If you started your year trying to exercise on your own and find you need a structured environment. Or if you aren’t quite making good on your New Year’s resolution of injecting more exercise into your life, there’s still time to take advantage of membership and training deals at
.
There are many locations in the Bay Area. You can join without an initiation fee and for $20 – $45 bucks a month. That’s a bargain for a gym – some have the basics, Read the rest of this entry »

Hansen Medical sweetened its severance agreements with several top executives last week as part of its efforts to retain them. That’s right, in order to keep them around, Hansen increased how much cash it would pay them, lengthened the period during which it would pay for their medical benefits, and significantly increased the accelerated vesting of their stock-based compensation “in the event of a covered termination.”
The severance kicks in when Read the rest of this entry »

Glaxo CEO Sees ‘Sustainable Growth’ From Deals, Drugs (Update1)
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) –
, Europe’s largest
drugmaker, will boost its reliance on acquisitions and licensing
deals to bring new medicines to the market, Chief Executive
Officer Andrew Witty said in an interview.
The London-based company has 30 drugs in the final stage of
testing needed before approval and plans to release about five
new products a year, Witty, 44, said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Premier Inc., a huge U.S. hospital purchasing group, said Thursday that it has
signed new agreements for drug-coated stent heart devices with
(JNJ).
The tiny devices prop open clogged arteries, use medication to fight
renarrowing and represent a roughly
domestic market. Owned by non-
profit hospitals, Premier runs a purchasing network that serves more than 2,100
U.S. hospitals and Read the rest of this entry »

Glaxo CEO Sees ‘Sustainable Growth’ From Deals, Drugs (Update2)
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) –
, Europe’s largest
drugmaker, will boost its reliance on acquisitions and licensing
deals to bring new medicines to the market, Chief Executive
Officer Andrew Witty said in an interview.
The London-based company has 30 drugs in the final stage of
testing needed before approval and plans to release about five
new products a year, Witty, 44, said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

The Yeshiva University employee said she wasn’t seeing the kinds
of deals she had expected. “It doesn’t look any different from
last year,” she said.
store in Syracuse, N.Y., a line snaked past
stores and around walkways on the second floor of Carousel Center a
few moments before the store’s 5 a.m. opening _ about eight hours
after some people near the front of the line had arrived.
, the mall’s manager, estimated about 1,000 people
were waiting Read the rest of this entry »

SALISBURY — In an economy all but tuckered out, building might are area fitness clubs strong in memberships, albeit special offers are keeping wallets in better shape.
“We’ve just discounted all our rates because of the economic times,” said Laura Taghipour, an owner at Powerhouse Gym & Fitness for Her on the West Side. “I think business has increased, although some have stopped because they can’t afford it and this was a piece they had to let Read the rest of this entry »

> Pharma’s 2008 pain could be its 2009 gain, as cost-cutting, layoffs and other restructuring measures pay off in this economic downturn.
> Amid studies showing the anticlotting drug Plavix may not be effective for 30 percent of cardiac patients, federal regulators are considering updating the drug’s label to include data on genetic factors that could interfere with the medicine.
> Daiichi Sankyo is set to book an accounting loss of more than Read the rest of this entry »

YONG’AN VILLAGE, China (AP) — At the height of the corn harvest in the long muggy days of August, 10-month-old Zhang Peng began refusing to drink his milk, crying fitfully at night as he struggled to sleep. Soon his twin sister Zhang Xue fell ill, too.
Several times, their parents brought the sick babies, who had trouble urinating, to the nearest hospital 20 miles from their farming village. Doctors could not diagnose the problem but gave Read the rest of this entry »

Trial membership, sale of services separately help to differentiate The Sports Club chain from its rivals.
The fitness industry loves — and hates — New Year’s resolutions.
In January, memberships surge by as much as 25 percent at The Sports Club, a sports development center with locations in Novi and West Bloomfield.
But business can fall off when people start to break their promise to get in shape. That is why Sports Club owners Don Arndt Read the rest of this entry »