| Angiotech expects lower stent sales in 2007, but says plan in place
VANCOUVER (CP) - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX:ANP) warned of sharply lower sales of its drug-coated stents in 2007 on Thursday, but executives said its plan to diversify beyond the tiny mesh tubes will help the medical-device maker move ahead. The Vancouver-based company said Thursday it expected royalty revenue to fall about 22 per cent in 2007 after concerns were raised last year the drug coatings intended to help prevent formation of scar tissue carry a higher risk of rare instances of potentially fatal blood clots. Angiotech chief executive Bill Hunter said the company's Taxus drug-coated stents developed with Boston Scientific Corp. helped make the company a success, but they aren't the future. "We have some seven different product launches and it actually could be higher than that if a few of our wild cards come through," Hunter said of the company's plans for 2007.
In Onancock, feelings run high on old school
ONANCOCK -- Speakers at a meeting held Thursday to gauge public opinion about what to do with the Onancock School property were overwhelmingly in support of preserving the 1921 school building and keeping the school grounds for public use. The school and 13-acre waterfront grounds were returned to the town by the Accomack County School Board last fall. Among the 21 speakers were 11-year-old Jeremy Lawrence, who presented a petition signed by more than 30 Onancock children, asking the town council to keep the school property for community use. Eleanor Glassco, the elementary-school age daughter of Onancock resident Bruce Glassco, also spoke to the council, saying, "My friends and I would like a playground." Cynthia Serini Downing, representing the Friends of Onancock School group, said the group is not asking the town for financial support, but only for permission to go ahead with fundraising efforts for the school's restoration.
(published 01.17.07)
Curses, Foiled Again Police in Edmonton, Alberta, reported that a man ordered a convenience-store clerk to open the cash register, then slammed it with a baseball bat before the clerk could open it, jamming the cash drawer shut. While the robber tried to open the register, the clerk escaped and enlisted help from others to block the front door. Since the back door was already locked, the suspect tried to climb out through the roof but crashed through the ceiling. He seemed to be having some complications along the way, police official Lisa Lammi said. When Botox Isnt Enough Eyelash transplants, using plug-and-sew techniques pioneered for balding men, are the latest cosmetic surgery for women, according to Dr. Alan Bauman, who predicted the procedure is going to explode. It involves removing 30 to 40 hair follicles from the back of the scalp and sewing them, one by one, onto the patients eyelids.
An obsession with cosmetic surgery
Helen Leon, 32, is a pretty young thing. Bebe Neuwirth with a dash of Gloria Estefan. In December, the Miami real estate agent had breast implants, rhinoplasty and a blepharoplasty (fat sucked out of the lower eyelid). Ballpark: $17,000. "I figured I'm in my 30s now, it was time for a tuneup," says Leon. "My puffy eyes always made me look exhausted, and my chest was so flat that clothes didn't fit." Leon's nose, a problem since she fractured it a few years ago, is a major improvement. The results from the other procedures - done in one day at the Miami Institute for Age Management & Intervention - are less remarkable. She's so skinny it's hard to know what her breasts would be like if she gained a little weight. And her eyes looked fine before. No matter, she's a changed woman.
News in brief
KABAROLE - Residents of Bukara parish in Bunyagabu county woke up to the shocking news that their LC2 chairman had committed suicide. Saul Kateba, 52, locked himself in his room and shot himself with a pistol at 9:00pm. His wife and children wailed on seeing their father lying in a pool of blood. The district Police commander, Collins Komakech, said the Police was studying the contents of the letter found near his body.
Pupil elopes with father
KABALE - Incest cases seem to be on the rise. A court was on Tuesday stunned that a primary six pupil had eloped with her father. Edward Mwesigye, 45, a primary school teacher appeared to answer charges of defiling and making his daughter pregnant. The prosecution claimed the girl, who is in Primary Six, is six months pregnant.
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