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45 Day Jail Sentence for Paris Hilton

...d ordered the 26-year-old socialite to report to a county detention facility on June 5. She will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail, the judge ruled. The decision came after a 2 hour long hearing in which the prosecutors argue...

Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose

...on, senior environmental health specialist for the county says that although the amount of waste was small, ...ng, bloodstained gauze and medication vials. The county is still investigating how O'Connor Hospital, Los Gatos Community Hospital and Kaiser-Santa Teresa h...

Pigs Quarantined in US Farm Following Melamine Contamination

...t toll in the US. Now a hog farm in the Stanislaus county in Calinfornia //was placed under quarantine following detection of the industrial chemical melamine in pig urine in the farm. Additional testing was under way to determine if the chemical was present in the meat produced by that farm since April 3...

Thailand Directs Pharma Companies to Declare Production Cost of Drugs

...mpanies to withhold introducing new drugs into the county as Abbott Laboratories did recently. According to the Post, health officials also will monitor the marketing and promotional tactics of pharmaceutical companies, which can increase drug prices. "Drugs are a special product, and the FDA has a duty ...

India's Water Availability Will Decline by 2050

...to 1,140 in 2050. "The water availability in the county would reduce by almost 38 percent. Less rainfall, melting of glaciers due to climate change, and reduced groundwater recharging potential would help the deteriorating situation," said IPCC chairman R.K. Pachauri. "The projected decrease in the wint...

HIV Tests Offered to Los Angeles Hispanics Insufficient: Study

...ed as Kushner’s thesis advisor. Kushner is now the county Department of Health’s medical director for Servic...t with symptoms,” Solorio said. According to the county Health Department, the majority of Hispanics diagnosed with AIDS tested HIV-positive less than one y...

Primary Health Care Parishioners of Second Largest HIV Infected Area in US Fail to Offer HIV Tests

...ed as Kushner's thesis advisor. Kushner is now the county Department of Health's medical director for Servic...t with symptoms," Solorio said. According to the county Health Department, the majority of Hispanics diagnosed with AIDS tested HIV-positive less than one y...

About One Third of Children Overweight in California

...ities. The number of overweight children in the county is about three percent higher than the rest of California, and nearly doubles the national rate, said the Blue Cross of California, a health insurance company Friday. About 80 percent of obese children will continue to be obese into adulthood, sai...

DDT Still Present In The Waters Of Los Angeles County

...n. This is still found in the waters of Los Angles county at a very high// level even after many years of its ban. U.S. Environment Protection Agency released a report on this. The high level of DDT in the sea is due to the dumping of this substance by DDT manufacturing chemical plants into local sewers w...

New HIV Threat Found in King County

...are reported in King County each year. About 8,000 county residents are living with the virus, including those with AIDS. Public Health plans to distribute fliers in gay bars and bathhouses warning of the new strain. And Wood said physicians are being asked to test all newly diagnosed HIV patients for dru...

Indian Doctor In Britain Arrested, Bailed For Manslaughter

...ates agreed that he should be allowed to leave the county in order to attend his wedding. Source-IANS...

Medical Care Lacking In LA Jail

...ed to have said, "I could have every doctor in the county of Los Angeles here, and it still wouldn't be enough. I don't know what 'enough' would be." PRI...

Health Care Suffers at Los Angeles Jails: Report

...east 14 inmates since 1999 in the nation's largest county jail system came after treatment errors and other ...ail system says: "I could have every doctor in the county of Los Angeles here, and it still wouldn't be enough. I don't know what 'enough' would be." Among...

Quarantine Hits 3 More Hospitals In San Mateo

... patients and 13 staffers) have become sick in the county run San Mateo Medical Center's long-term care wing...meeting rooms, and cancel social activities," said county health department official Dr. Alvaro Garza. At all the Medical Centers, no new patients are being a...

Fear Of Cancer Due To Duck Egg Contamination In China

...o. Wang Tingfang, a 52-year-old farmer in Pingshan county said: "I was told the 'red drug' was high-tech product and could produce more nutritious eggs," His 1,000 ducks have been producing red yolk eggs since early 2005. The scandal has revealed management loopholes, even though at least six government a...

Antidepressants Linked to Lower Child Suicide Rates

...amined suicide rates of children ages 5-14 in each county of the United States from 1996 to 1998 and county-level data on SSRI prescriptions. The results were adjusted for sex, race, income, access to quality mental health care and variations in county-to-county suicide rates. "We found that counties with...

Sparrows in China Carry Bird Flu Virus

...rom 38 sparrows after an outbreak of bird flu in a county in Henan province in 2004. Some of samples tested positive of H5N1 virus, said Li Tianxian, a researcher with the institute. "There's no need for the public to panic. The findings are two years old and there is no indication that sparrows pose a...

LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center

...the cut at King-Drew will be sent elsewhere in the county health system. The facility is planning to retain 114 patient beds and also an emergency room and expand its outpatient services. From Nov. 30, patients who need special care such as pediatrics or neurosurgery would have to go to Harbor-UCLA Medical...

Researchers Estimate Significant Fatty Liver Disease in Children

...o County because of its size as the fourth largest county in the United States and its significant racial and ethnic diversity. The racial and ethnic composition of the children studied closely emulated that of San Diego County’s children as established by the 2000 U.S. census. The group believes that gen...

Bankruptcy forces Hospital staff to Call For County Takeover

...e Tami Roncskevitz said, "We would like to see the county take over the administration of Doctors Medical Ce... sympathetic to the pleas to save the facility the county doesn't have the money to even attempt to take over the hospital. He said, "It’s an important hospi...

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