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  • Soaring temperatures can affect quality of pills Doctors

    Extreme heat can affect medicines and these can become life threatening for those using them, doctors said Thursday. "Quality of medicines can deteriorate during summers because of high temperatures. As most medicines are designed to be stored at normal room temperatures, no drug should be exposed to temperatures higher than 86 degrees fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)," the Delhi Medical ...

  • Covered California rates come in lower than expected

    Individuals in the Sacramento area who shop for insurance coverage next year at Covered California will have four insurers to pick from: Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente and Western Health Advantage, and the rates came in lower than expected. Individuals in the Sacramento area who shop for insurance coverage next year at Covered California the new state health ...

  • Kenya Nurses and midwives trained on safe abortion methods to curb high mortality rate

    Executive Director of KMET the training is to enhance the capacity of health providers to offer quality abortion related services within the confines of the law in Kenya. Monica said health providers need to understand provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care services such as the use ...

  • Special Section Health Care Heroes 2013

    We celebrate local health care heroes. There are many physicians among our honorees. But there are also administrators and educators, researchers and public health advocates, entrepreneurs and a ...

  • Max Planck Florida gets $2M grant for neurological study

    Max Planck Florida researcher Jason Christie The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in Jupiter announced that one of its researchers received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes for Health. The five-year grant will help Dr. Jason Christie study the electrical signaling connections between neurons in the brain. He plans to use laser-based techniques to study this so he ...


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Monster House [Blu-Ray]

Monster House [Blu-Ray]

Monster House, a CG-animated horror comedy, has the kind of freaky-fun imagery that goes directly to the heart of your inner child. Kids see monsters everywhere--in knotty trees, in shadows, in wads of clothes under the bed--and first-time director Gil Kenan plays with this ten ... ...

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  • Kaiser Anthem Blue Shield and Health Net head list of Covered California plans for 2014

    Covered California's Peter Lee. Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Health Net and nine smaller, regional health plans will participate in Covered California next year, the health benefit exchanged authorized by the Affordable Care Act. The smaller participants include the Bay Area's Alameda Alliance for Health, San Francisco-based Chinese Community Health ...

  • Alkermes posts fourth quarter gains changes fiscal year

    Alkermes CEO Richard Pops Just weeks after biopharmaceutical company Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) released positive preliminary results of a Phase 2 clinical study of its drug to treat major depressive disorder, the Waltham, Mass. and Dublin-based company released even stronger fourth quarter results for its fiscal year ended March 31. The company, which says it will change its fiscal year-end ...

  • Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria

    ABUJA -- Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds ...

  • Ex-Sars official jailed for fraud

    He said his court had ';a duty to warn would-be offenders that fraud against employers had to stop and would not be tolerated';. - ...

  • WHO voices deep concern over spread of SARS-like virus

    The World Health Organisation (WHO) voiced deep concern on Thursday over the SARS-like virus that has killed 22 people in less than a year, saying it might potentially spread more widely between ...

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