BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhuanet) — The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) recently approved the first drug that will help with
producing longer eyelashes, according to media reports Monday.
Latisse, produced by the company of Allergan, is
supposed to treat those who have hypotrichosis, a condition in which a person
does not have enough eyelashes. It will be available by prescription starting in
the first quarter of 2009.
The active ingredient Read the rest of this entry »
Health insurers set rates so late in year, companies find budgeting hard
Every year at this time, Chuck Fried is faced with a dilemma.
The owner of technology firm TxMQ in Amherst must prepare a budget for the next year and get employees to enroll for health coverage. His wife has the same task with her adoption agency, Adoption STAR.
The problem: They usually don’t know how much the health insurance will cost, because the insurers Read the rest of this entry »
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – A peanut plant in Georgia
identified as the source of an outbreak of salmonella shipped
out products that managers knew might be tainted, U.S. Food and
Drug Administration officials said on Tuesday.
An FDA inspection of the Peanut Corporation of America
plant in Blakely, Georgia, also found at least two strains of
salmonella bacteria at the plant, although they were strains
that Read the rest of this entry »
Maryville College has only recently announced the addition of a golf team to its athletic department, but its golfers are wasting no time preparing for competition.
The inaugural recruits to the team are Trey Bridwell, a standout transfer from Coker College, and Kelcey Bryant, a freshman from Heritage High School in Maryville who was the team captain both her junior and senior years.
Bridwell and Bryant have already begun their training Read the rest of this entry »
SINCLAIRVILLE – “Should we charge the community for using the new high school fitness center; and if we should, how much?”
These questions were the focus of an extended discussion Monday at the Cassadaga Valley School Board meeting.
Supervisor John Brown said the $150,000 in equipment purchased for the fitness center should be ready for use by January.
He also noted the cost of the equipment was included in the district’s $9.9 million building Read the rest of this entry »
It was not long ago that the government of Ontario began establishing family health teams (FHTs) as part of its commitment to reform the delivery of primary health care to its citizens. The concept involved creating clinics that would provide comprehensive care using a group of collaborating health care providers (family physicians, nurses, dietitians, etc.). While intuitively the idea made perfect sense, I had (and continue to have) concerns related Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — The death toll from a gasoline-tanker
explosion in
rose to 115, after nine people died after
being hospitalized, the government said.
Two people died in Nakuru Provincial Hospital and another
two in Kenyatta National Hospital, the Office of Public
Communications said in a
on its Web site today. It
didn’t provide further details.
The disaster happened about 100 miles (160 kilometers)
northwest of the capital, Nairobi, Read the rest of this entry »
OAKLEY, Ohio – A cast member in a Christmas nativity show died Thursday from injuries she suffered the night before in a fall during a performance at Crossroads Church.
Keri Shryock, 23, a cast member in the opening night performance of “Awaited: A Christmas Show,” fell headfirst about 25 feet from a suspension harness onto a concrete church floor in the audience portion of the theater.
Medical personnel attended to her as stunned audience members Read the rest of this entry »
Generic drugs are just as effective and safe as their brand-name counterparts because they’re virtually the same – except for the price of course. Here’s what you should know.
Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), generic drugs contain the same active ingredients, dosage and quality as their brand-name counterparts. The only differences between them are the name (generic drugs are usually called by their chemical Read the rest of this entry »
Long-term use of a class of drugs for type 2 diabetes doubles a woman’s risk of breaking a bone, research suggests.
Thiazolidinediones, including rosiglitazone and pioglitzone, had already been linked to a raised risk of fractures, as well as heart problems.
UK and US researchers have quantified the risk, and showed that using the drugs for more than a year thins the bones significantly.
The study appears in the Canadian Medical Association Read the rest of this entry »