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Salmonella Now Suspected in Jalepeno Peppers, Cilantro

Bill Lenner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:03:00 GMT

After failing to find the source of a rare type of salmonella in tomatoes authorities are turning an eye to peppers and cilantro.Apparently their best clue is still a local chain of restaurants in Chicago, identified in this report as serving Mexican

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Part of Mexico Cleared in of Suspicion in Salmonella Outbreak. Economy Secretary Threatens to Sue.

Bill Lenner — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:07:00 GMT

Mexico's Economy Secretary has said he'll seek compensation if for lost income for Mexican farmers (and, I suppose any American farmers who can legally offer campaign contributions) who have been barred from selling their tomatoes to th

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HIV Infection Rate Jumps 25%. CDC Says Numbers Are Now More Accurate

Bill Lenner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:32:00 GMT

The Center for Disease Control's HIV new infections rate is 25% higher according to Reuters report "Better counting raises HIV rate in U.S. by 25 percent ".But they say not to panic. They are just not ignoring some populations the

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Eight Hours of Sleep at Night Not Needed. Misconception May Hurt People's Chances for Best Health (Updated with Links)

Bill Lenner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:14:00 GMT

People living longest actually tend to sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours per night according to a new report at Time Magazine and interview with Daniel Kripke co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif. Over long sleepin

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No sleep means no new brain cells

Are Older, Forgetful People Really Wiser? Or Was That Report Planted to Help John McCain( or even Hillary)

Bill Lenner — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:02:00 GMT

Our latest venture into planted news appears to be a report showing that older folks, even those who appear to be confused and forgetful are actually smarter, more creative (though why that should be assumed to be exactly equal, is beyond me.It left

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Hillary's Mother to Be Who Died Because She Couldn't Afford Medical "Fees" Already Had Insurance

Bill Lenner — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Hillary Clinton has been telling a story at campaign stops about a young woman who was pregnant and became ill enough to know she needed medical attention. She went to a local clinic who refused to see her unless she paid $100 dollar fee for ev

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Watch Out For Web Based Medical Record Storage

Bill Lenner — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:29:00 GMT

Steven Levy has a concise explanation in his Newsweek analysis "Web Surfer, Heal Thyself ":Medical files in the care of health providers like doctors, pharmacies and hospitals enjoy legal protections specified by the Health Insurance Portab

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Fast Food Binges Can Be Bad For Your Liver, But Good For Your Cholesterol (Updated with more information)

Bill Lenner — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:46:00 GMT

The effect on cholesterol is a shock, but when you find out what appears to be the reason for the liver problems you might not be surprised.A Swedish study done on young healthy adults asked them to eat two fast food meals a day and avoid exercise.&n

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Aggressive Diabetes Treatment Endangering Some Patients

Google Wants to Store Your Health Records, Right Along With Your Email

Bill Lenner — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Google could soon be storing your medical records, to be accessed by your regular Google password, if a test program works out well.Well, for whom is the obvious question.Excerpt AP report at Google.com "Google to Store Patients' Health Reco

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Embryonic Stem Cells Used to Treat Diabetes

Bill Lenner — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:30:00 GMT

Oh those bad doctors!Saving lives again! Excerpt ABC News report "Researchers Use Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Diabetes ":Doctors may be one step closer to using stem cells to cure diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at

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Studies That Find Drugs Don't Work Seldom Get the Attention They Deserve

Bill Lenner — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:10:00 GMT

Fair use excerpt of Reuters Report "Unfavorable drug studies don't get into print: report":Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug bein

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FEMA Manipulated Data on Safety of FEMA Trailers

Bill Lenner — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:00 GMT

FEMA, trailers may be dangerous to live in long term, but the Bush administration agency says dwellers only need to keep their windows open to avoid health damage with long term use--Brrrr! Other question: Did CDC shop for favorable advice for FEMA?

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Surprise! Most Women Get Abortion To Help Family

Bill Lenner — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:08:00 GMT

Most abortions are not gotten by teens scared of parenthood, but by women who already have children, know how tough it is to raise them, and want to spare their already born children the extra burden they would encounter.Already overburdened families

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Bush Administration Allows Employers To Cut Off Health Benefits at 65!

Bill Lenner — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:55:00 GMT

And get this! They did it through the Equal Opportunity Commission!(BTW, there are no excerpts of Times report in this post -- I'm trying to cut down. New reports at the Times seem to be available to everyone, registered or not.

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Law Calling for More Reporting Of Mentally Ill Patients for Gun Block List Was Sponsored by Democrats 5 Years Ago

Bill Lenner — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:23:00 GMT

The latest law was forcedly watered down to gain approval of Republican, especially Senator Tom coburn of Oklahoma who single handedly tied the bill up until his conditions were met.But Senator Chuck Shumer proposed suck a law over 5 years ago in the

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Scientists Who Used Skin Stem Cells to Cure Mice "Sickle Cell Disease" Say They Couldn't Have Done It Without Using Embryonic Stem Cells to Practice Technique.

Bill Lenner — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:15:00 GMT

Scientist have cured mice of sickle cell disease by using the new stem cells derived from skin but declare that they couldn't have done it without Embryonic Stem Cells to work with first. The also say that more needs to be done to make this

Columnist Calls for More Personal Spending on Health Care

Bill Lenner — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:29:00 GMT

RJ Samuelson is right on some of the things he says in his latest column "Rx for Health Care: Pain ". Health Care costs are out of control. But he has the same attitude as most non liberals, that you counter that by making the "m

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Young Burn Victim, Youssif, Suffers Complications After More Surgery, Recovers.

Bill Lenner — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:06:00 GMT

Just a couple of weeks ago we read about Youssiff attending a day at a burn campand seemingly having a lot of fun. To learn that he suffered serious complications in the weeks since is shocking. Personally, though I expect daily updates f

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CDC Likely To Raise AIDS Infection Rates Due to Better Data

Bill Lenner — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:11:00 GMT

The AIDS may have been infecting more people than previously identified during recent years.Excerpt Wall Street Journal (free section) "Upward Revision of U.S. AIDS Cases Likely ": U.S. health officials are finalizing statistics that a

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More Facts on Japan and Whaling

Bill Lenner — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:10:00 GMT

I don't know why i the journalist,Blaine Harden didn't check some facts before writing the Washington Post report "Japanese Mission to Kill, Study 950 Whales Decried ". I guess when you're a mainstream news writer you don&

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