By Rob Stein- Washington Post A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday. The microbe, a strain of a once innocuous staph bacterium [...]

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(Thanks Bob and Tina) By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An online database, freely available to the public, allows one to search for reported adverse effects from vaccines. The database covering data for the United States includes the controversial Merck HPV vaccine Gardasil, identified as “HPV4″ in the database. The US Government’s Vaccine [...]

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Associated Press DALLAS — When Dr. Kent Aftergut saw a patient with a couple of sores on his back resembling boils, the dermatologist immediately thought of an infection caused by a parasite usually found in South America, the Middle East, Mexico and South Texas. But his patient, a 58-year-old from the North Texas town of [...]

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Associated Press Four of the nation’s biggest microwave popcorn makers are working to remove a flavoring chemical from their products linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers while reassuring consumers about the safety of the snack. Several of the companies discussed their plans Wednesday, a day after a leading lung research hospital warned [...]

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BBCNews Traces of the antidepressant Prozac can be found in the nation’s drinking water, it has been revealed. An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater. A report in Sunday’s Observer says the government’s environment watchdog has discussed the impact for human [...]

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Associated Press An undisclosed amount of carrots that may be contaminated with bacteria could cause diarrhea, nausea, fever and vomiting. The Los Angeles Salad Co. said it was voluntarily recalling its “Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots” because the carrots might be contaminated with the bacteria called shigella. The product was sold under two labels. One is [...]

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WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued consumer warnings to avoid using potentially deadly Chinese-made toothpaste, the Chinese government continued to deny there was any danger from the contaminant diethylene glycol – a solvent used in antifreeze that killed 107 Americans when it was introduced in an elixir 70 years ago. [...]

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Tampa Bay Times Few noticed in November when the American Dental Association alerted its members via e-mail of a possible problem with giving babies fluoridated water: The ADA, long among fluoride’s biggest advocates, wrote that parents of infants younger than a year old “should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride” [...]

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By Bob Unruh At least three deaths and more than 1,600 adverse reactions including spontaneous abortion and paralysis have been connected to Merck & Co.’s new vaccine for the human papillomavirus, a treatment the company has lobbied state lawmakers to make mandatory for young girls across the nation. The report comes from Judicial Watch, the [...]

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Agence France-Presse China is a top violator of US food safety standards, with US authorities last month rejecting 257 Chinese food shipments — far more than from any other country, US media reported Sunday. The Chicago Tribune reported that at least 137 food shipments were rejected as “filthy” after testing positive for salmonella, or for [...]

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CBNNews MSG has been a public buzzword since it was taken out of baby foods in the late 60s. But most people don’t know that it’s in literally thousands of different processed foods, often under hidden names. And now, science is showing us that it could be a big part of what’s making us so [...]

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Daily Mail Ipods can cause pacemakers to malfunction by making them go too fast, too slow or even stop altogether, according to a study. Researchers found that iPods could make pacemakers malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart rate. As a result, the pacemaker was unable to effectively monitor how fast the [...]

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WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps. So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. [...]

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Independent News Editor’s note: This problem has not been reported by Organic Bee Keepers ??? It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail. They are putting forward the theory that radiation [...]

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