, a $2 billion investment that supporters say will create thousands of jobs and begin to rebuild the city’s shattered health care system.
One of the hospitals, to be built by Louisiana State University, would replace the city’s landmark Charity Hospital, a lifeline for generations of the city’s poor, which has been vacant since the storm damaged its lower floors. The other would replace the vacant
hospital, also severely damaged Read the rest of this entry »

The search for a missing Munhall woman ended tragically Saturday evening.
Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office officials confirmed Mary Anne Kacin, 57, was found around 7:30 p.m. in McBride Park in Lincoln Place, approximately three miles from her home along Botsford Street.
An autopsy was conducted Sunday. A medical examiner said an official cause and manner of death could not be determined until results of toxicology tests are received.
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Last updated October 17, 2008 4:33 p.m. PT
Who pays for health inspections at schools?
WENATCHEE, Wash. — The Washington state Board of Health has postponed a decision on whether to require local health districts to inspect schools annually for health and safety violations, until lawmakers decide who will pay for the inspections.
Under the proposed rules, schools would be inspected annually for clean air violations and potential hazards in Read the rest of this entry »

Around 3:45 p.m. today, police scanners reported that a female Rochester police officer was shot in the area of Dayton and Fairbanks streets, near Hudson Avenue, according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Other police officers and emergency responders then responded to the crime scene.
Hudson Avenue northbound from Avenue D is blocked off at least a quarter of a mile.
It has not been determined who shot the police officer nor the extent Read the rest of this entry »

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WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Shares of Amylin
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Tuesday after the biotech company said in a regulatory filing
that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected data for an
experimental version of its diabetes drug Byetta.
Amylin is developing a long-acting version of the injectable
drug, known as exenatide LAR, with Read the rest of this entry »

2 dead, 7 injured in northwest Miami shooting
MIAMI (AP) — An assault rifle was used in a Friday night shooting in northwest Miami, killing two people and injuring seven, police said Saturday.
“We have someone out there that is armed, it is a dangerous situation,” police spokeswoman Kenia Alfonso said.
Two male teenagers, ages 16 and 18, were slain in the shooting and police still have no motive, Alfonso said. Authorities have not yet Read the rest of this entry »

November 21, 2008 11:43 am
The judge calls it “rough justice.”
U.S. District Judge Ron White at the Eastern District of Oklahoma federal courthouse in Muskogee has dismissed a petition by federal prosecutors seeking to revoke former state Sen. Gene Stipe’s probation.
In his order dismissing the case, White concluded by saying “The sealed medical report regarding the defendant’s competency provided substantial Read the rest of this entry »

Braden Palacios created quite the stir when he was born Sept. 5 at Banner Gateway Medical Center.
His older sister was born at Banner Gateway in November of last year making their mother Alicia Palacios the first to have two separate babies at the Gilbert hospital.
It’s the smallest of milestones for the hospital that celebrates its one year anniversary Thursday but one that stuck out to nurses.
“We had nurses and some other girls come in Read the rest of this entry »

Family doctors are receiving cash bonuses not to send patients to hospital
despite National Health Service research that suggests incentive payments
can reduce the quality of care.
GPs are paid £1 per patient to spend time reviewing their decision to send
someone to hospital and a further £1 for every name on their surgeries’ list
if they reduce their previous year’s referral rate. An average surgery with
10,000 patients will receive Read the rest of this entry »

Fitness Pros, owned by Westly Garvin, recently opened at 1168 Orangeburg Mall Circle.
The gym specializes in body building, fitness training and cardio workouts and features spin bikes; no-cable plate-loading equipment; free motion and elliptical equipment and more. Showers and lockers are available in the 3,100-square-foot building.
Garvin invites the public to come in to try out the equipment.
Fitness Pros offers non-contractual agreements Read the rest of this entry »