CORNELIUS, N.C. — In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidelines to make it easier for drug manufacturers to promote “off-label” prescription drug uses, which can be deadly for patients.
The move came despite criticism from Bush's own Department of Veterans Affairs, which said the change “favors business interests over public safety” and could lead to a “decline in drug safety.” Read the rest of this entry »

Boyle Heights-Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center completed its two-day move into a new facility Saturday afternoon.
The last of the 400 patients were moved after 1 p.m., and the new hospital began accepting ambulance traffic after 3 p.m., said Pete Delgado, the hospital’s chief executive officer.
The move went smoothly, Delgado said.
Even though County-USC was not accepting ambulance traffic for 36 hours, surrounding hospitals said they Read the rest of this entry »

The community television station that serves Los Gatos, KCAT TV15, is moving to a new location so that Los Gatos High School can open up a fitness center.
KCAT’s current studio is at the back of the high school near the football field and tennis courts and next to the field house and weight room. Its new home will be located near the swimming pool. And even though the new digs will be temporary, station manager George Sampson says the move is a Read the rest of this entry »

NEW DELHI, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Ranbaxy Laboratories
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), India’s top drug maker by sales, said on Wednesday
it was disappointed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s
move to ban dozens of its generics.
“The company has responded to each concern FDA has raised
during the past two years and had thought that progress was
being made,” the firm said in a statement.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it
would Read the rest of this entry »

CARSON CITY (AP) — A Carson City hospital has laid off 30 workers in a budget-cutting move spurred by the faltering economy.
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare is providing severance for the employees.
Hospital spokeswoman Cheri Glockner says the organization has 1,232 employes and the 30 affected workers would be the first considered for rehiring when conditions improve. She says patient care would not be affected by the layoffs.
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The worst thing that could have happened during Saturday’s practice patient move at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh was for nothing to go wrong during the transfer from the Oakland hospital to the new one in Lawrenceville.
“I want a problem of some kind because I want all my bases covered,” said Jennifer Iagnemma, a registered nurse at Children’s who will direct the actual move on May 2.
Nearly 100 emergency medical technicians and nurses participated Read the rest of this entry »

Six of the workers injured when a pedestrian walkway under construction collapsed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden are being transferred to a hospital that specializes in rehabilitating severe spinal injuries.
The six – including one who suffered a fractured skull and has brain injuries – were to be sent Tuesday from Grady Memorial Hospital to The Shepherd Center. One of the patients, whom the hospital would not name, was being transferred from Grady’s Read the rest of this entry »

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The hospital’s employees and patients will make the move to the new address at 1015 Bowles Ave., Fenton.
St. Joseph Hospital will not close prior to March 30.
Hospital operations at both facilities will overlap during the morning of March 30.
Admissions will be reduced at St. Joseph a few days prior to the move to minimize the number of patients to be transferred.
During February, 40 orientation sessions will be held to train employees Read the rest of this entry »

A Springfield hospital plans to remove the office building window where some people thought they saw the image of the Virgin Mary. But hospital officials said they would continue to study the window over the next several months and would consider the possibility of putting it on display.
After the image was spotted Sept. 30, crowds flocked to Mercy Medical Center, with 200 to 300 people sometimes standing outside the doctor’s office window on Stafford Read the rest of this entry »

initiative said Friday that its recruiting effort has helped lasso another corporate headquarters for the corridor.
, which develops immune-regulating compounds for veterinary medicine, will relocate its headquarters to St. Joseph from Prescott, Ariz., sometime in the first quarter.
Imulan will be the first tenant in the new Christopher “Kit” Bond Science and Technology Incubator in St. Joseph. It will join the regionally headquartered Read the rest of this entry »