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NTP Report on Bisphenol A
The federal government’s top toxicologists report “concerns” over bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial chemical in many of the nation’s favorite plastic beverage containers, after a full investigation...
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National E-prescribing Conference
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with industry partners from health and technology, are hosting a National E-prescribing Conference on October 6 – 7, 2008 at the Sheraton Boston...
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Walgreens Sees Smoke Over San Francisco’s Tobacco Ban
San Francisco recently passed a city-wide ordinance that bans the sale of all tobacco-based products in pharmacies, such as Walgreens. The ban, scheduled to take effect October 1, has stirred up a fire...
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Mental Health Bill Finally Gets Congressional Approval
After more than a decade of lobbying for equal coverage for mental health treatments in health care plans, both the US Senate and the House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday that makes...
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NYC Subways Join the Battle of the Bulge
New York City officials have taken their city to task on the obesity epidemic sweeping the United States and other industrialized countries. Trans fats were recently banned in all New York City...
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AIDS, Cancer Researchers Share Nobel Prize
Recent announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine marks, for some, the end of a long-running controversy surrounding which team of researchers are to be credited with discovering the...
View ArticleDiscovering Cellular “Kiss of Death” Wins Nobel Prize
Three scientists were awarded the $1.35 million 2004 Nobel Prize for chemistry, thanks to their discovery that one particular component of the cellular system works a bit like a microscopic Mafia don,...
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3,800 UTMB Jobs Swept to Sea in Hurricane Ike Aftermath, Med School Clings to...
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston is reducing its workforce by almost one-third, a move that will leave the teaching hospital with too few patient beds to accommodate its...
View ArticleSorry, Malia, All Dogs Allergenic But These Tips Help Clear the Air
In spite of help from the entire world, the United States’ soon-to-be First Family’s quest for a hypoallergenic dog may best be settled in educated compromise because all dogs emit allergens, to one...
View ArticleColorado Grandfather Coughs Up Nail Lodged in His Head for Years
When Prax Sanchez coughed after returning home from his doctor’s office last week, it wasn’t because of an everyday, ordinary tickle in his throat. It was because of a 1-inch nail that had been stuck...
View ArticleSen. Kennedy in Good Spirits
After emerging from three and a half hours of risky surgery yesterday to remove portions of a tumor in his brain, Senator Edward M. Kennedy told his wife he felt “like a million bucks.” The senator...
View ArticleHealth Industry Pumps Lifeblood into Democratic Campaign
Donation dollars, the lifeblood of any political campaign, have been pouring into Democratic headquarters more this election year than in any other since 1990. The medical establishment has donated...
View ArticleForeclosed Homes Becoming Breeding Ground for Mosquitoes, West Nile Virus
In the Greater Los Angeles area, where backyard swimming pools are common, the county’s Vector Control District is getting an alarming number of calls about the abundance of mosquitoes breeding in...
View ArticleAbortion Pills Fail, Kill British Student
At a coroner’s inquest in Wales, a narrative verdict has been handed down in the death of Manon Jones, an 18-year-old City of Bristol College student often described as A-level and bubbly, who died in...
View ArticleDental Clinics Ease Burden in ER
Getting medical or dental care without coverage by an insurance provider can be pretty tricky these days. Long waits in overcrowded, uncomfortable waiting rooms are expected. Sometimes the wait can...
View ArticleBernanke: “Eclectic Approach” Needed for Health Care, Economic Stability
Earlier today, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, expressed concerns about the staggering amount of money the US government is spending on health care and how current projections for growth...
View ArticleAMA Turns Tables, Issues Report Card to Health Insurers
If you spent 14% of your income, or $14 of every $100 you earn, trying to get your hands on that very same income, wouldn’t you want to find a way to reduce the cost of gaining possession of your...
View ArticleBiz Exec Swindles Military Health Care, Gets Prison Time
Thomas Lutz was once a high-level executive at Health Visions Corp., a healthcare company based in the Philippines and doing business with the Pentagon. Now he is facing five years in prison for...
View ArticleSchool Officials Concerned About Disturbing Pregnancy Pact
The disturbing “pregnancy pact” that apparently led to a rash of teen pregnancies at a Massachusetts high school has stunned people throughout the country and left school officials wondering if...
View ArticleAmy Winehouse Very Public Face for Devastation of Drug Addiction
Grammy Award-winning songstress, Amy Winehouse, 24, has just been diagnosed with emphysema, an irreversible lung condition that threatens to cripple and kill her if she doesn’t immediately quit smoking...
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House of Representatives Says No to Pay Cuts for Medicare Doctors
Every doctor in the United States who works with Medicare patients is facing a 10% pay cut starting on July 1. On Tuesday, however, an overwhelming number of the members of the US House of...
View ArticleGround Beef Recalled by Kroger
All ground beef sold in Kroger stores throughout Michigan and in Colombus and Toledo, Ohio, between May 21 and June 8 has been recalled by the grocer because of an outbreak of E. coli traced back to...
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Biting Dogs, Bad Air Pose Biggest Health Risks to Beijing Olympic Travelers
Contemplating a trip to an exotic land such as China usually conjures up the scary possibility of contracting strange and exotic diseases, too, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Tainted Tomatoes Still a Mystery
More than two weeks after public health officials in the United States issued a warning to consumers against eating certain types of tomatoes linked to more than 800 cases of salmonella infection, the...
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100 Californians Injured By Hospitals Each Month
Lawmakers for the state of California passed a disclosure law in 2006 that requires hospitals to report each time a patient suffers certain adverse events caused by inadequate medical care during...
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Playing Politics Stalls Bill to Save Medicare Doctors’ Pay
As American senators angrily bickered across party lines last week, the bill that met with overwhelming approval in the US House of Representatives that would eliminate a 10% pay cut for doctors...
View ArticleTobacco Weeded Out But Pot’s Still Cool in Netherlands, Dude
A new law in the Netherlands makes it illegal to smoke cigarettes in a public place but smoking marijuana at licensed cannabis cafes is still legal, as long as there is no trace of tobacco in the...
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Once Again, Tomatoes Are Safe to Eat
After weeks of getting blamed for causing as many as 1,200 people in 42 states and the District of Columbia to become ill with infection from Salmonella, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...
View ArticleNo Apologies for Radio Savagery Calling Autistic Children Brats, Idiots
Michael Savage, host of the widely syndicated radio program, “The Savage Nation,” is under fire today for saying last week that 99% of the children diagnosed with autism are really just brats without...
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Calorie Counts Serious Business in the Big Apple
Many chain restaurants operating in New York City are mandated by a new law to post calorie counts alongside prices on their menus or they risk fines that range from $200 to $2,000. The calorie-count...
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Disabled Truckers Continue the Long Haul Despite Dangers
Imagine driving your children to school. Or commuting along an interstate in rush-hour traffic. Or rushing your wife to the delivery room for the imminent birth of your child. Or any other scenario...
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New Fast-Food Restaurants Banned in South LA
City council members voted unanimously on Tuesday, July 22, to allow a proposal calling for a ban on new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area to be presented to the Los Angeles (LA) City...
View ArticleGround Zero Residents to Finally Get Medical Treatment
People from all walks of life were affected by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people sickened or injured by the billowing dust clouds and debris...
View ArticleGranite Countertops Contain Radioactive Minerals
Granite countertops are increasingly popular in modern kitchens. They’re so popular, in fact, that more than 900 kinds of granite are known to be commercially available in the US residential...
View ArticleSerrano Peppers Latest Villain in Salmonella Saga
In the continuing search for the source of the Salmonella saintpaul outbreak that has made hundreds of consumers in the United States and Canada sick over the last few months, investigators now say...
View ArticleConcerns for travelers to China Olympics
Almost a million travelers from around the world are expected to travel to Beijing next week for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Another couple of million Chinese citizens are expected to travel to the...
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FDA One Step Closer to Tobacco Regulation
The United States House of Representatives voted 326 to 102 on Wednesday to take the power of regulation out of the hands of the tobacco industry and place all tobacco products under the regulatory...
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Denver Doctor Under Fire Over Infant Organ Transplants
Between 2004 and 2007, Dr. Mark M. Bouchet and his surgical transplant team removed the hearts from three tiny patients at Denver Children’s Hospital and transplanted them into three tiny patients...
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Good News, Bad News From Medicare
Thursday brought two announcements from Medicare officials, one bringing good news, the other not-so-good news. The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Medicare) has announced the names of...
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Almost Half of Working America Plagued by Medical Debt
The number of Americans of working age who have accumulated medical debt or are experiencing financial difficulties paying off their medical bills has climbed to a staggering 41% by 2007, up from only...
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FDA Condones Irradiation Of Certain Types Of Produce
After several incidents of contaminated produce sickening people across the nation, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow food producers to use irradiation to kill dangerous organisms...
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45.7 Million Americans Still Without Health Insurance
On August 26, the US Census Bureau released the news that although the number of Americans living without healthcare insurance, and the level of medical care that insurance promises, has dropped by 1.3...
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Measles Vaccine Cleared of Autism Charges
With the hope of putting to rest the question, posed in 1998, that the widely used childhood measles vaccine is linked to gastrointestinal (GI) illness that heralds the onset of autism, researchers at...
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