Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced his appointment of an emergency financial manager to Highland Park Schools — a district outside Detroit — on Jan. 27, according to The Detroit News. Jack Martin, a certified public accountant and former Chief Financial Officer for the U.S. Department of Education, has been charged with helping the district out [...]
(Reuters) – Medivation Inc’s experimental prostate cancer pill caused fewer serious side effects in clinical trial patients than a placebo treatment, according to full results from a pivotal study announced on Tuesday. Medivation and partner Astellas Pharma Inc reported in November that the trial had been stopped early after it became clear that the drug, [...]
Half a world away, doctors in India are fighting outbreaks of bacterial infections that are resistant to more than 15 types of antibiotics. But closer to home, a similarly scary bug is making the rounds in intensive care and other long-term units of American hospitals. World News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Jay Leno better bring a healthy appetite to the “Tonight Show.” Entertainment News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. “Cocky” is the word used to describe him most often, after “billionaire.” He was Time’s person of the year at 26. Tech News Headlines – Yahoo! News
One game, one play, one moment can turn a team’s fortunes in the right direction. Sports News Headlines – Yahoo! News
France's new law punishing denial of the Armenian genocide was put on hold Tuesday after politicians opposed to the legislation demanded that its constitutionality be examined. law – Yahoo! News Search Results
(Reuters) – Federal and state investigators are probing reports that disabled children at a public elementary school in Connecticut were locked in a room to control their behavior or as a punishment, officials said on Tuesday. Farm Hill School, an elementary school in the city of Middletown, was accused of improper use of seclusion, according [...]
Pfizer Inc. is recalling 28 lots of birth control pills after uncovering a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant accidentally. Health News Headlines – Yahoo! News
A newly discovered letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master is creating a buzz. Letters of Note explains that in August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote to his former slave Jourdan Anderson, requesting that Jourdan return to work on his farm. In the time since escaping [...]
