Four hospital wards in Hull have been shut because of an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.
Wards 8, 80 and 100 at Hull Royal Infirmary and ward 1 at the city’s Castle Hill hospital are affected.
Managers at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust urged people who have had diarrhoea or vomiting to stay away from hospital.
Consultant microbiologist Dr Rolf Meigh said spreading the Norovirus infection could cause “significant disruption”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec. 15
/PRNewswire/ — Best Life magazine, the upscale
men’s magazine from health and fitness publisher Rodale, has picked The Brain
Fitness Program(TM) from Posit Science(R) as the best computer-based cognitive
training program. Best Life surveyed the field, researched eight programs,
tested the four with some science foundation and picked The Brain Fitness
Program as number one — the only program to achieve a perfect score of 5 out
of Read the rest of this entry »
4:45-6 p.m. today through Thursday at Prairie Life Fitness Center, 3690 Houston Levee, Collierville. Today (water games); Tuesday (balance); Wednesday (dodge ball) and Thursday (zumba). Fitness assessments for each child. Call 854-8998.
6 p.m. Wednesday at Hope & Healing, 1115 Union. Using dance and creative movement in worship. Cost: $5 (free to Hope and Healing members). Call 259-4673.
Saturday, hike Big Hill Pond State Park in Pocahontas, Tenn. Read the rest of this entry »
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Span-America Medical Systems Inc. (SPAN:
) announced that its first quarter net income declined to $887,000 or $0.32 per share, from $1.0 million, or $0.36 per share, in the same quarter last year.
First quarter sales totaled $13.4 million, which was down 2% compared with $13.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2008.
The company expects to see continued growth in sales of its branded medical Read the rest of this entry »
In 2006, an estimated 807,082 men and women over 65 were hospitalized for heart failure, up from 348,866 in 1980 — a 131 percent increase.
And the increase in hospitalization rates has been more dramatic among women than men, according to the Drexel University study, to be presented Sunday at the American Heart Association’s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans.
“You could probably talk to any cardiologist, no matter what practice setting Read the rest of this entry »
MIAMI, Sept 12, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Effective immediately, Pacer Health
Corporation has discontinued operations at its three Louisiana medical
facilities: South Cameron Memorial Hospital (Cameron, LA), South Cameron Rural
Health Clinic and Calcasieu Oaks Psychiatric Hospital (Lake Charles, LA), due
to the approaching Hurricane Ike. Responding to mandatory evacuations issued
by emergency management personnel in the Cameron parish Read the rest of this entry »
plunged in trading Friday after the company revealed potential headaches with some of its drugs.
Pozen (Nasdaq: POZN), a Chapel Hill pharmaceutical firm, said regulators at the Food and Drug Administration are conducting an internal review on whether it’s acceptable to use “endoscopic gastric ulcers” as a primary endpoint in clinical studies.
In layman’s terms, it breaks down like this: Trials of two of Pozen’s drugs, 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 across 14 different states and Asia.
Founded in 1983 as a one-club operation by Chairman and Founder Mark S.
Mastrov, 24 Hour Fitness pioneered the concept of making fitness
accessible, affordable and a way of life for everyone. Together Mastrov Read the rest of this entry »
(KCI) has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its LifeCell Tissue Matrix. The matrix is used to treat chronic, trauma, surgical and other acute wounds. The product utilizes the company’s Strattice technology, a sterile reconstructive tissue matrix that supports tissue regeneration.
, as the company likes to say) and treated with a process to remove cells, significantly reducing the likelihood of rejection. Strattice acts as a scaffold, which Read the rest of this entry »
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I am 76 years old, and I take Centrum Silver vitamins, calcium, low-dose aspirin, Crestor for cholesterol, lisinopril for blood pressure, Coenzyme Q10 and Osteo Bi-Flex for arthritis. My doctor has approved all this medication.
My problem: I have had gray hair since I was 35, and through the years it has turned white. Now I have black hair growing from the roots. I am very unhappy about this, as I have never had black hair. Could one of my Read the rest of this entry »