Thursday, March 31, 2011

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FDA Panel Digests Data Linking Food Coloring, Hyperactivity
ABC News
By EMILY P. WALKER MedPage Today Washington Correspondent SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Judging from the data and the discussion during the first day of an FDA panel meeting on food dyes, it appears likely that juices, candies, cereals, yogurts, and hundreds ...
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Global Spread: More People Think 'Fat People Are Lazy'
TIME
By Meredith Melnick Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 0 comments Thin may be the American ideal, but that view appears to have gone global, a new study finds. Negative attitudes toward fat people have taken root in several other cultures around the world, ...
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Alabama Hospital Infection Outbreak Leads to Meds IV TPN Recall
AboutLawsuits.com
Alabama health officials are investigating nine deaths that may be linked to contaminated nutritional supplements by Med IV, an Alabama compounding pharmacy. Last week, Meds IV issued a Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) recall after an outbreak of ...
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Airport security scans: What would your doctor do?
CNN
By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent The Transportation Safety Administraiton says full-body scans, which emit a small amount of radiation, are safe. TSA says multiple studies have shown that scanners' radiation levels are safe. ...
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Muskingum County's health ranks low, study shows
Zanesville Times Recorder
Where you live can go a long way toward determining a person's health, according to a study... March 15, 2011 -- A son, to Jessica Creeks and Chase Bracken, of Zanesville. An uncertain economy has had far-reaching effects, and there are lots of things ...
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UN chief urges 'bold' action to transform global AIDS response
UN News Centre
31 March 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged world leaders to take bold decisions to tackle the AIDS epidemic, as he launched a new United Nations report that warns that recent gains, while laudable, are fragile. ...
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UN News Centre
Obese Ohio Man Dies After Being Fused to Chair for 2 Years
Fox News
A morbidly obese Ohio man has died after police found him fused to a chair he had not moved from in two years and were forced to cut a hole in the wall of his house just to get him out, WTOV-TV reported Wednesday. The unnamed 43-year-old man's ...
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New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments
Science News
By Nathan Seppa Adding an experimental drug to standard treatment more than doubles the likelihood of knocking out hepatitis C in patients with the chronic liver infection, two studies in the March 31 New England Journal of Medicine show. ...
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J&J splits off troubled consumer-drug unit
FiercePharma
Johnson & Johnson is taking apart its troubled McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit, splitting it into pieces by geography and product type, allowing closer focus on the US consumer drug operations that have suffered so many recalls over the past 18 months. ...
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Lung Cancer Drug Fails in Late-Stage Study
Fox News
AP NEW YORK – Amgen Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. announced Wednesday that a drug being developed by the two companies for cancer patients failed in late-stage testing to improve overall survival rates for lung cancer patients. ...
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Hands-Free Faucets Spread More Germs Than Manual Taps
TIME
By Alice Park Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 0 comments We've become a rather germ-phobic society, what with our antibacterial soaps, hand sanitizers, automatic water faucets and self-flushing toilets — all of which are supposed to reduce our contact with ...
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Florida House begins debate on Medicaid revamp
BusinessWeek
By BILL KACZOR The Republican-controlled House turned back a move Tuesday by Democrats to block the wholesale shift of Florida's Medicaid program to private companies and networks of hospitals and other health care providers. That vote was a preview of ...
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Wisconsin leads in health insurance exchange system
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin is at the forefront of an effort to build the information technology system for state health insurance marketplaces, despite Gov. Scott Walker's rejection of the federal health care law. The Department of Health and Human ...
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Pot Politics on Capitol Hill: Proponents Aim to Shift Industry's Image
ABC News
By HUMA KHAN Supporters of decriminalizing marijuana are hoping to build momentum on Capitol Hill after a historic election that saw the politics of pot take center stage in four states. The marijuana industry's public relations campaign has so far ...
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: St. John's to 'Light it up Blue' for Autism
Queens Courier
St. John's University will be joining countless organizations throughout the world this week when they "Light it up Blue" for Autism awareness. This is the second annual "Light it up Blue" campaign. It was launched by by Autism Speaks, North America's ...
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Teamwork Fights Cancer; Form a Team, Join a Team
TribLocal
By Janeen Barloga Tuesday at 11:08 am West Chicago, Ill. – April 2011 – Teams are forming now for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of West Chicago & Warrenville. Anyone interested in learning more is invited to attend the next team meeting on ...
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Maryland Senate approves softened health exchange plan
IFAwebnews.com
By Bob Graham A plan for creating a Maryland health insurance exchange, calling for more study of how the exchanges will be marketed, has been sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley for approval. The Maryland Senate March 30 approved creating a public-private ...
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Chatting babies video a YouTube sensation
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation. The two-minute snippet of the lively exchange between twin brothers barely old enough to ...
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