FDA panel is considering giving approval to Pfizer’s Fablyn (lasofoxifene tartrate) for the treatment of osteoporosis. The panel feels that the drug benefits overweight, but it has also advised that the drug administration should be limited to women at high risk fracture or those who do not respond to other treatments.
Panel members gave a green signal on the premise that other alternative treatments to osteoporosis also have multiple side effects. Read the rest of this entry »
U of M restructures leadership of Medical School, Academic Health Center
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 1/29/2009 ) — University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks announced his plans to combine two key administrative positions in the university’s health sciences area: senior vice president for health sciences and dean of the Medical School. Current Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Frank Cerra will be appointed to the new position, subject Read the rest of this entry »
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December 21, 2008 – December 27, Read the rest of this entry »
Editor’s note: This article originally was published November 2007.
At their best, alpine skiing, teleing and snowboarding are exhilarating, freeing and fun sports. At their worst, they can be painful.
Particularly for skiers and snowboarders ages 50 or older, a bad injury can be enough to end their season or even cause them to give up their sports for good.
Maintaining good overall fitness, however, as well as brushing up on skills and Read the rest of this entry »
Despite failures, search for anti-obesity drugs still looks golden
PARIS (AFP) — Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world’s fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.
After investing a sum rumoured to be in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), Sanofi-Aventis of France announced last Wednesday it was abandoning its drug rimonabant, Read the rest of this entry »
Somebody forgot to book the movies this week.
Maybe it’s just a lull between waves, but there’s only one new nationwide release making its way to local screens — “Punisher: War Zone” — (no warranties expressed or implied).
Which isn’t to say there isn’t quality: There’s a genuinely laugh-filled local movie, a few exciting low-budget indies, a couple of odd-looking curiosities and a short but pungent new film series at the Northwest Film Center. Read the rest of this entry »
One of UK's leading fitness expert's challenges the concept of recession by identifying higher standards of services as the solution.
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) February 10, 2009 — Leading fitness expert, Mike Bach, raises the question that at a time of recession, the health and fitness industry should be identifying how to respond to the current climate and provide more value so that consumers benefit from the time and money invested, Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday, Symmetry Medical Inc. (SMA:
) reported third-quarter net income of $2.5 million or $0.07 per share, compared to a loss of $1.1 million or $0.03 per share in the same quarter last year.
On average, four analysts polled by First Call/Thomson Financial expected the company to earn $0.20 per share for the quarter.
Revenue for the quarter increased 47.8% to $112.1 million from $75.8 million Read the rest of this entry »
DAYTON, Ohio –
Police said a driver who crashed his van is accused of hiding drugs from officers.
The crash happened Friday on West Third Street.
38-year-old Christopher Metzger lost control and hit a bridge, police said. After Metzger arrived at the hospital for treatment, police said drugs were located in his buttocks.
Officers said Metzger was arrested and now facing charges of possession of drugs. They said he also faces charges of child Read the rest of this entry »
RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the establishment of a referral hospital for children's chronic and complicated diseases including the separation of conjoined twins at the King Abdul Aziz Medical City of the National Guard.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, CEO of Health Affairs at the National Guard, who also headed the medical team that conducted the separation of Iraqi conjoined twins on Saturday, said in a press Read the rest of this entry »