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Senate Democrats managed to push health care reform legislation past a key hurdle on Saturday night, with a cloture vote that will lead to a debate on the Senate floor later this month, the Associated Press reported.
The county's first walk-in clinic for the swine flu vaccine opened at 11:30 a.m. yesterday, but the first takers began lining up at 8:30 a.m. Elisabeth Hulette — The Capital Elizabeth Davis of Pasadena holds her daughter, 4-year-old Ryplee, as she gets a swine flu shot from Inez Cage, a nurse with the county Health Department.
A whirlwind of activity is underway to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.
Daniel Erath/The Times-Picayune These fresh raw oysters were offered at the St. Cletus Oyster Festival in Gretna last month.
David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune AmeriPure Oysters in Franklin uses a pasteurization process to essentially eliminate the vibrio bacteria from oysters. The bands around the oysters prevent the shells from popping open during the bacterial treatment process.
We highly recommend the Tufts Health Letter as gripping bedtime reading. It recently turned its attention to aspartame. Take our quiz on the popular sugar substitute.
H1N1 vaccinemaker opens production facility in hopes of easing fears about safety H1N1 vaccinemaker opens production facility in hopes of easing fears about safety.
WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
The debate over whether antidepressants play a role in suicides and homicides has taken twists and turns over the years. Drug company GlaxoSmithKline sent a letter in May 2006 to health care professionals warning them to take precautions with some Paxil patients with major depressive disorders who may become more depressed and/or have thoughts of suicide "whether or not they are taking ...
Google, Yahoo and the pharmaceutical industry are pushing to change the way prescription drugs are hawked online. That's not a bad thing necessarily.
In the confusing web that is the nation's industrial food-supply system, small companies in Washington state are trying to untangle themselves, taking over processing, commissioning independent testing, buying more things locally and checking out sources more carefully.
Leonor Ortiz Childers' heart is too weak to keep her alive.
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Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved Geodon as a part of a combination maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder in adults.
Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML): The producer of storage-area networks announced the pricing of its public offering of 3.34 million shares of its common stock at $19.25 per share. The offering includes 100,000 shares sold by Compellent and 3.2 million shares sold by existing stockholders.
Shurtleff glad USDA has agreed to probe
