The Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative (FFI) has announced it is seeking requests for activities to support and build on its efforts. This initiative is about people working together to create vibrant communities where the healthy choice is the easy choice.
This work began in April 2007 when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation selected Northeast Iowa as one of nine communities locations across the country to become models of community change. Each Read the rest of this entry »

The Supreme Court decision “left consumers without any ability to get compensation for injuries caused by certain defective medical devices,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D- Calif., in a statement to the Star Tribune. “The Supreme Court assumed that FDA approval ensures medical devices are safe, but the many recent stories of patients harmed by faulty devices have proven that assumption false.”
Waxman and Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., plan to introduce Read the rest of this entry »

EL PASO, Texas
— Concerns about the bloody drug war being fought just across the Mexican border led to a short-lived resolution Tuesday asking the federal government to consider legalizing drugs.
Mayor John Cook vetoed the resolution hours after it was unanimously approved by the City Council.
Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso city councilman, pushed the resolution that asked the U.S. government to start an “open, honest, national dialogue on Read the rest of this entry »

The increases are particularly pronounced in the region’s largest and wealthiest jurisdictions as employers cut benefits and eliminate jobs. In
, for instance, requests for the state’s insurance program for children, Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS), were up 16 percent between November 2007 and November 2008. In Alexandria, caseloads increased 20 percent, and in
, they were up 16.5 percent.
Overall, caseloads in Northern Virginia Read the rest of this entry »

, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jan 09, 2009 10:40 AM
Florida was singled out in a report today as one of the roughest states on unemployed workers who are trying to cover their family’s health care needs.
Currently, many workers who lost their jobs are able to continue purchasing the same health care coverage through the COBRA program. But according to a report by Families USA, the cost for that lifeline is prohibitively high for many, especially Read the rest of this entry »

-(Dow Jones)- The makers of two drugs used to treat colon cancer
are seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to target the products to a
group of patients with a certain type of gene involved in growth of the disease.
Amgen Inc.
(AMGN), the maker of Vectibix, and ImClone Systems (IMCL), which
makes Erbitux, are asking the agency to place a discussion of clinical trial
data on the drugs’ labels that show they work in patients with a normal Read the rest of this entry »

Nov 17, 2008 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) –
— November 17, 2008 (FinancialWire) — Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:
) is seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell a generic version of Gilead’s HIV drug Truvada.
Gilead said it has 45 days from the receipt of the notification by the FDA to commence a patent infringement lawsuit against Teva. A lawsuit would restrict approval of the generic drug for up to 30 months or until Read the rest of this entry »

Schering-Plough Corp.’s
(SGP) experimental antipsychotic asenapine, only more
data from the drug’s database.
That request is slated to be met later this quarter, paving the way for
potential approval of the drug, which would go by the brand name Saphris.
The FDA missed its target date for action on the asenapine in September,
causing some concern about the drug’s future. But Schering-Plough Chief
Executive
in November identified it as one Read the rest of this entry »

The Supreme Court decision “left consumers without any ability to get compensation for injuries caused by certain defective medical devices,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D- Calif., in a statement to the Star Tribune. “The Supreme Court assumed that FDA approval ensures medical devices are safe, but the many recent stories of patients harmed by faulty devices have proven that assumption false.”
Waxman and Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., plan to introduce Read the rest of this entry »

Drug busts aren’t always easy.
But a Jena woman made things simple for the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office when she tried to make a drug deal via text message, authorities reported.
The person on the other end of the phone was Sheriff Scott Franklin.
Tracie L. Ingram, 36, of Jena was arrested Monday and charged with criminal conspiracy to commit possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia, officials Read the rest of this entry »