| EMT Has Heart Attack In Right Place, At Right Time
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK Jeffrey Sanger picked the optimal place to have a heart attack. The 39-year-old collapsed Friday afternoon during his Fire Department paramedic class. And, of course, his classmates went right into action administering CPR and a shock with a defibrillator. Sanger, of the Bronx, was in stable condition after being taken to the Long Island Jewish Hospital. The drama started around 1:30 p.m. Friday, when he felt chest pains as about a dozen paramedics prepared to begin a training session at the Emergency Medical Service Training Center in Fort Totten, Queens. He suspected it was just indigestion, and stayed in the locker room. But his instructors followed him, worried that he was experiencing the typical symptoms of a heart attack, the lieutenant on duty, Arthur Lester said in a published report.Sanger at first protested that he was all right, but collapsed within minutes and stopped breathing.
Schering-Plough Net Rises 62% on Cholesterol Sales (Update2)
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Schering-Plough Corp.'s fourth- quarter earnings surged 62 percent as the combined sales of its Vytorin and Zetia cholesterol drugs jumped to $1.1 billion. Net income rose to $204 million, or 12 cents a share, from $126 million, or 7 cents, a year earlier, the Kenilworth, New Jersey-based company said today in a statement. Revenue increased 14 percent to $2.7 billion, spurred by a 46 percent rise for Zetia and Vytorin. Chief Executive Officer Fred Hassan closed plants and fired 2,000 workers to cut $100 million in 2007 costs. Schering, the eighth-biggest drugmaker by sales, said it expects revenue from the company's cholesterol drugs to increase this year even as the treatments face competition from generic copies of Merck & Co.'s Zocor.
Week of 01/14/07
1. "Plum Lovin'" by Janet Evanovich: A former beau of Stephanie Plum arrives with an offer that the Trenton bounty hunter just can't refuse.2. "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom: A touching novel by the author of "Tuesdays with Morrie" that asks the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a loved one?3. "The Hunters" by W.E.B. Griffin: Presidential agent Charley Castillo roams the world, searching for the culprits behind the assassination of a shady diplomat.4. "Cross" by James Patterson: Beloved forensic scientist Alex Cross juggles single parenthood and hunting down the rapist/murderer known as "The Butcher of Sligo."5. "Next" by Michael Crichton: Science fact blends with futuristic fiction in this exciting biogenetic thriller. Another action-packed novel by the author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain."6.
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