Skinner Road School in Vernon and Judi Manfre, the school’s nurse for seven years, were honored Monday at the state Capitol for their efforts to foster physical fitness.
Others honored Monday by the Governor’s Committee on Physical Fitness includes East Hartford Mayor Melody Currey, the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce, the Colchester 57 Fest, the Elmwood Community [...]
This year, her liver began failing again and she was hospitalized at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. In her Medi-Cal application, a University of Southern California doctor wrote that Puente would die without another transplant. The application was denied. Late last month Puente learned of another, little-known option. If [...]
TRENTON, N.J. - A congressional committee, investigating whether the makers of cholesterol drug Vytorin withheld data that would hurt sales, released new evidence supporting such suspicions Monday.
The Senate Finance Committee said even the researcher who led a crucial study of the drug accused Vytorin makers Merck %26amp; Co. and partner Schering-Plough Corp. of withholding negative [...]
The White House, which backs the House bill, said the program is supporting anti-retroviral treatment for about 1.45 million people and is on track to meet its goals of backing treatment for 2 million, preventing 7 million new infections and providing care for 10 million, including orphans and vulnerable children.
In 2007, 33 million people [...]
GPs will be required to tell the employers of sick patients what tasks they
can perform in a new %26ldquo;well note designed to reduce the number of people on
incapacity benefit, The Times has learnt.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will this week prepare the ground for
controversial changes, saying that family doctors need to %26ldquo;change our
sick-note culture into [...]
The disclosure Wednesday about Baxter’s heparin, which is developed from pig intestines, also is raising fears that conventional inspections and quality-control procedures do not adequately protect American consumers at a time when a large share of the U.S. drug supply is imported from places, such as China, where counterfeiting is common and government oversight can [...]
We are writing to ask the Justice Department to investigate whether former professional baseball player Roger Clemens committed perjury and made knowingly false statements during the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation of the use of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball.
We believe that his testimony in a sworn deposition on Feb. [...]
“This decision is a great thing for those individuals involved with our 2005 team,” Sooners coach Bob Stoops said in a statement. “Most of the players on our current roster were not on that team, but I know those victories mean a lot to the players and coaches who were here at that [...]
Who knew? The country’s ferret owners are painfully aware of such laws, consider them groundless and continue to fight them. According to estimates from the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, about 500,000 people own some 2 million ferrets. Ferret folks claim the real numbers are much higher. Given the multitude of [...]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Guyana%26rsquo;s aggressive response to HIV/AIDS has seen the epidemic stabilising over the past three years as it pursues the goal of having no child born with HIV. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy made this assertion while speaking at the presentation of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) Workshop held [...]
