LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. (AP) ―
A county health department in southern Illinois found its Christmas party anything but tasty after dozens of people fell ill at a restaurant.
The head of the Lawrence County Health Department says she was among 42 people who got sick during the buffet gathering of 72 people on Dec. 15 in Lawrenceville.
Phyllis Wells says the cause of the outbreak hasn’t been pinpointed, but she suspects the culprit was a norovirus. Read the rest of this entry »
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was released from the hospital, two days after undergoing hip replacement surgery. The coach, 81, had surgery to fix a sore hip that prevented him from pacing the sidelines. He coached the final seven games of the regular season from the press box. Paterno was released early from Mount Nittany Medical Center, the school said in a statement. The team doctor called the surgery a success. It took place Sunday, the day after No.6 Penn State (11-1, 7-1 Read the rest of this entry »
Owings Mills, MD (Sports Network) – Ravens running back Willis McGahee was released from a Pittsburgh hospital Monday morning, one day after he suffered a frightening blow to the head during Baltimore's 23-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday's AFC Championship Game.
Ravens senior vice president of public and community relations Kevin Byrne released a statement Monday regarding McGahee's health.
“Ravens running back Read the rest of this entry »
Salmonella, e Coli…on and on, again and
. Why is this all happening? Because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is chronically underfunded, administration after administration. And while President Obama’s call for an investigation is fine, those are empty words without his also appropriating funds to help run the overwhelmed public safety agency.
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This new year, resolve to get serious about health and fitness.
Don’t join a gym, and be out there on your own. Instead, join Slope Health and Fitness (808 Union Street, 718-783-4343), and learn how to be fit for life.
“We’re not a gym,” says General Manager Jason Daniels. “We provide serious health care.”
This includes educating people about health and fitness, healthy lifestyles, and nutritional counseling. It also means being Read the rest of this entry »
What is a dietary supplement?
Diet supplements refer to those drugs that can provide one or more essential nutrients that are needed by the body. They may contain one or a set of vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium, protein and others. Diet supplements can be made out of chemical processes or they can be derived from herbs, botanicals, and other plant-derived substances.
Basically, you can easily differentiate diet supplements from other Read the rest of this entry »
Tennessean Editorials, Opinions Discuss FDA Investigation Drug List
to publish online a quarterly list of drugs being investigated for potential safety risks. Summaries appear below.
Concerns that “some patients will overreact” and stop taking a medication if they see it on the FDA list “may have some foundation,” but “FDA will never be in position where people are fully satisfied with every aspect of drugs in use,” a
editorial states. According Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 04, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) –
— CalAmp Corp., a provider of wireless products, services and solutions, announced it has begun commercial shipments of SMHeart Link, a wireless telemetry device for use in health and fitness applications, to iTMP Technology, Inc.
SMHeart LINK is a wireless bridge that collects and wirelessly transfers data from a variety of health and fitness sensors such as heart rate monitors, cycling speed, cadence Read the rest of this entry »
Although no official plans have been made, Sykesville recently has considered annexing the Springfield Hospital Center because of what it calls a lack of state leadership.
Mayor Jonathan Herman said that if the town was to annex the 415-acre property, it would have a voice in planning and zoning matters.
“The idea that there is no good planning and the state is reluctant to do any planning leads me to believe that we can get a vision for Read the rest of this entry »