Police seek suspect in shooting

QUINCY — Quincy police are looking for a 20-year-old Quincy man in connection with a shooting Wednesday evening. No one was injured when, police said, the suspect opened fire with a handgun at 5:30 p.m. in the area of Fifth Avenue Southeast and G Street Southeast.

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Medtronic's spinal device wins support of FDA panel A panel of FDA advisers voted 6-5 to recommend approval of Medtronic's Amplify, a device used in spinal-fusion surgery. The scientific advisers concluded that the device's benefits outweigh possible cancer risks observed in studies.

Hearing-impaired opera singer excels as teacher

JACKSON — It was the moment she had waited for. A packed house and she was singing a solo, an aria, one of her favorites, with The Metropolitan Opera.

In Pivotal Phase III Studies, Merck's Investigational Medicine Boceprevir Helped Majority of Patients with Chronic ...

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.----Merck today reported that two pivotal Phase III registration studies for boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, have been completed and met the primary endpoints: in both studies in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection, the addition of boceprevir to treatment with PEGINTRON® and REBETOL® significantly increased the ...

STAYING GROUNDED: Balance booth can help diagnose equilibrium disorders ... - Behavioral Health Central (blog)

STAYING GROUNDED: Balance booth can help diagnose equilibrium disorders ... Behavioral Health Central (blog) "Because the inner ear is impaired you can have this sense of movement or dizziness even when you're not really moving," says Toser, a certified vestibular ...