WASHINGTON, Sept 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The National Medical Association (NMA) recently elected Willarda V. Edwards, M.D., MBA of Baltimore, Maryland as president-elect at its annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Edwards as president-elect will spend the next year preparing to assume the responsibilities of president of the NMA in July of 2009. She has served for over 17 years on the Board of Trustees of the NMA in various Read the rest of this entry »
WILLIAMS (AP) — Five people died and dozens were injured Sunday after a Greyhound bus overturned in north-central California, authorities said.
California Highway Patrol officials said the crash happened around 6:12 p.m. near the town of Williams — about 60 miles north of Sacramento — as the bus headed to Colusa Casino Resort from Sacramento.
California Highway Patrol dispatcher Terry Troth said at least 30 people were injured Read the rest of this entry »
Mon, 01/05/2009 11:05 AM | Bali
DENPASAR: The Denpasar Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) confiscated hundreds of illegal virility drugs at a raid in a boarding house at Jalan Imam Bonjol in Denpasar, Friday.
The city BPOM found 12 kinds of illegal virility drugs, with pills numbering in the hundreds, and two cardboard boxes filled with sex toys for women at a boarding house belonging to Ali Humaidi.
“We found all of this evidence in his Read the rest of this entry »
Washington (dbTechno) – According to a new report, Medicaid paid out over $200 million for drugs that were never approved by the FDA.
who carried out the investigation into the unapproved drugs.
What they found was that from 2004 to 2007, Medicaid paid out around $198 million for drugs never approved by the FDA.
This was not just a few drugs, as the investigation found they paid out the money for more than 100 unapproved drugs.
This could Read the rest of this entry »
“Eggnog is the worst because it’s extremely high-calorie and it’s absorbed quickly. Something that sweet will rapidly go from your intestine into your bloodstream by osmosis. This is why a lot of drinks are very sweet — unfortunately to make the effect stronger. Wine and beer will be absorbed at a more even rate.”
Statins might just prove to be real miracle drugs. They do a great job at lowering cholesterol, and they also appear to have a multitude of other medical benefits. They work by altering the metabolism of cholesterol, a complex fat that the body needs for many purposes. For example, cholesterol forms a vital component of cell membranes and nerve sheaths; it forms the basis of sex hormones; and it enables bile acids to process the food we eat. Most Read the rest of this entry »
has been released from hospital, having been admitted on Sunday after suffering a severe reaction to something he ingested.
website was updated today, saying that “
is fine.”
The singer left the hospital with her son last night (November 10), says [url=
]TMZ[/url], and the pair were reportedly driven home with a security escort.
[url= http://www.nme.com/news/britney-spears/40967]As previously reported[/url], a message on [url=
on Sunday, Read the rest of this entry »
About the only thing they’re fit to be is tied.
Men and women who signed up and paid to join a fitness club that should have opened in East Taunton 10 months ago are hopping mad.
So mad, in fact, that a growing number have contacted the state’s Attorney General’s Office, in addition to posting comments on an Internet blog reserved for people who say they were ripped off.
As far back as November of 2007, representatives of a Read the rest of this entry »
October 20, 2008 10:07 AM
HANOI, Oct 20 (Bernama) — Vietnam will further closely monitor the milk market, improve milk testing system and swiftly restore the supply of safe milk products for consumers nationwide, a leading health official said.
The move is in response to the discovery of melamine in 24 separate products in the country during China’s tainted milk scandal.
Milk containing melamine has been blamed for the deaths of several Read the rest of this entry »
and anti-choice blogosphere, the Senator’s pro-prevention, pro-education
policies get scant attention – while his support for the Freedom of Choice Act
and his opposition to the Hyde Amendment come in for fierce derision.
Last week, Amie
that the proposed federal Freedom
of Choice Act (FOCA) would do nothing more radical than codify the holdings of
Roe – the right of a woman to seek pre-viability abortion, and post-viability
abortion in the case Read the rest of this entry »