Associated Press – January 9, 2009 6:35 AM ET
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Salem, N.H., police are looking for two men after an armed robbery at a local drug store.
Police say two men wearing sunglasses, hooded sweat shirts, masks and gloves entered the front door of the Salem Medicine Shoppe around 6 p.m. on Thursday. 1 of the suspects showed a gun and demanded prescription drugs. The suspects fled, but police don’t know if they left on foot or in a Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Ty Cannon, PhD, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA helped the Staglins make the historic
announcement of the $21 million grant for the North American Prodromal
Longitudinal Study (NAPLS). Dr. Cannon has taken a lead in NAPLS, a
consortium of eight North American prodromal (an early symptom
indicating the onset of an attack or a disease) research centers, which
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BEIJING (AP) — A former Tiananmen Square protester has been held involuntarily at a Beijing mental hospital for at least half a year, a human rights group said Friday.
Wang Lianxi was taken to the hospital in western Beijing after a police roundup of dissidents and other potential “troublemakers” before the Olympic Games in August, Chinese Human Rights Defenders said. Earlier this week, a friend discovered that Wang was still there, it said.
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The closure of the dedicated women’s ward at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is a clinical decision and not about saving money, the NSW government says.
The state opposition accused the government of having its priorities wrong as news of the closure of the 20-bed ward was confirmed by the hospital on Friday.
Opposition health spokeswoman Jillian Skinner said cost cutting was the driver behind the ward’s closure, while 260 health department Read the rest of this entry »

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
,
Feb. 24
eDiets.com, Inc. (Nasdaq
DIET),
a leading provider of convenient at-home diet, fitness and healthy lifestyle solutions, today announced that it has completed the first phase of its marketing program to promote the Company’s fresh meal delivery service at Lady of America Franchise Corporation’s (“LOAFC”) fitness centers.
This first phase included rolling out the meal delivery program to the entire LOAFC franchise Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts in a look at candidates in the 13th District.
Nearly 18 years ago, just after Allyson Schwartz arrived in Harrisburg as a newly elected state senator, her ambition and drive said as much about her will as it did her inexperience.
It was Schwartz’s first foray into electoral politics, her first brush with the give-and-take of being a lawmaker. She had, until then, spent her adult life running a women’s Read the rest of this entry »

As net worths nosedive and layoffs loom, everyone is feeling anxious. But from an emotional standpoint, it’s disproportionately women who are taking the hit. In fact, a recent poll from the American Psychological Association found that 25% more women than men feel stressed about the economy.
You might think that women need to find more minutes to squeeze into the day–not deduct them for “me” time, right? Not exactly. Now more than ever, women need Read the rest of this entry »

Canada is a “heartsick nation” that needs to make a massive investment in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease to forestall a medical disaster, according to a broad coalition of health groups.
In announcing a proposed Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan, the group’s leaders called on Ottawa to invest $700-million, promising an economic savings of $22.2-billion in return over the next decade.
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Mercy Health Partners is among the nation’s best hospitals for vascular surgery and its coronary interventions shared top honors in Michigan with the Detroit area’s William Beaumont Hospital, according to ratings by an independent health care assessment firm.
The 2009 ratings by Colorado-based HealthGrades ranked Mercy’s three Muskegon hospitals — Mercy, Hackley and Muskegon General — among the nation’s best in several categories. Mercy also owns Read the rest of this entry »

The home secretary has told MPs she was “surprised” and “disappointed” by a drugs adviser likening the dangers of ecstasy to the dangers of horse riding.
Jacqui Smith said Prof David Nutt had “trivialised” the dangers of the drug.
She said she had told him he had gone beyond his role as head of the Advisory Council on Drugs Misuse.
Ms Smith said Prof Nutt had apologised to her and she had asked him to do the same to families whose lives have Read the rest of this entry »