Democrat Eric Massa, the apparent winner to represent the 29th Congressional District, joined other newly-elected congressmembers Friday in promoting Health Care for America Now. The national grassroots campaign is focused on guaranteeing quality, affordable health care for every American in 2009.
Massa joined three fellow newly-elected congressmembers in a conference call to discuss the goal of the advocacy organization comprised of millions of Read the rest of this entry »
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Friday, PSS World Medical Inc. (PSSI:
), a pharmaceutical product distributor, announced that Standard & Poor’s Rating Services revised its outlook on the company to positive from stable and affirmed its ratings on the company, including the ‘BB’ corporate credit rating.
The outlook revision for the Jacksonville, Florida-based company reflects solid operating performance and less aggressive financial Read the rest of this entry »
The Holiday Trimmings Weight Loss Challenge is going strong with Wichita Falls losing 805 pounds as of the last weigh-in.
Wednesday will be the final weigh-in, and prizes will be distributed to winners.
The challenge is sponsored by the YMCA, the
and Texoma Cycling Center. The participants signed up in December and were able to use the YMCA at their discretion until Wednesday.
The competition will award those who drop the greatest percentage Read the rest of this entry »
A checklist for surgical teams that includes steps as basic as having the doctors and nurses introduce themselves can significantly lower the number of deaths and complications, researchers reported Wednesday.
“Surgical complications are a considerable cause of death and disability around the world,” the researchers wrote in the online edition of The
. “They are devastating to patients, costly to health care systems and often Read the rest of this entry »
Linda Kilman of San Angelo exercises regularly, maintains a healthy diet, and has normal cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
Imagine her surprise about 18 months ago when doctors discovered the left ventricle in her heart was 95 percent to 98 percent blocked.
“It was by the grace of God that I didn’t have a heart attack,” Kilman said.
She shared her story with about 450 people who attended Wednesday’s Go Red For Women luncheon, looking out Read the rest of this entry »
American Medical reports prelim Q4 revs of $134.0 mln vs $129.54 mln First Call consensus; reaffirms Q4 EPS of $0.21-0.25 vs $0.22 First Call consensus The men’s health business grew 0.8% to $88.9 mln in the fourth quarter. Fourth quarter men’s health sales were hampered by a slowing of the growth rate for erectile restoration, and a 9.4% decline in laser therapy. While the economy has impacted growth in erectile restoration, we saw strong performance Read the rest of this entry »
Andre Noel Potvin gets down on a boardroom floor and starts thrusting his pelvis in all directions.
Not your usual boardroom behaviour. But Potvin says these “rock and rolls of love,” will put the wink back in the eye of people who, for whatever reason, have lost that loving feeling.
Potvin is a clinical exercise specialist and fitness educator with 25 years experience. He helps rehabilitate people injured in accidents, have suffered a heart attack Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers are finding the first evidence that some Asian immigrant families are using U.S. medical technology to have sons instead of daughters, apparently acting on an age-old cultural prejudice that has led to high ratios of boys to girls in parts of China and India.
The new research, produced by independent teams of economists who arrived at similar conclusions, focused on Indian, Chinese and Korean families who first had girls and then used Read the rest of this entry »
Wyeth Says It Will Limit Research to Fewer Drugs, Diseases
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) –
said it will cut its research
projects by more than half, concentrating on about six
therapeutic areas and 27 diseases.
The Madison, New Jersey-based drugmaker intends to focus on
oncology, inflammation, neuroscience, vaccines, metabolic
diseases and muscular-skeletal disorders, Evan Loh, Wyeth's vice
president of medical therapeutics, said today in a telephone
interview. Read the rest of this entry »
for $35 million in cash.
UK purchased the business assets of the hospital, which it acquired through a federal bankruptcy proceeding, for $12 million in July 2007. It renamed the facility UK HealthCare
.
Once completed, the transaction with Ventas will transfer the real estate to the university, said UK spokeswoman Amanda Nelson. The 13-acre facility includes the hospital, a medical-office builiding and a diagnostic center.
Ventas said in Read the rest of this entry »