An FDA panel has given its thumbs-up to diet drug Qnexa, clearing the way for a final decision on whether or not the drug should be approved.
Qnexa is designed to help those struggling with obesity. Tests have shown that it helps, but they’ve also shown side effects that include heart problems and birth defects.
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Davey Johnson is at it again.
Johnson, who told the 1986 New York Mets to go out and dominate the National League, is trying to put a manager’s imprint on this year’s Washington Nationals.
He told Florida Today columnist John Torres he’s so impressed with his team that it has a chance to be better than those [...]
Fifty years later, we have learned how dangerous John Glenn’s space flight really was.
One expert says there was a one in six chance that Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, would die in the attempt. Glenn made it, but not before enduring a tense re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
“There were flaming chunks of the [...]
A few years back, a survey asked if we lived in a divided country. Fifty percent said yes, fifty percent said no.
Not much takes place in this divided land without people taking sides and shouting at each other.
Just take two big new stories, Jeremy Lin and Whitney Houston.
The saga of Lin and the New York [...]
Centuries before the hit-and-run, Aristotle said, “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Then came baseball, and then came Gary Carter.
“Nobody loved the game of baseball more than Gary Carter,” New York Mets Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver said. “He wore his heart on his sleeve every inning he played.”
Carter died yesterday [...]
Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath wrote a book called “I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow ‘Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day.”
Now there’s another New York sensation, and we can only wonder what tomorrow will look like for Jeremy Lin.
Lin owns Broadway right now. He’s led the New York Knicks to six straight wins, the latest [...]
Jeremy Lin has become a dream for the NBA and the New York Knicks, but he’s a nightmare for coaches.
That’s because Lin and his performance with the Knicks force all of us to wonder what we may be overlooking on our own team.
Since joining the Knicks, Lin has brought skill and energy to a squad [...]
How would you like to get better at whatever you do? It’s simple. Just take a trip in your imagination to Red Wing, Minn., where the first North American ski jumping exhibition took place 125 years ago today.
Ski jumping came to North American with immigrants from Norway, and it took hold in Minnesota [...]
No wonder the New York Giants are tough, tough enough to win two Super Bowls in the last five seasons. Their coach, Tom Coughlin, is as tough as they come.
How tough? Well, not glass-eating, phonebook-ripping tough, but tough enough to do this: Coughlin once asked a player to give him a top-to-bottom list of all [...]
People like to say that there is no such thing as a stupid question. They are wrong. There are plenty of stupid questions, and for proof all you need to do is hang around the Super Bowl.
Over the years, the press corps has used the preview week to pose some questions that have gone down [...]