Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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Food coloring and hyperactivity: FDA holds hearing
Chicago Tribune
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today is examining whether food dyes adversely impact children's health. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which filed the original petition to the FDA, wants the agency to encourage companies to ...
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FDA to allow cheaper preterm baby drug
Washington Post
By Rob Stein, Wednesday, March 30, 12:30 PM The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday disputed a drug company's claim that pharmacies can no longer produce less expensive versions of a drug long used to reduce the risk that women will give birth ...
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Motesanib Fails in Pivotal NSCLC Study
MedPage Today
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today A once-promising investigational drug for various hard-to-treat cancers called motesanib failed to improve overall survival among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a phase III trial, ...
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DuPage named among state's healthiest
Chicago Sun-Times
A collaborative effort gauging quality of life in the nation's counties has again deemed DuPage County among Illinois' best. Announced Wednesday, the rankings are devised using factors such as length of lives and overall health status, ...
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PSA Screening For Men In Their 70s Double That Of Men In Their 50s - Silly!
Medical News Today
Why are men in their seventies being PSA screened at twice the rate of men in their fifties, when it is the younger ones who would benefit the most, while many of the older ones really do not need it, researchers wrote in the Journal of Clinical ...
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Eating Fresh Foods May Cut Exposure to BPA
WebMD
By Brenda Goodman March 30, 2011 -- Families who gave up canned foods and food and beverages prepared and packaged using plastic containers saw their levels of a hormone-disrupting chemical fall by 66%, a new study shows. All it took was three days of ...
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Johnson & Johnson Recalls Even More Tylenol
WebMD
By Daniel J. DeNoon As with its many previous recalls, the latest Tylenol recall is due to a musty or moldy smell. The odor is thought to be caused by trace amounts of the extremely odorous compounds TBA and TCA, produced by the breakdown of a ...
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Small Risk Seen for Second Ca from Radiation Tx
MedPage Today
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Explain that in an analysis that included thousands of cancer survivors, new tumors found in patients who had previously received radiation therapy for cancer were only rarely attributable to that treatment. ...
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US in deadly hospital germ probe
BBC News
Federal officials are investigating an outbreak of a bacterial blood infection that killed nine patients and made 10 others ill in Alabama hospitals. The victims, already seriously ill, were stricken with Serratia marcescens bacteremia this month. ...
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Disease clusters on the rise
Cal Coast News
Areas with higher numbers of cancers, birth defects and illnesses are increasing nationwide along with demands the government needs to take action, according to a report released Monday by Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Disease ...
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Less stress, better sleep fight flab, study says
CBS News
(CBS) Maybe diet and exercise aren't the only effective weapons in the fight against flab. In a new study, people looking to lose at least 10 pounds were more likely to hit that target if they kept stress levels low and managed to get the right amount ...
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'Facebook Depression': Do You Have It?
Huffington Post (blog)
At the end of the recent film The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg's character, by now a wealthy and successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, types in the name of the young woman from Boston University who had dumped him at the beginning of the film. ...
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Autism awareness events begin Friday evening
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
By JOELLE BURNETTE It's estimated one child out of 110 has some form or autism with statistics suggesting an annual increase of 10 to 17 percent. Helping to find answers about this developmental disorder and to provide assistance to families facing ...
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Obese Man Found Fused to Recliner
ABC News
Police rescue a morbidly obese man who'd been in the same chair for two years. Police rescue a morbidly obese man who'd been in the same chair for two years. Strikeouts for Troops brings military veterans to Arizona for spring training. ...
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Avoiding diabetes complications: what does it take?
Boston Globe (blog)
By Deborah Kotz When I recently blogged about diabetes, I received a number of comments asking why I was only addressing Type 2 -- the more common kind that usually occurs in adults -- and not Type 1, which is diagnosed in 13000 kids every year and ...
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Rhode Island Bakery Salmonella Food Poisoning Outbreak Linked to Death
AboutLawsuits.com
One man has died and at least 39 others have been sickened in a salmonella food poisoning outbreak that Rhode Island health officials believe originated with contaminated pastries sold by a local bakery. On March 25, the Rhode Island Department of ...
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Pizza recalled for undeclared allergen: USDA
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Approximately 131000 pounds of pizza products shipped to Trader Joe's stores have been voluntarily recalled because of a failure to declare wheat, a known allergen, on the finished product label, the Department of Agriculture ...
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Top Hospitals List Points Way to Lowering Mortality Rate
Medscape
March 30, 2011 — Roughly 116000 fewer Medicare patients would die each year if all US hospitals operated like the best in the country, according to the latest Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study. The study evaluated 2914 short-term, acute care, ...
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Navigating Car Seat Safety
Patch.com
A reluctant mother realizes the importance of knowing the do's and don't of car seat safety for her children. I remember distinctly the day we switched my daughter's car seat from rear facing to front facing. She was days from being 1 year old and was ...
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