Sauquoit students fall ill after mixing drugs; girl charged

A Sauquoit Valley High School student has been charged with selling drugs after two other students were treated Tuesday for mixing pain relief medication, according to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office.
Two students were transported to local hospitals Tuesday after they both reported to the school nurse that they were feeling ill, Undersheriff M. Peter Paravati said Wednesday.
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Newborns get private rooms at Children's Hospital

FRESNO, Calif.—Newborns needing intensive care can have private rooms when an expansion at Children’s Hospital Central California is complete next month.
Hospital officials were holding a grand opening Friday for the 21 rooms that will be the first in the state offering newborns a peaceful environment free of noise from other babies and the traffic from health care professionals that exist in shared wards.
Nurses will be able to monitor Read the rest of this entry »

Violent Robbery Sends One to Hospital

A violent robbery sends a man to the hospital late Sunday.
Police were called to Versailles and Forbes Road just after 11 p.m.
The victim said he was confronted by two men, one armed with a handgun, the other with a knife. He said they told him to give up his wallet. He did, but there was no money inside.
One of the armed men cut the victim on the cheek with his knife before both suspects ran away.
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Diet drug blamed for psychosis in man who killed officer

Superior Court Judge Alfred Dempsey sentenced a cop-killer to life in prison without parole Monday, saying the defendant’s psychiatric evaluations made seeking the death penalty unnecessary.
“This is an inexplicable tragedy,” he said. “I’ve read over these (psychiatric reports) that the public will not necessarily see … that I will say justifies the plea we’re taking here today.”
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Allos Therapeutics climbs on new pralatrexate data

Allos Therapeutics Inc.
said Wednesday that its drug candidate pralatrexate stopped the progression of rare type of lymphoma for more than nine months, and its shares jumped in morning trading.
Patients responded to pralatrexate had their tumors shrink or stop growing for an average of 9.4 months, the Westminster, Colo., company said. In December, Allos said 27 patients in the trial, or 29 out of a group of 109, responded to drug. That was the Read the rest of this entry »

Provincial Agency for Health Services in Trento, Italy Selects

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What Medicaid Tells Us About Government Health Care

Medicaid provides coverage to poor and disabled Americans, many of whom face the highest burden of chronic disease owing to cultural and socioeconomic challenges. The program beats being uninsured, but it often relegates the poor to inferior care.
Reimbursement rates are so low, and billing the program so complicated, that it is hard for internists like me to get beneficiaries access to specialized care or timely interventions. For my patients as Read the rest of this entry »

Medical examiner: at least 1 dead in Oregon bank explosion

WOODBURN, Ore. (AP) – A bomb exploded inside a bank here late Friday afternoon, killing a police officer who arrived to check on a suspicious object and seriously injuring two others.
A spokesman for the Oregon State Police, Lt. Gregg Hastings, said a Woodburn police officer died. He did not identify him.
He also said the blast seriously injured the Woodburn police chief and a bomb technician with the Oregon State Police.
The police chief, Scott Read the rest of this entry »

Utah state hospital works to reduce wait

PROVO — The number of defendants declared incompentent to stand trial who may end up in jail while waiting for beds to open up in the state hospital has been reduced, state officials said.
    The Provo hospital has 359 beds, with 100 of those dedicated to people who have been involved in a criminal court proceeding.
    In the past, about 20 criminal defendants were on the waiting list, with wait times for a bed stretching to as long as Read the rest of this entry »