After a number of failed attempts at getting back together, a San Jose man slashed his estranged wife’s throat early Friday while their 8-year-old child helplessly tried to break up a fight between them, authorities said.
On Friday night, the woman was fighting for her life at Valley Medical Center and sheriff’s deputies were still searching for the suspect, Alfredo Espinoza Valencia.
“Her injuries were shocking,” said Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Read the rest of this entry »

TYLER, Texas
— A man has died a day after an oil refinery explosion and fire in Texas.
The mother of 49-year-old James Dale Sharman says he died Friday of injuries from an explosion at the Delek Refining plant in Tyler.
A spokeswoman for Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas says another worker remains in critical condition.
Tyler Fire Capt. Jeff Akin says plant firefighters were still monitoring a small fire that could burn for days.
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LONDON — Christopher Viehbacher is likely to have big changes in store for French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA when he takes over as chief executive this week.
Paris-based Sanofi is one of the world’s largest drug makers by sales, but investors and analysts say it badly needs to change tack if it is to keep sales and profit rising.
The company has been relatively unproductive at developing new medicines in recent years, and many of its biggest Read the rest of this entry »

SEATTLE, Nov 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Seattle Children’s Hospital has selected DatStat, the industry leader in
research management systems and enterprise feedback management (EFM), as
its platform to provide hospital staff members with tools that improve
enterprise research and solicit feedback from patients, patient family
members and employees. Specifically, DatStat will provide researchers at
Children’s Read the rest of this entry »

Covanta Energy is a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation, an internationally recognized owner and operator of large-scale Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects and a recipient of the Energy Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Covanta’s 38 Energy-from-Waste facilities provide communities with an environmentally sound solution to their solid waste disposal needs by using Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are asking drugmakers to submit more details about their supply chains under a pilot program announced on Wednesday to help protect patients from fake or tainted medicines from overseas.
Companies that voluntarily provide the information can get the products through U.S. border entry points more quickly, Food and Drug Administration officials said.
Concern about imported drug ingredients grew last year after Read the rest of this entry »

Human rights organizations, health groups and some foreign governments have united in condemning Senegal for imprisoning nine local
activists.
, tried in two weeks and sentenced to eight years in prison for “unnatural acts” and “belonging to a criminal association.” Their group, AIDES Senegal, gave
and counseling to gay men.
said the men were beaten in detention.
The arrests and harsh sentences came as a surprise Read the rest of this entry »

In his first State of the State address, Governor David A. Paterson outlined his plan for a stronger New York including the need to confront the current fiscal crisis head on. He laid out a progressive policy agenda to help working families during these difficult times including calling for one of the most ambitious clean energy plans in the nation, setting a “45 by 15” goal that 45 percent of New York State’s electricity needs will be met through Read the rest of this entry »

One tech pioneer welcomed a new chief executive this week, while another lost its leader–at least temporarily.
After months of insisting that Steve Jobs’ health was a private matter with no impact on the company, Apple’s chief executive announced that he will
. His absence will stretch until the end of June.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, will run the company during Jobs’ absence, according to an
that was released to the media.
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Mangled bodies, wailing relatives at Gaza hospital
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Relatives wail as the mangled bodies of loved ones are brought into Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital on Saturday following Israeli air strikes that killed at least 225 people in the Palestinian enclave.
Ambulances and private cars rush those wounded or killed in the punishing raids to the hospital, where staff use sheets as makeshift stretchers.
In some cases, a single stretcher Read the rest of this entry »