AS AUSTRALIA and the world struggle to understand the tragic death of Darcey Freeman, age-old questions are being raised about men's emotional frailty and propensity for violent response under pressure.
Messages of anger, disbelief and shock ricocheted around the nation – on online sites and radio talkback – as Australians tried to come to terms with how a father allegedly tossed his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne's West Gate Bridge. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators approved more new drugs in 2008 than in any of the prior three years, a consolation of sorts to an industry struggling with greater scrutiny, thousands of layoffs and thinning drug pipelines.
The Food and Drug Administration approved 24 first-of-a-kind drugs in 2008, compared with 18 in 2007, 22 in 2006 and 20 in 2005.
The new drugs included Pristiq, an antidepressant from Wyeth; Treanda, a treatment for certain Read the rest of this entry »
GLEN BURNIE, Md., Oct 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Cyto Pulse Sciences, a leading producer of electric field based,
intradermal DNA Vaccine delivery systems, today announced approval by
Swedish regulatory authorities to begin a Phase I/II study of DNA
vaccination in patients with recurring prostate cancer. The trial will
investigate the safety of a xenogenic DNA vaccine delivered by the Derma
Vax(TM) intradermal Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking’s Effect On Nurses’ Health, Death Rates Revealed By UCLA Study
A new UCLA School of Nursing study is the first to reveal the devastating consequences of smoking on the nursing profession. Published in the November-December edition of the journal
, the findings describe smoking trends and death rates among U.S. nurses and emphasize the importance of supporting smoking cessation programs in the nursing field.
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THE women’s surgical ward at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has
won a reprieve from the Health Minister, John Della Bosca, who
intervened to save the beds scheduled for closure in an $8 million
round of cost-cutting at the Camperdown hospital before next week’s
mini-budget.
Mr Della Bosca said he had received many letters “from the
community including specialist clinicians, former patients and
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Chicago cop kills daughter, himself; son wounded
CHICAGO (AP) — An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed his young daughter and critically injured his young son then took his own life Monday, police said.
Chicago police said the shootings stemmed from a domestic dispute between the officer and the children’s mother, but they would not elaborate. They would not release the name of the officer, saying only that he was 31 years old Read the rest of this entry »
TheraQuest Biosciences, Inc. (
) is a private, development-stage pain management company building a diversified portfolio of pharmaceutical products to address a critical area of unmet medical need. Despite their limitations, current treatments for acute and chronic pain yield worldwide sales in excess of $30 billion. The TheraQuest team has contributed to the development of numerous analgesics approved in the U.S. over the past 20 years. TheraQuest’s Read the rest of this entry »
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth has renewed its credentials as a Level 2 trauma center equipped to treat victims of auto wrecks, gunshots and other serious injuries.
Harris Fort Worth, which first won the Level 2 designation in 1986, struggled with trauma care for several months last year when a shortage of neurosurgeons forced the hospital to turn away some emergency patients with brain and spine injuries.
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“Chemotherapy remains the most commonly employed form of systemic cancer treatment. However, although partial or complete shrinkage of tumor mass is frequently induced in chemotherapy-responsive tumors, survival benefits of such responses can be compromised by rapid regrowth of the drug-treated tumors,” says senior study author Dr. Robert S. Kerbel from the University of Toronto.
Clinical trials have indicated that drugs that inhibit the growth Read the rest of this entry »