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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 ...

  • Hundreds Of Nurses Walk Out At Two San Jose Hospitals

    SAN JOSE (KCBS) - A large group of registered nurses walked off the job Thursday morning at two hospitals in San Jose. Instead of changing IVs and administering medication, nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital and Regional Medical Center were walking the picket line in a dispute over wages, benefits, pension and staffing levels. The union represents 1,400 members of the California Nurses ...

  • Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis

    When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...

  • Why some heavy hitters want more country doctors

    The Oregon Idea is urging support for legislation that would help bring more doctors to Oregon's rural areas. A nonprofit that counts some of the state's biggest power brokers as board members is throwing its weight behind a proposal for more rural doctors. On Thursday the Oregon Idea sent an email that encouraged support for Senate Bill 2, a proposal to waive $4.9 million in tuition and ...

  • Working poor seniors are hidden sufferers of suburban poverty aid group chief says

    Rochelle Twining, executive director of Community Action Organization of Delaware, says most people the nonprofit serves are working. Rochelle Twining, executive director of nonprofit Community Action Organization of Delaware, Madison and Union Counties says she wasnt aware the Brookings Institution this week released a study on the rapid rise in suburban poverty. But she doesnt need a book to ...


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Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) [DVD]

Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) [DVD]

Part gory zombie comedy, part dense puzzle-box art film, Michele Soavis Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) is nothing if not entirely unique in its cultish blending of wildly disparate elements. The film veers from Sam Raimi-style gross-out splatstick, to romantic pathos, ... ...

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  • Western Health Advantage picked for Covered California coverage

    Western Health Advantage is one of 13 plans to land a spot in the individual marketplace for the state's health benefit exchange. Western Health Advantage CEO Garry Maisel says rates for plans came in under projections because of intense competition. "WHA and other California plans wanted to be part of Covered California and part of history," Maisel said. Sacramento-based Western ...

  • Vidacare Corp. eyes expansion and acquisition opportunities

    Vidacare CEO Mark Mellin says his company is headed on a growth trajectory. Vidacare Corp. has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. While a host of other startups in the bioscience space have come and gone since 2001, this San Antonio company has positioned itself as a the preeminent player in the intraosseous arena. Vidacare is expanding domestically and internationally sales ...

  • CA debuts health care exchange plans $54-$383 Valley premiums

    A snapshot of plans that will be offered on California's state health care exchange, Covered California, to qualified individuals in Santa Clara County. Ahead of the official launch of California's state health care exchange on Jan. 1, 2014, the agency charged with implementing new system on Thursday debuted benefit plans that will be available to qualified individuals. Though some ...

  • SARS-like virus patent complicating diagnosis Saudi

    View Photo AFP/Fayez Nureldine - A foreign medical staff enters the emergency section at a hospital in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on May 13, 2013. Saudi Arabia lamented Thursday that foreign drug companies had ...

  • Sutter Health withdrew bid from Covered California

    Sutter Health applied to offer coverage in the health benefit exchange via its new health maintenance organization plan, but recently withdrew its application. A big local name didnt make the list of health plans participating in Covered Californias new insurance marketplace next year: Sutter Health. Sutter did apply to offer coverage in the health benefit exchange via its new health maintenance ...

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