Clayton County’s only hospital must wait several more weeks to learn if the county’s government will move forward with a financial bailout.
Southern Regional Health System Chief Executive Officer Edward Bonn appeared before the Clayton County Commission on Tuesday night, but he did not have an audit of the hospital’s finances and was unable to answer commissioners’ concerns about the shaky economy.
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(Media-Newswire.com) – Oregon Health & Science University physician assistant students have begun their five-week rotations throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The OHSU Physician Assistant Program is a full-time, 26-month course of study culminating in a Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree. Physician assistants are licensed to practice medicine under physician supervision. They conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, Read the rest of this entry »

New Food and Drug Administration guidelines for diabetes drugs could mean higher study costs and delays in reaching the market for several companies, including Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., as the agency focuses on potential heart risks.
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration updated guidance for new diabetes drugs, calling for more scrutiny on heart condition risks. Two years ago, concern was raised over potential heart risks for patients Read the rest of this entry »

In December, Oprah Winfrey made headlines when she
by showcasing her 200-pound self posed next to an earlier, skinnier picture of herself on the cover of O magazine.
Now, with the launch of her “Best Life” series on her television show this week, Winfrey is taking aim at the unhealthy habits that led to that weight gain and looking to friend and fitness guru Bob Greene for help.
Greene’s cookbook “The Best Life Diet Cookbook” is coming to the Read the rest of this entry »

Study: Yawning Cools Brain, May Indicate Health Problems
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Research from Binghamton University shows there are a whole host of reasons why we yawn, but primarily it is to control the brain’s temperature, Discovery News reported.
“Brains are like computers,” Andrew Gallup, a researcher in the department of biology at Binghamton, who led the study, told Discovery News. “They operate most efficiently Read the rest of this entry »

Illegal drugs with a street value of £200,000 have been seized in a series of raids across Tyne and Wear.
In six days, Northumbria Police found £100,000 of amphetamine sulphate, £80,000 of cannabis and cocaine at the value of £20,000.
They targeted a house on the Newbiggin Hall Estate in Newcastle, raided a car on the A1 in Sunderland and a property in Highfield Court, Heworth.
Officers made four arrests on suspicion of drug-related offences.
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Still, you may say, the Republicans brought in
ticket. Unfortunately their attitude was so disrespectful, that they turned what might have been a
episode. After
, Palin called her handlers “sexist” and “jerks” — perhaps fittingly.
Why do these men behave so badly when there’s no way to win an election without women? Surely they know that 56 percent of all women voted for Democrats and 43 percent for Republicans — an absolute, no-spin Read the rest of this entry »

Friday, February 06, 2009
A woman who lost her limbs and eyesight to a near-fatal medical error has returned home after months of rehabilitation.
Tabitha Mullings has been through more in the last five months than most people will go through in a lifetime.
Her ordeal started in September when the 32-year-old was discharged from Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City. Staff diagnosed her with kidney stones and sent her home with painkillers Read the rest of this entry »

-(Dow Jones)- The Food and Drug Administration is revising its
draft assessment on a chemical commonly found in baby bottles, saying it will
reconsider some independent studies that showed Bisphenol-A, or BPA, isn’t safe
at current levels.
The FDA’s original report on BPA, issued in August, relied on studies funded
by the chemical industry and said the chemical is safe at levels currently found
in plastic baby bottles and canned foods.
But scientists Read the rest of this entry »

to help build temporary housing for patients and families.
The money — given by Willard Hackerman, president of
, and his wife, Lillian Patz Hackerman — will go to the Saint Agnes Foundation and will be used to construct the Hackerman-Patz House, on the Baltimore hospital’s campus at 900 Caton Ave.
The building house patients receiving long-term care and their families. The house will also have space for sisters of the Daughters Read the rest of this entry »