AMA asks all state lawmakers pass laws limiting driver cell phone use. National doctors organization urges states to protect consumers from injury and death.
December 23, 2008, West Palm Beach, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Justice roadway safety advocates and West Palm Beach auto accident lawyers are joining the American Medical Association’s (AMA) http://www.ama-assn.org/ ban against text messaging while driving initiative. In early November Read the rest of this entry »
BURIEN, Wash. —
Highline Medical Center in Burien was locked down while King County sheriff’s deputies checked a suspicious device in a minivan in the hospital’s parking garage.
Sgt. Syndey Jackson told KING-TV no traffic was allowed in or out of the hospital. In addition, several nearby streets were closed as a precaution.
Sheriff’s spokesperson John Urquhart told KIRO-TV a man walked into the hospital’s emergency room Sunday afternoon Read the rest of this entry »
-(Dow Jones)- Some of the most risky medical devices weren’t
carefully reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration before they went on the
market, a U.S. government watchdog report said Thursday.
The report, by the Government Accountability Office, said the FDA needs to
take immediate steps to ensure that high-risk medical devices, such as external
cardiac compressors, get approved through the agency’s lengthy review process,
not just cleared. Read the rest of this entry »
Adult Diabetes Support Group: Meets at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3536 YMCA Drive. For more information, call Bill Korzen at (325) 949-6535.
Al-Anon: For meetings, information or help, call the main number at (325) 657-6640.
Alcoholics Anonymous: Meetings are 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Saturday. Family continuing care for codependency meetings are 6:30 p.m. Thursdays at River Crest Hospital, 1636 Hunters Read the rest of this entry »
IN the past decade, baseball has experienced a data-driven information revolution. Numbers-crunchers now routinely use statistics to put better teams on the field for less money. Our overpriced, underperforming health care system needs a similar revolution.
Data-driven baseball has produced surprising results. Michael Lewis writes in “Moneyball” that the Oakland A’s have won games and division titles at one-sixth the cost of the Read the rest of this entry »
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BLOOD DRIVES: BUNCOMBE COUNTY: 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, 340 Victoria Road, Asheville, 254-1921, ext. 377. 6:30-11 a.m. Monday, Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square, Asheville, Read the rest of this entry »
Several people were arrested for crimes ranging from prostitution to shootings at a North County night club, said
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Agents say they have been gathering evidence for years.
Employees and clients from Delegantes on East Vista Way in Vista were arrested Wednesday after drugs were sold to undercover agents, investigators said.
Undercover agents have been gathering surveillance video of stabbings, shootings, robberies, drugs and prostitution in Read the rest of this entry »
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Specialty pharmaceutical company Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (WPI:
) said Wednesday that it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell the generic version of GlaxoSmithKline plc’s (GSK:
) Nicorette fresh mint gum, an over-the-counter smoking cessation product. The product is expected to be available to customers in early January 2009.
The Corona, California-based company Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) — People with diabetes spend thousands of dollars more on medical costs each year than those without the disease, and that disparity increases substantially each year after the initial diabetes diagnosis.
That’s the finding of a new study by researchers at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute in North Carolina.
The researchers calculated that a 50-year-old newly diagnosed diabetes patient spends Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) Sexual dysfunction is reaching levels not seen since the Victorian period. But today’s difficulties stem not from the inhibiting power of social mores and taboos. Today’s sexual dysfunction is an alarming indicator of the hormonal status of women and men. A recent study found that 31 percent of men suffer from problems such as erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, delayed ejaculation and impotency. A whopping 43 percent of women Read the rest of this entry »