Elaine’s Place

Hold on to your hats, Monday looks to be a wild day on Wall Street.  Like many Americans my husband and I watch our investments dwindle. From IRA’s, 401K, mutual funds, and stocks down it goes. Our investments are not risky, we’re at the age where we can’t afford to be risky.  But what the [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government’s most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered makers of flouroquinolone drugs — a potent class of antibiotics — to [...]

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On March 30, I did a post about the FDA investigating the asthma drug Singulair. The comments on that post led into an off discussion about the side effects of Chantix, the popular anti-smoking drug by Pfizer.  My dear friend Janet had a horrible reaction from Chantix which landed her in the ER. Since hearing [...]

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I’m lying in bed this morning around 5:45 and feel vibrations and hear the perfume tray on my dresser rattling like someone is walking across the bedroom floor. Of course NO one is walking in the house at all. This lasts for a few seconds this rattling sound with vibrations and I think how odd, [...]

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I normally do not post jokes that make it’s way to my inbox but after hearing on the evening news that our economy lost 80,000 jobs in March this one is fitting.
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President George Bush said each one of us would get a $600.00 tax rebate. It was previously slated to be $800.00, but they dropped [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security comes under fire for this one, and rightly so!! A Texas woman was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.
Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a [...]

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Do you ever look at the slideshow of pictures at Reuters’? While reading a news article there today I took a minute to look at the weeks interesting pictures. Here’s a new one for me ~~ a blue frog! Seeing how I am not the most knowledgeable about toads, frogs, lizards and such I found [...]

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Seems we can forget about passenger bill of rights. A federal appeals court today  struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said New York’s [...]

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clipped from hosted.ap.org
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he won’t order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to “jeopardize the hard-fought gains” of the past year.
As anti-war activists demonstrated around downtown Washington, the president spoke at the Pentagon to mark [...]

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Boston has become the next US city to ban the use of trans fats in restaurants.
The Boston ban would cover all restaurants, including school and hospital cafeterias, as well as fresh food prepared in groceries and delis. Any restaurant or grocery store that does not comply will receive fines up to $1000 per violation.
The [...]

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