NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Raleigh in North Carolina has been voted the most political city in the United States — ahead of Washington D.C. and New York City, according to a new ranking.
Montgomery, Alabama, came in at No. 2 in the 100 most political cities, followed by Little Rock, Cleveland and Kansas City.
Greensboro in North Carolina, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Portland and Pittsburgh, rounded the top 10 in the ranking by Men’s Health magazine. Read the rest of this entry »
Senate SCHIP Bill Will Include Coverage For Immigrant Children, Pregnant Women, Sen. Reid Says
) likely will include provisions allowing states to extend public health benefits to legal immigrant pregnant women and children who have been in the country less than five years, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday,
reports. Reid said that he expects the Senate to begin debating amendments to legislation expanding the program (Edney, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two television commercials for Bayer AG’s birth control product Yaz are misleading, U.S. health regulators warned the company in a letter released on Tuesday.
The ads suggest the pills are approved for a wider-range of conditions such as premenstrual syndrome, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a letter dated Oct 3. The ads also minimize the drug’s risks, the agency said.
One commercial featured women singing Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obesity can run in families, but family lifestyle has just as much to do with teenagers’ weight as their genes do, new research shows.
“What we do as a family — our family lifestyles — matters for weight. Lifestyles aren’t just about individual behaviors,” study author Dr. Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University in University Park told Reuters Health. The study is the first to demonstrate that the connection Read the rest of this entry »
and their push to expand operations in the United States has led to a wave of kidnappings, shootings and home invasions in
, state and federal officials said at a legislative hearing on Monday.
The drug trade has long brought violence to the state, which serves as a hub as illicit drugs and illegal immigrants are smuggled to the rest of the nation.
Over all, in this city and surrounding Maricopa County, homicides and violent crime decreased Read the rest of this entry »
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Soderstrom filed his racketeering lawsuit without an attorney in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana last week, seeking unspecified damages from Nicholas, Samueli and other former Broadcom officers. Because Soderstrom alleges that his “false arrest and illegal conviction” caused damage to his property and business, U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Stotler ruled this week that he must first get his criminal conviction overturned before the racketeering Read the rest of this entry »
Ms. Yow had a record of 737-344 in 38 years — 34 years with the N.C. State Wolfpack — in a career filled with countless milestones. She coached the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal in 1988, won four Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships, earned 20 NCAA tournament bids and reached the Final Four in 1998.
She also was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002, and the school dedicated Kay Yow Court in Reynolds Read the rest of this entry »
As increasing numbers of the unemployed and uninsured turn to the nation’s emergency rooms as a medical last resort, doctors warn that the centers — many already overburdened — could have even more trouble handling the heart attacks, broken bones and other traumas that define their core mission.
Even before the recession became evident, many emergency rooms around the country were already overcrowded, with dangerously long waits Read the rest of this entry »
filed for state regulatory approval Monday to build a hospital in a fast-growing section of upper Montgomery County.
, which will decide whether to issue a certificate of need so the project can go forward.
The 60-acre Clarksburg site would house a 100-bed hospital, medical office buildings for physicians and outpatient medical services, a nursing home and a day care center.
Since 2002 Adventist has worked alongside county planners, adjoining Read the rest of this entry »