AMERICAN FORK — A Provo woman accused of shaking a baby to death in January 2006 told investigators she couldn’t remember every detail of the night that the 5-month-old infant died.
She did tell police she shook the baby once when she noticed something was wrong, but she doesn’t know if it was enough to cause his death.
“Maybe I did,” said Daniella Ruiz in an Jan. 5, 2006 recorded interview. “Maybe something happened and I blocked it out.” Read the rest of this entry »
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The pedestrian who was killed Wednesday when hit by a Caltrain in Mountain View has been identified as 19-year-old Allison Springfield of Sunnyvale.
As of Thursday, investigators for the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office had not yet examined her body and or ruled whether the death was a suicide or an accident, a spokeswoman for the coroner’s office said.
Caltrain officials said southbound train No. 274 fatally struck a pedestrian Read the rest of this entry »
Right now there are millions of individuals whose lives are directly dependent on the rate at which new drugs come to market. I’m one of them. I’m fighting for my life.
To date, half of my intestine has been removed to manage Crohn’s disease. Last year, at age 23, I enrolled in a clinical trial for a treatment that could save my life: an adult stem-cell therapy that helps damaged intestinal tissue regenerate from the relentless inflammation and Read the rest of this entry »
11:53 PM CST on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
As the final hours of 2008 tick down, some popular New Year’s Eve venues have been booked for weeks.
They don’t promise champagne, dancing and music. And no one shows up because of the cuisine.
But every year, delivery rooms see a distinct uptick in business in the last days of December, said Dr. Melissa Bailey, an obstetrician at Baylor Medical Center-Frisco.
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ONTARIO – Attention gang members and drug pushers – you have been put on notice.
More than 150 community members attended the inaugural meeting of the West End Gang & Drug Task Force at the Ontario Police Department. And they are ready to take back the streets.
“This is a call to action,” said keynote speaker, San Bernardino County Supervisor Gary Ovitt. “It doesn’t make a difference if we just meet, we need to implement what we’ve learned works. Read the rest of this entry »
Proteon Therapeutics Inc., a privately held Waltham biopharmaceutical company, said it has received fast-track designation for a drug candidate from the Food and Drug Administration. PRT-201 is being investigated for its ability to improve vascular access in patients currently on or being prepared for hemodialysis, said the company, which noted the FDA’s fast-track designation is intended to facilitate development and expedite review for drugs that Read the rest of this entry »
AIRDRIE, Scotland, Jan. 9 (UPI) — A Scottish nurse who spent more than a week locked in the trunk of her car was discharged from a hospital Thursday.
A friend said Magdeline Makola still suffers from pains in her leg and must walk on crutches, the Edinburgh Evening News reported. Hannah Letsholo, who works with Makola at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, said most of her problems were caused by being kept in a confined space for nine days.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) — Blacks are more likely than whites to have small bleeds within the brain, increasing their chances of having a stroke, according to a new study.
Compared with whites, blacks had 32 percent more of these lesions, called cerebral microbleeds, which are tied to increased odds of having a stroke. Blacks were also more likely to have them in several different areas of the brain.
The study was published in the Oct. Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2008)
— A new type of drug could alleviate pain in a similar way to cannabis without affecting the brain, according to a new study.
The research demonstrates for the first time that cannabinoid receptors called CB2, which can be activated by cannabis use, are present in human sensory nerves in the peripheral nervous system, but are not present in a normal human brain.
Drugs which activate the CB2 receptors are able Read the rest of this entry »