For at least the fifth time in three months, members of a newly opened health and fitness club on Naperville’s far northeast side have fallen victim to thieves.
At least three lockers and five parked vehicles have been broken into since mid-November while clients were working out at L.A. Fitness, 1836 Freedom Drive, according to written Naperville police reports. One of the vehicles was then stolen.
The most recent incident occurred about 9:24 Read the rest of this entry »

SARASOTA COUNTY – HIV infection and AIDS continues to take a toll on women with thousands becoming infected each year.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over half of all new HIV infections occur among black women — mothers, daughters, sisters, wives– between the ages of 19 to 35.  Some women are unaware of their male partner's risk factors for HIV infection, such as having unprotected sex with multiple partners, Read the rest of this entry »

Apart from those injuries, Brown’s health was robust and steady. No major issues. Until now.
Brown, who lives in Walnut Creek with his wife and two children, 5 and 4, was laid off Nov. 14 when the city of Oakland reduced the workforce in its tree division. Six days later Brown was diagnosed with Stage 4, Grade 3 follicular lymphoma – a slow-growing, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
That sequence of events, rapid and unforeseen, created an immediate financial Read the rest of this entry »

Malcolm, 11, said the sessions have transformed his life.
“Before I was coming here, I was an OK student,” he said in a soft voice. “Now I have more self-control. They taught me that if I control my temper, it will be better off for me.”
Malcolm is currently reading three grade levels ahead of his class and is talking about a career as a chef.
The obstacles Malcolm faces because of his prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol are common. Across Read the rest of this entry »

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The governments of Germany and the United Kingdom and charities including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $630 million toward eradicating polio, in a major boost of funding that shows how tricky and expensive the endgame can be to eliminate a disease.
The Gates Foundation pledged $255 million while the governments of Germany and the U.K. will together donate a total of $280 million. Rotary International said Read the rest of this entry »

Ted Rogers, chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc., was admitted to hospital late today for treatment of an existing cardiac condition, the company said.
Chairman Alan Horn will take over chief executive duties from the 75-year-old in the interim.
“The length of Mr. Rogers’ leave will be determined by his overall health and medical progress,” the company said in a statement.
Reached by telephone late this afternoon, spokesperson Jan Innes Read the rest of this entry »

Pittsburgh, PA (ChemImage Corporation) – ChemImage is pleased to announce publication of the results of a collaborative study with the FDA to characterize the thermodynamics of a highly unstable polymorph of acetaminophen. The Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal, published “Raman detected differential scanning calorimetry of polymorphic transformations in acetaminophen” (doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2008.09.008).
This Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. government’s $150 billion commitment to American International Group, along with its 80 percent stake in the company,
could put the White House in a difficult spot when it comes to enacting health care reforms that would put pressure on companies
like the giant insurer.
President Obama vowed during the campaign to “take on” insurance companies, accusing them
of cherry-picking healthy patients and leaving the rest to fend Read the rest of this entry »

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, preparing its most ambitious proposal yet to expand into the affluent northern suburbs, is in pursuit of an “affiliation” with
Hospital, company executives said late Monday.
Although the exact arrangement of a deal has not been finalized, both sides are not ruling out a merger or an acquisition by Northwestern Memorial as a way for Lake Forest to generate cash to build a replacement hospital or upgrade its 215-bed Read the rest of this entry »

The housing market’s collapse is forcing a growing number of Americans sitting on large medical bills to choose between paying the mortgage and paying the doctor.
People have long resorted to borrowing against their homes to pay for medical care in times of illness or after an accident. But with home values plummeting and interest rates on adjustable mortgages ratcheting higher, some indebted patients are at risk of losing their homes in order to Read the rest of this entry »