10% of U.S. Hispanics Have Type 2 Diabetes
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of
While the U.S. government is trying to handle the injuries and ailments suffered by thousands of Armed Services veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, an advisory panel is recommending millions of dollars for research into the illnesses suffered by as many as 210,000 Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Todd Mitchell was awakened by a phone call at 8 a.m. on the Tuesday after Christmas.
A woman and her twin 11-year-old grandsons had eaten soup made from deadly mushrooms they picked in the woods. Dr. Kent Olson of California Poison Control was asking for the phone number of the German company that makes a drug used to treat death cap mushroom cases in Europe.
The call gave Mitchell chills.
He knew mortality from death caps is higher for Read the rest of this entry »

Four million kids have a gap in health insurance during an average year even though at least one parent has health insurance, and safety problems turn up in a quarter of biotech products during the first decade after they are approved.
Journal of the American Medical Association.
The data on uninsured children comes from a study by Jennifer E. DeVoe of Oregon Health & Science University. She and her colleagues looked at pooled data from 40,000 Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday Sep 7, 2008 (foodconsumer.org)
– The FDA on Sep. 5, 2008 announced that it will publish quarterly a
list of drugs that are being evaluated by the agency for its
potential risks that have not been known earlier.
The listed drugs will be identified
based on a review of reports in the agency’s Adverse Event Reporting
System (ARS).
The FDA move was authorized by the Food
and Drug Administration Amendments Act, a law that got approved on
Sept. Read the rest of this entry »

– Six people, including a toddler, died when fire destroyed a three-story home in southwest Philadelphia Friday night, fire officials said.
All six victims were found in the townhome’s basement of the townhome, huddled together against the only exit door, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said.
The one-year-old was taken to Children’s Hospital where the toddler was pronounced dead, an official said.
Eleven people, all of Liberian nationality, Read the rest of this entry »

Penn State University’s medical center is delaying construction of a new children’s hospital in
because of concerns over the global economic crisis.
The center’s chief executive officer, Dr. Harold Paz, said Friday the economic climate hampers the hospital’s ability to borrow money for the $235 million children’s hospital project.
Groundbreaking had been scheduled for January, pending the approval of architectural designs and financing plans Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK – Cynthia Casey’s husband was in the hospital with a failing liver when she was laid off in September, stranding the family without health insurance.
Medical bills were piling up. She had two teenagers to feed and a weekly unemployment check of less than $300.
“The bills just were not getting paid,” said Casey, a 50-year-old resident of Pompano Beach, Fla., who until recently worked as an accounts payable supervisor.
Across the country, Read the rest of this entry »

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The recent troubles on Wall Street have put the economy at the top of the list of concerns for most Americans, and put the issue front and center in the presidential campaign. But if there’s anything we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that the president has only limited control over the country’s economic future.
That’s not the case, however, when it comes to dealing with the health care crisis, which is directly affecting far more Americans Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA has localized the source of the recent Salmonella outbreak. The funky peanut butter and peanut butter paste came from the Peanut Corporation of America processing plant in Blakely, Georgia. This company distributed their contaminated peanut products to 70 other companies who put them into hundreds of different products, including cookies, crackers, candy, cereal and ice cream. A list of recalled products is available
Some dog treats contain Read the rest of this entry »