The city of Columbus’ Development Commission sided with residents in opposition to a proposal to rezone a 3.1-acre parcel at 3813 Olentangy River Road from residential to commercial.
Facing a crowd of light blue Marburn Homeowners Association T-shirts at the Thursday, Nov. 13 hearing, the commission heard developer David Perry’s plans to tear down a house on the site and build a 20,000-square-foot medical office building.
The commission then listened Read the rest of this entry »
Nurses are to face police questioning over deaths from Clostridium difficile at a Dunbartonshire hospital, it has emerged.
Officers will interview staff at the Vale of Leven Hospital, where a C.diff outbreak was linked to 18 deaths.
A report which identified failures in hygiene and infection control was passed to prosecutors last year.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said its members “would meet legal advisers before being interviewed”. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that people expecting a bounty of pet projects in a new, massive multibillion-dollar economic stimulus plan should think again.
“It’s important for the American taxpayer to know that this is not going to be politics as usual and we will not tolerate business as usual in Washington,” Biden said at the start of a meeting of Obama’s top economic staff at transition headquarters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Despite budget crunch, county looking to hire fitness instructors
Whitfield County is looking for a few good fitness instructors.
The parks and recreation department wants to hire three part-time employees to teach exercise classes at the county gym on Gillespie Drive and the Varnell gym. The county pays the city of Varnell $10,000 a year in in-kind services to use the gym.
George Page, director of the county parks Read the rest of this entry »
Police have seized drugs with an estimated street value of £80,000 from a business premises in the Rutherglen area of Glasgow.
Officers seized the drugs during an operation at the building on Cathcart Road on Friday morning.
Strathclyde Police said the substances recovered were believed to be cannabis and valium.
Inquiries are continuing in connection with the seizure, a police statement said.
In an e-mail to employees that roiled Apple’s stock and raised questions about the company’s future, CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday announced he was taking a nearly six-month medical leave because his health problems are “more complex” than he originally believed.
The message — coming a little more than a week after Jobs sent a note saying his condition would not keep him from daily duties — reignited speculation that the man who has been Read the rest of this entry »
Users of dermal fillers might want to think twice before the use they products to smooth out deep lines and wrinkles on their face. This week the Food and Drug Administration will review reports of unexpected side effects of the popular cosmetic procedure.
CBS4’s Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida pointed out the dermal fillers are not the same as Botox.
“These are products containing collagen and proteins which are injected into the face to puff up Read the rest of this entry »
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Medtronic Inc. (MDT:
) announced that it has appointed Francine Kaufman as vice president of Global Medical Affairs, for the Diabetes business.
Kaufman is a Professor of Pediatrics and Communications at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications of USC, and Head of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at CHLA.
Kaufman has served as a delegate to the World Read the rest of this entry »
GARY — A toxicology report completed Thursday shows a Merrillville teacher had cocaine in her system when she and her son died in a crash that left her older boy critically injured two weeks ago.
Pierce Middle School teacher Merilyn Bouler, 39, of Crown Point had ingested a “small amount” of cocaine that night, a spokesman for the Lake County coroner said.
Some of the drug had already metabolized by 11:30 p.m. Nov. 7 when her southbound car Read the rest of this entry »
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Study after study show ways by which women can protect themselves from heart disease, yet it remains the No. 1 killer of women in the United States, claiming more than 500,000 lives each year.
“Women who are overweight or sedentary need to lose weight and increase their activity level to reduce their risk for heart disease,” said Elizabeth Battaglino Cahill, RN, executive director of the National Women’s Health Resource Center Read the rest of this entry »