SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct 10, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –
— Medicis (NYSE:MRX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its premarket approval application (PMA) supplement, based on clinical data which highlights RESTYLANE(R)’s duration effect up to 18 months in 97% of patients with repeated treatment. The RESTYLANE(R) package insert will be amended to include the study results. The Company anticipates using Read the rest of this entry »
Laurel Regional Hospital, 7300 Van Dusen Road
/ Laurel Regional Hospital and the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation offer this program Mondays and Thursdays, ending Dec. 11, at the hospital. Participants must be able to walk independently, with a device, or transfer to a straight chair from a wheelchair. Cost is $25 per person or $3 per class. Call 301-497-7914 to register.
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Read the rest of this entry »
For Mathson, who is undergoing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had knee surgery in September, the news got worse last week. The mill, which shut down, informed him it could no longer afford to offer health or welfare programs to any employees or retirees as of Jan. 1.
Two years short of Medicare eligibility and beset by health problems, Mathson’s options for health care are limited and expensive.
“There is insurance out there, but they’re Read the rest of this entry »
EUGENE, Or. -6 weeks of holiday season gorging comes to an end tomorrow…Happy New Year. Now what?
For a lot of us, we’ll hit the local health club with a vengeance; in some cases, too much vengeance. T
om Adams finds out first-hand that moderation is the best fitness policy.
January is usually the busiest month of the year for the fitness industry because so many of us make the fitness resolution. Sadly, by the time March rolls around, most Read the rest of this entry »
BERLIN (AFP) — French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) chief Pierre Bordry on Wednesday said there was “considerable evidence” of doping irregularities from blood transfusions taken at this year’s Tour de France.
“We possess considerable evidence from blood transfusions. We will only say later who it is,” Bordry told German TV station ZDF.
He added that anti-doping officials were concentrating on looking for traces of banned blood booster Read the rest of this entry »
KEVIN Rudd’s hand-picked health reform commission will urge the Prime Minister to seize control of key state-run aspects of the nation’s health system, as part of an overhaul aimed at boosting service and standards of care.
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission will today also urge Canberra to create mega-clinics, where patients could access general practitioners, chemists, diagnostic services and allied health professionals, all on Read the rest of this entry »
WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Rex UNC Health Care and Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic got good news Wednesday from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Novant Health and two Wake County surgery centers weren’t so fortunate.
DHHS’ Certificate of Need office revealed Wednesday that it has approved WakeMed Health and Hospitals’ plan to build a women’s hospital at its satellite facility in north Raleigh. A Read the rest of this entry »
Salem-News.com
The best rated ideas will be put into an official briefing book and hand delivered to the new President after he is sworn in.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The group
says that if President-elect Barack Obama has done one thing so far, he has given citizens a chance to tell him how we feel.
George Pappas with Americans for Safe Access said, “This is our chance to do it, to call him out, to tell him he MUST change federal policy on medical Read the rest of this entry »
Most bird diets consist of several key foods. Seeds, whole grain, pellet food, and fruits and veggies.
Seeds can be a nutritious part of the diet, but are high in fat so they should make up less than 20 percent.
Whole Grain Cereal can also be part of their daily routine. Like Chex cereals (rice, corn, wheat, bran, graham), shredded wheat and Cheerios.
Pellet diets are often a good choice for birds because they are nutritious and birds can’t Read the rest of this entry »
The hunting lease in West Texas has plenty of sagebrush mixed in with its open ground, rocky canyons and draws choked with brush.
It is desert land, the kind of property that a visitor passing through on the way to somewhere else would consider inhospitable and lifeless.
The desert is many things, but inhospitable and lifeless are not two of them, particularly since the rains returned in July and the open ground now is producing more vegetation Read the rest of this entry »