Friday, January 9, 2009
Washington DC VA Medical Center officials say they are planning for as many as 800 homeless veterans Saturday at their annual medical-screenings and employment-services event.
Officials said 381 homeless veterans had registered by Thursday, compared with 200 at this time last year. They also said 11 female homeless veterans were among those registered and that only one attended the 2008 event.
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Doctors at the San Mateo Medical Center left a five-inch catheter inside a Foster City man’s heart, causing an infection that complicated his fight against cancer, then tried to cover up the mistake, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Alan Paolucci, 52, says the San Mateo County-run hospital should have known that a catheter being used to treat his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma had broken off from a port in his chest after he began treatment in 2003.
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WASHINGTON — At 39, Sanjay Gupta is an assistant professor at Emory University Medical School and associate chief of neurosurgery at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, a large full-service medical center that is also the city’s public hospital. Those are fine credentials for a young doctor, but not enough by themselves to make him a national leader in medicine, let alone leading the short list for surgeon general.
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Associated Press
10.07.08,
12:39 PM ET
Shares of Dendreon Corp. tumbled Tuesday as investors backed off the prior day’s big gains on data showing that a developing prostate cancer vaccine could meet its goal in a late-stage study.
The stock declined 90 cents, or 13 percent, to $6.03 in afternoon trading Tuesday. On Monday, shares had reached $10 intraday, their highest point in more than a year, but reversed course to close at $6.93 – Read the rest of this entry »

The age limit for abandoning children in the US state of Nebraska could be cut from 18 years to three days, if politicians vote on the change.
Under a safe haven law passed in July, a person will not be prosecuted for leaving a child at a hospital.
Since then at least 33 children have been legally abandoned – but 20 of them are teenagers, prompting a rethink on the law’s wording.
Nebraska was one of the last US states to introduce a safe-haven Read the rest of this entry »

Newly Published Menopause Study: ‘Bioidentical’ and FDA-Approved Divigel(R) (estradiol gel) 0.1 Percent Safe and Effective Treatment for Moderate to Severe Hot Flashes Associated With Menopause
MAPLE GROVE, Minn., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. announced today the publication of results of a Phase III study demonstrating that Divigel(R) low-dose transdermal estradiol gel 0.1% is an effective treatment for relief of moderate Read the rest of this entry »

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BANGKOK, Oct 13 (TNA) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collected S&P cookie samples and the product’s seven ingredients to test for melamine after Switzerland said it found Thai-produced S&P cookies were contaminated with melamine.
Test results are expected to be released within two days.
FDA Secretary-General Pipat Yingseri said that FDA inspectors visited the factory of Thai bakery chain S&P after press report that Swiss authority found Read the rest of this entry »

September 10, 2008 07:39 pm
WENHAM — Steve Price’s hands have been shaken by Sheik Zayed of Dubai, one of the richest men in the world. A high honor, perhaps, but Price has a far loftier mission for those hands.
Since 1997, the family doctor who formerly had a practice in Hamilton has been volunteering his time to aid victims of natural and man-made disasters around the world. He’s been to Congo during a civil war and New Orleans Read the rest of this entry »

“We haven’t seen this kind of jump in several years for anybody,” she said.
Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District also improved slightly, although they performed below the state average in nearly every category.
“I’m never satisfied with being below average in anything,” L.A. Schools Supt. David L. Brewer said in an interview. “We still have a ways to go, and this is a collective effort. Let’s face facts: [For] a lot of these kids, Read the rest of this entry »