Abate graduated college in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in exercise physiology and a minor in nutrition. He is also a sixth degree black belt with 25 years of martial arts training. Because of Abate’s vast array of knowledge regarding martial arts and nutrition, he has been able to create a multipurpose facility. MAFF offers a 9-week Kickboxers Ultimate Training course created to transform the body in a safe and healthy manner through fitness Read the rest of this entry »
Victual Reality: Why is the FDA unwilling to study evidence of mercury in high-fructose corn syrup?
Last month, two newly published studies reported traces of mercury in products made from high-fructose corn syrup, the food industry’s favorite sweetener. Rather than act to correct the situation, the FDA has hewn closely to the corn industry’s party line: 1) no mercury shows up in HFCS (although we haven’t tested it); 2) and besides, detected levels Read the rest of this entry »
Johnson & Johnson said Friday it sent the Food and Drug Administration new data on its schizophrenia drug candidate paliperidone palmitate, responding to an FDA request issued in August.
The FDA had declined to approve paliperidone palmitate because it wanted more information. The drug is designed as a once-per-month injection to treat acute episodes and manage the disease. Johnson & Johnson developed the drug with Irish pharmaceutical company Elan Read the rest of this entry »
FORT DUCHESNE — One person was killed and two others were injured in a crash Tuesday night.
The Utah Highway Patrol said Heather Craft, 21, of Gusher, was making a left turn from U.S. 40 into a gas station at about 6 p.m. when she ran head-on into pickup truck traveling at highway speeds. Craft died at the scene. Craft’s father, Charles R. Craft, was a passenger in the car. The 45-year-old was seriously injured and was flown to Intermountain Read the rest of this entry »
iTech Fitness, the industry leader in active gaming development, and
Softkinetic, the leading 3D gesture recognition software provider, today
announced a partnership to develop the future of active gaming
experiences. For the first time ever, users can exercise in a virtual
world by simply moving their bodies, without the use of any game
controller or peripheral.
The innovation will premiere at the Club Industry Read the rest of this entry »
is moving forward with a $20 million expansion project that will see five new operating rooms and a new pre/post-operative area.
The Batavia hospital received a tentative go-ahead Jan. 22 from the project review committee of the
. The project still needs final approval from the full council at their Feb. 4 meeting.
The project includes a 35,000-square-foot addition with one new operating room suite and a new procedure room. Plans call for renovating Read the rest of this entry »
Proposal 1 is flawed, but well-intentioned; Vague language on medical marijuana
A proposal on the Nov. 4 Michigan ballot aims to help ease the pain and suffering of people with some very real, hard-to-address medical problems. Yet as it’s constructed, the proposal is difficult to support.
Proposal 1, the medicinal marijuana initiative, seeks to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana use for patients with certain medical conditions without the fear Read the rest of this entry »
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — An Osceola County corrections officer was arrested Thursday night after authorities got a tip that the he was buying drugs and bringing them into the Osceola County Jail where he works.
Eric Sosa spent a good part of Friday behind bars at Orange County Jail. That’s because when Sosa was busted officials couldn’t put him behind bars with the inmates he was paid to watch.
Osceola County Read the rest of this entry »
January 12, 2009 01:28 pm
Despite slow economy, owners of local gyms remain pumped up
Note: A quote from Kara Thompson, spokeswoman for the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, has been corrected to read: “Certainly, the economy affects a lot of industries.”
It seems a few gyms on the North Shore took it on the chin last year as the economy slimmed down.
One of them, the North Shore Athletic Club in the Cummings Center Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators have warned
Steris Corp (STE.N:
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) about quality-control violations uncovered
during an inspection of a Rhode Island plant, a letter released
on Tuesday said.
The company failed to maintain adequate procedures to deal
with products that do not meet production requirements, the
Food and Drug Administration said in a Sept. 25 letter.
The letter to Read the rest of this entry »