Miscellaneous

Bostom: A Study in Contrasts
The Muslim world needs a Benedict.

Sunday Night on HBO: Lawyers, Lawyers, Lawyers! (and Katherine Harris)
On Sunday night, HBO will reprise and fictionalize the 2000 election fiasco with its film, “Recount,” starring Kevin Spacey (pictured, right), Denis Leary (pictured, left), Tom Wilkinson, Laura Dern, and Ed Begley Jr...

Study Finds Staffing Effects Survival Rate
A recent study released in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that survival rate was better for hospital patients who suffered cardiac arrest during the day as compared to the patients who suffered the cardiac arrest at night...

Responding to the Massive Fraud at Société Générale -- A Study in Contrasts
Legal cultures respond differently to reports of wrongdoing, and the disclosure of the massive fraud in France perpetrated by a "rogue trader" identified as Jérôme Kerviel shows how different things can be...

Study: Popular Cholesterol Meds Provide Little Benefit
The popular cholesterol medications Vytorin and Zetia offer few health benefits to patients and do little to treat heart disease -- such as thickening of the arteries -- according to a study published Sunday in the New England Journal of...

Security officer critical after stabbing www.privateofficer.com
Security officer critical after stabbing www.privateofficer.com Hoover AL.(metro Birmingham) Sept 24 2008 By: Rick McCann Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers http://www.privateofficer.com/ A Hoover man was arrested in connection with the stabbing of a security officer at Attitudes( an area nightclub) located south of Birmingham in Hoover Sunday night...

Station Night Club
More Settlements Reached

Procrit
Associated with Death in Stroke Study

Xigris
Study Prompts FDA Safety Review

BPA
New Study Shows Link to Diabetes and Heart Disease

New Study Links Cell Phone Radiation to Increased Health Risks
Cell Phone Radiation Is Your Phone Toxic?

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...