Public Health
Senate stall to blame for slow egg recall?
Oh, this might explain the sudden spate of food recalls. — PID (POLITICO.COM) — The Senate’s yearlong failure to pass a food safety overhaul has hampered the ability of Obama administration to quickly recall the 600 million eggs connected to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 2,000 people, experts and lawmakers say. The House approved... »
Nationwide meat recall announced | CNN.com
(CNN) — Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The products were distributed to Wal-Marts nationwide, according to the USDA’s website. via Nationwide meat recall announced – CNN.com. »
U.S. probes egg recall amid calls for tighter rules | Reuters
(REUTERS) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner on Monday said there may be more recalls of eggs in the salmonella outbreak and the agency did not yet know how the eggs and chickens were contaminated. via U.S. probes egg recall amid calls for tighter rules | Reuters. »
USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings
(ST. PETERSBURG TIMES) — A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf. The reaction that USF announcement received from... »
Fruit Smoothies Linked to Outbreak of Typhoid Fever in U.S.
Hat tip to Ainsley Broussard for posting this to Facebook! — PID (AP) — A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday. Seven cases have been confirmed — three in California and four in Nevada. Two more California cases are... »
WHO Declares End to 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Gee, ya’ think? — PID (HHS PRESS RELEASE) — On August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization WHO International Health Regulations IHR Emergency Committee and the WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, declared an end to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. This declaration was based on strong indications that influenza, worldwide, is transitioning toward seasonal patterns... »
Confirmed: Russian fires are burning in radioactive areas
(KYIV POST) — The Russian state forest protection service Roslesozashchita has confirmed reports that forests that were radioactively polluted by the Chernobyl disaster have been affected by forest fires this summer.” As of August 6, twenty-eight fires on an area of 269 hectares had been registered in the Bryansk region alone, including 12 fires on... »
Puberty coming earlier for U.S. girls: study
(REUTERS) — Girls in the U.S. may be continuing to hit puberty at earlier ages, according to new research. The findings suggest earlier development than what was reported in a 1997 study and show a worrying pattern, say the study’s authors, led by Dr. Frank Biro of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Girls who hit... »
Researchers find schizophrenia linked to parasite carried by cats
BALTIMORE (BALTIMORE SUN) — Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats. The researchers say the microbes, called Toxoplasma gondii, invade the human brain and appear to upset its chemistry – creating, in some people, the psychotic behaviors... »
Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) — Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles... »
MacroGenics Receives NIH Grant Funding of $9.8M for Three Projects; Funding Further Advances
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 15 (PRNewswire) — MacroGenics, Inc, a privately held biotechnology company that develops immunotherapeutics to treat autoimmune disorders, cancer and infectious diseases, today announced that the National Institutes of Health NIH has awarded the company three new grants representing total funding of $9.8 million. These grants will help MacroGenics further advance... »
First Smallpox Vaccine for Special Populations Delivered Under Project BioShield
(PRESS RELEASE | ASPR Press Office) June 14, 2010 — Delivery to the Strategic National Stockpile of the first 1 million doses of the nation’s first smallpox vaccine for certain immune-compromised populations is now complete, the result of a Project BioShield contract. Under this contract the Danish company Bavarian Nordic is manufacturing and delivering 20... »
Belgium considers proposals to dissolve bodies and flush them into sewage system
(DAILY MAIL ONLINE) — It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. via... »
Gibbs Evades Question of Whether Obama Agrees With His Medicare Director That Health-Care System Must Redistribute Wealth
(CNSNews.com) – White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has evaded answering the question of whether President Barack Obama agrees with Dr. Donald Berwick, his newly appointed administrator of Medicare and Medicaid, who has insisted that health-care systems must redistribute wealth. “Excellent health care is by definition redistributional,” Berwick said in a speech delivered on July 1,... »
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Is This Book Coming True?
A plague has been unleashed....After her father dies suddenly, Dr. Maggie Taylor, a prominent and respected genetics researcher and professor, receives a mysterious package with a message of universal doom. H5N1 influenza is ravaging swine herds throughout the Midwest, when a deadly, new human version suddenly appears in New Mexico.
Derek and Sharon hope to see you in Canton, Ohio in October!
