| You have searched for: evaluation |
| |
 |
|
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday formally requested that the European Union send observers to monitor the flow of gas from Russia.
In a letter sent to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barrasco, Yushchenko suggested the EU could deploy energy technicians to Ukraine so they could independently evaluate the...
 |
|
|
A small cave-in and surface cracks preceded the collapse of a road into a subway tunnel in eastern China, but did not lead to the suspension of construction work, state media said on Monday.
Rescue workers were still removing the steel frame from the tunnel so that they would be able to dig for 14 people still missing since the...
|
|
|
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo gave the
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) a grade C for its
handling of Myanmar following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, when
the country's ruling junta resisted foreign aid, a transcript of his
remarks said on Friday. Since Myanmar is expected to top the
agenda during the...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Friday, actress
Heather Locklear pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge following a
September incident that resulted in her being arrested for driving under the
influence of prescription drugs.
Santa Barbara Assistant District Attorney Lee
Carter informed that the 47-year-old actress had been sentenced to three...
|
|
|
 It seems Britney really wants to settle things and explain everything that has happened in these last few years in her life. We’ve heard rumors that she was on drugs, that she was admitted into the hospital because of break downs. She was said to be out of her mind and some pictures proved the rumors, but what about what she had to...
|
|
|
 A court commissioner extended Britney Spears’ father arrangement to control her personal and financial life beyond 2008. Jamie Spears and Britney’s attorney contract control was set to expire on December 31. But now, their control in her professional career is indefinite.A court attorney stated that the 26-year-old singer didn’t oppose...
|
|
|
 Singer Britney Spears and dancer and rap singer Kevin Federline have finally agreed their child custody settlement. Under the terms of the deal approved by Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, the pop singer will pay $20,000 (10,000 pounds) a month in child support to ex-husband Kevin Federline for the care of their two children....
|
|
|
 Anne Hathaway, who starred in “The Devil Wears Prada,” declared she loved Raffaello Follieri in the last interview she gave before breaking up with him. Their romance ended this month, after a four-year involvement in the relationship. The Italian businessman was hoping to reawaken their relationship at his 30th anniversary...
|
|
|
Raffaello Follieri, the former boyfriend of Anne Hathaway, was rushed to the hospital after his New York court appearance on fraud and money laundering charges.„He had an episode in the courtroom which lead to him being transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation,” rep Melanie A. Bonvicino says, according to People. The 29 year-old...
|
|
|
 Actress Heather Locklear, famous for her roles in television
soap operas such as “Dynasty” and “Melrose Place” is seeking treatment for
anxiety and depression and has checked herself into a psychological treatment facility
in Arizona, her publicist Sarah Fuller said Saturday in a statement.
Fuller said the blonde actress had been...
|
|
|
 The former “Ally McBeal” star, Anne Heche, reached a settlement Friday in her divorce from Coley Laffoon, agreeing to pay her ex-husband a $275,000 lump sum and $3,700 per month in child support for their 6-year-old son, court papers show, according to People Magazine. Heche has to provide 75 percent of the costs of sending Homer to a...
|
|
|
 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
|
|
|
 It appears that Britney Spears is currently in talks to
reprise her highly rated guest-starring role on the CBS show “How I Met Your
Mother,” Reuters reports. Multiple sources claimed that the producers wanted
her return for at least one more episode, in order to play a dermatology office
assistant named Abby, who falls in love with...
|
|
|
 Finally, Britney can see her sons. Ex-husband Kevin
Federline, agreed to allow Britney to visit their two sons, Sean Preston, 2,
and Jayden James, 1. Britney hasn’t seen her sons since Jan. 3, when she was
stripped of the visitation rights after a custody stand-off with the police at
her house, and ended up hospitalized. Federline...
|
|
|
 Spears’ legal camp requested a gag order in the bitter
custody case between Britney Spears and her ex-hubby Kevin Federline, but it
was denied.
On Tuesday Spears’ attorney Anne Kiley tried to persuade
Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon that media coverage worsens
“emotionally and physically” the pop artist’s condition. In...
|
|
|
 Britney Spears’ stay in the
psychiatric ward has been extended with 14 days. Sources close to the troubled
pop singer reported to the Associated Press that the doctors and a medical
officer considered that she should remain hospitalized.
Britney was due to be released
from hospital on Sunday.
The medical staff at...
|
|
|
 Jamie Spears, Britney Spears’ father was named her temporary
conservator along with the lawyer Andrew Wallete, after a hearing in California
Superior Court, on Friday. This decision puts him in charge of all Britney’s
assets, while Britney remains in hospital under psychiatric care, according to
The Associated Press.
In addition...
|
|
|
It seems that the world indeed revolves around Britney
Spears.
The LAPD is mobilized to accompany her to the hospital, a
paparazzo is quitting his job and makes it public, what’s next? Bin Laden
sending suicide bombers in the name of Britney Spears?
Early on Thursday Spears was admitted to U.C.L.A. Medical
Center, but in...
|
|
|
 Apparently Britney Spears is more eager to fight for her
sons outside court rather than respecting the legal background. She misses her
depositions, but she won’t let go of her children when they are visiting.
This is in short what happened on Thursday before the police
arrived at the pop singer’s Studio
City home. The...
|
|
|
 The process of sentencing former "Prison Break" star, Lane Garrison, who pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving in a 2006 crash that killed a teenage passenger, is being delayed after a judge ordered the actor to undergo a 90-day psychological evaluation in a state prison to determine whether he’s a...
|
|
|
American actress, director and screenwriter Anne Celeste Heche is being accused by husband Coleman Laffoon that she is a bad mother and should be psychologically evaluated. Heche reportedly leaves their son with a series of different nannies or her assistant in her trailer while filming, refusing to enroll him in a private kindergarten...
|
|
| |
 |
|
Last year's death toll in passenger aviation crashes fell to 598 worldwide, well below the average of the past decades, German analysts said Thursday in Hamburg.
The annual analysis by the private Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC) was published in the German aviation magazine Aero International. It said most of the...
|
|
|
The Austrian city of Innsbruck will host the first Youth Winter Olympics in 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced Friday in Lausanne.
Innsbruck beat off the challenge of Finland's Kuopio for the right to host the Youth Games, which are a personal project of Rogge in his mission to fight...
|
|
|
The Austrian city of Innsbruck will host the first Youth Winter Olympics in 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced Friday in Lausanne.
Innsbruck beat off the challenge of Finland's Kuopio for the right to host the Youth Games, which are a personal project of Rogge in his mission to fight...
|
|
|
Opponents of the Turkish Ilisu dam seized rooms in the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB) in Vienna on Wednesday, calling on the bank to pull out of the project on ecological and cultural grounds.
Austrian, German and Swiss export guarantees worth an estimated 450 million euros (577 million dollars) underpin the financing of the...
|
|
|
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said Tuesday that the alliance should re-evaluate its relations with Russia without severing them.
The relations should be reconsidered after Russia's "disproportionate" use of force in Georgia, but not broken because they were a...
|
|
|
A Spanish judge has ordered the remains of eight people to be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, late dictator Francisco Franco's huge mausoleum near Madrid, where many of his opponents were also buried, the daily El Pais reported Thursday.
Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the exhumations as part of his investigation into human...
|
|
|
A Spanish judge has ordered the remains of eight people to be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, a huge mausoleum near Madrid where many of the opponents of deceased dictator Francisco Franco are buried, the daily El Pais reported Thursday.
Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the exhumations as part of his investigation into human...
|
|
|
The inaugural Winter Youth Olympics in 2012 will take place in Innsbruck or Kuopio, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday.
The IOC said in a press release that the Austrian town of Innsbruck and Finland's Kuopio were picked by the IOC executive board after an evaluation committee report. Lillehammer (Norway) and...
|
|
|
Finland said Friday the Nordic country was not to sign a pending international ban against cluster weapons.
In early December, an international treaty aimed at banning the weapons was due to be signed in Oslo, Norway.
The decision not to sign the convention was made by the cabinet committee on foreign and security policy and...
|
|
|
European Union leaders agreed Thursday to harden their common stance towards Russia by saying its withdrawal from core Georgia was not a sufficient reason to re-open talks on a cooperation deal with Moscow.
While welcoming the Russian pull-out from the areas adjacent to the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, leaders...
|
|
|
Russia's withdrawal of its soldiers from parts of Georgia outside the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is a good start, but it is not enough for EU member states to re-open talks on a strategic deal with Russia, EU leaders agreed Thursday.
The EU "welcomes the withdrawal of Russian troops from zones adjacent to...
|
|
|
A German woman charged with beating to death two toddlers in Sweden in March was found to be accountable for her actions, according to an evaluation by forensic psychiatrists released Thursday.
The 32-year-old student has denied she attacked the children and their mother in Arboga, central Sweden on March 17.
The psychiatric...
|
|
|
Its name is Edvige, but the acronym is the innocuous facade of a new police database that has aroused fear and anger among French human rights activists and provoked divisions in the government.
The inter-governmental spat about the database reached its climax late Tuesday when President Nicolas Sarkozy disavowed his Prime Minister...
|
|
|
Moscow is "reconsidering" its cooperation with NATO, a high-ranking Russian diplomat told news agency Interfax on Thursday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko was quoted by the agency as saying any review of relations would "of course affect the military cooperation program."
The comments came in...
|
|
|
 After ten years in office, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will hand over the power on June 27, leaving behind a rich legacy.A decade lasted Blair’s rule at the helm of the Labor Party and the politics in the United Kingdom. During this period he became one of the most charismatic figure in the world, as he changed the image of the...
|
|
| |
 |
|
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA said it is putting an end to all clinical trials of Acomplia, a drug aimed at fighting against obesity. “It's over,” the company’s spokesman Jean Marc Podvin said in an interview, referring to Acomplia, a drug that works by blocking receptors in the brain that help control food intake.On Wednesday, the...
|
|
|
Medicines manufactured by German conglomerate Bayer that combine aspirin with dietary supplements in order to help patient fight osteoporosis and high cholesterol are being sold illicitly and could jeopardize consumers’ health, federal regulators said.The drugmakers of Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage and Bayer Women's Low Dose Aspirin...
|
|
|
 Lawrence Williams, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and John A. Bargh, PhD, professor of psychology at Yale University, carried out two studies on students to determine if and how physical warmth affects human warmth. The study, published today in the journal Science, disclosed that holding something...
|
|
|
 The Food and Drug Administration ordered strong black box
warnings for Raptiva, a humanized therapeutic antibody created to block the
activation, reactivation and trafficking of T-cells (T lymphocytes) that lead to
the development of psoriasis, a disorder that affects the skin and joints.
According to the agency, the health of...
|
|
| |
 |
|
China on Monday celebrated the Beijing Olympics as a "glorious success," while rest of the world saw the Games as a demonstration of the potential of an aspiring global power.
"China secured its position as a world power with the Olympic Games in Beijing," the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun said in a commentary at...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Two fictional companies set up by the Government Accountability Office were approved by Medicare to provide equipment such as wheelchairs despite the fact that the false providers had no customers, as well as no products in stock, said a GAO report released Wednesday. A Medicare supplier that screens providers paid a visit to the two...
|
|
|
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration brought out a public
health advise to notify patients, caregivers and health care professionals that
they should switch to hydrofluoroalkane (HFA)-propelled albuterol inhalers
because chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled inhalers will not be available in
the U.S. after
December 31, 2008....
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. announced on Monday that its subsidiary TXM Exploration and Production LLC reached an agreement with Exxon Mobil Corporation under which they would become joint owners of a part of Falcon’s production license in the Mako Trough, in Hungary.The portion that will be owned jointly is of 184.300 acres, representing...
|
|
| |
 |
|
The writing had been on the wall for some time. But last week, it became official.
The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is
taking an about-turn, back to the laboratory and away from human trials
that had held out so much hope in the past two years. The
news was delivered by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the...
|
|
|
 The Prescription Drug User Free Act imposes deadlines for
the completion of drug reviews by the Food and Drug Administration. This may
affect the approvals by rushing them. A rushed approval may ignore
unanticipated safety problems. Products superficially analyzed reach the market
and this leads to consequences on people’s health....
|
|
| |
 |
|
 The second annual Forbes.com list of "Hollywood’s 10 Hottest Tots" placed Suri Cruise on the first place. Daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Suri leaves everyone with their mouths opened when she crosses the street hand-in-hand with mammy and daddy. The 2-year-old styled girl was chosen for first place according to media...
|
|
|
 The Britney Spears court saga seems to never end, getting
more and more twisted.
Attorney Jon Eardley challenged the court order that named
the pop artist’s father co-conservator of her estate, but his bid was dismissed
by a California
court on Monday.
A panel of three judges of California’s
2nd District Court of Appeals...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 After a number of irritating
delays and broken promises, Microsoft is expected to eventually launch its
Windows Server 2008 operating system next week. However, you may not want to
leave behind the Windows Server 2003 so soon, as experts warned recently that
migrating to Microsoft Windows’ latest server operating system version...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 It seems like Britney is planning
to start it all over again. She has been recently seen at Millennium Dance
Complex in Los Angeles,
where she is reportedly preparing for a new world tour.
Sources close to the pop star
told the New York Post that “Britney will be leaving the country in the next
few weeks, after training in...
|
|
|
 The troubled life of Britney
Spears. Although this sounds like a novel title, poor Britney Spears’ life is
really troubled and messy. The pop princess is no longer what she used to be: a
pop singer with lots of fans and more or less superficial songs.
Not surprisingly, Britney Spears’
life got a new turn on Thursday, when she was...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 A severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome will be treated with a new drug called Banzel, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday as an extra supplement against the terrible disease. The FDA approved the drug after several tests were made.Patients aged between 4 and 30 years old were the...
|
|
|
 The Food and Drug Administration has made a plan to release a list of drugs which are under a safety investigation. Every three months the FDA will post the list on which there will be drug companies, physicians and patients that brought drug and medication complaints to the agency. The FDA won’t describe how serious the complaint lists...
|
|
|
 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it approved the use of Rotarix, a rotavirus vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, in infants from 6 to 24 weeks of age. The regulator said that while there are many strains of rotavirus, the vaccine protects againts four of them, codenamed G1, G3, G4, and...
|
|
|
 Health officials say that the first over-the-counter
slimming pill to go on sale in Britain could be available in pharmacies as
early as next year. The drug, which has been marketed in the US under the name
Alli since June, is a half-strength version of a pill called Xenical that is
currently only available in Britain under...
|
|
|
 Government advisers recommended Wednesday that
GlaxoSmithKline add more language about risks in children to its asthma drugs
Serevent and Advair.
The Food and Drug Administration said it would continue
studying the safety of the treatments for children and plans to hold another
panel meeting to address that question.
Both drugs...
|
|
|
 The FDA has appointed a Food and Drug Administration panel
on Tuesday which will review reports of abnormal behavior and other brain
effects in more than 1,800 children who had taken the flu medicine Tamiflu
since its approval in 1999, including 55 in the USA.
Twenty-two of the U.S. reports were considered
"serious,"...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 A study made by Yale researchers has shown that infants that are not yet able to speak can determine weather a person is good or bad, since they tend to prefer the individuals who are helpful to others to those who either do nothing, or are mean to other people, Nature journal reported on Wednesday.“This supports the view that our...
|
|
|
 After only three month since Palm
Inc. has announced it is to venture into trying to create a brand new category
of laptop devices, the company has announced yesterday that the project will be
canceled, at least for now. It has been Palm Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer, Ed
Colligan himself, that has made this announcement and has also...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 A 14-year-old boy planned a school attack with the help of his mother. Even if the police still don’t know if the woman knew what he was helping her son for, she was pleaded guilty for helping him build a weapon cache and of having bought a rifle and gunpowder for his troubled son.On Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, Michele Cossey,...
|
|
|
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:238;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2...
|
|
|
 Nearly three dozen cable car passengers were stuck for
almost five hours during a sightseeing tour above Bronx Zoo. An emergency
mechanism caused the Skyfari, which offers its passengers a whole view of the
zoo, to shut down at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
The Skyfari was opened in 1970 and it is certified
by the state...
|
|
|
A split verdict was reached in the case of a fourth-grade
teacher in Philadelphia who was accused of planting terrorist notes in the
school where she worked.
The judge found Susan Romanyszyn guilty on eleven charges, but
she was also acquitted on seven other.
Romanyszyn left threatening messages in the hallways of
Longstreth...
|
|
|
 Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of an American political dynasty, was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod vacation home.The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was stricken at the family compound in Hyannis, Mass. He was taken to the Cape Code hospital at...
|
|
|
 It appears New Haven
police officers charged a city man with kidnapping and burglary after he broke
into the home of his son’s mother, assaulted her and took the boy with him.
Police initially said the boy might be in imminent danger. Before
the disappearance, he was seen wearing a white pajama shirt and white underwear
with...
|
|
|
 The Bush administration has continuously supported programs
teaching US students to abstain from sex. This measure should have cut teen
pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases and delayed the age at which sex
begun, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.
On the other hand, many Democrats called for cutting off
federal...
|
|
|
 Local Carmarthenshire authorities report that four teenage
girls came one step to getting killed after an explosion. Investigators say the
girls are lucky to be alive even though they are badly injured.
Anya Evans, 15, her sister Kira, 14, and friends Kimberly
Patterson, 15, and Nadine Fardon, 14, are on life support machines in...
|
|
|
 According to local media reports, three workers
were left dangling from a collapsed scaffolding outside a high-rise
building undergoing construction in San Francisco on Thursday with fire
crews on location to save them.
The reason for the collapse, which occured at the Golden Gateway
Apartments at 440 Davis St. near Jackson Street...
|
|
|
 President Bush was treated for Lyme disease (Borreliosis) last year after showing specific symptoms, according to new revelations from the White House's annual medical report. The report was drawn up following the president's annual physical exam on Tuesday."It was the standard, recommended treatment for early, localized Lyme...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reinforced his position towards the international pressure to stop nuclear proliferation saying there is no turning back for his country."They should know that the Iranian nation has already entered the phase of nuclear enrichment at industrial level and there was no way to withdraw even one...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened a new web page entitled Hospital Compare, this week. The web page will display actual hospital death rates for heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia patients. The director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Harlan Krumholz, said that...
|
|
|
 The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
offers advice on prevention of West Nile virus.
West Nile virus can be contacted by humans via
mosquito bites that caught the disease from infected birds.
Officials advise the public:
-to avoid mosquito-infected areas. These
include small pools of water that are not cleaned out,...
|
|
|
 Members of the Food and Drug Administration’s panel of
outside experts voted on Thursday against attaching black-box warnings, the
organization’s strongest cautions, on the labels of epilepsy drugs, saying that
studies did not prove a sufficiently high risk of suicidal behavior as to apply
such tough warnings.
The Food and Drug...
|
|
|
 The US Food and Drug Administration warned physicians
that certain types of antipsychotic drugs can boost the risk of death in
elderly people who have dementia. FDA also announced that they will now require
stronger warnings on antipsychotic drugs. Manufacturers of older antipsychotic
drugs, such as Haldol and Thorazine, are required...
|
|
|
After a few tragic cases in which people died after being
treated with heparin, the Food and Drug Administration requires the American
Congress to extend the sum it assigns to the activities necessary for
inspecting foreign drug shipments in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports.
Heparin is frequently used during kidney...
|
|
|
 STMicroelectronics and Veredus Laboratories announced positive test results and the commercial availability of VereFlu(TM), a portable lab-on-chip application which can detect and identify all the major influenza viruses, including the deadly bird flu virus H5N1."We are pleased to report that our evaluation trials show the...
|
|
|
 A new Sleep
Diagnostic Center
has been j | | | |
