Mission Hospice is celebrating 30 years of compassionate care from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 8 at the Peninsula Golf and Country Club, located at 701 Madera Drive in San Mateo.
Longtime supporter Marian Soss will receive the 2009 Lotus Award, and special recognition will be given to former executive director Carol Gray.
Tickets cost $50 per person. For reservations, call Mission Hospice at 650-554-1000.
An elegant evening in South San Francisco: Read the rest of this entry »
With a pancake-flat tum, cellulite-free thighs and arms that have never even heard of bingo wings, Jennifer Aniston’s body makes women half her age weep with envy. But far from being blessed with the sort of figure requiring no work, Jen’s incredible physique is the result of serious hard graft.
Sick of people focusing on her failed romances, Jen’s shifted her focus to a total career and image overhaul. Recently fleeing to her favourite beach Read the rest of this entry »
A man whose body was found by a mail carrier Aug. 12 outside an unoccupied Cape Coral home has been positively identified.
The mans name is Scott Alan Douglas, 47, according to the Medical Examiners Office.
A mail carrier found his body in a hedge on the side of a house at 4620 S.E. 4th Place.
There was ID found on the body belonging to Scott Alan Douglas.
Medical records were used to verify the remains.
The cause of death will Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Byron Giles Jr.: Passion for research fueled his work in physics, medicine
12:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 1, 2009
Dr. Robert Byron Giles Jr. maintained his passion for research throughout his 40 years as a Dallas internist.
His research background included working on the Manhattan Project during World War II and being one of the first Western doctors to explore the mysteries of the hantavirus as an Army medical officer during the Korean Read the rest of this entry »
POULSBO, Wash. — A 7-year-old boy severely injured Tuesday in an accident at a local health club has died.
The Poulsbo Fire Department confirmed that the boy was pronounced dead sometime after he was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the Tuesday evening accident.
The boy, a Poulsbo Elementary student, was at Armstrong Fitness and Physical Therapy at 20101 Front Street, where his father was using the cable crossover exercise Read the rest of this entry »
The study, based on 31,135 worker records, found that drivers who do short-haul pickups and deliveries, including loading and unloading containers at ports and working at freight-delivery companies, had the highest rate of deaths and disease.
Dockworkers were also at a higher risk, according to the report by researchers at UC Berkeley and Harvard.
California’s Air Resources Board will consider the study’s findings when it meets Friday to vote Read the rest of this entry »
Recent FDA warnings–issued in early February of 2008–have advised consumers of newly learned risks that are associated with using the popular injections, Botox. Of the risks, dangerous side effects such as respiratory failure and death have been warned of by the FDA. This recent report has spurred the sales of safer, all-natural and clinically-proven anti-wrinkle creams like Skinlastin, which reports sales have been off the charts since the FDA Read the rest of this entry »
What do Boulder and Colorado Springs have in common? Among other things, there’s Wayne Laugesen, a former libertarian columnist at The Boulder Weekly who some time ago took up the post of the editorial page editor of The Colorado Springs Gazette. And, as Laugesen in the past applauded eliminating the law enforcement-sponsored D.A.R.E. in Boulder, he’s now promoting abolishing the anti-drug education program in tax-strapped El Paso County, where Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 2:55 AM
stationhouse, officials said.
, 38, allegedly terrorized his co-workers by shooting the pellets at them several days earlier this month, according to the Department of Investigation.
He also fired at soda cans and boxes, and DOI investigators recovered several BBs in the walls of the
station, officials said.
“Deliberately firing a weapon in the workplace is not only a dangerous and foolish act but, Read the rest of this entry »
If the FDA was a journalist, it would probably get fired. Regulators, of cours, are in a different business from me. But Reuters has a nice list of drugs where the agency has missed its PDUFA deadlines.
The lastest is prasugrel, from Eli Lilly and Daiichi Sankyo. A decision was expected last month, but the news is out that FDA may be considering an advisory panel for the drug in February. That would mean a long delay. (
from this afternoon.) Read the rest of this entry »