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  • CA-BUSINESS Summary Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 3:22PMTORONTO (Reuters) - Two Canadian banks announced new preferred share offerings on Monday as they looked to boost their capital positions. Toronto-Dominion Bank
  • Steve Jobs explains weight loss Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 3:21PMAfter months of speculation about his health, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday that his doctors believe a hormonal imbalance is to blame for his alarming weight loss. http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=41 http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=50 http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?i=FCc6RvcE http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_us?d=52 ...
  • Biker dies from wreck injuries Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 3:15PMHOUMA - A motorcyclist who crashed into the marsh off La. 182 this weekend has died, State Police said.Johnny Johnston, 33, of Bayou Blue was critically injured after he wrecked while trying to pass cars on La. 182 Friday night. He was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. Sunday at Terrebonne General Medical Center, police said.
  • Gaza hospital overwhelmed by dead, wounded Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 3:13PMMon, Jan 5, 2009 (12:42 p.m.) Wailing in grief, Salah Samouni banged his head against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three young nephews lay on the floor Monday.
  • Patients could testify at doctors’ hearings Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 3:12PMMon, Jan 5, 2009 (12:51 p.m.) The state Board of Medical Examiners will ask the 2009 Nevada Legislature to approve a measure to increase transparency and efficiency, and let patients participate when errant doctors are disciplined.
  • Human simulators so real even doctors are surprised Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 10:52PM The new technology will be used to help teach USF medical students.
  • Manning discharged from hospital Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 10:51PMPrime Minister Patrick Manning has been discharged from the Centre of Medical-Surgical Research (Cimeq) hospital in Havana, Cuba.
  • Man stabbed with a screwdriver in fight Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 10:49PMA 22-year-old man was stabbed in the face and abdomen with a screwdriver during a bar fight early Sunday.
  • Interpreters flourish in U.S. Babel despite slump Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 10:44PMTUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - When a group of Chinese illegal immigrants were picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona late last month, the challenge for the arresting officers was how to talk to them.
  • Van Andel Institute, MSU hope blood taken at birth helps find cure for genetic diseases Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 10:28PMJames Resau, deputy director of special programs at the Van Andel Institute, says three million blood-stained cards, one for every Michigan baby born since 1987, are "a vast, underutilized resource." They could hold a wealth of information about genetically linked diseases, including juvenile diabetes, cerebral palsy, autism, asthma and some cancers. (Press Photo/Jon Brouwer) • Read the story
  • New family doctors coming to Northumberland Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 1:57PMSanta could be bringing you a family doctor. People living in this part of Northumberland are getting the opportunity for primary medical care either in [...]
  • Storm damage update from City of Denison Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 1:51PMDENISON, TX -- City crews continue to clear streets of debris, brush, and limbs Tuesday after severe storms hit many parts of Denison hard Monday night.
  • Access on the Internet Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 1:46PMWhat can be heard on the police scanner can also now be seen live on the Internet, thanks to the city’s new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system.
  • City hall to go dark on Fridays Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 1:42PM The Tehachapi City Council voted 5-0 to direct staff to implement a compressed workweek schedule as a cost-saving measure. The new schedule was to begin January 1, but city staff was able to work out the details and has announced that changes in hours for the airport, public works, police and city hall employees will commence the week of Dec. 22. “Beginning Dec. 22, 2008, city hall will ...
  • Going gluten free in Eagle County Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 9:22PMHow locals are coping with celiac disease
  • Researchers Put a Microscope on Food Allergies Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 9:01PMAn international study is searching for causes of food allergy by looking at hundreds of families in Boston, Chicago and Anhui Province in China.
  • The Pain May Be Real, but the Scan Is Deceiving Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 9:00PMScans are increasingly finding abnormalities that may not be the cause of the problem for which they are blamed.
  • Improved Testing for Hepatitis B Virus From Roche Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 8:36PMPLEASANTON, California, December 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - A sensitive and fully automated platform improves viral load testing in serum and plasma Roche Molecular Diagnostics announced today that it has received CE Mark certification for its new COBAS(R) AmpliPrep / COBAS(R) TaqMan(R) HBV Test v2.0, allowing it to be sold for clinical use in the European Union.
  • Guilford Co. Convenience Store Owner Found Dead Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 1:32PMA man is killed at a Guilford County convenience store.
  • Cough syrup OTC sale under lens Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 1:19PMThere is a popular misconception that certain prescription drugs - such as Corex cough syrup, or Phensedyl, among others - are over-the-counter (OTC) products.
  • Ex-soldier battles Gulf War illness Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 1:12PMA study released in November by the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses only confirmed a reality Johnny Phillips has been living with for years.
  • Financial Condition Critical Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 1:04PMA Leesburg health clinic that serves low-income patients might have to start turning away people if it does not raise $200,000 by the end of the year, officials said last week.
  • Cape Coral baby recovers from abuse at home Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 12:41PMAvery Hutson is now breathing on her own.
  • Rewarding Career Opportunities with MHM Services, Inc. Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 12:07PMMHM Services, Inc. is the leading national specialist in providing mental health programs and services to correctional systems, including state prisons and local jails.
  • Therapy benefits - Occupational Kinetics provides on-the-job therapy that helps patients adapt using real job ... Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:51AMWhen brothers Todd DeYoung and Eric DeYoung launched Occupational Kinetics LLC in 2003, it was difficult to sell clients on the idea of providing on-site occupational therapy and convincing clients to teach their employees exercises that will help avoid lost-time injuries.
  • Dawson students get jump on med careers Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:49AMMore future doctors, nurses and medical professionals are getting a head start at a younger age.
  • Driver interviewed as inquiry continues in fatal incident Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:41AMMONROE — No charges have been filed against the driver involved in an accident that killed one pedestrian and seriously injured two others, according to police.
  • Shelby Baptist to open $2 million wound care clinic Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:40AMShelby Baptist Medical Center will open a new $2.2 million wound care clinic in December.
  • Woman shot dead, 2 wounded at church Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:31AMCLIFTON — Stunned, teary-eyed congregants emerged from their church Sunday afternoon after a gunman shot three people in the head, killing his estranged wife from an arranged marriage and leaving the other two victims clinging to life.
  • Coroner: Man died of drug overdose Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:29AMCRYSTAL LAKE – Multiple drugs were discovered in the system of a 25-year-old Crystal Lake man who, in late October, was found dead outside West Elementary School.
  • Gosai’s Southwest Medical Center adds infusion therapy services Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:24AMA group of Washington County doctors are expanding infusion therapy services, a move designed to reduce health care costs by limiting hospitalization while improving patient care.
  • Court battle to keep brain-dead boy alive Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 2:12PMWASHINGTON: The Orthodox Jewish parents of a boy whom doctors have ruled “brain-dead” are fighting in court to keep him on life support, arguing that their religion considers him still alive. The hospital wants to discontinue care for the boy.
  • Court battle to keep brain-dead boy alive Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 2:12PMThe Orthodox Jewish parents of a boy whom doctors have ruled “brain-dead” are fighting in court to keep him on life support, arguing that their religion considers him still alive.
  • Anderson has its own to show off at biomedical conference Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 2:02PMWhen the fourth annual Biomedical Entrepreneurship in Upstate South Carolina program gets under way Friday, entrepreneurs from Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties will be represented.
  • Heart valve repair Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 1:57PMBaby Sandeepa requires surgery for total correction with valve conduit repair in the heart. She is advised to undergo the procedure at an early date, in view of severe cyanosis, Chief Paediatric Cardiologist of MIOT Hospital, Chennai Dr. K. Siva Kumar said.
  • 86 couples to tie knot in Gujarat mass marriage Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 1:16PMAt least 86 couples from different parts of Gujarat will get married in a mass marriage ceremony here Monday to be organised by a non-government organisation.
  • Mass. to bar hospitals from turning away ambulances Sunday, September 14, 2008 @ 2:01AMBOSTON -- The state has ordered hospitals to stop the decades-old practice of turning away ambulances when their emergency rooms are overcrowded. ... - The Associated Press
  • Finding the perfect space for your business Sunday, September 14, 2008 @ 1:55AMIf you have been running a small business from home, it might be time to think bigger picture. Perhaps your clientele has increased, you need more assistants, and zoning frowns on the number of cars that approach your home. Where do you start?
  • Steroid summit urges coaches to be first line of defense Sunday, September 14, 2008 @ 1:45AMA collection of coaches from Frisco ISD and several from Celina and McKinney listened intently as Don Hooton spoke Sunday about the dangers of anabolic steroids at an anti-doping summit at Frisco Liberty High School.
  • FBI: LA hospitals used homeless in medical fraud Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 6:00AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.
  • Malik stable in hospital after indefinite fast Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 6:00AMSrinagar, Aug 7 : Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was hospitalised Thursday after his health deteriorated following an indefinite fast.
  • Chiropractics; better health? Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 5:52AMMarquette man says "yes". Thursday, August 07, 2008 at 6:49 a.m. MARQUETTE -- Chiropractic care has been around for 100 years, but just recently research has begun to surface perhaps showing some new benefits of this often controversial practice.
  • Danger on the ballot Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 5:48AMImagine a law declaring that upon becoming pregnant a woman loses her right to bodily integrity, life and liberty. Sound far-fetched? Unfortunately the answer is, not at all. In fact such a law has been proposed in Colorado, a so-called “Human Life Amendment” to the State Constitution.
  • FBI: LA hospitals used homeless in medical fraud Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 5:34AMThu, Aug 7, 2008 (3:21 a.m.) For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.
  • Painkillers linked to bleeding ulcers Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:36AMPowerful painkillers containing codeine have been linked to dozens of fresh cases of bleeding stomach ulcers and renal failure, reinvigorating debate about abuse of the popular drugs.
  • Optimism About Heart Risk Pays Off Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:29AM By Ed Edelson , HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Men who thought they had a lower risk of dying from heart disease turned out to be right over...
  • A new face, a new look, a new start McClatchy-Tribune July 15, 2008 Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:26AMBy Deanese Williams-Harris - CHICAGO — The night before her makeover at Mario Tricoci Hair Salon and Day Spa, Jordan Lain, 18, could not sleep. She knew the day at the spa was going to be special.
  • SANBS assures blood is safe Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:22AMDespite a recent blood transfusion-related HIV/Aids scare, there have been no HIV transmissions through donated blood since 2005, the SA National Blood Service says.
  • Amanda Peet gets her shot on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:16AMThe actress and mom defends childhood vaccinations from Jenny McCarthy.
  • Pregnancy center adds ultrasound, plans for more medical services Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:12AM    The Pregnancy Resource Center of Mid-Michigan is now offering medical services for women facing unexpected pregnancies.