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Health Highlights: Aug. 20, 2008
Published August 21, 2008, 12:36 pm, MedicineNet.com
Title: Health Highlights: Aug. 20, 2008 Category: Health News Created: 8/21/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
Vioxx payouts to start
Published August 21, 2008, 9:05 am, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Partial payments for people claiming withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks will go out starting Aug. 28 under the $4.85 billion settlement between drugmaker Merck & Co. and plaintiffs' lawyers, the claims administrator said Wednesday.
by Hunterdon County Democrat staff
Published August 21, 2008, 6:35 am, The Star-Ledger
Ben Scheetz / Hunterdon County Democrat WANT EGGS? -- Members of the Fur 'n' Feathers 4-H Club show some of the young Rhode Island Red chickens they're selling at the county fair.
Vioxx settlement checks going out Aug. 28
Published August 21, 2008, 6:09 am, Delaware Valley News
Partial payments for people claiming withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks will go out starting Aug. 28 under the $4.85 billion settlement between drugmaker Merck & Co. and plaintiffs' lawyers, the claims administrator said today.
by MaryAnn Spoto /The Star-Ledger
Published August 21, 2008, 6:07 am, Delaware Valley News
When the state Department of Environmental Protection closed down a third of the Delaware Bay to shellfishing this week, Barney Hollinger immediately laid off the three employees on his oyster boat.
Business Briefs Aug. 21, 2008
Published August 21, 2008, 6:00 am, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Mortgage giants' shares plummet NEW YORK - Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday as fears mounted that the mortgage financiers will soon need government support and any bailout would hang stockholders out to dry.
N.Y.'s Cuomo shifts focus to 3 major banks
Published August 21, 2008, 4:14 am, Honolulu Advertiser
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will intensify his probe into auction-rate securities by focusing on Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, a person close to the investigation said yesterday.
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Published August 21, 2008, 1:25 am, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. is introducing a tool that can measure a company's response to data loss or theft. The Henrico County-based insurance and risk-management company developed the Privacy Breach Index with the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm. The publicly available index is compiled by surveying 768 individuals in the data protection, information ...
DAILY DIGEST
Published August 21, 2008, 12:45 am, San Francisco Chronicle
Intel, Yahoo join to deliver multitasking Internet TV Hoping to plant their flags on the screens of Internet-connected television sets, Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. unveiled a project Wednesday to populate those screens with tiny programs called widgets....
Vioxx checks set to go out
Published August 21, 2008, 12:41 am, Miami Herald
Partial payments for people claiming withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks will go out starting Aug. 28 under the $4.85 billion settlement between drug maker Merck and plaintiffs' lawyers, the claims administrator said Wednesday.
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