Category Archives: Medical

Recall: Frozen chili may contain stones

By doris | Published: February 1, 2009

Full Story At wkyc.com WASHINGTON – Windsor Quality Food Co., Ltd. is recalling more than 600,000 pounds of frozen chili beef products that may contain small stones or rock fragments. The following products are subject to recall:

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Chili Recall Expanded

By doris | Published: January 31, 2009

Full Story At wzzm13.com A recall because of Botulism concerns has expanded and it includes three products sold by Meijer. Georgia based Castleberry’s Food Company is calling back more than 80 brands of canned chili, beef stew, corned beef hash and other meat products. That’s in addition to the ten brands it recalled Thursday. The [...]

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Gov’t launches criminal probe in peanut recall

By doris | Published: January 30, 2009

Full Story At The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say the government has opened a criminal investigation into the salmonella outbreak. Stephen Sundlof, head of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety center, said Friday the Justice Department will investigate possible criminal violations by the Blakely, Ga., peanut processing plant that shipped tainted [...]

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AP Exclusive: Bad peanuts found before outbreak

By doris | Published: January 30, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Weeks before the earliest signs of a national salmonella outbreak that now has been traced to peanuts from a Georgia processing plant, peanuts exported by the same company were found to be contaminated and were returned to the United States, The Associated Press has learned. The rejected shipment [...]

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Obama’s First Act: Taxpayer Money To Fund Abortions Of Black Babies

By doris | Published: January 29, 2009

Full Story At prisonplanet.com The sickest irony amidst the euphoria of the inauguration of America’s first black President is that one of Obama’s very first actions in office will be to ensure that millions more black babies are aborted in third world countries, with American taxpayers picking up the tab. President Obama’s first act of [...]

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Calif. Woman Gives Birth To Rare Octuplets

By doris | Published: January 27, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (CBS/AP) A woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California on Monday, the world’s second live-born set of octuplets. The mother, who was not identified, gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1.8 pounds and 3.4 pounds, doctors at Kaiser Permanante hospital told The Associated Press. [...]

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Brazilian amputee model dead at 20

By doris | Published: January 24, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com (CNN) — Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa, whose hands and feet were amputated in a bid to save her from a deadly and little-known illness, died early Saturday, two friends of the model told CNN.Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa died Saturday after undergoing multiple amputations. Brazilian model Mariana Bridi [...]

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Sen. Kennedy OK after seizure at Obama’s luncheon

By doris | Published: January 20, 2009

Full Story At  Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ill with a brain tumor, was hospitalized Tuesday but quickly reported feeling well after suffering a seizure at a post-inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama. “After testing, we believe the incident was brought on by simple fatigue,” Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at [...]

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Poor Sleep Increases Risk Of Getting Sick

By doris | Published: January 13, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) It turns out if you don’t snooze you lose, reports CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook. A study of 153 healthy people found that those who got less than seven hours of sleep were almost three times more susceptible to getting a cold than those who slept eight [...]

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Low Cortisol Levels May Be Risk Factor in Developing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By doris | Published: January 11, 2009

Full Story At Health News We all occasionally get tired, depressed, and run down, but between 1 and 4 million Americans suffer from a disorder that causes long-term and sometimes debilitating tiredness that is not relieved by rest or sleep—a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), more commonly referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Those [...]

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Scientists Link Gene Abnormality to Childhood Leukemia Relapse

By doris | Published: January 11, 2009

Full Story At Health News Although the rate of cure for the most common form of pediatric cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is about 80 percent with the current treatments available, the remaining 20 percent will suffer a relapse at some point. Of the children who experience a relapse, only 30 percent will survive for a [...]

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Ill. has 4 cases in national salmonella outbreak

By doris | Published: January 8, 2009

Full Story At chicagotribune.com CHICAGO – Four Illinoisans have been hit with salmonella poisoning in an outbreak that has sickened almost 400 people nationwide. Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said Thursday the cases range from a 2-year-old to a 73-year-old. They are located in Lake, Fayette, Franklin and St. Clair counties and [...]

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Hamas won’t stop rocket attacks on Israel

By doris | Published: January 5, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com GAZA CITY (CNN) — Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel on Monday despite a 10-day Israeli military campaign that reportedly has left more than 500 Palestinians dead.Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar says rocket attacks on Israel will continue.Click to view previous image1 of [...]

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Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol has a son, TrippEaston Mitchell

By doris | Published: December 30, 2008

Full Story At  Los Angeles Times Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin and her boyfriend Levi Johnston are proud new parents of a baby boy, according to People. His name is Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, says Colleen Jones, Bristol’s grandmother’s sister. “We think it’s wonderful,” said Jones, the sister of Bristol’s grandmother Sally Heath. [...]

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Chinese firms to compensate tainted milk victims

By doris | Published: December 27, 2008

Full Story At  Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese dairy firms that sold baby formula tainted with the industrial chemical melamine will pay compensation to the families of nearly 300,000 children who were killed or sickened as a result, state media reported. Twenty-two dairy producers will soon make one-off cash payments to the families, the Xinhua [...]

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Woman buried in snow for 3 days found alive

By doris | Published: December 25, 2008

Full Story At  CNN.com No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive. Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop. Alongside his search-and-rescue dog Ace, Ray Lau on Monday [...]

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Pushing more docs to ditch prescription pad

By doris | Published: December 15, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The push for paperless prescriptions is about to get a boost: Starting in January, doctors who e-prescribe can get bonus pay from Medicare. For patients, the benefits are obvious — from shorter drugstore waits to increased safety, as pharmacists no longer squint to decipher doctors’ messy handwriting. But persuading [...]

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Alaska governor’s office sent suspicious powder

By doris | Published: December 10, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com JUNEAU, Alaska – An eighth letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to a governor’s office was intercepted in Alaska on Tuesday, and it bore a Texas postmark like suspicious mailings to other governors this week, officials said.

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TV station defends plan to show man’s suicide

By doris | Published: December 10, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com LONDON – A British television channel said Wednesday it was planning to broadcast the death of an American man at a Swiss euthanasia clinic. The death of 59-year-old Craig Ewert in 2006 is due to be shown Wednesday during a documentary on the Sky Real Lives channel.

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Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering HIV said Saturday he believes there will be a therapeutic vaccine to treat the virus within five years. Luc Montagnier, of France, told reporters in Sweden that he believed it was “a matter of 4 to 5 [...]

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