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WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus
GENEVA (AP) — World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample. Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO's...
Tags: EMC Corporation, Healthcare Policies, International Organizations, Saudi Arabia, Bird Flu
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FDA will investigate added caffeine in foods
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trail mix. Potato chips. And now gum. With a growing number of foods boasting added caffeine for an energy boost, the Food and Drug Administration says it's time to investigate their safety. The FDA's new look at added caffeine...Tags: Mars, Inc., American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration, Children's Health
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Oregon lawmakers advance ban on young teen tanning
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Across the nation, lawmakers are debating where to draw the line on young teen tanning, considering proposals that would make it illegal to expose minors to ultraviolet rays from sunlamps. Those who support such a ban say the...
Tags: Elections, Justice System, Skin Cancer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Politics
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FDA seeks info from Indiana farm tied to outbreak
OWENSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Federal regulators are pressing a southwestern Indiana cantaloupe farm linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak to detail the steps it has taken to address unsanitary conditions inspectors found last summer at the farm's fruit-...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Diseases and Illnesses, Salmonella Infection, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Poll: Obesity's a crisis but we want our junk food
WASHINGTON (AP) — We know obesity is a health crisis, or every new year wouldn't start with resolutions to eat better and get off the couch. But don't try taking away our junk food. Americans blame too much screen time and cheap fast food for...
Tags: Elections, Dining and Drinking, Obesity, Consumer Goods Industries, Overweight
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Hospitals crack down on workers refusing flu shots
CHICAGO (AP) — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won't get flu shots, with some workers losing their...
Tags: Swine Flu, Labor Legislation, Pharmaceuticals, Nursing, Nursing Homes
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FDA: New rules will make food safer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says its new guidelines would make the food Americans eat safer and help prevent the kinds of foodborne disease outbreaks that sicken or kill thousands of consumers each year. The rules, the...
Tags: Consumers, Consumer Goods Industries, Peanuts, Food and Drug Administration, Food Industry
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Michigan reports 14th death linked to steroids
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials say a 14th person with ties to the state has died in a national outbreak linked to contaminated steroids. In a news release Thursday, the state Department of Community Health announced the death of...
Tags: Back Pain, Steroids, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Meningitis
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NM heart of national peanut butter recall
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The country's largest organic peanut processing plant is scrubbing its facilities top to bottom and hopes to get back in production soon after massive recall of scores of products linked to a salmonella outbreak. The recall...
Tags: Peanuts, Food and Drug Administration, Salmonella Infection, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Butter
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CDC: Ind. has 2nd death from fungal meningitis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A second person has died from fungal meningitis after receiving an injection in Indiana that's been linked to tainted steroids used for back pain, state and federal health officials said Saturday. The Centers for Disease Control...
Tags: Headaches, Hospitals and Clinics, Disease Prevention, Back Pain, Steroids
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Cass County woman dies from fungal meningitis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The family of a Cass County woman says it believes she died of fungal meningitis after receiving two injections of a tainted back pain medication at an Elkhart health clinic. Lisa Ann Durbin says her 89-year-old grandmother Pauline...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Disease Prevention, Pharmaceuticals, Back Pain, Food and Drug Administration
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CDC reports incidents of tainted ricotta cheese in Indiana, 17 other states
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says ricotta cheese tainted with listeria bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses and at least one death. The imported Italian ricotta salata cheese distributed by Forever Cheese,...
Tags: Italy, Disease Prevention, Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration, Diseases and Illnesses
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