A local doctor is involved in eight clinical trials aimed at creating new medications or improving existing drugs and care for people with diabetes.
Dr. Michael Valitutto, medical director of the Borgess Center for Diabetes Care, said some of the research projects were initiated by him and others by the government or pharmaceutical companies.
The trials are running for 16 and 52 weeks, and they are:
• Investigating and evaluating new injectable Read the rest of this entry »
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major smuggling cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital Thursday, officials said.
Leonidas Vargas, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was murdered in a hospital bed where he was being treated for lung disease, a police spokesman said.
Police and hospital officials said at least one person entered the 60-year-old’s room at Doce de Octubre hospital and fired four Read the rest of this entry »
If you watched the IU-Cornell game on television, or in person at Assembly Hall or even listened to Don Fischer’s call on the radio, you know about Verdell Jones III’s scary moment with 6:05 to play in the first half today.
Jones had just committed a turnover on the other end, and was mad at himself and playing ball-hawking man-to-man defense on his Cornell opponent coming back down the floor, when he was picked off on a screen by Cornell 7-footer Read the rest of this entry »
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth has renewed its credentials as a Level 2 trauma center equipped to treat victims of auto wrecks, gunshots and other serious injuries.
Harris Fort Worth, which first won the Level 2 designation in 1986, struggled with trauma care for several months last year when a shortage of neurosurgeons forced the hospital to turn away some emergency patients with brain and spine injuries.
At the time, ambulance Read the rest of this entry »
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But, despite the risks that the flu poses to mother and child, a 2006National Health Information Survey estimates that fewer than 14 percent ofmoms-to-be get vaccinated during the flu season each year. This is also inspite of recommendations from leading experts emphasizing flu vaccination forwomen who are pregnant during flu season and new scientific evidence showingthe protective Read the rest of this entry »
The California state Senate’s abrupt rejection of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ambitious plan to extend health insurance to millions of Californians has continued to reverberate, setting the stage for high-stakes political and legal battles.
Democratic senators who killed Schwarzenegger’s complex scheme early this year preferred, instead, to eliminate all private health insurance and create a $200-billion-a-year, state-managed “single-payer” system. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t know why prospective appointee of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle says he’ll ask us what we think we should do about health care in this country. There’s no need to ask the American people when you already know health-care costs are 16 percent of GDP [Gross Domestic Product] in the U.S., while it’s 9 to 11 percent in single-payer countries.
Single-payer countries have the happiest, healthiest and most productive people on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
Two Bay Area men are now taking steps to sue California based 24 Hour Fitness, alleging that they were fired for reporting workplace discrimination.
They are both former district managers with the gym chain. The two men say they were demoted, had their pay cut and were finally terminated for complaining about racist, sexist and homophobic comments made by co-workers.
The men’s complaints have been upheld by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Read the rest of this entry »
ZURICH, Nov 26 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators require
further audits of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N:
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before assessing the antibiotic ceftobiprole, which it is
developing with Swiss biotech Basilea (BSLN.S:
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In a so-called complete response letter on approval of
the drug, for complicated skin and skin structure
infections, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it
was unable to review the clinical data Read the rest of this entry »
The world needs another diet book like it needs a hole in the head, but mine really will be different.
It's going to be called “The Renovation Diet” and is based on the premise that stress, sleeplessness and worry may not be good for your mental health but they're generally good for your figure. Like all good self-help books, it will be written from the vantage of hard-won experience.
Yes, we've been building. But renovation sob stories Read the rest of this entry »