27 per cent of UK adults aged 16 or over have taken illegal drugs – amounting to around 13 million people. The younger the adults, the more likely they are to have taken drugs: while 46 per cent of the 16-34 age group have taken drugs at some point in their lives, only 5 per cent of people aged 55 or over have done so.
Men are more likely to have taken drugs than women, but the gap is closing. In 2002, men were more than twice as likely as women Read the rest of this entry »
Almost 8 percent of all major league baseball players used drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during the 2008 season, almost twice the percentage of the general population.
The drugs — usually stimulants — to treat ADHD are among those banned for general use in the major leagues, according to the
. The 106 exemptions — 7.86 percent of all major league players — are actually three more than granted during the 2007 Read the rest of this entry »
Co. is expected Monday to name its president, Gregory D. Wasson, as chief executive, after conducting the first external CEO search in the drugstore chain’s 108-year history.
The choice of Mr. Wasson, who began his career at Walgreen 29 years ago as a pharmacy intern, may disappoint some investors looking for an executive with a deeper financial background to cope with the turbulent economy.
At the company’s annual meeting two weeks ago, a shareholder Read the rest of this entry »
Health is an important part of anyone’s life; therefore it pushes one to constantly look into finding the right diet and exercise program suitable for their needs. Bizymoms is pleased to introduce Marjorie Geiser: a Life Coach, Dietician and Personal Trainer, as their Expert when it comes to Diet and Nutrition.
Marjorie Geiser, owner of MEG-Enterprises, Inc and author of
Just Jump, has been coaching Fitness and Nutrition Professionals on starting Read the rest of this entry »
Since replacing the legacy system with the ETL and data mining
capabilities of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition, NHS Islington is
now able to gather and analyze additional information from a national
source of patient admissions and emergency data. The Pentaho
solution extracts data from multiple national and local sources and
integrates into a centralized Microsoft SQL Server database. Using a
logistic regression data model, Pentaho Data Read the rest of this entry »
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve developed nanometer-sized “cargo ships” that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream, delivering anti-cancer drugs.
The researchers said such nanoships can escape immediate detection by the body’s immune system, delivering anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.
Scientists at the University of California-San Diego and the University Read the rest of this entry »
ALBANY – The job descriptions included security guard and
Medicaid fraud investigator. Yet former
, pick up her dry cleaning, and move a heavy stone Buddha to her home, only to order a worker back when she wanted it moved to a different spot, according to a report yesterday by state investigators.
Also former U.S. surgeon general, Novello is accused of forcing state employees to work overtime handling other personal chores, including grocery Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, November 22, 2008
RIFLE — In 2005, J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith set out to spend a year eating only food that had traveled less than 100 miles to reach their Vancouver home.
In the process, they identified the Pacific Coast’s Dungeness crab as one possible menu item.
Then, in an example of the global industrialization of the food industry, they found out some of the crab meat they were looking at buying had been sent Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CST on Friday, January 2, 2009
By TIARA M. ELLIS / The Dallas Morning News
Kimberly Armstrong says she has run from every drug program she was ever ordered to attend. But when she was sent to one offered by Dallas County probation aimed at treating both her drug addiction and bipolar disorder, she decided to stick with it.
“It seemed like a good program. So I thought I’d give it a chance,” said Armstrong, 39, who has been sober Read the rest of this entry »
When times are tight some people sacrifice health care to save money. Every year women die from cancer and other diseases, because they couldn't afford the proper screenings.
The Southeastern District Health Department wants to make sure women know there is help available.
When times are tight, cancer screening don't have to be a luxury. The Southeastern District Health Department offers free breast and cervical cancer screenings to women Read the rest of this entry »