Actress Kareena Kapoor was in the Capital to inaugurate a spa on Saturday. Kareena spoke to the media about fitness, her upcoming film with Saif Ali Khan
and working with Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone.
The actress felt she was the right choice for the inauguration of the spa as she is now a fitness freak.
(They’ve chosen the right girl to inaugurate the spa) as I am very much into fitness and weight loss since the last one year.”
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BOTHELL, WA
,
Oct. 13
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:
) today announced that it concluded a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on
October 7, 2008
, and that the FDA agreed that “durable pain palliation is an acceptable and desirable study endpoint” to support a product marketing approval for OGX-011 as a treatment for hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). In addition, OncoGenex Read the rest of this entry »
For Jeff Palumbo of Grant, Minn., the epiphany came this year when he took his son in for ringworm. Palumbo had just switched to his employer’s high-deductible plan. Despite multiple phone calls to his clinic and his insurer to ask the price of a doctor visit, he kept getting the same maddening answer: It depends. Finally, someone told him it would cost at least $85. When Palumbo ended up getting billed $125 for the visit — “For seven minutes!” — Read the rest of this entry »
This press release contains specific forward-looking statements, e.g.
statements including terms like believe, assume, expect or similar
expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors which may result in a substantial
divergence between the actual results, financial situation, development or
performance of the company and those explicitly or implicitly presumed in
these statements. Read the rest of this entry »
Airbus, the world’s largest maker of commercial aircraft, received 79% fewer orders in September compared with a year earlier amid a slowdown in demand from airlines.
Customers signed contracts last month for 29 planes, compared with 141 orders a year earlier. Orders from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 fell 13% to 737 aircraft, Toulouse, France-based Airbus said.
Airbus has a full-year order target of 850 aircraft. Chief Executive Tom Enders said July 12 Read the rest of this entry »
One person was flown in critical condition to a Salt Lake City hospital Wednesday night after a shooting in a West Valley City neighborhood.
West Valley City police Lt. Tom McLachlan said the injured man was shot more than once. Police arrived about 9 p.m. and found the man on the ground outside a home near 6000 West and 3700 South.
The injured man was flown to University Hospital and underwent surgery Wednesday night, said McLachlan. Read the rest of this entry »
Chicago Police arrested two suspected drug dealers — one from the West Side and one from west suburban Elmwood Park — while executing three search warrants over the weekend which also netted drugs, weapon, cash and vehicle.
Nicholas Bulski, 27, of Elmwood Park is charged with possession of cocaine, failure to register firearms and not having an FOID card, according to a release from police.
Jose Rodriguez, 24, of the 1100 block of South Monitor Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman who killed her 10-month-old daughter by cutting off her arms with a kitchen knife is being released from a state mental hospital.
Dena Schlosser killed her baby in 2004 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity two years later. Prosecutor Curtis Howard says she’ll be released into outpatient treatment within the next month.
A judge ordered her release Thursday during her annual commitment hearing, deeming Read the rest of this entry »
Nov. 19, 2008 — Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea
transplant that hinges on the patient’s own stem cells.
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was
successful and is detailed in today’s online edition of
.
. She’d already had
a stent implanted to reopen that airway, but that didn’t work out and the stent
had been removed.
Doctors got a trachea from an organ donor and stripped the donated trachea
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When he visited Capitol Hill yesterday to explain his tax problems to senators, Daschle — President Obama’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services — came and went in a D.C. cab. The ride waiting for him on Constitution Avenue was labeled “M. Djebbour Taxi Co.”
“My failure to recognize that the use of a car was income and not a gift from a good friend was a mistake,” the former Senate majority leader explained as his onetime Read the rest of this entry »