In a bid to protect an important class of antibiotics for treating humans and reduce the development of drug resistance, the US Food and Drug Administration has banned certain uses of cephalosporins in food-producing animals. The federal agency announced on Wednesday that the prohibition order comes into effect on 5 April. The ban is intended to stop the use of what the agency calls “extra label” or unapproved use, of cephalosporins in what the FDA describes as the “so-called major species of food-producing animals” such as cattle, pigs (swine), chickens and turkeys…

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FDA Bans Certain Uses Of Antibiotics In Food-Producing Animals

According to a report Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, babies who are born to mothers with diabetes during their pregnancy and/or living in low income households, have a higher risk of subsequently developing ADHD during childhood. The authors stated: “Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) typically develops in the second and third trimesters and is defined as glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy…

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Gestational Diabetes Linked To ADHD Risk In Offspring

A study published in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, found that among children treated at a pediatric tertiary care clinic in Canada, the overall percentage of re-implantation of cochlear implants as result of device failure seems was low. However, the risk of device failure seems to be increased among those who develop hearing loss due to bacterial meningitis before implantation…

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Cochlear Implant Failure Rate Generally Low

It seems as though every month there is another dieting fad, that promises to melt away the pounds over night and keep you trim. The fashions come and go, rotating from the unknown, into flavor of the month, and often over to controversy and even disgrace. In the early 2000s the Atkins of high protein became such a fad that fast food restaurants began offering “carb free” burgers. Controversy soon followed, and now we are offered the “Caveman Diet” that claims to replicate how our ancestors would have eaten. An interesting article in the health section of US News…

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25 Of The Best Diets Are Rated

A critique, entitled “The Economist – and the Truth About Microwave Radiation Emitted from Wireless Technologies”, of a report published in the The Economist (9/3/11), “Worrying about Wireless”, has been published by experts in public health, neurosurgery, toxicology, oncology, electronic engineering, epidemiology, and cardiology from the USA, the UK, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Slovak Republic and Australia…

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Cellphone And Wireless Risks – Experts Criticize The Economist’s Coverage