Yesterday, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, at around 4 a.m., I got home from Atlantic City. Me and my friend —- —— drove to Atlantic City in —-’s car on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, at around 9:15 a.m. When I got home, Leah was in bed, awake. She asked me how I did, and I told her that I won $260. We smoked went to sleep around 5 a.m. I woke up around 9:30 a.m. Leah was still in bed. I left around 10:30 a.m. and went to LA Fitness on Rte. 110 in Farmingdale. Read the rest of this entry »
Leighton Levy, Gleaner Writer
A lot can happen in 10 years, and for Karelle Ashley and JAMFIT, a lot has.
With best friend and registered fitness instructor Nichelle Wilks, Ashley, a registered nurse and certified fitness instructor formed the Jamaica Fitness association (JAMFIT) in 1998. Their dream was of putting Jamaica on par with the United States in health and fitness. A decade later, Ashley can afford to look back with a sense of pride. Read the rest of this entry »
By now it is almost a cliche to say that America’s health care system is broken. In response, many politicians who are calling for “reform” and “universal health coverage” are not, in fact, clarifying the situation because they include in their new plans the very elements that have busted the system. So the political battle in the first days of 2009 will be over “token reform” or a bold, truly universal type of health insurance.
The challenge is Read the rest of this entry »
On the second floor of a brick building in Wakefield, sunlight streaking in through slatted shades, the class is cranking.
Side-to-side shimmies. Karate chops. Squats. Lunges. Butterflies with pastel-colored hand weights. All in reps of 10.
But contrary to what you’d expect, there are no tanned, lithe, and muscled bodies here.
Instead, there are wrinkles. Arthritic knees, hips, and elbows. Unyielding joints.
This might not be Richard Simmons’s Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on: Monday, 13 October 2008, 09:00 CDT
Bayer HealthCare has announced that the FDA has approved routine prophylaxis with Kogenate FS Antihemophilic Factor to reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes and the risk of joint damage in patients aged 0-16 years with severe hemophilia A with no pre-existing joint damage.
This important approval provides these patients with the only factor VIII treatment that the FDA has determined safe and effective Read the rest of this entry »
MANSFIELD Drug paraphernalia and about two ounces of crack cocaine that was cut up and packaged for resale were discovered hidden underneath the mattress of a hospital bed belonging to a drug suspects ill mother, authorities said.
The seizure of the drugs Monday at residence in the 1200 block of Sample Street in Mansfield ends a three-month investigation by the Tri-Parish Drug Task Force into suspected drug distribution, said DeSoto sheriffs Read the rest of this entry »
The health care industry in the United States displays many of the same symptoms that the housing industry did before the bubble broke, and it is not immune from an analogous downturn.
Spending on health care is rising 6 percent to 7 percent per year, more than twice the rate of inflation, just as housing prices rose. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that 20 percent of our gross domestic Read the rest of this entry »
he Regional Medical Center’s Breast Health Center staff is waging war on breast cancer.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and mammography is still the gold standard for early detection of breast cancer. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital mammography units, RMC has invested in its community’s health by providing the best equipment coupled with skilled, compassionate staff.
Throughout the year, the Breast Health Center’s staff Read the rest of this entry »
In a rare move by the Food and Drug Administration, a pharmaceutical
company has been forced to recant on some of its direct-to-consumer advertisements and is spending $20 million on a counter-advertising campaign that began airing recently.
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals pulled a pair of advertisements for the oral contraception YAZ last fall after the FDA issued its initial warning against the company. The advertisements in question “were Read the rest of this entry »
Health Professionals Appointed to Lead Primary Care and Cancer Strategy
TORONTO, Oct. 30 /CNW/ – Family physicians and nurses play a critical
role in cancer screening and throughout the cancer journey. They greatly
influence patient screening behaviours and help to make sure that the cancer
system meets local patient care needs. Today, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)
launched a Primary Care and Cancer Strategy to strengthen the connection
between Read the rest of this entry »