Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Friday he made an exception to his hold on capital budgets and released nearly $2.2 million for the construction of a new St. Louis health clinic.
’s clinics in north St. Louis, the governor’s office said.
Funding of nearly $10.6 million also was released for construction of a new facility for the
in Kansas City.
, Nixon and lawmakers announced a revised consensus revenue estimate for fiscal 2009, projecting Read the rest of this entry »
DEARBORN, Mich. — As the Detroit auto companies contend with their worst
in decades, the most famous American auto executive has stayed largely out of sight.
But William C. Ford Jr., the executive chairman and scion of the founding family of the
, has been preparing for a bigger role in the industry’s plan for survival.
plead to Congress for a bailout, Mr.
in hopes that his company can benefit from the administration’s longer-term Read the rest of this entry »
Published: January 3, 2009
King Pharmaceuticals is working on three drugs its executives hope will treat pain, deter prescription drug abuse and bring new jobs to the region.
An application for the latest, Acurox, was delivered to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
Linda Wase, King’s executive vice president for medical affairs, said Acurox and the two other drugs in the federal approval process, Embeda and Remoxy, each contain Read the rest of this entry »
Brad Gautney, medical operations executive for the
(ILF), returned from a medical trip to Haiti, where he and a team of four other medical professionals treated approximately 400 Haitian orphans and vulnerable children in the town of Gonaives. Dan Tasset, founder of ILF also returned from a separate mission the week before, providing food and supplies to the areas devastated by Hurricanes Hanna and Ike.
ILF is an organization based in Leawood, Read the rest of this entry »
– Judy LaCour has been taking a multivitamin supplement for the past 30 years: “As often as I can remember, which isn’t always, but on and off since I was in my 40s.” She buys them in bulk from her local wholesale warehouse.
Part of the reason she has been taking the daily vitamins are her mother and father, who were 71 and 68, respectively, when they died of cancer. Now 69, Judy recalls that she wanted to lower her risks of chronic diseases, Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI: Leading supermarket chain Subhiksha on Saturday said that the Bombay High Court has ’set aside’ the Maharashtra FDA’s orders regarding the company’s warehouse in Mumbai and its vendors. The decision in this regard was taken by a Bench of the M
umbai High Court on Friday, Subhiksha said in a statement.
Maharashtra government’s regulatory body for food and drugs, Maharastra FDA, had in mid-August passed orders of cancellation of licence Read the rest of this entry »
Oct. 16, 2008 — The health care discussion during Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate was dominated by a central theme: Would “Joe the Plumber” and the rest of us be better off under John McCain’s health care plan or Barack Obama’s?
One of the most heated exchanges of the night centered on the Toledo, Ohio, man whose encounter with Obama earlier in the week became an instant YouTube and media sensation.
Joe Wurzelbacher, who Read the rest of this entry »
Some companies’ on-site services are sophisticated enough that some workers are using them as primary-care centers. Olivia Skiffington, a marketing specialist at
, Conn., says she uses the company’s workplace clinic for most of her ailments. The 27-year-old figures she has saved $200 to $300 in co-payments since she was hired in 2006.
Most recently, Ms. Skiffington visited her company’s clinic for a sore throat that had lasted five days. “They Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women have easier and quicker access to the morning after pill since the Food and Drug Administration ruled that the medication could be sold to adults without a prescription, a survey of pharmacies in three large US cities shows.
In 2006, the FDA approved “behind the counter” status for Plan B — meaning that people aged 18 and older can buy the emergency contraceptive over the counter, while younger people need a prescription Read the rest of this entry »
Late last week, Boston Scientific Corporation announced that U.S. health regulators approved the next-generation version of its widely used
. Boston Scientifc plans to begin selling the stent in early November.
Meanwhile, in March, Boston Scientific received an approvable letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the stent, the Taxus Liberte. Receiving an approvable letter indicates that certain conditions must be met before full Read the rest of this entry »