| Oklahoma launches breastfeeding initiative
An initiative two years in the making from the State Chamber and the Oklahoma State Health Department to recognize worksites that support a woman's right to breastfeed officially was launched Thursday during an Oklahoma State Board of Health meeting. .
Renal Solutions, Inc. Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of New Design of ...
WARRENDALE, Pa., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Renal Solutions, Inc., the exclusive provider of advanced sorbent hemodialysis products and services for treatment of patients with renal failure, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its newly enhanced Allient(R) Sorbent Hemodialysis System in chronic and acute hemodialysis applications. The new Allient System features improvements in ease of manufacturing, service and user-friendliness. In preparation for the Allient System commercialization, Renal Solutions is also launching its SMARRT(TM) (Sorbent Management for Advanced Renal Replacement Therapy) platform and campaign, which will introduce the benefits of advanced sorbent therapy to the renal community. SMARRT therapy utilizes a gentle, patient-driven technology backed by over 6 million treatments.
Frustrated indies seek web distrib'n
Of the 100-some features questing for a distributor at January's Sundance Film Festival, only a handful found the holy grail: worldwide theatrical distribution with an advance minimum guarantee and back-end participation. With an unforgiving and glutted marketplace for indie films, where the cost of prints and ads to keep a movie in theaters is punitive for everyone, there's no appetite for risk-taking. The key question is, when will an alternative distribution outlet for indie films emerge -- an outlet that can interest enough viewers to bring in meaningful returns? The film industry is rife with eager alternative distributors pitching their wares -- but making money isn't usually part of the equation. "The long-range outlook for specialty film is to move more to home markets.
So Much for Compassion: Leftist Trashes NIU After NIU Shooting
Here's one media bias everyone accepts (and expects): showing compassion and sympathy for a community after a horrifying mass murder, such as the killings at Northern Illinois University. The leftist website Alternet proved the exception to the rule, printing a bizarre article by an author named Mark Ames that trashed NIU as a mediocre school for mediocre students, and suggested that the "flat" plains of Middle America could make anyone shoot up a school or a post office. The headline was: Northern Ill. University: Was the Killer Crazy, or the Campus Hopeless? Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America. Ames granted that the killer, Stephen Kazmierczak, was a loser -- if we grade on a curve for the depressing Midwest: "Let's assume he's at least partly right: Kazmierczak probably was a loser, by the standards of Midwestern American winners." Ames trolled the message boards of college students looking for people trashing NIU, which he summarized: "What you find is an enormous amount of anger and regret -- the sort of regret you'd expect from a middle-aged Willy Loman looking back on a wasted life." After Ames circulated several hate-NIU notes, he concluded that perhaps the college in some way earned the massacre with its mediocrity: If you're wondering why Kazmierczak transferred out of NIU to the University of Illinois-Champaign last spring, this might help explain it; if you're wondering, as many bloggers have, why he'd come back and shoot up NIU rather than his current university, these sentiments are at least worth considering.
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