needed at least 50,000, said Cliff Klima, Arizona market relations executive for LifeWise.
Klima retired from LifeWise as Arizona president and CEO in 2007, but he was lured out of retirement last May when his replacement, Tom Dameron, returned to his roots at
Klima plans to stick Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON (AFP) — International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge expects “possibly” seven more positive doping cases from the Beijing Games, according to a report Sunday.
Speaking at a function in Vienna to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Austrian Olympic Committee, Rogge said it would take about six weeks before the final doping results of the Games were available.
“We had 39 cases in the run-up to the Games, eight during the Read the rest of this entry »
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Authorities say a terminally ill patient
apparently jumped to her death from a sixth-story window at St.
Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville.
Hospital officials said Monday they are reviewing the facility
and procedures to find out how the patient got through the 9
inch-by-18 inch opening and fell 28 feet onto a roof.
Police say hospital security called to report the patient had
jumped about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Vanderburgh County Read the rest of this entry »
More than a decade ago, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate its medical board to post physician profiles online. With the click of a mouse, patients could find a physician’s hospital affiliations, hospital and medical board disciplinary actions, medical malpractice payments and other data.
The Massachusetts board, like others across the nation, had long collected much of the information, which was available to those who called or wrote. Read the rest of this entry »
– Pharmacodynamic and efficacy relationship of MLN4924, a novel small
molecule inhibitor of Nedd8-activating enzyme, in human xenograft
tumors grown in immunocompromised mice
— Lead investigator: Allison Berger, Senior Scientist, Millennium
— Abstract #85: Poster
— MLN4924, a potent and novel small molecule inhibitor of Nedd8
activating enzyme, induces DNA re-replication and apoptosis in cultured Read the rest of this entry »