* A 30-day money-back guarantee at L.A. Boxing (
).
“Gyms realize these are tough economic times, for themselves as well as their members,” says Joe Moore, chief executive of the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Assn., a fitness trade group.
Even independent gyms are offering deals, so talk to the manager.
Moore recommends that new and old gym members review benefits online or in the information package they are typically handed Read the rest of this entry »

Wright Medical Technology has bought for $1.1 million an approximately 29,000-square-foot, one-story concrete block warehouse at
in Arlington. The seller was
.
The building sits on a 2-acre lot on the north side of Gulf Stream Drive west of Jetway Drive and was built in 1974.
Kyle Joines, Wright Medical’s vice president of manufacturing, said the building was bought for any future needs the company might have for it.
“It was very Read the rest of this entry »

GLENS FALLS — A Glens Falls man who was arrested Thursday night in connection with charges that he had a safe full of pot stolen from his home was charged early Saturday when police found him driving downtown on a riding lawnmower while under the influence of marijuana, police said.
Donald L. Johnson, 42, of Ridge Street, drew police scrutiny because he had a man riding on the hood of the tractor as he crossed Glen Street near South Street at 12:09 Read the rest of this entry »

emergency department is complete.
The hospital said in a Friday release that it built the 2,500-square-foot project in unused space set aside for expansion when the emergency department moved to the
in 2006.
The increased space boosts the number of private treatment and diagnostic rooms in the emergency department to 28. The department has 32 rooms overall.
In fiscal 2008, which ended June 30, the emergency department had 43,392 emergency Read the rest of this entry »

An autopsy of a man who fatally shot two people and seriously injured two others before killing himself showed he did not have drugs or alcohol in his system.
The Mesa County Coroner’s office reported that toxicology testing on Stefan Martin-Urban, 22, who shot himself in the head on Oct. 12, showed he had not been drinking or using cocaine, methamphetamine or prescription drugs.
Killed on that Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. were 61-year-old dentist Read the rest of this entry »

LEBANON — A Morrow woman was indicted for doctor shopping to illegally obtain pain killers.
The Warren County grand jury handed down an 11-count indictment against Heather Dawn Walker, 36, of 1583 E. U.S. 22/Ohio 3, Morrow, for deception to obtain dangerous drugs, on Dec.12.
According to Warren County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel, between June and September, Walker allegedly visited four doctors and obtained the drug Ultram.
“That’s called Read the rest of this entry »

Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the world’s
pioneer in probiotics by introducing the first single shot probiotics drink,
Yakult(R), in 1935. Founded by microbiologist Dr. Minoru Shirota, Yakult(R)
contains high amounts of its signature strain, Lactobacillus casei Shirota.
Yakult is committed to researching the endless applications for probiotics and
the use of intestinal bacteria in human health around the world. The Read the rest of this entry »

MIDDLETOWN – A plan to convert the Horton campus of Orange Regional Medical Center in the City of Middletown into a medical training school, medical college, skilled nursing home, student dormitory, offices and houses to be constructed, was announced Wednesday by developer New Jersey Tony Danza and Mayor Marlinda Duncanson.
“In today’s climate, I think it is safe to say this is the most important project in our community in Read the rest of this entry »

AstraZeneca and POZEN Inc., co-development partner for the investigational compound PN 400, have announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed POZEN that it is conducting an internal review on the acceptability of endoscopic gastric ulcers as a primary endpoint in clinical studies. The FDA has not indicated when their internal review will be completed, although an FDA internal meeting has been scheduled to review this Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (Reuters) – Nearly a fourth of infants in the Chinese capital consumed milk formula tainted with melamine before the shoddy products were taken off store shelves, state media on Sunday cited survey by the city government as showing.
The door-to-door screening of more than 307,000 Beijing families with children under the age of three found that over 75,000 babies had been fed contaminated milk formula, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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