12:43 AM CST on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A strain of salmonella that was detected at a Georgia peanut plant and caused hundreds of illnesses nationwide also has been confirmed in peanuts processed at a West Texas plant owned by the same company, Texas health officials announced Tuesday.
The Plainview plant was supplying peanut ingredients for 150 to 200 food manufacturers around the country. Several manufacturers Read the rest of this entry »

Could an unhealthy diet increase the risk of developing dementia later in life?
That is the question that led neurodegeneration researcher Jeffery Keller from the Sanders-Brown Institute on Aging in Lexington, Ky., to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in July to study dementia.
“We saw our work in dementia moving toward understanding how nutrition, obesity and diabetes are emerging as risk factors in dementia and the elderly,” Read the rest of this entry »

Kennesaw’s city employees identified as high-risk for health complications may pay more for medical benefits unless they participate in a city-sponsored wellness program.
The council is scheduled to discuss the proposed policy today at a 7 p.m. meeting. The policy would affect known tobacco users, some overweight employees and others identified by the company’s wellness consultant as being at high risk of health complications, Mayor Read the rest of this entry »

Health investigators probing three Curry County cases involving an invasive bacteria have found no direct connection between the victims, according to an epidemiologist with the state health department.
Wednesday, the New Mexico Health Department announced that two Curry County residents — a 23-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man — have died and a 58-year-old man is hospitalized, suffering from an invasive bacteria known as group A Read the rest of this entry »

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LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries (
TEVA.O
), the world’s biggest maker of generic drugs,
is joining forces with Swiss-based Lonza (
LONN.VX
) to exploit
the emerging market for so-called biosimilar medicines.
The two companies said on Tuesday they had formed a
strategic partnership to become a leading global provider of
biosimilars, or generic versions of biotechnology drugs.
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Six years after landmark research uncovered breast cancer risk in the nation’s most popular menopause treatment, two new Stanford University analyses show that using hormone replacement therapy long-term poses a far greater risk of cancer than previously thought.
The research concludes that a woman who stays on the therapy for at least five years doubles her risk of breast cancer every year. This 200 percent elevated risk is much greater than the Read the rest of this entry »

Roe vs. Wade protects link
hirty-six years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed
down its landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized
abortion in the United States. This historic anniversary
typically inspires reflection on the advances women have
made since being able to fully control their own fertility.
This year’s anniversary also gives us a unique
opportunity to look toward the future.
In the years preceding Roe vs. Wade, women had Read the rest of this entry »

Commonly-used food additives may fuel the growth of lung cancers, a Korean study on animals has suggested.
Processed foods including meat, cheese, and drink contain inorganic phosphates.
Researchers fed mice with lung cancer a diet with similar percentages of phosphates to those in human food, and found tumour growth accelerated.
But UK experts stressed the findings reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine may Read the rest of this entry »

Alex Rodriguez has bolstered his legal team, adding Jay Reisinger, who has represented a number of high-profile baseball players who have been confronted about performance-enhancing drugs.

ok I have to say this and it about time that society admitted it. Not many people like playing sport – the answer… well you get belittled and made to feel like crap. If you mix that into teenagehood there is your answer. If you want kids to exercise, get them into physical exercises that doesn't pit them against eachother and create metal issues for them later on making (fat adults).
Its about time you realised that the traditional sports Read the rest of this entry »