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Tuesday, Cantel Medical Corp. (CMN:
) reported fourth-quarter net income of $2.6 million or $0.16 per share, compared to $2.0 million or $0.12 per share in the year ago quarter.
On average, two analysts polled by First Call/Thomson Financial expected the company to earn $0.10 per share for the quarter.
Net sales for the quarter increased to $64.3 million from $63.0 million in the prior year quarter. Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Celgene Corp. said Thursday the Food and Drug Administration has given special status to its experimental drug for lung cancer.
The company said the FDA has agreed to review Amrubican under its “fast track” program, which is designed to speed up the approval of treatments for deadly diseases. Under the program, companies can submit their applications in piecemeal fashion instead of all at once. Company scientists can Read the rest of this entry »
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How’s your New Year’s resolution to lose weight going? Not so good? Did you take time to map out how you were going to lose the weight and keep it off?
It’s never too late to start.
Here’s a sample plan to get you back on track. Use it as a template — see how I did it, then make your own and fill in all the details below the headers.
Lose 35 pounds forever!!!
* Fit into a great bathing Read the rest of this entry »
Do Diabetes Drugs Affect Heart Health?
Oct. 27, 2008 — A review of 40 clinical drug trials failed to produce reliable conclusions about the effects of oral diabetes medicines on cardiovascular health, despite controversy over the drug Avandia.
However, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health did find that metformin seemed to be associated with a decrease in
and heart-related deaths.
The analysis of the trials, 27 Read the rest of this entry »
Police said Arbelo walked into a class on Voices of Medieval
Women and announced to the class and professor that he had a bomb
in his knapsack. He threatened to detonate it if anyone approached
him, and he also pulled out a knife, police said.
Over the course of seven hours, Arbelo gradually released the
students and eventually surrendered to police without incident.
Arbelo wanted a written statement and a list of five books read
over the radio Read the rest of this entry »
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury on Wednesday awarded $36 million to the family of a man shot to death by a mental patient in a Walmart parking lot in 2005.
ValueOptions Inc., the company that held the state contract for providing behavioral health care until last year, was found 90 percent at fault in the death of Patrick Graham, 35, of Glendale. Graham was one of two men shot by Ed Liu, a ValueOptions patient who has suffered from paranoid Read the rest of this entry »
NEWTON, Mass.–(
Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(AMEX: PRW), a bio-pharmaceutical
company developing proprietary polysaccharide-based therapeutic
compounds to treat cancer, has submitted supporting clinical and
manufacturing data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a
New Drug Application (NDA) registration of DAVANAT
,
a new chemical entity, for the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Life Fitness has several models.
X1 – This is their most basic model, but that doesn’t mean that they cut out any of the high quality they’re known for. Like the other models, the X1 is known for its smooth, natural elliptical feel. What you’re missing with this model are the advanced features and programmable options.
X3 – There are two models of X3; one has a simple heart rate readout, and the other has more features, including realtime interactive Read the rest of this entry »
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the nation’s civil rights pioneers in the 1950s and 1960s, was “recovering very nicely” Tuesday from pneumonia and dehydration at an Alabama hospital, his wife said.
“I feel like he’s out of the woods now, and even though he has some way to go, things are looking five times better,” Sephira Shuttlesworth said of the longtime Cincinnati pastor.
The 86-year-old Shuttlesworth, who was unconscious when hospitalized Read the rest of this entry »
The University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital are preparing to seek legislative approval next month for a $475 million, 250-bed hospital to replace UConn’s struggling John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, according to Michael Hogan, UConn president.
When UConn and Hartford Hospital announced merger plans last month, they said they would either renovate or replace the aging Dempsey facility. Construction of the new hospital, Read the rest of this entry »