Tuesday, February 03, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned a processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for years.
Texas health records show the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview had never been inspected until after the company recently fell under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
FDA inspectors went Read the rest of this entry »
Miami, FL – Millions of men and women suffer from thread veins, manifest by unsightly little clusters of red, blue or purplish veins that spiderweb the cheeks, thighs, calves, ankles and knees. In fact, for Western populations like the US, it’s been estimated that 25-30% of women and 10-20% of men suffer from this unsightly condition. But now there’s a thread of hope. Adding to its full suite of medical technologies, Techno-Derm, LLC, announced Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some of the latest health and medical news
developments, compiled by editors of
Blood Clot Drug Causes Higher Death
Rate in Elderly Patients, Maker Says
A drug used to treat blood clots formed primarily from deep vein
thrombosis or in kidney failure increases the death rate among
elderly patients, its maker has warned physicians.
, the biotech company
Celgene Corp. has alerted doctors in a letter also posted on the
U.S. Food and Drug Read the rest of this entry »
by Andrew Dagnell, Western Mail
WELSH singer Duffy has signed a lucrative six-figure deal to become the new face of Diet Coke, cementing her place as one of Britain’s most marketable faces.
The Mercy singer will appear in a multi-million-pound campaign for the fizzy drink – the first endorsement the 24-year-old has signed up to since shooting to number one in the singles and album charts last year.
The campaign, created by upmarket Read the rest of this entry »
As the ordinary Diet session opened Monday, observers predicted feathers will fly between the ruling and opposition blocs in the run-up to the House of Representatives election slated to be held within the year.
While Prime Minister Taro Aso aims to pass the government-proposed second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 and the fiscal 2009 budget through the Diet by the end of the current fiscal year, the opposition bloc is set to resolutely resist Read the rest of this entry »
Doctors say wounded Sri Lankan civilians are dying for want of proper medical treatment as they lie trapped in a makeshift hospital in the last rebel-held pocket in the north-east of the island.
This weekend, hundreds of injured civilians poured in to the improvised medical facility in Putumattalan village, which has been repeatedly targeted by artillery. Earlier in the week 16 patients were killed in shelling.
Both government forces and Tamil Read the rest of this entry »
• 1. $700 Billion Bailout: Refused, 42-52, to block the release of $350 billion not yet disbursed from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) that Congress and President Bush enacted last October to rescue the U.S. economy. This vote on SJ Res 5 cleared the way for the Obama administration to spend the $350 billion for what it says will be purposes such as further shoring up financial institutions, preventing home foreclosures Read the rest of this entry »
Israel will not break us, say defiant Palestinians
First Published:آ Januaryآ 9,آ 2009
CAIRO: Death, injuries and trauma have not managed to diffuse Palestinian desire to stand firm in the face of the Israeli operations against Gaza, now into its second week and a death tally of 760 with over 3,000 wounded.
Thirty-six wounded Palestinians currently receiving treatment at Cairo’s Nasser Medical Institute appear unequivocal in their Read the rest of this entry »
Six people are hurt after an explosion and fire at the We Energies power plant along Lake Michigan in Oak Creek.
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OAK CREEK – Six people are hurt after an explosion and fire at the We Energies power plant along Lake Michigan in Oak Creek.
The explosion happened at a part of the plant that collects dust from coal after it is Read the rest of this entry »
A JPMorgan analyst said Tuesday that health care is currently the most attractive sector in the market, and stocks in health care could make an average gain of 25 percent in 2009.
Thomas J. Lee upgraded the health care sector to “Overweight” from “Neutral,” saying the stocks are generally inexpensive compared with their expected earnings, and profit growth could exceed Wall Street expectations. Lee said pharmacy benefits managers, biotechnology Read the rest of this entry »