was rushed to a Houston hospital late Tuesday complaining of what a family spokesman called “a little bit of pain.”
Her husband, former president
, was with her and their son, the outgoing president
, was notified.
The candid-talking Mrs. Bush, who is 83 years old, was given a series of tests, which came back negative. But as a precaution, she was being kept overnight.
Barbara Bush had reported stomach pains in recent days, which did not Read the rest of this entry »
By Karen Gullo, Connie Guglielmo and David Scheer
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) –
’s health are forcing
regulators into new legal territory, balancing investors’ right
to information against a last bastion of executive privacy.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s inquiry, reported
by Bloomberg News last week, is likely to examine how Jobs’s
diagnoses unfolded and why
announced Jan. 14 that he was
taking a five-month medical leave, nine Read the rest of this entry »
Pilot sites are being set up in areas of London with the highest teenage
pregnancy rates to see if the programme is feasible before being rolled out
nationally.
Ministers said the aim is to increase access to contraception and reduce the
number of unintended pregnancies although critics were concerned that
relying on the Pill does not protect against sexually transmitted infections
which are at epidemic proportions.
Women will not Read the rest of this entry »
Oct. 27, 2008 (Washington, D.C.) — Call it an outbreak of the “superbug of superbugs.” For what researchers believe is the first time, there’s been a small cluster of methicillin-resistant
) that failed to respond to Zyvox. That’s an antibiotic that can be used as a last resort when others fail.
The report of 12 such cases at a Spanish hospital comes at a time when new treatments for resistant MRSA infections are desperately needed, says Michael Read the rest of this entry »
returned to work at the Justice Department Friday after suffering what aides said was a fainting spell in the middle of a speech the previous night.
“All tests at the hospital have come back with good results, and I feel fine,” Mr. Mukasey told Justice Department employees in an e-mail message. A short time later, he left
hospital, where he had stayed overnight for observation, and returned to his office on the fifth floor of the Justice Read the rest of this entry »
The Food and Drug Administration approved a generic version of the epilepsy and bipolar disorder drug Lamictal developed by Mylan Inc., the company Wednesday.
The FDA approved an application from Mylan for generic Lamictal in 25 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg and 200 mg strengths. The agency also approved 5 mg and 25 mg doses of chewable Lamictal. Pittsburgh-based Mylan will sell the drugs through its Mylan Pharmaceuticals brand.
Lamictal, or lamotrigine, Read the rest of this entry »
(Adds details, CEO comment)
LOS ANGELES, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Gilead Sciences Inc
(GILD.O:
,
,
,
) said on Tuesday it received a complete response letter
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new drug
application for aztreonam lysine for inhalation, an
investigational treatment for cystic fibrosis.
The FDA informed the company that it cannot approve the new
drug application in its current form and that an additional
clinical Read the rest of this entry »
Has mindless munching got the best of you? Are you one of those women with a fridge full of nothing but film? Or is it that you simply have too much on your plate? Whatever your eating style, our genius food expert teases, tricks, and makes over your diet without ever making you feel deprived.
Jo Piazza is a party girl, and anyone who reads her
gossip column knows it. In Full Disclosure, she dishes about the boldfaced names that make up Manhattan’s Read the rest of this entry »
said Monday that a previously recalled peanut butter-sandwich cracker tested positive for salmonella as a rapidly growing national recall widened to include more companies’ peanut snacks because of potential contamination.
Kellogg’s Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter is the first product sold to consumers that’s known to have tested positive for the salmonella strain initially linked only to peanut butter sold to institutions, Read the rest of this entry »
Actual physical abuse was rare, being reported by only three of the 220 caretakers in the study. But the researchers, who published their findings in the Jan. 23 online issue of
, say that 115 (52.3 percent) of those surveyed acknowledged some abusive behavior toward the relative under care, with “significant” abusive behavior described by 74 (33.6 percent) of caregivers.
The results indicate “the extreme difficulty of caring for persons with Read the rest of this entry »