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The US Food and Drug Administration
announced that the contaminated jalapeño and serrano peppers coming from Mexico,
were no longer in circulation. Last month the health agency issued a warning that
consumers avoid eating jalapeño and serrano peppers from Mexico. Now the
FDA has lifted the warning.
The salmonella outbreak began in late
April, but by early August the number of new cases had dropped to levels that
would be considered normal, according to the CDC.
The number of reported cases related to the
salmonella outbreak that sickened more that 1,400 people has dropped and...
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Having a history of non-melanoma skin cancer may increase the risk of developing any other malignancy in the body, a new study shows. Researchers, led by Jiping Chen, MD, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute and Anthony Alberg, PhD, MPH, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, said the increase was particularly linked to age. After looking at an estimated 750 patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer and more than 18,000 people without the malignant disease, they found that individuals suffering from non-melanoma skin cancer age 25 to 44 had double the risk of...
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Maple Leaf Chief Executive Michael McCain has
called the nationwide outbreak linked to the company’s Toronto meat plant the biggest crisis in the
company’s 100-year history. Earlier this week health authorities announced a
massive recall of meat contaminated with the listeria bacterium. The meat
belonged to Canadian company Maple Leaf Foods Inc. The source of the outbreak
was the meat tainted with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes processed at the
Maple Leaf’s plant in Toronto.
So far there have been reported 29 cases of
listeriosis, including 15 deaths linked to tainted meat...
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The first death caused by the West Nile virus in the state of Long Island this year occurred in Nassau County where a 75-year-old man died on Monday after being infected with the potentially deadly virus, the Nassau County Health Department said. Another Nassau County resident, an 80-year-old woman from New Hyde Park, died and many suspect her death to be West Nile virus-related. She died on Sunday, local authorities said. The local officials confirmed that the 75-year-old man from Carle Place died on Monday due to virus infection. County Health Department officials said they received six...
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The American
Academy of Otolaryngology
- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation released a national guideline so that
clinicians may recognize earwax buildup and so that they know how to deal with
it.
The clinical term for earwax is cerumenn and it is actually made up of keratin mixed with
secretions. Its purpose is to protect the ear from potential infections, hair,
dead skin and from water. The wax is of two types: wet and dry. The first has a
bigger concentration of lipid and pigment granules, thus it is stickier than
the second type.
Despite numerous advice people keep removing...
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A powerful painkiller skin patch, used mostly by cancer patients, has been issued the second...
Mayo Clinic Hospital CEO Denis Cortese posted a statement on
the hospital’s official web site...
Indonesian representatives announced on Friday a possible
human-to-human spread of the H5N1 bird...
New York City's Health Department announced yesterday that cases of stomach flu have spiked in...
It’s been two weeks since BBDO’s advertising campaign meant
to raise awareness on children’s...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a public health
alert Thursday for ground beef sold by...
The New York Health Department reported on Thursday that the
emergency department reached 500...
A seventeen-year-old girl from Northbridge passed away
Thursday night, just hours after her...
Abandoned children who are put into foster care seem to have
better reasoning, language and other...
A study conducted by the American Cancer Society has found that uninsured cancer patients are...
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