WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’re looking for a little help shedding extra pounds after the holidays, the government is warning you to stay away from nearly 30 weight-loss products that contain unlisted and possibly dangerous ingredients.
The pills are advertised as “natural” fat busters and have intriguing names like Imelda Perfect Slim and Zhen de Shou. Some suggest they are innovative “herbal” remedies from Asia.
But the Food and Drug Administration Read the rest of this entry »
Work off those holiday calories this Saturday in Shakopee.
On Saturday — a change of date from the city’s Park and Rec brochure — the city’s community center is hosting a Fitness Jam, with free 20-minute sessions allowing you to try Pilates, yoga, kick-boxing and more.
You can join in for a moment or two, or spend the entire two hours from 9 to 11 a.m. in various sessions. The event itself lasts till noon, with advice available on personal training Read the rest of this entry »
layoffs, closures
Hospitals and nursing homes expected painfully big cuts in Gov. David A. Paterson’s proposed budget, and they got them.
Knowing what was coming, however, didn’t make it any easier to take.
Officials here and in Albany described the estimated $3.5 billion in health-related cuts suggested in the 2009-10 budget as staggering, as well as disproportionate, and warned that the reductions will lead to layoffs and Read the rest of this entry »
AT THE SCENE: Buffalo News reporter witnesses “a sense of purpose amid the wreckage.”
The blue and white airplane tail leans against a slender pine tree. It is about all that remains recognizable from Flight 3407.
And there is absolutely nothing left of the Wielinski family home where the plane crashed and burned in a fireball Thursday night.
A Buffalo News reporter drove past the site Saturday, struck by the haunting images. Read the rest of this entry »
Falls girl, 17, shot in leg in Buffalo
A 17-year-old Niagara Falls girl is listed in fair condition today in Erie County Medical
Center after a shooting late Saturday in Buffalo.
Kayla McCarthy was in a home on Fulton Street at about 9:35 p.m. when a masked man entered
and shot her in the leg.
The incident happened in an apartment between Chicago and Louisiana streets, near South
Park Avenue.
The shooter was described as a male wearing Read the rest of this entry »
This “off-label” prescribing is a legal, common practice that is being questioned in some cases because of inadequate scientific evidence to support its safety and effectiveness.
“Although previous research has highlighted the substantial frequency of off-label drug use without good evidence, we have identified and prioritized specific drugs warranting attention,” the authors of the new study write in the journal
.
They list 14 drugs for which Read the rest of this entry »
CETRAXAL(R) is a Ciprofloxacin 0.2% Otic
Solution for the treatment of Acute Otitis Externa. In a phase III
clinical trial compared to Neomycin, Polymyxin B sulfates and
Hydrocortisone otic solution (NPH), CETRAXAL(R)
obtained a clinical cure rate of 93.9% in pediatric patients (vs. 76.0%
in the NPH group) and resolved or improved otalgia in 99.2% of the
patients. There were no adverse reactions with Read the rest of this entry »
Fitness is largely an urban, middle-class craze with lives transformed by breakneck economic growth. Many Chinese are embracing creature comforts which would once have been denounced by their Communist bosses as bourgeois indulgences
Several days a week, Wu Ruiyao hits the gym, where she sweats on a treadmill, tones her abs in a group exercise or stretches under the guidance of a personal trainer.
The 90-minute workout is routine to Wu, Read the rest of this entry »
(Adds lawmaker, industry comments)
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – The Project on Government
Oversight (POGO) on Wednesday called for an investigation into
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s dwindling number of
early laboratory inspections for high-risk medical devices.
The group urged lawmakers to give the FDA more funding to
hire and train additional inspectors to monitor laboratories
before manufacturers begin clinical trials.
FDA records Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI, India (CNN)
— Five newborn babies died Saturday in a suspected fire in their incubator at a government-run hospital in the north Indian state of Punjab, police said.
“Apparently it was a fire from a short circuit in their incubator,” said R.K. Sharma, police superintendent of Punjab’s Patiala city.
An inquiry has been ordered into the incident at Rajindra hospital, Sukhbir Singh Badal, the state’s deputy chief minister, told CNN. Read the rest of this entry »