In 2004, a community board representing all the municipalities in North Hastings, recognized the need for better access to health care in our community. Funded entirely through generous donations from our community and municipalities (your tax dollars), your community clinic opened to provide health care to all in the area. A state-of-the-art facility was provided through the County of Hastings and in 2005 the management of funding was transferred Read the rest of this entry »

Biotechnology company
Amgen Inc.
said Friday it asked the Food and Drug Administration for approval of its osteoporosis drug candidate denosumab.
The drug is aimed at preventing and treating the bone-deteriorating condition in postmenopausal women and for patients undergoing breast or prostate cancer treatment. Analysts consider the drug Amgen
)’s next blockbuster, and shares have been rising since the middle of the year on a steady stream Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking wounded, ill or injured service members and their families to rate their medical care in an anonymous poll that officials hope will encourage candor.
The Defense Department on Thursday posted questionnaires on the Web site of the Military Health System, which has struggled to meet unprecedented demand because of the two ongoing wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.
The system serves some 9 million people Read the rest of this entry »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE –
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee says he’s surprised a Texas peanut plant run by a company responsible for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for nearly four years.
Sen. Tom Harkin asked during a hearing Thursday if he should be alarmed by this and asked federal health officials how many other food plants are operating Read the rest of this entry »

Canada is a “heartsick nation” that needs to make a massive investment in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease to forestall a medical disaster, according to a broad coalition of health groups.
In announcing a proposed Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan, the group’s leaders called on Ottawa to invest $700-million, promising an economic savings of $22.2-billion in return over the next decade.
“We need to take action now Read the rest of this entry »

Biotechnology company
Genzyme Corp.
said Monday it asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its leukemia drug Clolar for adults.
The drug is already approved for a form of the disease called acute lymphoblastic leukemia in patients between 1 and 21 years old who have had at least two prior treatments.
) asked that the FDA give priority review to the drug as an initial treatment for adults with acute myeloid leukemia. If granted, the Read the rest of this entry »

Leaders at Physicians Medical Center Carraway in Birmingham are contacting administrators at other local hospitals to notify them of the hospital’s impending closure and to ask their help in transferring Physicians Carraway’s patients to them, a lawyer for the hospital said this monring.
Some of the patients may be able to be released today. Physicians Carraway has quit taking emergency room patients by ambulance but has staffed the emergency department Read the rest of this entry »

California asked a federal judge Wednesday to end the receivership he created to remedy the state’s long-running failure to address the dysfunctional, deadly prison health care system.
State Attorney General Jerry Brown’s motion, announced by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his finance and corrections chiefs at a Capitol news conference, doesn’t claim the system’s problems — which at their height led to an average of one preventable inmate Read the rest of this entry »

-(Dow Jones)- Rep.
, R-Texas, on Thursday raised
questions about the adequacy of the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of a
scandal involving a contaminated blood thinner amid concerns the agency
misreported deaths tied to the product and didn’t thoroughly investigate the
problem.
At issue are what appear to be conflicting statements the FDA made to the
public and Congress about the number of deaths tied to contaminated batches of
heparin, Read the rest of this entry »

September 9, 2008 08:45:00
A women’s health service in western Victoria is asking Victorian MPs to support a bill to decriminalise abortion.
The legislation would remove the threat of prosecution for women, and would allow abortions after 24 weeks, if approved by two doctors.
The bill will be debated in the Lower House of Parliament today, and MPs will eventually have a conscience vote.
Patricia Kinnersly, from Women’s Health Grampians, says Read the rest of this entry »