You might know someone who has gotten the flu by now. But probably not a lot of someones.
The flu has arrived in the county, and in the state, where the virus is now “widespread,” according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
The Pittsburgh area, Allentown and Bethlehem, and Bucks and Montgomery counties are seeing the highest percentages of cases in the state, according to confirmed lab reports from the state Department of Health.
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. Researchers say the drug, SIRT1720, also lowered glucose levels — good news for a human version of the medicine being developed to treat diabetes.
, show that mice fed a high-fat diet for 10 weeks who were given 100-milligram or 500-milligram doses of the med stayed svelte; animals on the same diet that didn’t receive the drug packed on the pounds. The 10 medicated mice also ran twice as long as normal rodents.
that normally kicks in during Read the rest of this entry »
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have been investigating the salmonella outbreak, said yesterday that the Peanut Corporation of America found salmonella in internal tests a dozen times in 2007 and 2008 but sold the products anyway, sometimes after getting a negative finding from a different laboratory.
Companies are not required to disclose their internal tests to either the Read the rest of this entry »
(WE tv Tuesdays, 11 pm/ET) follows patients — from retired grandfathers to construction workers, businessman and office managers — as they undergo surgery to transition from one gender to another. We caught up with Dr. Marci Bowers (formerly Mark Bowers), who has performed over 550 male-to-female sexual reassignment surgeries, to find out more about the life-changing operations at her clinic in Trinidad, Colo., the compelling docudrama Read the rest of this entry »
British
singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse has shifted to a more secluded villa on St
Lucia, so that her romance with a fitness instructor can have more privacy.
Just last week Winehouse had swapped
her hotel on the Caribbean isle for more private, rented accommodation after she
met the instructor named only as
Andrew.
But she has now moved off to an even
more remote location, in order to keep her romance from the public
eye.
“Amy has Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS – A woman says she waited 19 hours at Parkland Memorial Hospital’s emergency department for treatment of a broken leg and never did get to see a doctor – but still got a bill for $162.
Amber Joy Milbrodt, who said she broke a bone in her leg while playing volleyball, received the bill two weeks after her Sept. 24 visit.
Parkland officials say the bill was appropriate because a nurse spent time checking her vital signs to assess Read the rest of this entry »
MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Amitabh
Bachchan, who turned 66 on Saturday, was rushed to the Nanavati Hospital in
Mumbai’s Vile Parle (West) suburb following abdominal pain and then shifted to
the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra where he was under observation. (
A
spokesman for the Lilavati hospital said Saturday afternoon that the megastar
was undergoing various medical tests, but declined to divulge more details.
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CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (AFP) — NATO troops operating in Afghanistan should find drug traffickers and “eliminate” them as they would Taliban militants and other insurgents battling the government, the counternarcotics minister says.
“They are the same … they are supporting terrorism in Afghanistan,” General Khodaidad said in an interview with reporters on a visit last week to inspect opium poppy eradication efforts in the southern province Read the rest of this entry »
initiative said Friday that its recruiting effort has helped lasso another corporate headquarters for the corridor.
, which develops immune-regulating compounds for veterinary medicine, will relocate its headquarters to St. Joseph from Prescott, Ariz., sometime in the first quarter.
Imulan will be the first tenant in the new Christopher “Kit” Bond Science and Technology Incubator in St. Joseph. It will join the regionally headquartered Read the rest of this entry »
Pathologists in the Bahamas conducted an autopsy on John Travolta’s son, Jett, today as the actor and his family made preparations to return the teenager’s body to the United States.
The 16-year-old was found unconscious Friday in the bathroom of the family vacation home. Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, have said their son had a history of seizures linked to his diagnosis with Kawasaki syndrome, a disorder that causes inflamed Read the rest of this entry »