State Police have charged a CVS pharmacy technician with stealing more than $9,000 worth of drugs from the Pembroke store during a three-year period.
Cheryl L. Pascarelli, 45, of 10 Lydon Lane, Halifax, pleaded innocent to larceny of drugs on Wednesday in Plymouth District Court.
Police said Pascarelli stole Vicodin, Valium, Suboxone, antibiotics and antiviral medications and sold them to help pay her bills. A CVS loss-control agent discovered Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the latest exercise equipment may be able to take your mind off your workout while using high-tech advances to help add some variety to your routine. NY1’s Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
NY1 recently stopped in at Reebok Sports Club/NY and The Sports Club/LA for a firsthand look.
First up — “Kranking”. The mobile pieces of equipment are similar to spinning machines, except it is for the upper body. Fitness instructors say it’s Read the rest of this entry »

In just under seven years, Cull has built a company called Remote Medical International that provides emergency-medical services around the globe.
It has 67 employees and medical personnel who rotate, so the company has staff on every continent. They’re coordinated by phones and online software systems from an industrial building in Seattle.
Remote Medical provides telemedicine services around the clock from offices in Washington, D.C., and has Read the rest of this entry »

January 26th, 2009
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That $825 billion stimulus package contains a mere $37 billion for tech in three main areas: $20 billion to computerize medical records, $11 billion to create smarter electrical grids and
in rural and underserved communities,
The tech requests could result in 900,000 jobs in 2009, according to a study produced for the transition team Read the rest of this entry »

Sick or well, people belong to two different species when it comes to health care. Some instinctively reach for cutting-edge medicine: they embrace virtual
and cardiac CT scans and all the newest pills. When the line forms for routine genome analysis, they’ll be pushing up front.
The others flee from all of the above and pretty much everything else: they can barely choke down an aspirin.
What psychic sorting hat is at work here? Who are Read the rest of this entry »

spinoff that will include the company’s operations in the Granville County town of Creedmoor has a name: CareFusion.
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), the Ohio-based health care giant, announced the name Monday.
CareFusion will be a separate publicly traded company and will include Cardinal’s clinical and medical products business. That business
, which manufacturers components as part of Cardinal’s intravenous infusion business. Read the rest of this entry »

A kettlebell isn’t much to look at — it’s basically a cannonball with a handle.
And yet, this decidedly low-tech device has become a hot fitness trend. Kettlebell guru Jessica Huthmaker swears that the cast-iron weight is a key that opens a world of fitness opportunities as you swing it, fling it and hoist it.
A 300-year-old workout invented by Russian strongmen and later adopted by the Russian military and Olympians, the kettlebell is getting Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the latest exercise equipment may be able to take your mind off your workout while using high-tech advances to help add some variety to your routine. NY1’s Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
NY1 recently stopped in at Reebok Sports Club/NY and The Sports Club/LA for a firsthand look.
First up — “Kranking”. The mobile pieces of equipment are similar to spinning machines, except it is for the upper body. Fitness instructors say it’s Read the rest of this entry »

“While we can test the device in the lab, the lab isn’t its
intended setting.”
Royal Oak-based Beaumont Hospitals last year launched the
commercialization center to help medical device manufacturers and
inventors draw on the experience of physicians and staff to bring
their ideas to market.
Beaumont offers services from prototype development and
real-world testing to regulatory approval preparation. Unlike
similar efforts usually on a university Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — It happens all the time: Filling out that clipboard at the doctor’s office, you can’t remember what cancer killed Aunt Sally or when Dad had his heart attack.
A good family health history is far more important than a gene test in predicting your future medical needs, but it’s hugely underused. This week, the government began offering a free new service to try to change that — helping people compile one at home, e-mail it Read the rest of this entry »