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• Peter Pan peanut butter is returning to grocery shelves

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Center For Disease Control, Centerfordiseasecontrol, Con Agra, Conagra, Food Poisoning, Foodpoisoning, Peanut Butter, Peanutbutter, Peter Pan, Peter Pan Peanut Butter, Peterpan, Peterpanpeanutbutter, Salmonella Scare, Salmonellascare

  Filed under: Eating, Marketing to kidsEarlier this winter Con Agra had to pull every jar of Peter Pan peanut butter from grocery store shelves after it was linked to salmonella poisoning. During the recall no child deaths were linked to the salmonella scare, but several families of elderly people claim their loved ones died as a result of

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• U.S. to Warn Sooner About Tainted Meat

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Warn, Sooner, About, Tainted, Meat, U S Department Of Agriculture, Richard Raymond, Scott P Schlesinger, Florida, David Goldman, Kis Robertson, Michele Williams, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, Food Safety Inspection Service, Office Of Public Health Scie

  The Agriculture Department will warn the public more quickly about contaminated meat in the future, officials said yesterday as they sought to quell criticism of an 18-day delay in seeking the recall of millions of pounds of tainted ground beef.

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• Topps Meat Co. Recall Shuts Down Company Today

  Published: October 5, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: General News, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, E Coli Bacteria, Topps Beef Recall, Topps Hamburgers, Topps Meat, Topps Meat Co, Topps Meat Company, Topps Meat Recall

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• Real Hope in a Virtual World

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Real, Hope, Virtual, World, Second Life, Susan Brown, Roberto Salvatierra, Thomas H Murray, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, Lawrence Whitehurst, Stephanie Koslow, United Kingdom, New Jersey, Brenda Wiederhold, Culpeper Virginia, Elena Mangan, John Suler, Kat Kl

  After suffering a devastating stroke four years ago, Susan Brown was left in a wheelchair with little hope of walking again. Today, the 57-year-old Richmond woman has regained use of her legs and has begun to reclaim her life, thanks in part to encouragement she says she gets from an online "virt...

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• FINDINGS

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Findings, Kentucky, India, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, Hawaii, Nevada, Abhijit Majumder, Eastern Europe, Europe, Gilda Sedgh, North America, Western Europe, Guttmacher Institute, Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur, The Lancet, United States, World Health O

  Women are just as likely to get an abortion in countries where it is outlawed as where it is legal, researchers reported today.

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• FINDINGS

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Findings, Medtronic Inc, Food Drug Administration, Daniel Schultz, American Cancer Society, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, National Cancer Institute, North American Association Of Central Cancer Registries

  Death rates from cancer dropped more than 2 percent per year from 2002 through 2004, accelerating a trend that began in the early 1990s, new data show.

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• Cold Remedies Are Unproven For Children, FDA Panel Says

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Cold, Remedies, Unproven, For, Children, Fda, Panel, Says, Tylenol, Food Drug Administration, Dimetapp, Robitussin, Joshua M Sharfstein, Amy J Celento Stamateris, Baltimore, Jesse Joad, John Jenkins, Linda Suydam, Mary E Tinetti, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, Consu

  Over-the-counter cough and cold medications should not be used in children younger than age 6, a special panel of federal advisers concluded yesterday after an exhaustive review of the products' safety and effectiveness.

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• Boxer Seeks Explanation For Redacted Testimony

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Boxer, Seeks, Explanation, For, Redacted, Testimony, Julie Gerberding, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Centers For Disease Control Prevention, John Marburger, The White House, Dana Perino, Ostp, U S Office Of Management Budget, United States, The Associated P

  Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday that they heavily edited testimony on global warming, delivered to Congress on Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the president's top science adviser and other officials questioned its scientific...

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• China Likens Tainted Food Response to (Disastrous) SARS Inaction

  Published: November 2, 2007, 5:43 am

  Tags: China, Center For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Deadly, Disease Control, Food Safety, Lead Paint, News, Poison, Politics, Product Safety, Propaganda, Sars, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Wu Yi

  China said yesterday it needed to tackle the year-long food and product safety scandals as it tackled the SARS outbreak more than four years ago. That reponse was a total disaster. read more

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• Decades-Long U.S. Decrease in Smoking Rates Levels Off

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Decades Long, U S, Decrease, Smoking, Rates, Levels, Off, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Corinne Husten, United States, Andrew Von Eschenbach, George W Bush, Lois Capps, Food And Drug Administration, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Philip Morris Interna

  The decades-long decline in smoking by Americans has stalled for three years, the first time smoking rates have leveled off for that long since the federal government began collecting statistics more than 40 years ago.

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• Lawmakers Criticize FEMA's Handling of Hazards Posed by Trailers

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Criticize, Fema S, Handling, Hazards, Posed, Trailers, Fema, Russ Knocke, Louisiana, Charles Green, Henry Waxman, Mississippi, Cbs Corporation, Mary Landrieu, R David Paulison, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U S Department Of Health And Human

  Nearly four months after the Federal Emergency Management Agency promised to study the risk of formaldehyde in trailers provided to Hurricane Katrina survivors, none of 52,000 occupied units have been tested, and FEMA has warned its employees for their own safety to stay out of 70,000 similar tra...

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• Decades-Long U.S. Decrease in Smoking Rates Levels Off

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Decades Long, U S, Decrease, Smoking, Rates, Levels, Off, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Corinne Husten, United States, Andrew Von Eschenbach, George W Bush, Lois Capps, Food And Drug Administration, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Philip Morris Interna

  The decades-long decline in smoking by Americans has stalled for three years, the first time smoking rates have leveled off for that long since the federal government began collecting statistics more than 40 years ago.

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• CDC informs that in U.S. Smoking rate levels off

  Published: November 9, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Health, Cdc, Center For Disease Control And Prevention

  According to the report, represented in the U.S. on the part of CDC - national Center for Disease Control and Prevention in November 9, 2007, the decline in smoking rates during the recent years has stalled, thus turning the problem into a real concern for the federal health officials.

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• Globally, Deaths From Measles Drop Sharply

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Globally, Deaths, From, Measles, Drop, Sharply, Africa, Peter Strebel, Indonesia, International Federation Of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, World Health Organization, Aceh, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Kathy Bushkin Calvin, Luis Gomes, South Asia

  Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday.

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• Ebola Killing Ugandan Health Workers

  Published: December 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Ebola, Killing, Ugandan, Health, Workers, Jane Alisemera, Uganda, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Kampala, World Health Organization

  KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 6 -- Health workers are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, spreading panic among doctors and nurses needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said Thursday.

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