Amidst sketchy reports of suffering a "vascular incident" and causing "temporary blindness", French President Jacques Chirac is now being listed as having suffered a minor stroke.

Cardiologist Dr. Alain Ducardonnet says, "This is without a doubt an alert in the brain region, in a small artery that feeds the retina. This could be a very localized problem or it could be the start of a relatively more serious incident

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer teams up with Walgreen's, Rite-Aid, Wal-Mart, Sam's Clubs, community pharmacies and Argus Health System to help victims of Hurricane Katrina obtain Pfizer medicines and health care products.

"Victims of Hurricane Katrina have immediate medical needs and through this pharmacy partnership program they can rapidly obtain needed Pfizer medicines," says Karen Katen, vice chairman of Pfizer. "Pfizer will help victims and their families obtain these medicines whether they have lost insurance or prescription records or have limited incomes because of this disaster

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer teams up with Walgreen's, Rite-Aid, Wal-Mart, Sam's Clubs, community pharmacies and Argus Health System to help victims of Hurricane Katrina obtain Pfizer medicines and health care products.

"Victims of Hurricane Katrina have immediate medical needs and through this pharmacy partnership program they can rapidly obtain needed Pfizer medicines," says Karen Katen, vice chairman of Pfizer. "Pfizer will help victims and their families obtain these medicines whether they have lost insurance or prescription records or have limited incomes because of this disaster

Twenty-seven children, ill in the midst of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, were evacuated to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City late Wednesday night along with their families.

The young patients were being cared for at a children's hospital in New Orleans until rampant looting and loss of electricity made the hospital unsafe

The Food and Drug Administration approves the first drug to treat children who suffer from a condition what stunts growth.

Dr. Philippe Backeljauw of Cincinnati Children's Hospital says that the drug called Increlex will treat children whose growth failure is related to unusually low levels of a hormone called IGF-1