According to a Polk Sheriffs news release, detectives were involved in a drug investigation in the Earlene Drive area of Haines City when they were called to 333 Earlene Drive where they discovered drugs and the cockfighting instruments.
Detectives removed 24 roosters from the home and confiscated fighting knives, spurs, boxing gloves and other items used in cockfighting.
The homeowner, Jorge Hernandez-Martinez, 26, was arrested and charged Read the rest of this entry »
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, 65,
released his medical records Monday, detailing the treatment of two brain
aneurysms in 1988 along with other, mostly minor medical problems,
reported.
Biden has had no subsequent aneurysms and has since
undergone appropriate screening, according to Dr. Matthew Parker, who spoke on
behalf of Biden’s physician, Dr. John Eisold, the official attending physician
for Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday, Symmetry Medical, Inc. (SMA:
), an independent provider of products to the orthopedic device industry and other medical markets, reported a net income for the fourth-quarter compared to a net loss in the comparable period a year ago. In addition, the company provided an outlook for full year 2009.
The Warsaw, Indiana-based company’s net income for the quarter was $11.32 million, or $0.32 Read the rest of this entry »
No. 10 Duke vs. Southern Illinois at Madison Square Garden, 7 p.m.
No. 13 Memphis vs. Chattanooga at Coliseo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 4:30 p.m.
No. 18 Florida vs. Southern Utah, 8 p.m.
No. 19 Southern California vs. Seton Hall at Coliseo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 7 p.m.
No. 1 North Carolina at UC Santa Barbara, 10 p.m.
No. 2 Connecticut vs. La Salle at the Sports and Fitness Center, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Read the rest of this entry »
What does it say that Michael Phelps, the all-time Olympic gold medal champion, and Alex Rodriguez, baseball’s highest paid player, have both consumed illegal substances?
Of course, I’m not saying drug use is “good.” I’m saying it’s ubiquitous. If people can’t develop skill at managing drug use — along with many other potentially addictive involvements in life — they face rough sledding. Life preservation is a more basic instinct than the instinct Read the rest of this entry »
Geography makes a difference. The “medical tourism” idea – traveling to cheaper places for expensive procedures – is growing. You don’t need to go to Mexico, Singapore or India to save. Even in the U.S. there are now cheaper places. It may not always justify the trip, but sometimes it will. Suppose you live in northern California and have relatives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Aetna’s tool shows that an in-network cholesterol screening is $21 in Cincinnati Read the rest of this entry »
will nominate former Senator Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota as secretary of health and human services, and is leaning toward former Deputy Attorney General
as attorney general, people close to the transition said Wednesday.
But most attention in Washington continued to be focused on the possibility that Mr. Obama might nominate Senator
to serve as secretary of state. Democrats close to the situation said Wednesday that former President Read the rest of this entry »
The Dalai Lama has been taken to hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, after complaining of pain in his arms, his spokesman said.
The Tibetan spiritual leader was taken to hospital from his home in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, Chimme Chhoekyapa told the BBC.
Mr Chhoekyapa says it is “nothing to worry about” and that the Dalai Lama plans to visit Europe in a few days.
In October the Dalai Lama, 73, had surgery to remove a gallstone. Read the rest of this entry »
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In April, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), wrote that pharma’s influence on medicine “is so blatant now you’d have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it,” adding, “We should all get together and say, ‘Enough!’”
But an article in the September 3 JAMA finds her not taking her own medicine.
Ever since the FDA mandated black boxes on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor Read the rest of this entry »
TOTTENHAM stars have complained that their poor start to the season is down to hunger, according to one report.
The Lilywhites are bottom of the league after their worst start to a season for almost a century.
And one player is believed to have told The Sun that it is boss Juande Ramos’ strict diet regime – brought in when the Spaniard arrived at White Hart Lane a year ago – that has left them feeling
lacklustre going into matches.
“We’re Read the rest of this entry »