Color additives made from insects will have to be listed on food and cosmetics labels by 2011. Right now, when the bug dyes are listed on the packaging of food and cosmetics, they are simply listed as “artificial color,” said the Free Press News Service, which noted that the change in description came about over reports of allergic reactions and a decade-old petition filed by a consumer advocacy group.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Nov. 6 (UPI) — Officials at a Florida hospital said they expect a baby born election night to be only the first of many named after President-elect
.
Marla Oxenhandler, spokeswoman for the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, said Sanjae Obama Fisher was born at about 8 p.m. Tuesday to Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday.
Oxenhandler said Sasha Hall Fisher’s labor was over before Read the rest of this entry »
Marshfield, Wis.
, Gov. Jim Doyle announced a new genomics initiative designed to leverage the expertise at four of the state’s leading medical research institutions, including Marshfield Clinic.
Doyle said the Wisconsin Genomics Initiative would be established to drive advances in personalized medicine, the science of tailoring drug therapies and other medical care to the genetic characteristics of individual patients.
“With our combined knowledge, Read the rest of this entry »
Children’s Hospital announced that it has recruited a nationally renowned asthma researcher to develop new education, prevention and treatment strategies.
Dr. Fernando Holguin was named clinical director of pediatric environmental medicine center at the
hospital. In his new role, Holguin will lead efforts to identify how environmental risk factors impact asthma in the region. The center is funded by a $5 million grant the hospital received Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Health care and emergency services
workers who might help sick people during an influenza pandemic
should take antiviral drugs throughout the epidemic, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services said in new guidance
released on Tuesday.
Employers such as hospitals should be responsible for
stockpiling the drugs and designating who gets them, HHS said
in its latest guidance.
People with weakened immune systems, such Read the rest of this entry »
The ‘BBB-’ rating affirmation and Stable Outlook are primarily supported
by the lock-box mechanism that ensures federal appropriations flow
directly from the government to the trustee to be held for debt service
before IHC receives the remainder, effectively ensuring that the
certificate holders are paid before any other debt. Also supporting the
rating and Stable Outlook is IHC’s essentiality of services and Read the rest of this entry »
More than a half-million Arizonans today begin the arduous process of choosing among 49 Medicare prescription-drug plans that, on average, will cost more and deliver less than existing plans.
Seniors and residents with disabilities who enroll in the federal government’s drug program will find that most plans next year will charge higher premiums. The average monthly premium for a Medicare prescription-drug plan nationwide will increase 14 percent, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.
Food and Drug Administration officials set a threshold of 1 part per million of melamine in formula, provided a related chemical isn’t present. They insisted the formulas are safe.
The setting of the standard comes days after The Associated Press Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey remained at George Washington University Hospital on Friday morning, though conscious and alert, the Associated Press reported. Mukasey, 67, was taken to the hospital Thursday night after collapsing at a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual dinner in Washington, D.C., according to media reports. He had been giving an address about anti-terrorism policies in the Bush administration to Read the rest of this entry »
Proposition 2 wants California to give its chickens enough room to flap their wings.
Sound simple? That’s its elegance, say supporters. And also its problem, argue opponents.
The initiative — a referendum on how to treat the animals we eat — has feathers flying at the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Medical Association. The national group cautioned against the effort while the state group supports Read the rest of this entry »