Archive for January, 2008



Events (The Tampa Tribune)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 4:02 pm
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: Members of Overeaters Anonymous will talk about recovering from compulsive eating from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at St. Catherine's Episcopal Church, 502 Druid Hills Road, Temple Terrace. For information, call Grace at (727) 487-3207 or Janet at (813) 886-6286 or visit www.oa.org.



African-Americans less likely to choose epidurals for postoperative pain relief (EurekAlert!)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 3:56 pm
PHILADELPHIA – Minority and low-income patients are less likely than those who are white or more well off to agree to post-surgery epidural pain relief, according to new research from physicians at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.



Holly man pleads guilty in fatal overdose case (Detroit Free Press)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 1:50 pm
A 57-year-old Holly man pleaded guilty today to selling drugs to a 25-year-old sailor who died of an overdose of prescription fentanyl in 2005.



Local Doctor Not Buying Juice With Joint Jolt (NBC 10 Philadelphia)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 11:15 am
It's advertised as an easy way to keep your joints healthy, but is this juice really any better than what's already in your fridge?



U.S. soldiers continue to commit suicides bidding farewell to their patriotism (Pravda Ru)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 10:13 am
The number of suicides committed in the U.S. Army continues to grow. As many as 121 servicemen committed suicide in 2007, which marked the increase of more than 20 percent as opposed to 2006.



Alexza’s Corporate Presentation to be Webcast at the 10th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference (The San Francisco Examiner)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 9:29 am
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. ( Map ) - MOUNTAIN VIEW , Calif., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA ) announced today that its corporate presentation will be webcast live during the 10th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time .



UCLA researchers discover biomarkers that predict lung cancer patient response to therapy (EurekAlert!)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 9:06 am
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered biomarkers that predict which patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer will respond to a combination treatment of the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex and the growth factor receptor blocker Tarceva.



Alexza’s Corporate Presentation to be Webcast at the 10th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 8:00 am
Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its corporate presentation will be webcast live during the 10th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 1:15 p.m.



Family struggles to pay burn victim’s bills (Coeur d’Alene Press)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 5:14 am
RATHDRUM -- Amber Newton sometimes wakes up crying in her bed at Harborview Medical Center, where the 8-year-old from Rathdrum is recovering from burns covering half of her body.



NU’s lack of black students (Forum) (Daily Northwestern)

Thursday 31 January 2008 @ 4:34 am
Northwestern's lack of male, black, non-athletes has been a long-term problem. During the 2005-06 academic year, 43 black male athletes made up 26 percent of NU's 163 black male undergraduate students, as opposed to 124 white male athletes who made up 5 percent of that population.



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