TRENTON – Suspected blood splatters were found on the walls and carpet of the Hamilton Avenue apartment of missing restaurant worker Danielle Marie Nuttall-Ravert, and city police are again asking for the public’s help in finding out what happened to her.
“We don’t know if they are new or old (splatters), or what they are,” city police Capt. Joe Juniak said. “They were taken by the New Jersey State Police and by my crime scene unit, and they are Read the rest of this entry »
Health care stocks posted the second-smallest loss over the past year among 10 sectors tracked by Standard & Poor’s, with an average decline of 21.6 percent through the end of January. Consumer staples such as food and household products like laundry detergent did a little better, with a 19.7 percent decline. Both sectors easily beat the S&P 500-stock index, which tumbled 40 percent.
Now comes the tricky part: figuring out how much safe-harbor staying Read the rest of this entry »
One of the benefits to raking in $6.7 billion in free cash flow is that you can splurge a little if you don’t feel like developing something in-house.
. But bioreactors take time to build, and developing manufacturing processes for producing protein-based biologics isn’t as simple as for small molecule drugs. So Merck has decided to go the easy route, and buy something that’s already established.
manufacturing facility and its follow-on biologics Read the rest of this entry »
SEOUL: North Korea released photographs yesterday of its leader,
Kim Jong-Il, watching a football match in an apparent bid to quell
mounting speculation about his poor state of health.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency and other
media carried the undated photos of Mr Kim watching the game
between two army teams, according to South Korea’s unification
ministry, which monitors North Korean media.
One analyst said Pyongyang was struggling Read the rest of this entry »
North Street Community LLC has opened the Westchester Medical Pavilion, a 72,000-square-foot medical office complex at 311 North St. in White Plains. About 40 percent of the four-story building has been leased following a $4 million renovation, the developer said. Among the new leases: Hospice & Palliative Care of Westchester, a not-for-profit home hospice care provider; Edna L. Roker Social Adult Day Care Center Inc., a senior day care program; Urogynecology Read the rest of this entry »
Rodale is a global media company with a heritage, mission and authority
dedicated to the health and wellness of the individual, community and
planet. Through a broad portfolio of leading media properties, Rodale
reaches more than 70 million people around the world through multiple
distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, e-commerce,
direct-to-consumer and video. The company publishes some of Read the rest of this entry »
There’s no shortage of websites explaining the vagaries of health insurance, but the relaunch last week of a veteran site,
, offers perhaps the most comprehensive online resource we’ve seen for anyone without insurance or in need of free or low-cost medical care.
The website, Access to Health Insurance / Resources for Care, was first launched 11 years ago as a project of the Actors’ Fund of America. The fund is a social service organization that Read the rest of this entry »
Holiday decorations are barely put away before the avalanche of ads bombard us – weight loss products, workout equipment, tech gadgets to help count calories fat grams and carbs and those infamous infomercials.
From the attention marketers pay to weight loss, it appears that getting thin seems to be everyone’s goal. And everyone needs a gimmick to be successful. However, about a third of those who make a resolution to lose weight abandon the idea Read the rest of this entry »
A 20-year-old man working at a San Martin winery lost his right leg after he got caught in a piece of equipment used to drill holes in wine barrels.
Mike Van Loben Sels, battalion chief for the South Santa Clara County Fire Protection District, said the accident was reported at 9:47 p.m. Monday at ASV Wines, 12805 Llagas Road.
The employee’s leg was caught in an auger — a large spiral screw used in different parts of the wine production Read the rest of this entry »
The global financial crash of the past few weeks has hammered home what should be common sense: A free market needs reasonable rules that safeguard the public interest. When you unshackle corporations and put the cops who would police them in handcuffs, ultimately everyone loses in the ensuing chaos.
As our Tuesday, October 14 op-ed ad in
points out, despite their spectacular “free market” economic failure, conservatives are still trying to use Read the rest of this entry »