FDA source: Staffing, Web site improvements needed
(Sept. 15, 3:50 p.m.) MONTEREY, Calif. Help is on the way. Change is ongoing at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to advance food safety.
That was the message from Susan Winckler, the agencys chief of staff, as keynote speaker during a luncheon at the Fresh Express Fresh Produce Safety Research Conference, in Monterey, Calif., Sept. 11.
Winckler said the FDA received an additional $125 Read the rest of this entry »
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
State payments for disabled people who can’t work and plans to increase health coverage for kids will be among the spending cuts in Gov. Chris Gregoire’s budget proposal, a senior state official has told The Associated Press.
The two cost-cutting moves are just part of Gregoire’s plans, and alone would not save enormous amounts of money, compared with a budget deficit that Gregoire has said could reach $6 billion.
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Water tests confirmed Thursday that two units at Grady Memorial Hospital were the source of the bacteria that caused Legionnaires’ disease in four patients.
“We’re comfortable right now that it’s only the two units,” said Dr. Leon Haley, deputy senior vice president of medical affairs at Grady.
Haley said it was the first time in Grady’s history that the Downtown Atlanta hospital has been the source for Read the rest of this entry »
The cells in a man’s testicles may be able to do a lot more than just make sperm – they could provide any cell type in his body.
German and UK research suggests that sperm cells can be coaxed into stem cells with similar properties to those found in the embryo.
The study, in Nature, raises hopes eventually of a supply of “repair tissue” for other parts of the body.
However, a UK expert said it was too early to draw firm conclusions.
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– King Nut Companies issued a total recall of peanut butter that it distributes Saturday amid fears of a salmonella outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said has infected 399 people in 42 states.
Ohio-based King Nut acknowledged in a statement that salmonella had been found in an open 5-pound tub of King Nut peanut butter.
“We are very sorry this happened,” Martin Kanan, president of King Nut Companies, said in the statement. Read the rest of this entry »
Eating too much fructose can induce leptin resistance, a condition that can easily lead to becoming overweight when combined with a high-fat, high-calorie diet, according to a new study with rats.
Although previous studies have shown that being leptin resistant can lead to rapid weight gain on a high-fat, high-calorie diet, this is the first study to show that leptin resistance can develop as a result of high fructose consumption. The study also Read the rest of this entry »
Tattoo needles are not the source of HIV exposure among up to 50 Normandy High School students, health officials said Friday.
Responding to rumors in the community, the St. Louis County Health Department said there was no indication that tattoos or any tattoo business is involved.
Voluntary, confidential and free testing of Normandy students started this week at the school after an investigation into one HIV diagnosis led to concerns about a number Read the rest of this entry »
BOULDER, Colo., Nov 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Source MDx today announced a partnership with Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston to examine RNA-based biomarkers in multiple sclerosis
(MS) patients and healthy control participants unaffected by the
disease. The goal of the study is to identify diagnostic markers and to
determine markers of active disease (relapses) or stable disease, along
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Congress and other policy makers are considering an increase in the oversight of physicians’ relationships with medical device firms, but new research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business suggests that greater regulation could stifle the development of new medical devices.
Duke Professors Aaron Chatterji, Kira Fabrizio, Will Mitchell and Kevin Schulman used physician data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile and Read the rest of this entry »