With Sri Lanka facing a must win situation in the remaining three One-Day Internationals of the five match series against India, one issue they will not have to bother too much about is about their middle order positions.
Thilina Kandamby, occupying the number five position in Saturdays second ODI at the R. Premadasa Stadium top scored for the Sri Lankans with 93 runs and his unbeaten effort carried the hosts close to victory before they eventually Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to athletic competition — or to steroids. And the former champion bodybuilder says there’s no place for drugs in sports these days.
Schwarzenegger says top athletes are inspirations to young people and to people trying to lose weight and stay fit.
The former action star says competition drives athletes to use drugs. His advice: “Come out, be clean and say, ‘Look, Read the rest of this entry »
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The medical system in Gaza is close to being overwhelmed and the Palestinian enclave faces a humanitarian catastrophe unless a cease-fire is reached soon, a senior U.N. health official said Friday.
Sixteen health facilities, including hospitals and clinics, have been damaged by shelling and fighting during the 3-week-old Israeli offensive, said Tony Laurance, head of the World Health Organization office in Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »
If the air in your city is clean, you can tack on about five months to your life. So suggests a new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health.
This study found that the average life expectancy in 51 cities in the United States increased by nearly three years in recent decades and that approximately five months of that increase came as a result of cleaner air.
“Life expectancy is a well-understood indicator Read the rest of this entry »
In a recent announcement, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says there is no reason to require labels for foods made from animals that were genetically engineered and sold to American consumers. The animals themselves will require labels designating them as genetically engineered, once such an animal is created that passes the FDA approval process. Thus far, no such animals have met approval for marketing.
The announcement was met with Read the rest of this entry »
Amgen Inc.
said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration accepted its application for the bone loss drug candidate denosumab, and the company expects the agency to make a ruling by Oct. 19.
) asked the FDA to approve the drug in December in a Biologics License Application. Regulators did not accept the application until Wednesday, but they intend to make their ruling 10 months from the date of the submission.
The biotechnology company wants Read the rest of this entry »
A day after he was charged with stabbing his companion in the face with a broken glass, State Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate said he was incapable of such a crime, and vowed to take his Senate seat come Jan. 1.
In a one-page statement issued Saturday evening, Mr. Monserrate said he deeply loved and cared for his companion, Karla Giraldo, and called her injuries an “unfortunate accident.”
“I have been charged with offenses that Read the rest of this entry »
AP National Writer= The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S.-manufactured infant formula contaminated with melamine or its byproducts onto store shelves is “seriously flawed” and medically risky because parents may feed their babies more than one product, scientists at the nonprofit group Consumers Union said Friday.
The FDA detected melamine and its byproduct cyanuric acid separately in four of 89 containers Read the rest of this entry »
More than half of teenagers frequently discuss sex, drugs and violence on their MySpace social networking pages, according to a pair of studies released by Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
The studies were published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. They indicated that in 500 randomly chosen MySpace profiles of self-reported 18-year-old men and women, 54 percent contained high-risk behavior information; Read the rest of this entry »
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Scolr Pharma Inc. (DDD:
) announced that the U. S. Food and Drug Administration requested additional information for Abbreviated New Drug Application or ANDA for pseudoephedrine. The company noted that none of the issues cited by the FDA involve the safety or efficacy of the product.
The application seeks approval to market a 120 mg 12 hour pseudoephedrine tablet based on its patented Controlled Delivery Read the rest of this entry »