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| US salmonella scare: farm inspections reveal manure, mice and maggots |
US politicians are coming under pressure to increase regulation of the country's largest egg producers after a federal inspection of two companies at the centre of a salmonella scare revealed breaches of basic hygiene. |
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Aug 30, 2010 Time to get your flu shot, but just one this year |
| WASHINGTON - It's flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. | |
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Aug 30, 2010 Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets |
| WASHINGTON - Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. | |
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Aug 30, 2010 Inspectors: Egg farms in recall unsanitary |
| Federal investigators found piles of manure up to eight feet tall, live mice, pigeons and other birds inside the hen houses at two egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Monday. | |
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Aug 29, 2010 USDA announces recall of ground beef suspect of E. coli contamination |
| Barry Jones sells eggs from his 700 free-range hens at Milwaukee area farmers markets. Ever since the massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs, customers have been bombarding him with questions about how he raises his chickens. | |
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Aug 27, 2010 Recession may have pushed US birth rate to new low |
| The US birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. | |
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Aug 27, 2010 ImmunoGen Cancer-Drug Setback May Signal Delays for Onyx, Seattle Genetics |
| ImmunoGen Inc.'s failure to win an accelerated US review for its cancer drug sent shares down the most in eight years, and may signal delays for biotechnology companies led by Onyx ... | |
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Aug 27, 2010 FDA releases latest list of safety issues |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Food and Drug Administration has released its latest list of possible drug safety concerns, citing Roche's breast cancer drug Herceptin and Sanofi Aventis' heart drug Multaq, among others. | |
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Aug 26, 2010 Johnson & Johnson Recalls Hip Implants |
| A unit of Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedics, announced on Thursday that it was recalling two hip replacement systems because many patients required a second hip replacement after the company's implants had failed. | |
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Aug 26, 2010 Salmonella in outbreak confirmed at 2 Iowa farms |
| Laboratory tests have confirmed that two Iowa egg companies are contaminated with the same strain of salmonella blamed for a national outbreak of illness, which continues to claim victims and has sickened at least 1500 people, ... | |
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