Israel has confirmed that reserve units have been sent to the Gaza Strip, as its campaign there enters a 17th day.
But military officials denied this heralded a new phase in Israel’s offensive against Hamas militants.
Earlier, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was nearing its military goals and operations would continue.
Reports suggest diplomatic efforts between Egypt and Hamas in Cairo are progressing, as envoy Tony Blair heads to the Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) –
products for two decades, from his first Mac in 1987 to the
latest iPhone. He bought his first Apple shares in 2001 for
$9.25 each.
For all his enthusiasm, Grannis says he’s not happy with
how the company handled disclosures about the health of Chief
Executive Officer
.
“Even being a fan of Apple, I wish they would’ve been a
little more forthright,” said Grannis, 59, the former chief
economist at Western Asset Read the rest of this entry »
Differences in culture, religion and language pose daily challenges at the West
health center, where the waiting room might find Iraqis standing next to refugees from Myanmar, or Burundis sitting alongside Somalis and Bhutanese.
On a recent snowy, bitterly cold day, 77 refugees from various countries were treated at the clinic. Among the patients seen by Dr. Gary Kaufman, the clinic’s medical director, were two young sisters from Myanmar who Read the rest of this entry »
Jessica Hooper began to cut back on her spending months ago, but last week she got serious. Shortly after Statistics Canada reported record job losses for the month of January, she realized more radical measures were needed and used the scissors on her secondary credit card.
Retailers and other service industry insiders are bracing themselves for this next wave of consumer frugality to hit as a leading trend forecaster reports that “credit card Read the rest of this entry »
outbreak that sickened almost 500 people around the country and is linked to six deaths is a peanut processing plant in Blakely, Ga., health officials confirmed. The plant is owned by the Peanut Corporation of America. More than 125 products have been recalled, including cookies, cakes, candy, prepared dinners and even dog treats. A list of recalled products is on the
’s Web site,
. Health officials warned consumers to check the site before Read the rest of this entry »
Could our mother’s diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an “experiment of nature” being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded researchers. We inherit our DNA – the genetic blueprint that determines our make-up – from our parents: 50% of our DNA from our mothers and 50% from our fathers.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The medical system in Gaza is close to being overwhelmed and the Palestinian enclave faces a humanitarian catastrophe unless a cease-fire is reached soon, a senior U.N. health official said Friday.
Sixteen health facilities, including hospitals and clinics, have been damaged by shelling and fighting during the 3-week-old Israeli offensive, said Tony Laurance, head of the World Health Organization office in Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of the past eight years was the chance for Republicans to fundamentally reform the terribly broken American health-care system. Access to quality health care has long been a professed priority, yet Republicans have been reluctant to tackle the issue.
As a physician, this is deeply disappointing to me because patient-centered health care is, at its core, conservative. Health care is fundamentally a personal Read the rest of this entry »
Dyax Corp.
said Wednesday a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of the company’s developing treatment for a genetic condition that can lead to dangerous swelling.
The drug candidate is called DX-88 and is aimed at treating the condition called hereditary angioedema. While the FDA does not have to approve the drug, it usually follows the advice of its expert panels. The panel vote was slim, with six recommending approval Read the rest of this entry »
If the air in your city is clean, you can tack on about five months to your life. So suggests a new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health.
This study found that the average life expectancy in 51 cities in the United States increased by nearly three years in recent decades and that approximately five months of that increase came as a result of cleaner air.
“Life expectancy is a well-understood indicator Read the rest of this entry »