Tag: middle
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You’re Welcome, World: America Is Behind Climbing Childhood Obesity Rates
From First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution to parents who pester their kids to eat their vegetables and put down the video games, health advocates around the world are doing their best to reduce childhood obesity. Despite these efforts, new research released this week shows the childhood obesity epidemic…
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Study of South Korean MERS outbreak finds ‘super-spreader’ patient
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A single “super-spreader” patient in a busy hospital emergency department spread Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to 82 people in just three days during a big outbreak of the virus in South Korea, scientists say. The study shows the potential for outbreaks of MERS from a single spreader, the…
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Continental US records first Zika-related death
A Utah resident infected with the Zika virus has died, becoming the first Zika-related fatality in the continental United States, officials said Friday. The elderly victim, who had an underlying health condition, died in late June after traveling to a country where the mosquito-transmitted virus is active, the Salt Lake County health department said. “While…
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Why the FDA’s New Warning Labels for Popular Antibiotics Matter
On October 11, 2014, just before my 28th birthday, I was jolted awake in the middle of the night by the sensation that bees were stinging me from head to toe. Tingling sensations crept all over my body; phantom pins and needles pricked and burned my hands and feet; roving numbness caused me to lose…
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Campbell Soup to switch to BPA-free cans by 2017
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co , the world's largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017.
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Campbell Soup to switch to BPA-free cans by 2017
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co , the world's largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017.
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Washington’s MedStar Health shuts down computers after virus
MedStar Health, one of the biggest medical providers in the Washington, D.C., area, said on Monday it shut down some computer systems after discovering a computer virus. “Networks temporarily shut down to prevent virus spread,” MedStar, the operator of 10 hospitals in Washington and Maryland, said on Twitter. All facilities remain open.” The Federal Bureau…