A mentally disabled Redwood City man who was reported missing Dec. 21 has turned up safe at Valley Medical Center in San Jose, police reported Tuesday.
Danny Benavente, also known as Danny Aguilar, actually checked into the hospital the same day he was reported missing, said Sgt. Steve Blanc. But police had entered his name as Danny Benavente, while the hospital recorded it as Danny Aguilar.
As a result of the miscommunication, authorities and Read the rest of this entry »

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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 so long as a related chemical isn’t also present. They said they are continuing to analyze the results of tests on 87 samples of infant formula, but Read the rest of this entry »

On 4 February around 300 patients, accompanied by 18 ICRC staff, fled Puthukkudiyiruppu Hospital in northern Sri Lanka after it was shelled repeatedly. Monica Zanarelli, ICRC deputy head of operations for South Asia, explains their predicament and what the ICRC is doing to help them. What happened to the 300 patients who fled Puthukkudiyiruppu Hospital last week?
Puthukkudiyiruppu Hospital was shelled repeatedly between 1 and 4 February. Early in Read the rest of this entry »

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An 11-year-old Florida boy was abandoned at a Nebraska hospital Wednesday, just days before lawmakers meet to change the much-criticized “safe haven” law.
The boy is the 31st child abandoned since the law took effect in July. It was intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned but doesn’t set any age limit.
Todd Landry, director of children and family services for the Department of Health and Human Services, Read the rest of this entry »

BELMONT, OH –  Belmont Community Hospital (BCH) officials are assuring the public that its water supply is safe.
Bellaire officials today reported that hydrochloric acid accidentally entered the village’s water supply and asked that the public there not drink or use water.
However, BCH Administrator Gary Gould said the medical facility receives its water from the Belmont County Water District and not from the village water system.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An 11-year-old Florida boy was abandoned at a Nebraska hospital Wednesday, just days before lawmakers meet to change the much-criticized “safe haven” law.
The boy is the 31st child abandoned since the law took effect in July. It was intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned but doesn’t set any age limit.
Todd Landry, director of children and family services for the Department of Health and Human Services, Read the rest of this entry »

Girl is 29th child left under Neb. safe-haven law
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities say an 11-year-old girl has become the 29th child to be left at a hospital under the state’s much-criticized safe haven law.
State child and families division chief Todd Landry says the girl was left Friday morning at Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha. She’s from Douglas County, which includes Omaha. Landry says the girl was dropped by her mother.
An Read the rest of this entry »

FDA Panel Asks: Are Asthma Drugs Safe?
Dec. 9, 2008 – Are the commonly prescribed
Serevent, Symbicort, and Foradil safe?
, drug safety, and pediatrics.
Analysis of data pulled from clinical trials shows that patients taking Serevent, Symbicort, or Foradil have a small but significantly increased risk of asthma-related hospitalization. This is especially true for kids 4 to 11.
The same analysis shows that patients taking Serevent have a small Read the rest of this entry »

– After first saying that they could not determine a threshold for the safe amount of certain toxic chemicals in infant formula, Food and Drug Administration officials said Friday that trace amounts are safe.
“Amounts of the industrial chemical melamine or the melamine-like compound called cyanuric acid that are below 1.0 ppm [1,000 parts per billion] do not raise public health concerns,” said Stephen Sundlof, the FDA’s director of the Center Read the rest of this entry »