Pinchback said that was to ensure that all the attendees felt comfortable asking personal questions.
Morris said by organizing it that way, men ask questions that they wouldn’t ordinarily ask if their wife or girlfriend were in the room.
At the seminar, each doctor gave a brief summary in his area of expertise and later answered questions in an open panel discussion.
Morris and Pinchback hoped it would jumpstart a dialogue between men and their Read the rest of this entry »

Two hospital projects will receive a public airing Thursday, and one has raised new concerns in the local health-care community.
Bon Secours will ask state regulators for permission to reduce DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk from 238 beds to a 124-bed facility.
Sentara will ask to build a 200-bed Sentara Princess Anne Hospital in the southern part of Virginia Beach. Sentara received approval last March for a 120-bed hospital on its health campus Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON – Health-care advocates are actively campaigning to persuade Barack Obama to cross a leading candidate off his short-list for secretary of Health and Human Services: Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. And, in an unusual move for an official under consideration, the governor is fighting back publicly.
“Anybody who’s got some real scars and experience is going to have their detractors,” the governor said Monday in an interview Read the rest of this entry »

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was tempered somewhat Wednesday by a report that the FDA was investigating an increased incidence of bleeding in another of the company’s drugs, Xigris.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that a retrospective, 73-patient study of Lilly’s Xigris, which is used to treat patients with sepsis, a type of blood poisoning, showed an increased the risk of internal bleeding in those with a recent history of hemorrhages.
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With each new year, there is a new resolution — or an old resolution.
Who hasn’t had a fitness resolution? Whether it be getting off the couch, into the skinny jeans or completing an Ironman Triathlon. After a month of fudge and sugar fixes, the desire for fitness propels us with promise into a new year.
Even for the everyday fit types, the resolutions of others are easy to see. Your spot in the yoga class is gone. Your gym locker has been adopted Read the rest of this entry »

Federal food regulators describe a massive salmonella outbreak traced to a Georgia peanut butter plant in 2007 as “a wake-up call.” But that realization did not lead officials to scrutinize at least one other peanut processor: the Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely.
They didn’t even know the plant made peanut butter.
That gaffe by the Food and Drug Administration illustrates a fundamental weakness in federal oversight Read the rest of this entry »

After a record number of students participated in the school system’s annual physical fitness challenge this fall, health and physical education teachers want to continue to improve their students’ activity levels.
Project ACES, which stands for Active Children Excel in School, challenges elementary school students to do 60 minutes of physical activity each day during a two-week period in October.
A total of 9,590 students from all Read the rest of this entry »

FDA’s $1.5 Million Morale Contract Draws U.S. Lawmaker Scrutiny
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — A $1.5 million contract between the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a California firm to
improve morale at the agency’s drug division faces scrutiny from
lawmakers who questioned whether the company’s plan will work.
in Oakland, according to a statement
today from Republican Representatives
of Illinois.
One of the consultants for the center “works Read the rest of this entry »

, a $2 billion investment that supporters say will create thousands of jobs and begin to rebuild the city’s shattered health care system.
One of the hospitals, to be built by Louisiana State University, would replace the city’s landmark Charity Hospital, a lifeline for generations of the city’s poor, which has been vacant since the storm damaged its lower floors. The other would replace the vacant
hospital, also severely damaged Read the rest of this entry »

attention-deficit disorder drug has gotten the pharmaceutical company in trouble with the Food and Drug Administration.
Last week, the FDA issued a warning letter to Shire — a Basingstoke, England, company that has its U.S. headquarters in Chester County — in which it told Shire to pull the plug on the video.
Shire spokesman Matt Cabrey said the video in question, which features former company spokesman Ty Pennington of the “Extreme Read the rest of this entry »