By Jackie AlexanderStaff writerPublished: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:19 a.m.Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart "asset protection officer" earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot.Read Entire Article..... Read Full Story
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Turkeys in the Canadian province of Ontario have become infected with the H1N1 flu virus, but no birds or eggs from the farm entered the food supply, provincial government officials said on Tuesday.The infection poses minimal risk to human health, Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, said in a news conference in Toronto.Read Entire Article.... Read Full Story
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill authorizing curriculum that teaches children embryonic stem-cell research heals -- when in fact it doesn't.Randy Thomasson of SaveCalifornia.com tells OneNewsNow that $3 billion approved in 2004 by voters for the research has produced no effective treatments for diseases and other medical conditions.Read Entire Article.... Read Full Story
Washington DC Metro Station – on a cold January morning in 2007. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes:a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.4 minutes later:the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the till and, without sto... Read Full Story
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health adviser to President Barack Obama, is under scrutiny. As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely t... Read Full Story
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:24 AM on 22nd August 2009Scientists are only months away from creating artificial life, it was claimed yesterday.Dr Craig Venter – one of the world’s most famous and controversial biologists – said his U.S. researchers have overcome one of the last big hurdles to making a synthetic organism.Read more: Read Full Story
By Paul BoergerMount Shasta Area NewspapersFri Aug 21, 2009, 08:38 AM PDTRedding, Calif. -Republican Congressman Wally Herger held a health care town hall meeting Aug. 18 at Simpson University in Redding, where a partisan crowd of over 2,000 people loudly cheered Herger’s position that a public option was “unacceptable.”Although Herger called several times for the audience to “respect each other’ Read Full Story
Aug 14, 2009 6:59 pm US/CentralCity Government Closed For Business On MondayRaises for Houston top national level."Houstonians got bigger raises than workers in most other parts of the nation, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.For the year ending in June, workers in Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend and Galveston counties, along with eight surrounding Read Full Story
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