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SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug
Administration advisory panel rejected Acusphere Inc’s (ACUS.O:
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imaging contrast agent on Wednesday, saying possible risks
outweighed its potential for screening heart patients.
In a 16-1 vote, the FDA’s panel of outside advisers said there
was not consistent data to prove the product worked, and expressed
concern about potential Read the rest of this entry »
– Anita Dunham’s first heart attack started with a mysterious pain in her arm — and, suddenly, the 34-year-old felt as if she couldn’t breathe. After she got dressed, she could barely speak because the pain was so great in her arms and chest.
Dunham, who had a second heart attack in 2002, wore red Friday to spread awareness about heart disease. Now 64 years old, she said she wants women everywhere to know that heart disease, the No. 1 killer Read the rest of this entry »
November 25, 2008 12:01 PM EST
Shares of Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE:
) are jumping 20% today following a 13D after the close from Green Equity Investors showing a new 9.2% stake (3,632,408 shares) in the operators of fitness centers. Green Equity Investors is an affiliate of $9 billion private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.
Data from the filing showed the firm paid $53,539,538 for their position in Life Time Fitness, which equals Read the rest of this entry »
Are you overweight? Have you just lost weight? With the holidays here — watch out.
found that people who were formerly overweight, even though they exercised more and paid more attention to weight and eating, still gained weight.
Here is a “cheat sheet” to help you get a jump-start on that New Year’s resolution.
Take photos of everything you eat every single day. A study reported in the
found that taking pictures of everything Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
, Inc., from Milford, Connecticut, to market the firm’s XPERT 20™ tabletop digital radiography system, which was designed for visualization of biopsy specimens, such as breast tissue samples from stereotactic core biopsies. The firm believes that its system will be ideal for smaller clinical facilities, since it is reasonably priced and the device is meant to fit into confined spaces of cramped pathology labs.
This Read the rest of this entry »
Fitness pro Kathy Smith defies anyone to think that you can’t sculpt your body without heavy weights and big machines.
In her latest, “Total Body Lift” (Lionsgate, $14.98), she sculpts four major muscle groups — upper body, legs, butt and tummy — using only 2-pound weights, a towel, a chair and an exercise mat. What we love about Smith is that she’s an excellent trainer, and in her DVDs, she devotes much time and talk to making sure you maintain Read the rest of this entry »
Crash victim cabbie taken to hospital, where bullet wound to head discovered
Saturday, January 31st 2009, 4:00 AM
– Police investigating a crash involving a taxi in Syracuse didn’t know the cabbie had been shot in the head until he was taken to the hospital.
Cops responded to a car crash early yesterday morning and discovered a taxicab on its side, with damaged cars parked in a nearby driveway. The cab apparently crashed into the parked cars Read the rest of this entry »
Finding a doctor can be tough these days, and it’s going to be getting even harder if the
practicing altogether is any indication. Here’s advice gleaned from doctors around the country on how to work the system and find medical care when you need it:
1. Call your local hospitals. They often have free physician-referral services, and can tell you which doctors who have privileges there are taking new patients.
2. Work your way through your insurer’s Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn prosecutors and police internal affairs officers are investigating allegations that uniformed New York City police officers beat and sodomized a man in a Brooklyn subway station, officials and lawyers for the man said on Thursday.
The lawyers identified the man as Michael Mineo, 24, of Brooklyn, an employee at a Brooklyn tattoo parlor. He was issued a summons for disorderly conduct on Oct. 15, they said, after three officers pinned him Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Hollywood’s sprawling retirement community in suburban Los Angeles will close its on-campus hospital by year’s end and lay off a third of its staff to avoid bankruptcy in a few years.
The Motion Picture & Television Fund said Wednesday it is phasing out an acute-care hospital and long-term care facility at its Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills to cut operating losses. In 2006, the MPTF closed a critical-care unit Read the rest of this entry »