BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — The contaminated Sanlu baby milk powder in
connection with the country’s hundreds of infant kidney stone cases was only
sold on the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, health ministry official Gao Qiang said
on Saturday.
“None of the milk powder was exported to other countries or regions,” Gao
said at a press conference.
“Only a fraction of the milk powder was sold to Taiwan for food
processing,” he added.
BEIJING, Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to a statement from Akron Children’s Hospital Spokeswoman Laurie Schueler.
– The Considine Professional Building at Akron Children’s Hospital has regained electricity and phones after being flooded Tuesday due to a water main break at Exchange and Bowery streets. Damage to information systems and elevators in the Considine building are still being assessed, but Internet access has been restored.
Patient appointments for Wednesday Read the rest of this entry »

A special joint meeting between the county of Santa Clara and the city of San Jose will be held today at San Jose City Hall, county officials announced today.
The annual meeting, attended by county supervisors, city council members and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, is open to the public and will begin at 2 p.m.
Officials will consider the county fairgrounds development, properties that have been annexed or are under consideration for annexation Read the rest of this entry »

Sept. 12, 2008 — The FDA is warning parents and caregivers not to feed
formula made in China to infants because of possible contamination with melamine, a chemical linked to tainted animal feed last year.
Infant formulas made in the U.S. are safe to use.
In China, one baby has died and others have developed kidney problems linked to melamine in Chinese infant formula, according to news reports.
Melamine artificially makes milk appear to have Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON – The first large study in humans of a chemical widely used in everyday plastics has found that people with higher levels of bisphenol A had higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and liver abnormalities, a finding that immediately became the focus of the increasingly heated debate over the safety of the chemical.
The research, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of British and American scientists, Read the rest of this entry »

About The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation’s first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, Children’s Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program Read the rest of this entry »