POTTSVILLE – Two students at the Penn State Schuylkill campus ran a drug sale operation from their campus housing that involved thousands of dollars in marijuana and other drugs and was protected by stolen guns they kept in their room, police say.
Days after a raid on their apartment, the men and another student also were charged with aggravated assault on a victim beaten so badly that he was hospitalized with a concussion, police said.
James Read the rest of this entry »
Have you made a New Year’s resolution to get in shape? Chances are you have.
But even if you follow that resolution (and chances are you won’t), you still will have nothing on the elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park.
Since they started a new diet in 2000 affectionately called the “Dumbo Diet,” the elephants have lost 5.5 tons.
That’s about 1,000 pounds per elephant, or 11 percent of their body weight.
The senior elephant keeper Read the rest of this entry »
Critics of the hospital have been asking that very question since 2005, when the SF/SPCA
to build the Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center in a warehouse adjacent to their adoption center on Alabama St. And it would be a reasonable question, too, if it weren’t for that fact that saving the lives of San Francisco’s animals is the whole purpose of the veterinary hospital.
If people are seeing the new care center as some sort of costly spa for pampered Read the rest of this entry »
In his new book, “Best Life Diet,” exercise physiologist Bob Greene takes an easy-to-follow, no-gimmicks approach to a healthy diet and lifestyle.
It’s a dietitian’s dream diet — and one that apparently changed talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s life. Winfrey describes in the foreword how, after years of struggling with diets, she found success with The Best Life Diet, (
).
There is nothing groundbreaking about this diet. Greene’s “diet” is synonymous Read the rest of this entry »
The Union County Women’s Political Caucus is sponsoring a roundtable discussion on area health care 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Plainfield Public Library, 800 Park Ave.
The discussion, which is free to attend, will feature Union County Freeholder Bette Jane Kowalski as moderator. Panelists will include Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, Trinitas Regional Medical Center senior vice president Bernadette Countryman and Deborah Dowe, a key Read the rest of this entry »
Those who have not been fingerprinted include almost three-quarters of psychiatric technicians; nearly half of family therapists, social workers and dentists; and 12% of physicians.
“We depend on the state of California . . . to screen out those who are incompetent or impaired or dishonest or otherwise unqualified,” said Julianne D’Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. “If Read the rest of this entry »
Peggy Greer wasn’t living alone. She had 24-7 care from a home health agency. Because she could take care of most daily functions, the ever-present aides watched television, read magazines, talked on their cell phones. All at a cost of about $26,000 a month.
In desperation, family members consulted with Greer’s doctor at Hillcrest. He examined her and recommended discontinuing the 24-7 care immediately.
The guardian refused.
“Usually, the guardian Read the rest of this entry »
IMPAX Laboratories, Inc.
(OTC: IPXL), through its generic drug
division Global Pharmaceuticals, announced that yesterday the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) granted final approval of the Company’s
Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of
Prilosec 40 mg Delayed-release Capsules. AstraZeneca markets Prilosec
for the treatment of duodenal/gastric ulcers and GERD (gastro-esophageal
reflux disease).
The Company’s versions Read the rest of this entry »
The FDA has determined that several dozen products sold as
weight-loss supplements contain potentially harmful drugs that aren't
on the labels.
One example, according to
: A product called StarCaps, billed as a natural
with papaya. It illegally contains a pharmaceutical called bumetanide, which can have serious side effects.
StarCaps is made in Peru, peddled in the United States. The offending products were made mostly in China, however. Read the rest of this entry »
Our fiscal belt-tightening may well cause turmoil in the ., weight loss, business.
, our waistline will continue to be a concern, but tempered by our newly-trim wallet.
Diet regimes that depend on pre-packaged meals, such as Jenny Craig, will be the first to feel the pinch (an inch). A
of the costs of well-known weight-loss plans pegged Jenny Craig at $137.65 per week. Other overweight progams were NutriSystem at $113.52 and the Atkins (low Read the rest of this entry »