Nov 29, 2008
– Local Milwaukee fat loss expert BJ Gaddour, CSCS, is the founder of Get Sexy Boot Camps, Milwaukee’s premier fitness boot camps for men and women. He has helped countless people prevent the holiday weight gain that so many busy Americans succumb to at this busy and stressful time of year.
Gaddour claims: “There are a bunch of handy damage control diet strategies that you should employ to best prevent yourself from overdoing Read the rest of this entry »
Northeastern vaulted from a two-way tie for second place into a three-way tie for first in the Colonial Athletic Association by posting a 58-57 victory over George Mason last night, but the Huskies could claim no joy after watching their opponent’s leading scorer faint from a head injury with 2:12 to go, and get carted off the court and taken to the hospital.
A pall was cast over a Matthews Arena crowd of 2,300 when senior guard John Vaughan came Read the rest of this entry »
The United States’ war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so
as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of
consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a
former president of Mexico.
The former president, Ernesto
Zedillo, in an interview, called for a major rethinking of U.S. policy,
which he said has been “asymmetrical” in demanding that countries such
as Mexico stanch the flow of drugs northward, Read the rest of this entry »
Wales star Shane Williams faces a fight to be fit for the RBS 6 Nations showdown against England next Saturday.
The Ospreys wing suffered an ankle injury during Wales’ tournament-opening victory over Scotland at Murrayfield. And it is the latest fitness concern for boss Warren Gatland, who saw Williams’ fellow Lions Gavin Henson and Ryan Jones miss the Edinburgh game due to calf muscle strains.
“I went over on my ankle tackling Jason White,” Read the rest of this entry »
Just a week before the deadline for state regulators to rule on the merger of two large Blues plans, Pennsylvania Medical Society President Daniel Glunk, MD, had resigned himself to the deal’s approval — despite physician opposition in the 21 months since it was proposed.
“I really thought it was moving along,” he said. “I thought it was inevitable.”
But the merger of Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross wasn’t inevitable. (
On Jan. Read the rest of this entry »
A sophisticated medical test that checks for dozens of diseases at the same time can be made from little more than paper and double-sided tape, bringing the cost within reach for the developing world.
The devices, known as microfluidics chips, operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid into dozens Read the rest of this entry »
All surgical operations due to be carried out at a West Sussex hospital have been cancelled after evidence of rodents was found in storage areas.
Pest control investigators have been called in to deal with the problem at Southlands Hospital, in Shoreham, and traps and poison have been laid.
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust said no wards were affected.
It said operations had been cancelled until further notice as the area affected Read the rest of this entry »
For Jeff Palumbo of Grant, Minn., the epiphany came this year when he took his son in for ringworm. Palumbo had just switched to his employer’s high-deductible plan. Despite multiple phone calls to his clinic and his insurer to ask the price of a doctor visit, he kept getting the same maddening answer: It depends. Finally, someone told him it would cost at least $85. When Palumbo ended up getting billed $125 for the visit — “For seven minutes!” — Read the rest of this entry »
MULTAN, Pakistan (AFP) — A bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan in central Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least seven people, a hospital doctor said.
Police said the bomb was planted outside the mosque and exploded shortly before a religious gathering got under way.
“I have seen seven bodies,” Doctor Pervez Haider, the head of the local hospital, told AFP by telephone.
“We have shifted 25 people to the local Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS —Seniors may see their Social Security increases next year trimmed back by higher prescription costs unless they shop for a Medicare drug plan this fall that better fits their budget.
Social Security beneficiaries will get an average of $63 more each month, but part of that increase may be claimed by higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs in their drug coverage.
“Seniors who enrolled in a drug plan several years ago should Read the rest of this entry »