Oct 30 2008, 2:42 PM EST
Weill Cornell Medical College receives 2 $100,000 grants for innovative global health research
NEW YORK (Oct. 30, 2008) — Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it has received two $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grants will support innovative global health research projects: “Untimely Triggering of the Fusion Mechanism Used by Viruses for Entry: Read the rest of this entry »
With the incoming of the New Year many people vow to get back into shape. But the US Food and Drug Administration are saying many types of diet pills aren’t the answer and they can put your health at risk.
As millions of Americans are overweight, some resort to diet pills to shed the extra pounds.
Yet, the US Food and Drug Administration is warning dieters nationwide that there are more than 25 different kinds of weight loss pills that are not Read the rest of this entry »
The South San Francisco biotech company will receive an initial payment of $195 million from Bristol-Myers under the partnership terms, followed by $45 million in 2009.
The deal is one of the bright spots in a gloomy picture for small and midsize biotechnology companies in the current economic downturn, which has made investors wary of risk and capital hard to raise. Exelixis laid off 78 employees in November to conserve its dwindling cash reserves Read the rest of this entry »
On Friday, Governor Palin spoke in Pittsburgh about children with cognitive disabilities. This was her long-awaited ”
” about matters that touch her personally. As a caregiver myself, I wish her and her family the best. I’m sure Governor Palin will be an excellent parent, role model, and advocate for her son and for others.
Her speech included a few good ideas. She favors full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Read the rest of this entry »
The Conscience Rule, one of the last items on President George W. Bush’s health agenda, has been challenged in U.S. District Court.
reports that a lawsuit was filed Jan. 15 in Connecticut by that state’s attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, seeking to block a new federal regulation that protects health workers if they refuse to perform medical services to which they object. The rule went into effect in December.
Blumenthal’s suit included the Read the rest of this entry »
HUNTLEY — Centegra Health Bridge Fitness Center is keeping its members in the swim of things with its three newly unveiled indoor pools.
The center, at 10450 Algonquin Road, recently opened a four-lane, 25-yard pool; a warm-water therapy pool with separate whirlpool area; and a leisure pool that has four 25-yard lap lanes with zero-depth entry, slide and play structure. There also are steam rooms and saunas.
“The pools offer a lot of unique Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. John Dingell was admitted to a hospital today for observation after suffering some discomfort, spokesman Adam Benson said.
Benson said the move was a precautionary measure for Dingell, 82. He declined to say where Dingell was admitted.
“The congressman is fully conscious and was joking with his staff from a cellphone while en route to the hospital,” Benson said. “The congressman expects to be back to work for the people Read the rest of this entry »
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) returned from the presidential campaign trail to Washington as relatively junior member of a chamber that prides itself on tradition, seniority and rules. So when she put out feelers seeking to leapfrog over more veteran senators in light of her national stature, the idea was quickly nixed.
So too was her hope to take the lead on health-care reform. Two Senate giants — Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, and Sen. Read the rest of this entry »
Two more teenagers have been abandoned at hospitals under the state’s safe-haven law, bringing the number of children dropped off to 26 since July, the authorities said. A 16-year-old girl was left at Midlands Hospital in Papillion on Sunday afternoon, and a 16-year-old boy was abandoned at Children’s Hospital in Omaha late Sunday, according to the State Department of Health and Human Services. Lt. Chris Whitted of the Papillion Police Read the rest of this entry »
Elisabeth Fritzl, who was imprisoned and repeatedly raped by her father in a cellar under the family’s home in
for 24 years, was today released from the psychiatric hospital where she has been recovering.
Christoph Herbst, a lawyer for Elisabeth, told the Austria Press Agency that she and six of the seven children she bore her father had been released from hospital.
They have been moved to an undisclosed location. In November prosecutors charged Read the rest of this entry »