25/Jun 2008 | EISENHOWER NAMED AMONG TOP FIVE PERCENT IN NATION | Eisenhower Medical Center has received the 2008 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence from HealthGrades, a leading independent health care ratings organization. Eisenhower Medical Cente... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Obama: Nader s just trying to get attention | Daniel Nasaw The Guardian.uk Responding to Ralph Nader s comments that Barack Obama is talking white and trying to appeal to white guilt, Obama said it s a shame people may forget about the fame... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Fusenews: The Mystery of the Curious Wild Thing | Read Roger. Fusenews: The One Flaw with Summer? Mushy Apple Season. Review of the Day: Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale. Fusenews: LOST Babies They Make Their Dreams Come True (To the ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | VFL club Port give Cousins ultimatum | Ben Cousins is being lined up for a return to footy with Port Melbourne provided he can convince the Victorian Football League team he is up to the job. Despite reports the recovering drug addict wi... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Anti-Surgical Mesh Patient Group Formed | A group of patients who have been harmed by complications from surgical mesh have formed an advocacy group, Truth in Medicine . One of its aims is to move surgeons away from synthetic meshes, which it... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Cosmetic procedures to quadruple by 2015 | Computers Electronics Environment Nuclear Science Telecomm Living/Entertainment . More than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures will be done annually in the United States by 20... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | DFW Microdermabrasion Particle Skin Resurfacing | Microdermabrasion can lift away years of discoloration, sagging skin and fine wrinkles with a simple and painless technique called particle skin resurfacing performed by the specialists at the Center ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Barry Chaiken: U.S. expects 21st Century medicine using 20th Century technology | It is not surprising that only 17 percent of surveyed physicians are using ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) systems. After all, the Unites States is spending over $2 trillion and more than 1... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Commentary: When it comes to the secrets of life, proteins are where the action is | Editor's note : This is Part II of this column on the study of proteins in medical research. - If one can fix the CFTR protein, one has fixed cystic fibrosis even without addressing the fundamental mu... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Log on to 'lift Magic' and See Your Post Plastic Surgery Looks ! | Death Sentence Only for Murder, Not for Other Crimes, Not Even Child Rape, Rules US Supreme Court (5 hrs ago) . Want to know your post- cosmetic-surgery look without actually going under the knife? W... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | 318.26 | AHT - Ashford Hospitality Refinances Sole 2008 Debt Maturity [2008-06-25 17:36 ET] ALB - Albemarle Invests in Cleaner, Safer Magnesium Alkyl Process [2008-06-25 17:35 ET] TRXI - TRX to Relocate Corpor... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | DaVita Announces Chief Medical Officer | Allen Nissenson, M. Professor of Medicine; Associate Dean; Director, Dialysis Program, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has been appointed Chief Medical Officer effective August 1, 2008.) Kent ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Lara Flynn Boyle's Face, a Result of Botched Plastic Surgery | She was The Actress in the '90s, the ultimate symbol of sexiness and physical beauty but time, and probably a few very bad choices in terms of plastic surgery, did not fail to leave their marks on the... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Mosquito fogging begins Friday | Updated: Wed Jun.ca After a recent explosion in the mosquito population, fogging will begin throughout Winnipeg this Friday. Weather permitting, fogging trucks will hit the streets Friday night at 9:3... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Applied Spine Technologies | Applied Spine Technologies reports Stabilimax NZ(R) clinical trial milestone: enrollment surpasses 100 patients; 5 new sites added, boosting total to 21 Company's "motion preserving" Stabilimax NZ(R) ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | NHI director takes exception to BryanLGH cardiac plan | 03:49:08 pm CDTThe director of the Nebraska Heart Institute and Heart Hospital on Wednesday condemned the exclusion of external physicians from doing cardiac procedures at BryanLGH Medical Center. Eff... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Be Nice. It's W's Birthday | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link It's not exactly the card a lot of Americans would send to President Bush on his 62nd birthday, but the Republican National Committee is at least making it easy for fans a... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | WellPoint employees rewarded for patient care | WellPoint employees rewarded for patient care 06/25/2008 By TOM MURPHY / Associated Press WellPoint Inc. employees earned a bump in their annual bonuses this year thanks to a new program that mo... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Good Gov't Groups Push McCain, Obama on Bundling Disclosure | Eight campaign finance reform and watchdog organizations sent letters to John McCain and Barack Obama Wednesday asking them to identify exactly how much each of their bundlers has raised. Bundlers are... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Heparin Devices: More News of Heparin Deaths | Rockville, MD: If you thought that you were safe from Heparin just because you did not receive a Heparin injection, you could be in for a rude awakening. Heparin is used to coat some medical devices a... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Cousins scores Port Melbourne VFL deal | Recovering drug addict Ben Cousins is likely to return to the football field with Victorian Football League side Port Melbourne. It's believed Cousins will announce the deal with Port Melbourne, which... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Research Laboratory for Pulmonary Research named after Dr Seamus Floinn | Facts & Figures. A research laboratory at the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences at St James s Hospital was named after a distinguished Trinity alumnus, Dr Seamus Floinn, at a special ceremony on J... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | ISTA | ISTA Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Bank of America 2008 Health Care Conference PR Newswire -22. InPlay: ISTA Pharmaceuticals announces new Phase III clinical findings to support Bepreve NDA filing... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Finding the fountain of youth | Euphemia Stellute, left, is a patient of Dr. Lori Cherup, owner of Radiance Plastic Surgery in Bridgeville. Cherup has given Stellute a partial face lift and Botox injections to smooth wrinkles on her... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Affordable botox excessive sweating treatment | Cosmetic Doctors From Harley St. Provide Specialist Botox Hyperhidrosis - Botox Treatment For Excessive Sweating - Hyperhidrosis. Special Offers ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | IART | Integra LifeSciences Features Large Qwix Fixation and Positioning Screw System At American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Meeting PrimeNewswire . INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES HOLDINGS CORP Files SEC form 8-... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Parkinson's drugs increase risk of impulse disorders | Plant worker in Kentucky kills 5 An employee at a plastics plant in western Kentucky shot and killed five people before taking his own life early Wednesday, police confirm. Quebec played a key role in... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Cosmetic Surgery Procedures To Exceed 55 Million In 2015, Study Predicts | More than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures will be performed in 2015, predicts a recent study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the official medical journal of the American Society of Plas... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | 0) Woods Has Reconstructive Surgery On Left Knee | UTAH (AP) -- Tiger Woods has undergone reconstructive surgery on his left knee in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors say it's "highly unlikely" there will be any long-term effects. UTAH (AP) ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Plastic surgeon offers free seminar Monday | Monday at Bonita Community Health Center in Estero. He is board certified in both facial plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. He has been in practice ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Musician's dystonia improved by stimulating hand muscles | Stimulating the hand muscles may help treat the condition called musician's dystonia. Musician's dystonia - a focal dystonia is a nerological movement disorder that causes muscles spasms in musicians.... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Every MRSA case costs NHS an extra 9,000 | The cost of keeping patients in hospital to treat them for the superbug adds up to more than 45 million lost to the NHS annually. The figure comes on top of the costs of the patients' original condit... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | UPDATE: Kroger Wants Meat Returned | LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Department of Community Health said Tuesday it is drawing some connections in a recent spike in illnesses from E. The health department said more than half the Michi... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | States dropping abstinence-only sex education | Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the s... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | "Walk for Ryan" | Sanford-Brown Institute has been offering allied health training in various specialty areas for over 20 years. In that time we have produced thousands of graduates who have become professionals in the... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Trial by Anecdote: Newsweek's 'Lawsuit Explosion' Blown Away by Facts | It's an all-too-familiar story: ordinary citizens paralyzed by the fear of frivolous lawsuits. A charity softball tournament cancelled because a player sued after breaking his leg sliding. A minister ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | 22 States turn down U.S. abstinence education grants | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The director of a federal abstinence-only education program is a man who sees the glass as half-full. Though the states participating in the $50 million program have dropped steadil... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Teen Breast Implants | Today, Jamie is a happy mother and wife. Ten years ago, she was a young girl dragged down by a low self-esteem. "I had always had self-esteem issues throughout most of my childhood and teenage years, ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Not Just For Stars | A few years ago, Jasmine (who asked not to use her real name) gained about 50 pounds when she struggled with health issues. For the first time in her life, she considered plastic surgery. Instead of ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Safer surgery checklist launched by WHO | The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | No deal, transplant tourist told | A DYING Australian man says he has been left without hope after a Pakistani hospital pulled out of an agreement to give him a new kidney, claiming it no longer helps foreigners get organs. Ibrahim El-... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | 55M Plastic Surgeries Expected In 2015 | Plastic Surgery: Will It Help?.A study said that the number of cosmetic procedures in the U. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons used data from 1992 to 2005 and economic variables to make forecas... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Many U.S. states turn down abstinence education grants | Sex ed, bishops and baby bumps. federal abstinence-only education program is a man who sees the glass as half-full. Although the states participating in the $50-million program have dropped steadily o... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Doctors Expect 55M Plastic Surgeries | Plastic Surgery: Will It Help?.A study said that the number of cosmetic procedures in the U. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons used data from 1992 to 2005 and economic variables to make forecas... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | David Currie to step down as Ofcom Chairman | Ofcom today announced that David Currie will step down as Chairman of the Ofcom Board after Easter 2009. David was named in July 2002 as the inaugural Chairman of the then new regulator for the commun... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | WellPoint's Member Health Index Shows Improvement in the Quality of Health Care Received | Iran issues warning over nuke Zimbabwe opposition chief says 'time for action is now' Afghanistan, N. Korea to top agenda at G-8 foreign ministers' meeting+ Bush tells Fukuda he will not forget about ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Surgical/non-surgical cosmetic | Health and Medical Care Surgical/non-surgical cosmetic procedure open evening (Botox, Smartlipo etc). viridian medical smartlipo botox cosmetic surgery Viridian Medical are staging a series of open... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Virtual Cosmetic Surgery | Wednesday, June 25 10:26 amIf you have ever wondered what you would look like with plastic surgery, now is your chance to find out. Whether you want a new nose, an eyebrow lift or plumper lips, a new... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | LabCorp introduces new cancer diagnostic test | Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings has announced the availability of OvaSure, an ovarian cancer screening test to assess the presence of early stage ovarian cancer in high-risk women. OncoMeth... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Sciele and Novo Nordisk granted approval for diabetes drug | Sciele Pharma and Novo Nordisk have announced that the FDA has approved PrandiMet tablets, the first and only fixed-dose combination of the fast-acting secretagogue replaglinide and insulin sensitizer... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Tiger undergoes surgery on knee | Tiger Woods has undergone reconstructive surgery on his left knee in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors say it's "highly unlikely" there will be any long-term effects. It was the second time... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Pharmexa Appoints New Chief Executive Officer and Implements Further Cost-saving Measures | H RSHOLM, Denmark June 25, 2008-Summary: Dr. Achim Kaufhold (50) becomes new Chief Executive Officer and succeeds Jakob Schmidt. The board of directors in Pharmexa intends to nominate Jakob Schmidt as... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Mpex Initiates a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Aerosol MP-376 in the Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients | Mpex Initiates a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Aerosol MP-376 in the Treatment of Chronic Bacterial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients . SAN DIEGO, June 25, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Mpex Pharmaceuticals,... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Photos: Thermage Presents New Guidelines To Enhance Liposuction Results | HAYWARD, Calif. (Nasdaq: THRM) announced the introduction of recommended procedure guidelines for physicians when performing Thermage in combination with liposuction. Thermage promotes improved result... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Avoid alcohol in pregnancy | Responding to the release of UK's NICE antenatal guidelines for pregnant women, Mervi Jokinen of the Royal College of Midwives, UK, said: "We welcome the guidelines which are evidence based, but feel ... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Pharmexa appoints new Chief Executive Officer and implements furth | Summary: Dr. Achim Kaufhold (50) becomes new Chief Executive Officer and succeeds Jakob Schmidt. The board of directors in Pharmexa intends to nominate Jakob Schmidt as a new board member for election... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | 55 million to get cosmetic surgery | More than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures will be performed in 2015, predicts a recent study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the official medical journal of the American Society of Pla... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Study Tests Filler for Foot Pain | A Chicago podiatrist has announced a pilot study to test a purportedly permanent, injectable dermal filler for treating foot pain due to fat-pad loss in the plantar metatarsal area. Mary Olszewski, DP... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Tiger operation declared a success | Tiger Woods has had reconstructive surgery on his left knee and doctors say the operation was a success. Dr Thomas Rosenberg and Dr Vernon Cooley operated on Woods's anterior cruciate ligament and the... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | WHO Creates New Surgical Tool to Make Operations Safer Everywhere | With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and d... Read » |
25/Jun 2008 | Nuns Help Doubly Marginalized Minority Children Of Leprosy Patients | PLEIKU, Vietnam (UCAN) -- Poor ethnic-minority |