-(Dow Jones)- Rep.
, R-Texas, on Wednesday questioned why
the Food and Drug Administration waited six months to seize contaminated lots of
a popular blood thinner from an
-based company that wasn’t properly
recalling the product.
The FDA announced in November that U.S. Marshalls seized 11 contaminated lots
of the blood thinner heparin from
-based Celsus Laboratories Inc.
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AvMed is one of Florida’s oldest and largest not-for-profit health plans,
and is solely focused on providing health coverage to Florida citizens and
businesses. AvMed provides access to health care coverage for large and small
employer groups around the state, in addition to Individuals and Medicare
Advantage members in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. AvMed prides itself on
providing members and clients highly personalized service with all the
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Arson investigators are trying to determine what caused a two-alarm fire that sent two people to the hospital at a Montrose-area apartment complex Monday evening, authorities said.
When firefighters arrived the saw fire coming from the ground floor and second story of an apartment in the complex in the 1900 block of Colquitt around 9 p.m., said Houston Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Terry Stone.
A second alarm was pulled after the blaze began Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press – February 8, 2009 2:24 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior administration official says Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is near the top of President Barack Obama’s list to head the Health and Human Services Department.
That official says Sebelius has the strength of her long and close working relationship with the president.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private administration deliberations.
The 60-year-old Read the rest of this entry »
Jeong Hyo-jeen, a 30-year-old office worker in Seoul, is one of the city’s many bike enthusiasts. She has commuted to work by bicycle almost every day for the last four years.
“It’s fun, of course, and you can avoid being stuck in crowds in buses or subway trains and at the same time it’s good exercise,” she said.
However, using a bicycle as the primary means of getting to work is challenging as the city lacks infrastructure for bike riders. Read the rest of this entry »
This week has brought surprising sexual revelations in the Japanese press, including a study linking the sexual habits of teenagers to their breakfast preferences. According to the Japan Family Planning Association, Japanese teenagers who skip breakfast have sex sooner than those who do not.
The study included about 1,500 respondents, and concluded that while Japanese middle school students who ate breakfast lost their virginity at age 19.4, those Read the rest of this entry »
St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Clearance of Implantable Device to
Monitor Cardiac Conditions
ST. PAUL, Minn.–(
)–St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) today announced U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) clearance of its SJM Confirm
implantable cardiac monitor (ICM), a compact device designed to help
physicians diagnose abnormal heart rhythms.
The implantable monitor enables physicians to evaluate heart rhythm Read the rest of this entry »
Dr Sheila Campbell Forrester (seated), chief medical officer, goes over notes with Lovette Byfield, director of HIV prevention, at the Ministry of Health’s King Street office in downtown Kingston yesterday morning. – Norman Grindley/Acting Photography Editor
The Ministry of Health is reporting that there was a 30 per cent decrease in the number of new AIDS cases in 2007 when compared with the previous year.
Data also indicate a drop in the number Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) — As if fighting cancer wasn’t hard enough, a new Dutch study concludes that one in three people who survive the ordeal won’t be able to find a job.
The meta-analysis of more than 20,000 cancer survivors found that 33.8 percent of those who’d battled cancer were out of work vs. 15.2 percent of healthy people.
“Cancer survivorship is associated with unemployment,” said lead researcher Angela de Boer, an assistant Read the rest of this entry »
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do? An actress, producer, activist…and now author!!! Yes sir, rumor has it that Alicia is set to publish a vegan dieting book, aptly named:
.
The book is due out in the fall of 2009 and is billed as “a 3-step diet program that explores the connection between what we put in our bodies and what we’re doing to the planet, and how choosing the right foods in the kitchen can help you feeling lighter, sexier, and more alive.”
On a Read the rest of this entry »