| Richard Roberts: God told me to resign
Roberts told the students that God spoke to him Thursday and told him to step down. Roberts said he initially resisted the instructions, but God told him that if he would resign, the school would be blessed ''supernaturally.'' Roberts resigned Friday. On Tuesday, Yukon businessman Mart Green promised the school up to $70 million, more than enough to erase the school's debt. Roberts was under pressure to step down after three former professors sued Oral Roberts University, alleging excessive spending on the part of the Roberts family. Green said Tuesday that reports of the school's troubles and Roberts' .
FDA Approves New SPRYCEL® (Dasatinib) Product Labeling For Patients ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved new labeling for SPRYCEL to include a lower recommended starting dose of 100 mg once daily and safety and efficacy data in a greater number of patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) resistant or intolerant to prior therapy including Gleevec. The product labeling now also includes data from the first randomized trial of SPRYCEL and Gleevec. SPRYCEL is indicated for the treatment of adults with chronic-, accelerated-, or myeloid or lymphoid blast-phase CML with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy including Gleevec. The effectiveness of SPRYCEL is based on hematologic and cytogenetic response rates. There are no controlled trials demonstrating a clinical benefit, such as improvement in disease-related symptoms or increased survival.
Dogs to provide therapy to soldiers in Iraq
The major thing is, they are going to help us knock down the stigma around mental health," he said.
But before heading off to Iraq, the dogs needed to get used to sights and sounds similar to those they will encounter in Iraq.
This week, the soldiers, the dogs and foundation officials visited the shooting range at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the dogs were exposed to the sounds of submachine guns and handguns.
The dogs went to Long Island MacArthur Airport, standing by as Suffolk County police hovered in a helicopter, the wind whipping at the dogs' fur.
And the dogs braved perhaps one of the toughest tests of all: a jaunt through Smithhaven Mall during holiday season, designed to test their reaction to the chaos of crowds.
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