Health
Don't use 'Comfi' baby walkers due to injury dangers
Your baby could be endangered by now-recalled Comfi Baby Infant Walkers, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned Thursday.
Mar 21, 2024
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Health
Health workers fear it's profits before protection as CDC revisits airborne transmission
Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with COVID-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was.
Mar 21, 2024
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Dehydration is rampant among Florida farm workers, new study shows
Nearly all farm workers who participated in a recent study in Florida were dehydrated at the end of their shifts, and more than half were still dehydrated the following morning.
Mar 19, 2024
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Health
How the anti-vaccine movement pits parental rights against public health
Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She's cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor—kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Research highlights benchmarks for food safety standards
Australia's high standards for food safety inspections set the bar high for cafes, restaurants and other shop owners to maintain hygiene standards, but new research by environmental health experts promotes the potential for ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dangers of smell impairment highlighted in new research
More than a third of people who self-identify as having a smell disorder have had at least one gas safety scare in the last five years, according to new research published in the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Health
Stricter blood-alcohol concentration limits may lead to more hit-and-run fatalities, finds study
Stricter laws on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limits while driving might have an unintended consequence on hit-and-run fatalities, according to a study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University and the University ...
Mar 8, 2024
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Pediatrics
Improving infant formula safety: A new frontier in pathogen detection
Cronobacter sakazakii, a pathogen in powdered infant formula, poses significant risks to neonates, causing outbreaks in NICUs with high mortality rates. This Gram-negative bacterium, resistant to desiccation, can survive ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Health
Audit of food donations prompts call for new nutrition and safety standards
New Curtin University research that analyzed a whopping 85,000 kilograms of food donated to Foodbank WA over five days has prompted calls for an overhaul of laws and policies to ensure safe and nutritious food is available ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Trader Joe's dumplings recalled due to plastic pieces
Nearly 62,000 pounds of Trader Joe's Steamed Chicken Soup Dumplings are being recalled because they might contain bits of hard plastic.
Mar 5, 2024
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