07:55 PM CST on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The clock’s ticking on 2008. Time to rid the house of corn chips and good intentions and get ready for a brand spankin’ new year.
Let’s go over the resolution list again, shall we?
No muffins. No pizza. No ice cream. No beer. No chocolate. No nitrates. No head cheese. No white rice. No T-bones.
Exercise an hour a day. Lift weights constantly. Follow Atkins. Follow South Beach. Read the rest of this entry »
Some directors of the now dissolved South Coast Medical Center foundation contend that the hospital’s nonprofit parent, Adventist Health, failed to properly account for restricted gifts by donors and for several years failed to provide a satisfactory accounting of the foundation’s assets.
Even as Adventist Health was seeking a bidder for the Laguna Beach hospital, a request in September for a real estate appraisal of a foundation-owned office building Read the rest of this entry »
has named Dawn Erckenbrack vice president of the company, as well as president and CEO of Jewish Hospital Medical Center South in Hillview.
Erckenbrack will begin her duties April 6, after she completes an active military assignment as chief operations officer of Ireland Community Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky.
Prior to her assignment at Ireland Community Hospital, Erckenbrack was senior health program manager and senior health policy analyst for Read the rest of this entry »
Eurand N.V.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eurand N.V. (Nasdaq:EURX), a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops enhanced pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products based on its proprietary drug formulation technologies, today announced that it has been advised by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Complete Response letter for the New Drug Application (NDA) for EUR-1048. Read the rest of this entry »
Talked with Dad about doing this story. He asked me what I was going to write about. I told him I wasn’t sure, something about family. I didn’t tell him what I was thinking, that I could feel the burdens that were his shifting to me. I didn’t tell him because I thought he would feel I was resentful. I didn’t tell him because I didn’t want to remind him of his own mortality. Or rather, maybe I didn’t want to remind myself of his mortality.
So I said Read the rest of this entry »
But there was good news, too, including a historic drop in deaths from both heart disease and cancer, and a breakthrough in the search for a malaria vaccine.
Troubles Surface for Heart, Diabetes Treatments
Throughout 2008, data emerged supporting the notion that two blockbuster diabetes medications — GlaxoSmithKline’s Avandia and Takeda’s Actos — raised heart risks for users. The studies came on the heels of a “black box” label warning slapped Read the rest of this entry »
STOCKTON – A man and woman were arrested Tuesday afternoon after officers found drugs and stolen property during parole and probation searches at a central Stockton home.
Officers shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday seized 30 grams of heroin, drug paraphernalia and stolen property during the searches at a home in the 1300 block of East Pinchot Street, according to a Stockton police report.
Alvardo Navarro, 26, and Janie Moreno, 43, were each booked Read the rest of this entry »
A new government ranking system for nursing homes nationwide shows that Massachusetts has fewer top-notch rated facilities, and more ranked below average, than New England neighbors Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine.
The ratings, unveiled yesterday by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, rates nursing homes on a star system – from one to five stars, with five stars the best – based on state health inspections, staffing, various Read the rest of this entry »
Dude, what happened?! Did you eat a bowling ball for the holidays? Are you suddenly expecting twins? Yeah, of course it shows. That must be like, what, 10 new pounds you’re trying to hide from the promotion board?
It’s OK. Don’t panic. You can lose the holiday love handles and get yourself back into fighting form in no time.
First off, forget the latest diet’s snake-oil hype and super-slimming, silver-bullet, fat-fighting Read the rest of this entry »
Respiratory reactive disease, sometimes called reactive airway disease and better known as exercise-induced asthma, is a form of asthma that occurs among people who don’t have the allergies or recurrent infections that usually trigger asthma symptoms. Instead, their symptoms (wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath) occur when they exert themselves, as in aerobic exercise. Fortunately, attacks are preventable with proper precautions, changes in diet Read the rest of this entry »