![]() Suspected cholera outbreak in Philippines kills 21 August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- A suspected cholera outbreak in a remote southern Philippine township has killed 21 people and sickened at least 50 others, the mayor and the Red Cross said Wednesday. | |
![]() Lens implant offers chance at beating lazy eye August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin - a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye. The California girl last week became one of a ... | |
![]() Salmonella probe likened to 'Keystone Kops' August 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said Thursday, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato ... | |
![]() Mexico criticizes US salmonella findings July 31, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm. | |
![]() FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm July 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday. | |
Study: 'Pre-dementia' is rising, especially in men July 28, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- New research shows that a milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer's disease is much more common than thought. | |
Putting the squeeze on produce to kill germs July 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Could food producers literally squeeze the salmonella out of a jalapeno? Or zap the E. coli from lettuce without it going limp? | |
![]() A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak. | |
ADHD increasingly common in older kids, CDC says July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- More older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government report released Wednesday. | |
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