RENO, Nev.—A power outage at a Reno hospital has forced the transfer of some patients to another medical center and the cancellation of all unnecessary operations and tests.
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center lost its main power source and two of three back-up generators after a test of the generators was conducted about 6 a.m.
St. Mary’s spokesman Gary Aldax says 10 critical care patients have been moved to Renown Regional Medical Center. Read the rest of this entry »

Though Barack Obama has not spoken, it appears that his transition team has confirmed that Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN, is the president-elect’s top choice to be U.S. surgeon general. Gupta, a surgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University (where he still cares for patients), would bring to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services unique talents unrivaled by any of the prior 17 Read the rest of this entry »

In 1985 — concerned that I might live the balance of my adult life as a 140-pound weakling — I requested only one item for my birthday: The Soloflex home exercise machine.
The Soloflex — a heavy, L-shaped pipe with an adjustable bench/platform and weight bar — promised a more productive workout than with free weights by using elastomer weightstraps.
These are heavy rubber straps that bulge into doughnut ends — picture stage 3 of cell meiosis Read the rest of this entry »

, December 15, 2008 ) FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. — Dec. 15, 2008 — Bankruptcy Creditors’ Service, Inc., published Issue No. 18 of
TOTAL FITNESS BANKRUPTCY NEWS today. The 23-page newsletter contains stories with these headlines:
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[00185] BALLY II’S MOTION TO WAIVE SEC. 345 INVESTMENT GUIDELINES
for $45. Copies of all back issues are also available for purchase at BCSI’s on-line newsstand.
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EL PASO, Texas
— Concerns about the bloody drug war being fought just across the Mexican border led to a short-lived resolution Tuesday asking the federal government to consider legalizing drugs.
Mayor John Cook vetoed the resolution hours after it was unanimously approved by the City Council.
Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso city councilman, pushed the resolution that asked the U.S. government to start an “open, honest, national dialogue on Read the rest of this entry »

Eleven-year-old Ellie Stevens thinks drugs are disgusting and cannot understand why anyone would want to take them.
She suffered a campaign of abuse and intimidation after her mother, Marie, took a stand and decided to keep her daughter away from those who might draw her into substance abuse.
Ellie – not her real name – and Marie are taking part in charity Addaction’s latest campaign aimed at highlighting the problem of drug abuse among young Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve taken the presents back. You’ve given up booze for the month, and you’ve just broken your only new year’s resolution. Monkey, meanwhile, has been looking into the crystal ball to discover what might happen in 2009. But probably won’t.
• With the BBC under pressure to cut back on expenses after the unfortunate 45,572 bill for the launch party of Merlin, all future programme launches will be held at director general Mark Thompson’s house. Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON: For decades women have used
”not tonight darling, I’ve got a headache” excuse to shun sex, but a new
survey has revealed that men are now inventing new excuses to put off
sex.
The new poll by independent charity the Men’s Health Forum has
found that 15% of men aged between 18 and 59 in the UK admitted to a ”lack of
interest in sex”.
Relationship-counselling service Relate has
revealed that there’s a 40% increase in the number Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) — International health experts will convene in New York City next week to discuss an unconventional and arguably radical approach to treating people with type 2 diabetes: weight-loss surgery.
These “bariatric” procedures are normally reserved for the morbidly obese, but recent studies suggest that patients with type 2 diabetes may benefit as well, by improving disease symptoms, often driving it into remission, Read the rest of this entry »

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it has issued official warning letters to German drugmaker Bayer AG over the marketing of two aspirin products, Bayer Women’s and Bayer Heart Advantage. According to the agency, because the aspirin products are new formulations, the drugs cannot be legally marketed in the U.S. until they go through the drug approval process. Bayer Women’s contains calcium while Bayer Heart Read the rest of this entry »