HOUSTON, Sep 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Dynacq Healthcare, Inc. (DYII) announced today that its Surgery
Specialty Hospitals of America — Southeast
Houston Campus located in Pasadena, Texas has been temporarily closed
because of damages sustained as a result of Hurricane Ike. The hospital
is without power and may have suffered physical damages that will
prohibit its opening for operations after power is restored. Read the rest of this entry »
Although the federal government set a goal five years ago of creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014, the effort has lagged for several reasons. Roadblocks include concerns over lack of universal protocols for collecting data as well as rules that establish how, with whom and under what circumstances the data can be shared. Many health-care providers — physician practices, testing facilities, hospitals and clinics — fear Read the rest of this entry »
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
Genzyme’s business plans and strategies, including without limitation:
its expectations regarding receipt of accelerated approval from the FDA
of the alglucosidase alpha 2000 L process BLA, and the timing thereof;
its expectation that the PDUFA date extension will not affect its 2009
non-GAAP EPS; and its expectations regarding the FDA’s willingness Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unusually blunt letter, a group of federal scientists is complaining to the Obama transition team of widespread managerial misconduct in a division of the Food and Drug Administration.
“The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the scientific review process for medical devices at the FDA has been corrupted and distorted by current FDA managers, thereby placing the American people at risk,” said the letter, dated Read the rest of this entry »
The next time your sweet tooth sends out peanut-butter-cookie signals, reach for a spoonful of natural peanut butter instead. A diet rife with sucrose — the various sugars in most candies and sweets — increases colon cancer rates. So do other foods with a high glycemic index, meaning they rush into your bloodstream at warp speed (white bread, Twinkies, non whole-grain pasta, foods that contain corn syrup, anything that gives you a sugar high). Read the rest of this entry »
Israeli defense forces began their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip on January 17, almost one day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral cease-fire. This announcement was followed hours later by declarations by Hamas and other factions of Palestinians to hold fire. Hamas gave Israel 7 days to leave Gaza, even while there remains some exchange of gunfire, rockets, and shelling from both sides. According to Hamas statement, Israel must Read the rest of this entry »
Will America’s ill-starred “war on drugs” and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign?
Standard wisdom says “no way.”
We may have the world’s highest rate of incarceration — with only 5 percent of global population, 25 percent of prisoners worldwide. We may be throwing hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders, many barely of age, behind bars — one reason a stunning one out of every 100 Americans Read the rest of this entry »
Three-and-a-half years ago, Marge Rein started
, a small business focused on helping others learn as much as they could about their health information.
Piles of boxes were overtaking the dining room of her Clarence home. The table there was strewn with papers and folders.
The inspiration to help came in 2004. Rein was jolted by an experience she had while walking on a beach. While rescue workers tended to a jogger who collapsed in the sand, Read the rest of this entry »
But when people are desperate, they grab onto the hope that there’s a quick and easy solution for weight loss, said Sharon Lehrman, a registered dietitian with a private practice in St. Louis Park. “It’s just easier to do [a fad diet] than to try and reduce portions, plan your meals better, bring your lunch instead of going out to eat every day and do all the things that make sense for long-term good health.”
Even if it’s not a fad, the experts Read the rest of this entry »
Solar Grove at St. Mary Medical Center
Clean Power Systems, Envision Solar, Inc. and Kyocera Solar, Inc. announced that the companies have supplied St. Mary Medical Center with a Solar Grove – an array of three “Solar Rows” that converts a 104-vehicle parking lot into a 230-kilowatt (kW) solar electric generating system. St. Mary Medical Center, known for its health and wellness programs, initiated the project to focus on a new type of healing Read the rest of this entry »