Parents Host Golf Tournament to Fund Cure for Disease That Claimed Daughter's Life
Lisa Sandler Spaeth Memorial Golf Tournament to be held at Woodmont Country Club on Oct. 14 ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Jerome Sandler and his wife, Froma, are still dealing with the sadness of losing their beautiful daughter last year to a disease of unknown origin ...IRC Reports Claimed Medical Expenses for Auto Injury Claimants Far Outpace Inflation
MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) has found that medical expenses reported by auto injury claimants continue to rise faster than the rate of inflation. Average claimed economic losses (which include expenses for medical care, l...Lack of Medical Facilities Have Claimed Lives of Newborns at Chhattisgarh Hospital
As many as 178 newborn babies died at a government-run district hospital in Chhattisgarh during January-May 2007, Health Minister Amar Agrawal told the state assembly Tuesday . Amid protests and allegations by the opposition Congress members about the lack of basic medical facilities at the ...Sunstroke Has Claimed Eight Lives So Far in Orissa in Two Months
At least eight people have died due to sunstroke in the past two months across Orissa, officials said Monday . While three deaths have been reported from the southern district of Ganjam, one death each has been reported from the districts of Balasore, Kandhamal, Kendrapada, Nuapada and Sund...Anti-obesity Drugs Claimed Additional Benefits on cardiometabolic Risk Factors Questioned
Additional beneficial effects on cardiometabolic risk factors beyond those expected from weight loss in trials of the anti-obesity drug rimonabant may not be due to the drug itself, reports an article in the June issue of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). Advertisements for rimonabant ...Bribery has Claimed the Life of a Newborn in Madhya Pradesh
A newborn child in a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh allegedly died because his parents didn't have Rs.50 to pay the nurse who refused to tie the umbilical cord.// Ram Milan, the father of the baby boy who died Tuesday, said he had taken his wife to the government hospital in Satna for ...American Lung Association Celebrates 101st Annual Christmas Seals Campaign
...conquer tuberculosis. "Most Americans alive today have no vivid memories of how widespread deadly tuberculosis was before the 1950s, but it claimed entire families and struck down people from all walks of life, often in their prime," said Bernadette Toomey President and CEO of the American Lung As...CDC Misses Target With Flawed MMR/Autism Study
... the growing public concern over a vaccine-autism connection and raises several questions concerning design and methodology. For years, parents have claimed that MMR triggered their child's subsequent GI (gastrointestinal) disease and autism. In a 2002 paper where the majority of autistic children were fou...Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to Highlight Not Only Health Benefits But Also Economic Gains
...uenza outbreak in Southeast Asia in 2003-04, more than 100 million birds either died or had to be killed to stem the disease. In 2007, avian influenza claimed 11 million poultry. The contagion has had devastating consequences for the poultry industry and has raised concerns about transmission to humans. Whil...Sexual orientation and medicine
...p after the applies to change its name from Student Help Organization to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People in Medicine. School officials claimed “the organization and its leader would advocate and promote activities inconsistent with the values of NYMC.” [5] [6] 2005 American Me...Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves
The extinction of many large mammals at the end of the Ice Age may have packed an even bigger punch than scientists have realized. To the list of victims such as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats, a Smithsonian-led team of scientists has added one more: a highly carnivorous form of wolf that...Oscar Pistorius: Previously confidential study results released on amputee sprinter
... Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) barring him from sanctioned competitions, including the Olympics and World Championships. The IAAF had claimed that the Cheetah Flex-Foot prostheses (J-shaped, high-performance prostheses used for running) worn by Pistorius give him an advantage over able-bodie...UW-Madison study reveals new options for people with PKU
...the following four. (Subjects spent the first two days of the study at home.) In the end, no adverse health problems were found, and 10 of 11 subjects claimed to prefer the GMP diet, making the bottom line of this study the same as the first that GMP is safe and acceptable. In this shorter study, variat...Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past
...e Spanish flu (influenza A, subtype H1N1), swept the United States, Europe and Asia in three convulsive waves. The year was 1918. The ensuing pandemic claimed up to 100 million victims, most of whom succumbed to severe respiratory complications associated with rapidly progressing pneumonia. Many died within ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 28, 2009
...ing in the garage. These innovations haven't kept pace with NASCAR's push for faster cars, the article notes. But a series of spectacular crashes that claimed the lives of several NASCAR stars brought about a new focus on safety.Researchers recently established the NASCAR R&D Center to focus on safety innova...The Law Offices of Brian D. Witzer Wins 6+ Million Dollar Verdict
...sician and registered pharmacist, prescribed it to her for gout. Plaintiff disputed the diagnosis and alleged that she did not have gout. The doctor claimed that she told him she had gout and described pain in her toe consistent with gout. He prescribed Allopurinol in order to prevent a recurrence of an a...New Scientific Worldview 'Biocentrism' Featured in The Huffington Post - #1 Weblog in the World
...ed years ago people used to think the earth was flat. Evidence to the contrary was dismissed as absurd: 'If the world was really a ball of rock,' some claimed 'people at the bottom would fall off.' And before Galileo, it seemed stupid to think that we were whirling around the sun at 67 thousand miles per hou...The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Say Biovail Has Misled Shareholders
...gether. Shareholder Democracy Concerns - Biovail's Position is Opposed to Proper Governance Biovail has recently and irresponsibly claimed that the Concerned Shareholders have attempted to frustrate shareholder democracy at Biovail. This is further evidence of the Board's and management's...ChromaDex Announces 2008 Year End Financial Results
...the need for reference standards, analytical methods and other quality assurance methods to insure that products on the shelf not only contain what is claimed on the label, but are also safe and effective. We are confident that the increased awareness and demand for products that are healthy, natural, organi...Publication of Shire plc's Annual Report 2008
...ollaborative partners must demonstrate through clinical and other studies that the product is of appropriate quality and is safe and effective for the claimed use. Clinical trials of any product under development may not demonstrate the quality, safety and efficacy required to result in an approvable or a ma...Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. Requests Avigen Board to Provide Critical Information to Stockholders
...protection being offered by MediciNova? 5. What is the estimated net liquidation value of Avigen? In response to our tender offer, management claimed that Avigen is currently worth more than our offer of $1 per share, without support of any kind. We call on management to publicly provide their esti...