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Thursday, Deltex Medical Group plc (DEMG.L:
), a manufacturer of oesophageal Doppler monitors, in its pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 December 2008, said it expects loss for 2008 to be broadly similar to that of 2007.
The company said group probe sales in each quarter were ahead of the corresponding quarter in the preceding year and expects it to have been in excess of GBP 5.2 Read the rest of this entry »
NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 6 — A simple dietary supplement improved the physical fitness of elderly men and women by about 30%, researchers here said.
The improvement seen after 90 days of supplementation with the amino acid beta-alanine was comparable to the changes seen after endurance training, according to Jeffrey Stout, Ph.D., of the University of Oklahoma, and colleagues.
The finding may have practical implications in the prevention of falls and Read the rest of this entry »
AT 33, IT’S STILL a singular sensation.
“A Chorus Line,” one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history, remains as relevant now as it was when it opened more than three decades ago. A new production of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning story of 17 dancers auditioning for a chorus line is being staged at the Forrest Theatre through Jan. 4.
Last week, several cast members kicked up their heels and taught a free dance-aerobics Read the rest of this entry »
“We have to respond to what’s happening right now in the student loan
industry in particular and in the financial sector in general,” said
Wallace. “This was a rightsizing of the company. With the high-demand
summer season for student loans winding down, and the current state
of the credit markets making it difficult for student loan companies
to continue offering federal and private student loans on a wide
scale, NextStudent is launching new Read the rest of this entry »
A Hercules High School football player was upgraded from fair to stable condition Sunday after sustaining a concussion Friday night, according to Hercules coach Gerald Montgomery.
Montgomery said he expects Dejon Lloyd, a senior running back and wide receiver, to be released from the hospital Monday and was held Sunday for precautionary measures. Montgomery said Lloyd was coherent and talking on Saturday night.
Lloyd suffered a helmet-to-helmet Read the rest of this entry »
The rating downgrade reflects a sharp slow down in outpatient and
ambulatory volumes in the third quarter of 2008, reduced commercial
payor volumes and Beaumont’s weak liquidity position in light of the
increasingly difficult operating environment in southeast Michigan.
Since June 30th, outpatient and ambulatory volumes have declined sharply
from budgeted levels which management attributes to elective procedures Read the rest of this entry »
Police today appealed for help to find a woman who abandoned her baby daughter at a hospital.
The child, aged two to four months, is yet to be identified by detectives.
The baby, named Amy by nurses who are caring for her, was found abandoned in her pushchair on Saturday afternoon at the back of the emergency department of Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire.
Officers say the child has been well-cared for and are now keen to find her mother. Read the rest of this entry »
Social work professor Joe Ryan says recovery coaches can significantly reduce the number of substance-exposed births as well as help reunite substance-involved families, saving state child-welfare systems millions of dollars in foster-care and other placement costs. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
About 11 percent of the 4 million babies born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to alcohol or illicit drugs in the womb, according to a June 2006 report Read the rest of this entry »
Through their common military experience and similar entrepreneurial backgrounds in health and physical fitness, four veterans and Naval Academy classmates are on a mission to alter this trend by promoting these four tenets: re-focus, re-prioritize, get back to basics and simplify your life. By encouraging a more healthy and physically active lifestyle through Rolly Pollies International, Inc, Heroes of Tomorrow and The Perfect Pushup, John Mann, Read the rest of this entry »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia workers' health insurance premiums increased four times faster than their wages during the past eight years, according to a report released Wednesday.
For family health-care coverage, an employee's portion of health insurance premiums in West Virginia rose from $1,650 a year on average to more than $2,500 a year – a 50 percent jump.
Median wages, meanwhile, increased only 18 percent – from $19,000 to Read the rest of this entry »