WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the outbreak, Read the rest of this entry »

Two people have been arrested after drugs worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen.
Crack cocaine with a street value of about £14,000 was recovered by police in the Torry area.
A 44-year-old local woman and a 37-year-old man from Birmingham were detained.
A Grampian Police spokesperson said they were expected to appear from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the outbreak, Read the rest of this entry »

CHICAGO, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Users of Alli, the first
weight-loss drug approved for sale over-the-counter in the
United States, are finding what they likely suspected all
along: pills are no magic substitute for diet and exercise.
Yet as Americans engage in the New Year’s tradition of
resolving to shed pounds, the market for diet aids is expected
to remain firm, even as the economy is mired in recession.
Americans spend $30 billion a year on weight-loss Read the rest of this entry »

One in seven Americans under age 65 went without prescribed medicines in 2007 as drug costs spiraled upward in the United States, a nonprofit research group said on Thursday.
That figure is up substantially since 2003, when one in 10 people under 65 went without a prescription drug because they couldn’t afford it, according to the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C.
The current figure may be even higher because of Read the rest of this entry »

ATLANTA – People who get multiple doses of pain medicine for the same complaint would have a tougher time going undetected under legislation designed to create a statewide drug database.
Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, introduced House Bill 273, the Georgia Prescription Monitoring Program Act to make it easier to spot cases where people have gotten multiple prescriptions for federally controlled pain medications.
It’s designed to catch two kinds Read the rest of this entry »

A Beverly Hills man is in jail following a search warrant for drugs executed at his home on Friday.
Arrested was Enrico Desmond Atkins, 24, of 30 N. Desoto St., Beverly Hills, a convicted felon.
According to the arrest report, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office had received information that Atkins’ home was a center of drug activity, and executed a search warrant at Atkins’ rented home. During a search of the home, the CCSO Emergency Response Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to athletic competition — or to steroids. And the former champion bodybuilder says there’s no place for drugs in sports these days.
Schwarzenegger says top athletes are inspirations to young people and to people trying to lose weight and stay fit.
The former action star says competition drives athletes to use drugs. His advice: “Come out, be clean and say, ‘Look, Read the rest of this entry »

Pharmaceutical industry officials in Kenya estimate that at least 40 percent of the drugs sold in the East African nation are counterfeit, with anti-malarial drugs being especially susceptible to being faked.
Patients continue to be sick or can even die as a result of taking counterfeit drugs, most are believed to originate from China and India.
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Eating more fruits and vegetables, cutting down on calories and carbohydrates and increasing exercise are all-important parts of any healthy diet. But according to new research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, a low-carbohydrate diet burns more excess liver fat than a low-calorie diet.
Researchers in the small clinical study found that people on low-carbohydrate diets are more dependent on the oxidation of fat in the Read the rest of this entry »