Web of Addiction: Unraveling the web of addiction to drugs

Editor’s note: Today the Herald Times Reporter begins a series on drug abuse and addiction in Manitowoc County by introducing readers to “Jennifer,” a young woman who declined from a successful high school student to a methadone addict undergoing treatment at a residential center. Subsequent stories will explore the tortured world of abuse and addiction that exists amid everyday life in our county.
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Basilea Pharmaceutica files claims against Johnson&Johnson over

As the cliché goes, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. But, they’re intertwined. When you go to the
great beyond, the government generally wants its cut, which is just under half the size of your estate, provided it reaches
a certain size. Yep: The government can be your biggest heir, whether you like it or not.
Every few years, the estate
tax, also known as the death tax, flares Read the rest of this entry »

Three in hospital after car crash

Assault: PM’s backyard searched Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife” title=”Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife” /> THE man charged with starting a fire which killed 21 people in Victoria was a volunteer in a brigade whose members risked death fighting the blaze. Grief: Day of mourning declared Police search PM’s backyard after assault POLICE have swarmed on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Brisbane Read the rest of this entry »

Home health provider stocks hit by rate cut recommendation

BANGALORE, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Shares of at least four home health service providers were trading down a day after a Congressional advisory panel recommended Medicare changes that could see the industry’s reimbursement rates reduced by as much as 5.5 percent.
Shares of LHC Group Inc fell as much as 18 percent to hit a low of $27.51 on Thursday’s news and Almost Family Inc shares fell 10 percent to a low of $40.10 earlier in the day.
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Recess Makes for Better Students

“It was winter, and I thought maybe they didn’t go outside because of the weather,” said Barros, now an assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Children’s Hospital in New York City. “I had a headache.”
In fact, the children always had one 10-minute break but were not allowed to talk and had to stay in their chairs. There was nowhere for the kids to go outside and play, the teacher explained.
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J&J helped plan child research institute -report

CHICAGO, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Internal company documents
suggest Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N:
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), maker of the antipsychotic
drug Risperdal, agreed to fund a child psychiatry research
center at Massachusetts General Hospital to generate data to
support use of the drug in children, the Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday.
The drug, known generically as risperidone, recently came
under fire from an advisory panel to the U.S. Food & Drug
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The Science, Technology, and Products of Barley for Food and Health

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1: Barley History: Relationship of Man and Barley Through the
Ages.
Chapter 2: Barley Taxonomy, Morphology and Anatomy.
Chapter 3: Barley Biotechnology: Breeding and Transgenics.
Chapter 4: Barley Genetics and Nutrient Composition.
Chapter 5: Barley Processing: Methods and Product Composition.
Chapter 6: Evaluation of Food Product Quality.
Chapter 7: Barley Food Product Research and Development.
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Planned Parenthood Says Midnight Regulation Jeopardize Women's Health‏

Salem-News.com
“We are shocked that the Bush administration chose to finalize its midnight regulation and to take this parting shot…”
(PORTLAND, Ore.) – The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) sharply criticized a last-minute regulation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that poses a serious threat to patients’ rights to receive complete and accurate health care information and services.

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City Champs and Pres. Kennedy’s Physical Fitness Award

The world of organized sports in school, church fellowship and Boy Scouts opened a new world for the kid. He discovered that football wasn’t the only thing to do in Massillon, Ohio. The fact that he was encouraged by his coaches at Lorin Andrews made him believe he could excel at anything he put his mind to. That really made all the difference to him and his declining football esteem. He had second thoughts about that decision his Mom let him make, Read the rest of this entry »

Health reform a joint mission

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama and his team have signaled that they plan to work jointly with Congress to overhaul the healthcare system, rather than produce a separate White House bill that would be sent to Capitol Hill, according to people involved in healthcare strategy discussions.
The Obama team is determined to avoid the mistakes of the early 1990s, when the Clinton White House created a healthcare policy team that had more than Read the rest of this entry »