FORT WAYNE, IN, Dec 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) --
(PINKSHEETS: PINR) Kevin May, Pine Ridge Holdings CEO, is pleased to announce the consolidated, total revenues for the Pine Ridge Holdings companies totaled $1,214,122 (unaudited) through November 30, 2008. This number represents a 7% increase over the same period in 2007.
This total includes the revenues for Pine Ridge Racquet Club ($834,008), Pine Ridge Fitness Club ($250,228) Read the rest of this entry »
In 2008, the NJ National Guard deployed the highest number of troops in it's history. This information was given to Ryan Toth, the founder of Total Core Fitness Boot Camp, by a boot camper who is in the Guard. To help the families of the Guard, toys which are collected for the Annual Boot Camp For Toys workout, would be donated to them.
"When word got out that we were collecting for the families of our troops, people opened up their pockets and Read the rest of this entry »
Dec. 19, 2008 -- An 11th-hour ruling from the Bush administration gives health care workers, hospitals, and insurers more leeway to refuse health services for moral or religious reasons.
The rule, issued today, becomes effective in 30 days. Its main provisions widen the number of health workers and institutions that may refuse, based on "sincere religious belief or moral conviction," to provide care or referrals to patients.
"This rule protects Read the rest of this entry »
A local medical group, facing a lawsuit over a car crash into Brockton Hospital that killed two people, is seeking to have the case quashed by a special court-appointed tribunal.
Compass Medical and four of its doctors are accused of failing to warn the elderly driver in the crash, a patient of theirs, against driving while medicated.
In a Plymouth County Superior Court filing Monday, Compass Medical denied all accusations of negligence and fault Read the rest of this entry »
The two rivals are joint-second in Serie A, six points behind leaders Inter
Milan.
"There isn't optimism or pessimism. He has a groin problem. It could be
that he doesn't even train today, but he will leave with the squad for Turin,"
said coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Losing their main creative force would be a further blow to Milan, who will
miss midfielder Gennaro Gattuso after he was almost certainly ruled out for
the rest of the season Read the rest of this entry »
Some directors of the now dissolved South Coast Medical Center foundation contend that the hospital's nonprofit parent, Adventist Health, failed to properly account for restricted gifts by donors and for several years failed to provide a satisfactory accounting of the foundation's assets.
Even as Adventist Health was seeking a bidder for the Laguna Beach hospital, a request in September for a real estate appraisal of a foundation-owned office building Read the rest of this entry »
Dec 23 2008, 10:49 AM EST
Paladin Takes Over ViRexx Medical with Initial $1.25M Payment to Creditors
has bought ViRexx Medical for its discovery platform and developmental-stage pipeline. Paladin paid $1.25 million to existing ViRexx creditors, and former ViRexx shareholders could receive up to $2.5 million if certain conditions are met before December 31, 2009.
ViRexx has three platforms: Chimigen⢠Vaccine, T-ACTâ¢, and AITâ¢. Read the rest of this entry »
"This FDA, this Bush administration, instead of protecting the public health, is protecting industry," said Rep.
(D-Conn.), who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the FDA budget. In an interview, DeLauro said she wants the agency to disclose its findings and to develop a plan to remove melamine from formula. "We're talking about babies, about the most vulnerable. This really makes me angry."
The FDA found melamine and cyanuric Read the rest of this entry »
Lisa Walker enjoys combat.
The 25-year-old Augusta woman enthusiastically kicks and punches her way through Bodycombat classes at Health Central Wellness and Fitness.
The class, which features mixed martial-arts moves, is one of the newer ones offered there and part of what some say is a trend toward more specialty-group classes. Others say that it is more likely a fad but that more traditional disciplines such as Pilates and core strengthening Read the rest of this entry »
Last Updated: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 08:14
Three Britons appeared at a special court sitting last night charged over the 1.7-tonne cocaine haul seized from a yacht off the Co Cork coast.
Philip Doo (52) and David Mufford (44), both from Devon, and Christopher Wiggins (42), who has been living in Spain’s Costa del Sol, were charged at Clonakilty District Court with attempting to import the drugs, valued at more than €650 million. Read the rest of this entry »