Texas State Rep. Sylvester Turner Honored as 'Champion for Children' by The AMERIGROUP Foundation
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 21, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The AMERIGROUP Foundation today announced that State Rep. Sylvester Turner of Houston has been honored with its "Champion for Children" award. The award is part of the AMERIGROUP Foundation's national program recognizing outstanding public a...Steroid Scam: Sylvester Stallone Gets Away With a Light Punishment
For all the media hype, the sentencing of actor Sylvester Stallone came as an anti-climax Monday morning at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney. He was fined $2,975 for bringing banned hormones into Australia. He is also to pay prosecution costs of $10,000. A Customs search of...Study finds survival rates from gastrointestinal tumors improving among African-Americans
...ssociate professor of surgery, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and surgical oncologist at sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at UM. "In addition, increased access to new targeted therapies through medication assistance programs may be helping to e...MDS Nordion Launches Improved TheraSphere(R) Administration System for Physicians
...ion of TheraSphere(R) to our patients safer and easier." Dr. May Wahab, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, sylvester Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami Hospital said that TheraSphere(R) is the result of cutting-edge, advanced technology...Family Health International Featured at Global Health Council Conference
...reak down suddenly. Moderator: Sheila Mitchell, Family Health International Panelists: Salvador de la Torre, Catholic Medical Missions Board sylvester Kimaiyo, AMPATH Peter Okaalet, MAP International Florence Muli-Musiime, African Medical and Research Foundation FHI's Presenters Lynda Bardfie...Finola Hughes Announces Her Best Accessory at Fashion Week
...Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1991, as well as three additional nominations in the same category. Ms. Hughes made her American film debut when sylvester Stallone cast her opposite John Travolta in "Stayin' Alive." Most recently, Ms. Hughes joined leading mobile 3-D software and technology company Emdig...Bestselling Author Dr. Timothy Brantley Explains the Connection of Food and Mood
...tley has taught his methods of naturally restoring physical and emotional health to thousands of people, including well-known celebrities, among them: sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammar and Kelly Rowland. According to Dr. Brantley, the brain communicates by chemical neurotransmitters; which are created in the ...THA Honors Nine Legislators for Contributions to Health Care
...rs receiving the award include Reps. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), Dianne Delisi (R-Temple), Donna Howard, RN (D-Austin), Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) and sylvester Turner (D-Houston). The awards were announced during THA's Annual Leadership Conference, which is convening in Austin this week. "Each one of these ...A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life
...atal beating of Alicia Ross by her neighbor Daniel sylvester was described as an act of extreme cruelty and ca...riend goodbye in the early hours of Aug. 17, 2005, sylvester attacked the young woman, delivering a beating so ... that Ross was unconscious and bleeding profusely, sylvester did nothing to help her. "He simply left ...Researchers Train the Immune System to Deliver Virus That Destroys Cancer in Lab Models
...livo; Phonphimon Wongthida; Rosa Maria Diaz, Ph.D.; Jill Thompson and Pamela Ryno of the Molecular Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic; Glen Barber of the sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami School of Medicine; John Chester, Peter Selby and Alan Melcher of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Cen...Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle?
...odern humans are different with long legs and a big head. So chimps are a good place to start, Kramer said. Using the model they devised, Kramer and sylvester calculated it would not be metabolically efficient for a chimp to use bipedalism for distances greater than about 50 feet. But it would be efficient ...