An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten with a bottle and baseball bat last week by men said to be shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday night.
The victim, Jose O. Sucuzhanay, died on Friday night at Elmhurst Hospital Center as his mother was traveling from Ecuador to see him one last time, said the family spokesman, Francisco Moya. Mr. Sucuzhanay’s family had kept him on life support Read the rest of this entry »

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Feed your libido and lose weight? Sounds like a too-good-to-be-true diet, until you really think about it.
Shagging can make you slimmer, if you do enough of it. It can also help the two of you fall for each other all over again. Requiring no monthly fee — dress code optional – you can “sexercise” yourself into shape. This is one gym membership you’ll never want to drop.
Combining sex and fitness Read the rest of this entry »

Some drugs meant to build bone for people with osteoporosis could increase the risk of developing a devastating jaw infection, a new study suggests. Even short-term use of some osteoporosis drugs may raise the risk of the jaw disease, called osteonecrosis. The results appear January 1 in the
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Drugs called bisphosphonates — which include the widely prescribed alendronate (Fosamax), ibandronate (Boniva) and risedronate (Actonel) — are taken Read the rest of this entry »

In the end, Ellie Nesler said she was sorry for killing her son’s accused molester in a Jamestown courtroom, sorry she was in prison rather than home raising her adolescent son and daughter, sorry for the damage it caused her family for years to come.
The woman whose name became synonymous with vigilante justice, whose five bullets into the back of Daniel Driver’s head in 1993 sparked a national debate and inspired a TV movie, died Friday at UC-Davis Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON (AFP) — A group of 30 top players will face random drugs tests five times a year under a plan to tighten English football’s controls on the use of performance-enhancing and recreational drugs, it emerged on Tuesday.
UK Sport, the body responsible for doping control in the United Kingdom, is planning to create a register of 30 players who will have to be available for testing every day of the year.
Andy Parkinson, UK Sport’s head Read the rest of this entry »

Los Angeles Times,CA-
Jan 20, 2009
Winter also tells Yahoo News that Goodspeed did not leave a note. Which
she overdosed on has not been made public.
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Jody L. Lomeo, the interim chief executive officer of Erie County Medical Center, is staying on to head the medical center.
Lomeo had said he was not interested in the job, but members of the hospital’s board of directors said they persuaded him to take the position because of his knowledge of the ongoing consolidation efforts with Kaleida Health.
“After all the semifinalist interviews, we felt that Jody’s experience, the respect Read the rest of this entry »

Newcastle striker Michael Owen is doing everything possible to return to peak physical condition, according to Chris Hughton.
Owen is feeling his way back to action following a groin injury and he featured from the bench in last weekend’s defeat at Fulham.
The 28-year-old is again expected to be named among interim manager Joe Kinnear’s substitutes when Wigan arrive at St James’ Park on Saturday.
But assistant boss Hughton insists Owen is on Read the rest of this entry »

DCI is a privately held fully integrated pharmaceutical company dedicated
to developing unique pharmaceutical products to alleviate complications and
symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders. DCI was founded in 1990. The company
holds 15 U.S. and foreign patents and has a national distribution network.
The technology of DCI is based on the ability to commercially develop unique
drug delivery systems for delivering bioactive molecules to their Read the rest of this entry »

Contracts naturally come in all sizes, shapes and flavors. Here’s
.
U.S. Department of Defense
Chooses Phase Forward to Support FDA-Sponsored Drug Safety Initiative.”
. The contract involves an effort to use powerful data mining software to examine the medical records of some 12 million people, a company spokesman told us.
The stated aim is to improve the safety of prescription drugs through “rapid evaluation of DoD healthcare data on Army Read the rest of this entry »