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  • Boys stem cells successfully treat cerebral palsy

    Doctors have been able to successfully treat a 2.5-year-old boy who had suffered from cardiac arrest and brain damage, putting him in a vegetative state, using his own cord blood containing stem cells. The symptoms improved significantly; over the following months, the child learned to speak simple sentences and to move. "Our findings, along with those from a Korean study, dispel the long-held ...

  • 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 again delays action on issue that upset VSP

    One item that was taken off the agenda Thursday by Covered California was action on supplemental benefits, including stand-alone vision and dental plans. This is the same issue that got Rancho Cordova-based VSP Global stirred up last August, threatening to grow elsewhere if the state kept the company out of the program. The big news out of Covered California this week was the 13 plans in the ...

  • Vaxess lands first tranche of $4M round

    Last year, the founders of Vaxess Technologies - including Michael Schrader, Livio Valenti, Kathryn Kosuda, and Patrick Ho- won Harvard University President's Challenge. Newly-launched Vaxess Technologies Inc., a life sciences company developing vaccine stabilization technology, has closed the first tranche of a $3.75 million Series A round of financing. Norwich Ventures led the round, which ...

  • Vickie Peoples with Dayton Childrens talks patient and family experiences

    Vickie Peoples is vice president of patient and family experience at Childrens Medical Center of Dayton. Making sure that patients have a good experience with Childrens Medical Center of Dayton is the job of every staff member, Vickie Peoples says. Peoples is the new vice president of patient and family experience for the hospital, where she strives to ensure patients and their families have a ...


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Battlefield Baseball (Jigoku kôshien) [DVD]

Battlefield Baseball (Jigoku kôshien) [DVD]

Battlefield Baseball (Jigoku kshien) is an absurd mess of a movie, but one that wallows so exuberantly in its silliness that its hard not to get caught up in the vibe. Its a goofy patchwork of martial arts, zombie horror, slapstick comedy, insipid pop balla ... ...

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  • Mercy LIFE expands into new territory

    Mercy LIFE has expanded its elderly services program into Delaware County. LIFE is an acronym for living independently for Elders. The Philadelphia-based Mercy LIFE program, a subsidiary of Mercy Health System of Conshohocken, Pa., provides all-inclusive health-care, recreation, nutrition and spiritual services designed to enable senior adults to remain living independently in their homes. The ...

  • Can Medicare Advantage program play a part in health care savings

    As health care leaders continue to look for ways to cut costs, the Medicare Advantage model might be a decent place to pull from. A recent study showed that utilization rates in some major categories, including emergency departments and ambulatory surgery or procedures, generally were 20 to 30 percent lower for patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage HMOs than for those with Medicare ...

  • Nigeria 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 of ...

  • Kansas Senate giveth taketh away on taxes

    Kansas Republicans in the Senate signed off on a bill maintaining a sales tax set to sunset, cutting income taxes and lowering a food sales tax, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. The Senates colleagues in the House, however, adjourned without addressing the Senate plan, sending the Kansas legislative session into extra time, The Topeka Capital-Journal ...

  • ACAs unexpected consequences may turn backer into opponent

    Unions helped President Barack Obama push for passage of his landmark Affordable Care Act, but now they worry that an unpredicted consequence of the law could cost workers health benefits, The Washington Post reports. Unions plans already are complex, unique and more expensive than other plans, and the ACAs provisions have added to that cost, the report says. That may tempt some small employers ...

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