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Fever hits thousands in parched West farm region
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California and federal public health officials say valley fever, a potentially lethal but often misdiagnosed disease infecting more and more people around the nation, has been on the rise as warming […]
US suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say suicides among middle-aged Americans climbed at a startling rate over the past decade, a period that included the recession. Overall, the suicide rate for the age group jumped […]
Valley fever hits 28 at Calif. solar plant sites
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities were investigating a valley fever outbreak that sickened 28 workers at solar power plants under construction in Central California. State public health and work safety staff visited sites […]
Hospitals see surge of superbug-fighting products
NEW YORK (AP) — They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn’t have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous ‘superbugs’ that are hard to treat.
Experts: Ricin like that in letters easy to make
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The ricin mailed to the president and a U.S. senator is relatively easy to make but generally can’t be used to target a large number of people, experts say.
Ricin: A bioterror agent with few real victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since the anthrax and terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the poison ricin has at times been lumped in with other bioterrorism agents because it comes from a relatively common plant and seems easy to make.
Recalled frozen food may have ended up in schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen food recalled amid an E. coli scare may have been served in schools, according to the company that manufactured the items.
Rich Products expands frozen food recall
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Rich Products Corp. is now recalling all of its frozen snack foods produced at its Waycross, Ga., plant.
Many young women live with men first, marry later
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren’t married. That’s the finding of a government survey released Thursday.
CDC: 1 in 5 HS boys has ADHD
Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, A.D.H.D. This comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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