Archive for the Category ‘health’

Listeria outbreak draws Seattle lawyer to battle (AP)

Listeria outbreak draws Seattle lawyer to battle 
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AP - Bill Marler updates his many blogs each day about the latest foodborne illness outbreak and travels the world delivering speeches, imploring the food industry to improve its safety measures. All this while working the phones to get money for the victims.[Read more...]

New prostate cancer test advice overturns dogma (AP)

New prostate cancer test advice overturns dogma 
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AP - Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don’t do it.[Read more...]

Chemical makers say BPA no longer used in bottles (AP)

Chemical makers say BPA no longer used in bottles 
    (AP)

AP - Makers of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A have asked federal regulators to phase out rules that allow its use in baby bottles and sippy cups, saying those products haven’t contained the plastic-hardening ingredient for two years.[Read more...]

Legionnaires’ link to Corfu break

Legionnaires’ link to Corfu break

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FDA approves first diabetes-cholesterol combo pill (AP)

FDA approves first diabetes-cholesterol combo pill 
    (AP)

AP - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Merck drug as the first combination pill for patients with diabetes who also have high cholesterol.[Read more...]

Panel advises against prostate cancer screening (AP)

Panel advises against prostate cancer screening 
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AP - Those PSA blood tests that check for prostate cancer do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive them as part of routine cancer screening, a government panel is recommending.[Read more...]

Trading Art for Health Care

Trading Art for Health Care

For the past week, artist Lisa Lozano has been weaving a seven-mile length of red jute through the trees of a 19th-century cemetery in Kingston, N.Y. Ms. Lozano, who has exhibited large-scale string installations on Governors Island and at New York University, says the commission is vitally important—and not because of the pay [...]

Severe hypoglycaemia cause found

Severe hypoglycaemia cause found

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Heroin and crack treatment falls

Heroin and crack treatment falls

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Kids’ ER concussion visits up 60 pct over decade (AP)

Kids’ ER concussion visits up 60 pct over decade 
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AP - The number of athletic children going to hospitals with concussions is up 60 percent in the past decade, a finding that is likely due to parents and coaches being more careful about treating head injuries, according to a new federal study.[Read more...]

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