Friday, October 7, 2016

E. Coli Outbreak Prompts Recall Of Adams Farm Slaughterhouse Beef, Veal And Bison Products and other top stories.

  • E. Coli Outbreak Prompts Recall Of Adams Farm Slaughterhouse Beef, Veal And Bison Products

    Adams Farm Slaughterhouse has issued a recall of some of its beef, veal and bison products over concerns that these might contain a strain of potentially deadly strain of E-coli bacteria. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that at least seven people in four U.S. states have already been identified to have been infected by the potentially lethal E. coli O157:H7 believed to be linked to Adams Farm Slaughterhouse. E. coli O157:H7 is know..
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  • A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters

    A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters
    East Lansing, Michigan, becomes a ghost town during spring break. Families head south, often to the theme parks in Orlando. A week later, the Midwesterners return sunburned and bereft of disposable income, and, urological surgeon David Wartinger noticed, some also come home with fewer kidney stones.Wartinger is a professor emeritus at Michigan State, where he has dealt for decades with the scourge of kidney stones, which affect around one in 10 people at some point in life. Most are small, and ..
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  • Johnson and Johnson Faces More Baby Powder Cancer Lawsuits

    Johnson and Johnson Faces More Baby Powder Cancer Lawsuits
    ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Johnson and Johnson prepares to battle with another woman claiming its talcum Baby Powder caused her ovarian cancer – a case that threatens a domino effect of multi-million dollar verdicts against the healthcare giant. Already two juries here have hit Johnson and Johnson hard for it’s talcum powder — awarding $72 million to one cancer plaintiff and $55 million to another. Johnson and Johnson is appealing the awards, but the legal challenge facing the company is formidable Som..
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  • The Protective Power of Morning Sickness

    The Protective Power of Morning Sickness
    People are always saying the wrong thing to pregnant women.Expectant mothers hear everything from the obnoxious (“You’re huge!”) to the outright bizarre (“If you eat that Sriracha, your baby will come out bald”).Then there are the well-meaning—yet utterly unhelpful—superstitions and platitudes: “I can tell from how you’re carrying that it’s a girl.” (No, you can’t.) “At least the terrible sleep you’re getting now is great preparation for all those sleepless nights you’re going to have with baby..
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  • Thailand investigates 4 cases of suspected Zika-linked microcephaly

    Thailand investigates 4 cases of suspected Zika-linked microcephaly
    BANGKOK –  Thailand is investigating four suspected cases of Zika-related microcephaly in three babies and a 36-week old unborn baby, the public health minister said on Tuesday, in what could be the first cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia. Several countries in Southeast Asia have reported increasing cases of infection from the mosquito-borne Zika virus but Thailand has one of the highest numbers in the region, with 349 confirmed since January, including 25 pregnant women. Publ..
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  • Your Poop Contains Clues About Your Obesity Risk

    Your Poop Contains Clues About Your Obesity Risk
    Scientists in Britain have found a new link between the diversity of bacteria in human poo ― the human fecal microbiome ― and levels of harmful types of body fat. In research that may help explain why excessive weight problems and obesity tend to run in families, the scientists said high levels of visceral fat - which is linked to risks of chronic disease ― were linked to having a relatively small range of bacteria in feces. People with a high diversity of bacteria in their feces had lower level..
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  • Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Offers Additional Detail on Bristol-Myers Squibb Collaboration

    Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Offers Additional Detail on Bristol-Myers Squibb Collaboration
    Get the Pulse of the Market with StreetInsider.com's Pulse Picks. Get your Free Trial here. Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) disclosed the following in a U.S. SEC filing on Tuesday: Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. On September ...
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  • Polluted air affects 92% of global population, says WHO

    Polluted air affects 92% of global population, says WHO
    Image copyright World Health Organisation Image caption A map of global concentrations of air pollutants, which the WHO says is the most detailed study it has ever released Nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe polluted air, even outdoors, the World Health Organisation said.Some 92% of the population live in places where air pollution exceeds WHO limits, which can contribute to lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes.The south-east Asia and west..
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  • Why a Zika vaccine is a long way off - Eagle

    Why a Zika vaccine is a long way off - Eagle
    Recent news articles have highlighted positive findings in experimental Zika virus pre-clinical vaccine studies in monkeys and described the start of two Zika virus vaccine trials in humans.These stories have spurred hopes that a Zika virus vaccine will be available to prevent this infection, and its secondary effects, such as abnormal fetal development. But, even with pre-clinical and early stage clinical trials underway, we still may not see a Zika vaccine licensed and approved for use in hum..
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  • How to prepare for flu season

    How to prepare for flu season
    Flu season is upon us once again, and that means making a decision about whether to get this year’s vaccine. Experts say vaccination is the best, safest tool to protect ourselves and our loved ones, but there are some big changes this year— including the elimination of the nasal vaccine, or flu mist. “The flu mist is just not as effecitve as we previously thought,” Dr. Priya Nori, infectious disease specialist with Montefiore Medical Group in the Bronx, New York, told FoxNews.com.  “It’s not go..
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