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  • May 2007

    • Corzine: Do As I Say, Not As I Did

      Newsday  |  May 25, 07 3:21 PM CDT

      Corzine: Do As I Say, Not As I Did

      (Newser) - Jon Corzine dodged a bullet, and he wants to make sure he isn't alone. The New Jersey governor, gravely injured in an SUV crash last month while not wearing a seatbelt, appears in a new 30-second TV ad that makes it clear he's learned his lesson. Today he joined the secretary of transportation to drive home the message: Buckle up. More »

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      safety  • car accident  • Jon Corzine  • highway safety  • seatbelts

    • Common Chemicals Boost Disease Risk

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 25, 07 10:46 AM CDT

      Common Chemicals Boost Disease Risk

      (Newser) - Beginning in the womb, exposure to common substances increases the likelihood of numerous health problems—including cancer, ADD, Parkinson's and obesity—years and even generations later, international environmental scientists say. Two hundred prominent experts yesterday took the unusual step of calling for intervention by governments, even those that have downplayed the risks posed by chemicals in food, air, and water. More »

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      health  • environment  • pregnancy  • safety  • chemicals  • fetal development

    • At Least 36 Killed in Siberian Coal Mine Blast

      Reuters  |  May 24, 07 7:46 AM CDT

      (Newser) - A methane explosion in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 36 people today,  just 25 miles from the mine—operated by the same company—where 110 people died from a blast in March. Inspectors had attempted twice to shut down the mine for safety violations, but were rebuffed by local courts. More »

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      Russia  • safety  • mine  • explosion  • Siberia  • coal mining

    • Look, Ma. No Seatbelt!

      USA Today  |  May 23, 07 4:07 PM CDT

      Look, Ma. No Seatbelt!

      (Newser) - The annual national campaign to encourage seatbelt use is off to a slow start thanks to a Texas ranch owner whose access to private roads exempts him from the law. President Bush showed the NATO secretary-general around around his spread in Crawford over the weekend, and although he didn't "click it," there's no ticket in his future. More »

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      George W. Bush  • car  • safety  • Tony Snow  • seatbelts

    • Rudy Faulted on Safety at Ground Zero

      New York Times  |  May 14, 07 3:07 PM CDT

      Rudy Faulted on Safety at Ground Zero

      (Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's leadership in the aftermath of 9/11 made him America's hero, and the GOP's top presidential candidate. But thousands of the firefighters and construction workers who cleaned up Ground Zero now claim that the mayor's single-minded drive to see the city rebound from the attacks is to blame for respiratory illnesses they've suffered. More »

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      Congress  • lawsuit  • New York City  • Rudy Giuliani  • September 11  • safety  • Ground Zero

    • Use of Antipsychotics For Kids Soars

      New York Times  |  May 10, 07 10:23 AM CDT

      (Newser) - The Times tackles the growing use of antipsychotic drugs in children, contentious because the drugs are risky and have no approved use for minors. But the trend is also questionable because it coincides with increasing payments to psychiatrists by the companies that market the drugs. In Minnesota, these payments rose sixfold from 2000 to 2005. More »

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      children  • medicine  • safety  • drug companies  • psychiatry  • antipsychotic drugs

    • FDA Given New Muscle To Monitor Drugs

      New York Times  |  May 10, 07 5:41 AM CDT

      FDA Given New Muscle To Monitor Drugs

      (Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration would be given sweeping new powers to order drug recalls, regulate advertising and mandate changes in labels under a bill passed by the Senate yesterday. The bill signals a fundamental shift in the FDA's role, the New York Times reports, requiring the agency to track drugs after, as well as before, approval. More »

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      drugs  • FDA  • safety  • recall  • drug companies  • Vioxx

    • Doctors Paid Millions To Use Anemia Drugs

      New York Times  |  May 9, 07 8:34 AM CDT

      (Newser) - Doctors are paid millions of dollars by drug companies to give their patients anemia medicine which regulators now say may be dangerous. Spurred by competiton between several similar drugs, companies reward doctors with rebates, which allow them to make a significant profit, the New York Times reports. More »

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      health  • medicine  • FDA  • doctor  • safety  • pharmaceutical companies  • Medicare  • drug companies  • Johnson and Johnson  • Amgen  • Anemia

    • Melamine Death Toll Passes 8,000 Pets

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 4, 07 12:17 PM CDT

      Melamine Death Toll Passes 8,000 Pets

      (Newser) - More than 8,000 deaths of cats and dogs that may be linked to melamine-tainted food have been reported to the FDA in the two months since the pet food recall. The statistics come as the FDA tries to assure Americans that the tainted protein concentrates, also fed to hogs and chickens, aren't a human health threat. More »

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      China  • health  • food  • FDA  • pets  • safety  • food contamination  • pet food recall  • melamine  • protein  • David Acheson

    • Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      CNN  |  May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT

      Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      (Newser) - As NASA plans a three-year manned mission to Mars during the next three decades, Oregon Trail ethics are being updated. What do you do with bodies of pioneers who don't make it? A new document on crew health from the space agency deals with death and interment where no man has gone before. More »

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      NASA  • space  • astronauts  • Mars  • safety  • ethics  • space exploration  • cosmonaut

  • April 2007

    • Glass Bottles Breaking Into Baby Market

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 30, 07 3:56 PM CDT

      Glass Bottles Breaking Into Baby Market

      (Newser) - Glass is the new plastic—for baby bottles, at least. A rash of health warnings about plastic—toxicity reports, cancer risks, even longterm fertility problems—is turning many moms on to the glass bottles their own moms dropped as too breakable. eBay prices are soaring, and bottle distributors struggling to keep up with demand. More »

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      health  • baby  • safety  • plastic  • baby bottle  • bisphenol A  • bottles

    • FDA Knew About Food Dangers

      Washington Post  |  Apr 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT

      FDA Knew About Food Dangers

      (Newser) - The FDA knew for years about problems at the peanut butter plant and spinach farms that led to major disease outbreaks, but took minimal steps to redress them. The agency's food safety arm can't keep up with the explosion in the amount of food it is supposed to regulate, the Post reports, and expects processors to police themselves. More »

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      health  • food  • FDA  • safety  • food safety  • spinach

  • March 2007

    • ADD Meds Prescribed For Weight Loss

      CNN  |  Mar 23, 07 10:12 AM CDT

      (Newser) - Pediatricians are giving Adderall, the pill that got America's kids to pay attention in class, to patients without ADHD but looking to shed extra pounds. One of the drug's side effects is appetite suppression, and "off-label" prescriptions are working for some chunky but otherwise normal teenagers. Parents worried about obesity and teasing are delighted, but some doctors are worried. More »

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      health  • children  • medicine  • obesity  • doctor  • safety  • ethics  • ADHD  • Adderall

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