Several speakers also urged Connecticut residents to support a bill pending in the General Assembly that would reclassify the possession of minor amounts of marijuana from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
The measure sponsored by two New Haven Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney and Sen. Toni N. Harp, the co-chairwoman of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee, would amend the current law that makes first-time possession Read the rest of this entry »
Ridgeland, MS, JAN 21, 2009 (EventX/Knobias.com via COMTEX) –
— AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq SC :
) will host a conference call regarding to discuss these preliminary results and related FDA plans.
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Intl # : 785-830-1916
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Misc Information: An audio replay of the call will be available starting at noon Eastern Read the rest of this entry »
Medical experts are calling for drug industry representatives to stop giving gifts to doctors, the BBC has learned.
The report was created by a working party led by the Royal College of Physicians and including members of leading pharmaceutical companies.
The report says the measure would do much to rebalance the relationship between medicine and industry.
The UK regulator, the GMC, says gifts must not be accepted which could be seen to affect Read the rest of this entry »
LA Medical Marijuana Patients Protest Sentencing, Call for Change
Salem-News.com
Protesters will gather on the corner of Main Street and Temple St outside the federal courthouse at 12:00 PM on Monday, February 23.
(LOS ANGELES) – Medical marijuana patients and advocates will gather in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles at noon on Monday to protest the upcoming sentencing of Charles C. Lynch, who was convicted for operating Read the rest of this entry »
Girling Health Care provides a variety of home health and personal care
services for clients in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Services include skilled nursing,
occupational therapy, medication management and cardiac pulmonary care, among
others. Girling’s largest market is Texas, where it operates in more than 20
cities throughout the state. Girling Health Care is a member of the Harden
Healthcare Read the rest of this entry »
“I told her to be open and have no fear. She paused after every word,” recalled Payalkumari, 27, the call center agent, who uses only her first name. “Then she slowly opened up. She was newly married. She said her mother-in-law wanted her to have a child right away, but she was not ready to. She asked, ‘Is there some contraception that I can use secretly and nobody else will get to know in the family?’ ”
Payalkumari has taken hundreds of such calls Read the rest of this entry »
A popular Wendy’s commercial in the 80s made famous the question: “Where’s the beef?” Good one. And here’s an even better
one: “Where’s the alpha?” You might want to whip this one out the next time you meet with your portfolio manager.
Alpha
is the over-and-above-the-expected return. It is the “value added.” Therefore, it makes sense that a positive alpha means
an investment has outperformed its market-predicted Read the rest of this entry »
The prime minister has telephoned his support to the family of car bomb hero John Smeaton, who remains in a hospital intensive care unit.
Mr Smeaton, 32, who helped foil the attack on Glasgow airport in June last year, suffered a serious asthma attack on Thursday night.
He has been in “stable” condition in the Royal Alexandra hospital in his home town of Paisley ever since.
His fiance Christy MacPhedran has flown in from the US to be by his Read the rest of this entry »
Aetna (NYSE: AET) is making it easier for members impacted by the flooding and destruction brought on by Hurricane Ike to refill prescriptions and access employee assistance and behavioral health programs. In addition, the company has temporarily eased requirements of certain Aetna medical and dental policies for members to help them access care in the affected Texas counties of Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Jackson, Matagorda, Newton and Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday Nov 11, 2008
A flood of new medicines due to hit the New Zealand market has sparked a call for changes to the way Pharmac goes about deciding on which ones to fund.
Technological advances in medicine mean many new cancer drugs, and others, will become available here, increasing the pressure on Pharmac in its decision making.
“But they are very expensive. So a little country like New Zealand, with a small number of taxpayers, is always Read the rest of this entry »