BELLEVILLE, N.J. – A Belleville police officer seriously
injured in a crash that killed her partner has been released from
the hospital.
Melissa Corrado sustained head and rib injuries in the two-car
crash that occurred Saturday morning in neighboring Nutley. She was
taken to University Medical Center and went home on Sunday.
Corrado and Officer Kenneth Santucci were responding to a
suspicious persons call when their cruiser collided with another
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THE National Drug Authority (NDA) has acquired five mini-laboratories and computer equipment to detect fake drugs.
Speaking during the handover of the equipment worth $49,000 (sh88.2m) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) last week, Apollo Muhairwe, the NDA executive secretary, said cases of counterfeit drugs were decreasing following the acquisition of the new equipment.
“Our three studies have shown that the fakes drugs have reduced,” Read the rest of this entry »

QA, QC & Validation
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed to meet the deadline for its review of Takeda’s new drug febuxostat, the firm has announced.
An assessment of the new drug application for the medication – used to treat hyperuricemia in patients with gout – was due to be completed by January 18th.
Dean Sundberg, senior vice president of regulatory affairs at Takeda Global Research and Development Centre, said the FDA did Read the rest of this entry »

Even before the national economy took a nosedive, San Mateo County leaders faced a daunting task in convincing local businesses to help fund a plan to extend health care coverage for up to 44,000 uninsured adults.
With businesses now facing a deepening recession, there is still no clear answer on how the coverage plan would be paid for, more than two and a half years after the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Adult Health Care Coverage Expansion began Read the rest of this entry »

Texas hospital administrator Howard Ainsley has been named the new chief executive of the Hawaii Health Systems Corp.’s East Hawaii region and the
.
He replaces Ronald Schurra who will retire Dec. 1.
“I am honored to lead the charge for improved health care in East Hawaii,” Ainsley said in a prepared statement on Wednesday. “These are challenging times and we must seize the opportunity to provide better care for the community.”
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is keeping a step ahead of tighter state regulations in its plans to build a hospital in Monroeville.
Pennsylvania is preparing to launch a state review and approval process for big hospital expenditures, including new buildings and equipment, to avoid duplication of services and dampen escalating health care costs, Rosemarie Greco, director of the governor’s Office of Health Care Reform, said Monday. A commission to review hospital expenditures Read the rest of this entry »

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) –
, the first National
Football League player charged in a federal steroids probe, was
sentenced to two years’ probation and a $5,000 fine for lying to
a federal agent in 2003 about taking the muscle-building drugs.
Stubblefield was sentenced today in federal court in San
Francisco after pleading guilty in January 2008. He could have
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Gophers men’s hockey coach Don Lucia received some good news about his health late Monday afternoon. He received a telephone call with the results of a medical test he had taken on Friday.
“Basically, it rules out some of the bad stuff,” Lucia said. “They are still trying to pinpoint [my illness], but they have a pretty good idea. I’m hopeful that whatever I have can be treated orally.”
Based on what his doctors have told him, Lucia said, he should Read the rest of this entry »

Does the Food and Drug Administration approve drugs anymore? Or are we seeing the lame-duck leadership at the agency punt any action over to the next administration?
Late yesterday, the FDA gave
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full, formal approval of its new HIV/AIDS drug. But that was only to be followed by news out of Dow component
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for hospital-acquired infections just yet. In early trading, JNJ is the biggest dollar and percentage loser in the Read the rest of this entry »

12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, September 11, 2008
Developer Cypress Equities said Wednesday that it has leased space to LA Fitness in its new Shops at Mockingbird development near Dallas Love Field.
The fitness center will take almost half of the 78,000-square-foot retail project, which is under construction near Mockingbird Lane and Lemmon Avenue.
O’Brien & Associates designed the center, and Mycon General Contractors is the builder.
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