European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Pace 12 stars and stripes monday april 23 2007 injured governor faces Long Road to recovery by Tom Hester or the associated press Trenton n j it will be agonizing emotional and draining most of All it will be painful new Jersey gov Jon s Corzine faces months of intensive therapy to recover from serious injuries suffered in an april 12 crash on the Garden state Parkway it is a grueling course that Hes going to go through said Kath Leen Odonnell an inpatient rehabilitation manager at health which operates several Northern new Jersey health facilities my heart goes out to him Fra repeats concerns Over safety of new his drugs the associated press Washington health officials repeated safety concerns about an experimental group of his drugs on Friday Days before government advisers will recommend whether the first drug from the class merits approval Pfizer inc seeks food and drug administration approval for Mara iroc potentially the first in a novel group of drugs to fight his the virus that causes aids Pfizer proposes marketing Mara iroc As a Elentri Pfizer believes there is a Clear unmet need for new drugs to fight hts in patients for whom other older drugs no longer work x a Elentri is unlike any other hts medicines now on the mar Ket in that it targets the cells of patients and not the virus itself the Fra has scheduled a tues Day meeting of outside experts to discuss Pfizer application for approval the Fra has asked the experts whether a Elentri if approved would require special la Beling or if further study of the drugs safety is needed before it can be sold Fra also asked whether the drug should be studied further in women and Blacks the Fra and Pfizer both said that studies showed adding Nelsen Tri to a traditional hts treatment regimen was More effective in dropping the virus below detect Able Levels in patients but the Fra continues to be concerned about potential safety issues with the entire class of drugs called ccr5 receptor antagonists Corzine has been in intensive care since breaking 11 ribs his sternum a leg his Collarbone and a Vertebra in the crash or Steven Ross at Cooper University Hospital said saturday the governor has started talking with family members and doctors and is drinking Clear liquids Corzine showed signs of bronchitis and was being treated with antibiotics Ross said physical therapists said Corzine May face his toughest tests after he leaves the Hospital the 60yearold Man faces excruciating daily exercises designed to rebuild his strength but also make it difficult for him to initially de vote much time to being governor Hes got to really work on getting him self stable and up to Par Odonnell said Elton Strauss senior faculty member at mount Sinai medical school said patients who suf Corzine feed injuries As severe As need to first receive psychological support most of these patients under go stress anxiety sometimes anger towards what took place Strauss said Vincent Perez a director at co Lumbia University medical Center Eastside in new York said co Zines Early therapy will be comparable to learning to walk again also saturday the started Ger of Newark reported that state police were investigating whether the trooper who was driving Corzine was communicating with his girlfriends estranged Hus band at the time of the crash Davy Jones president of the state troopers fraternal association told the newspaper that investigators want to know if trooper Robert Rasinski was communicating with the Man either by phone or Mobile email while he was driving Corzine or immediately before state police superintendent Rick Fuentes confirmed in a state ment to the Star Ledger that the department was in receipt of an allegation made against trooper Robert Rasinski and will look fur ther into the matter
