Michigan became the 38th state with a smoke-free law, banning smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars, malls, arenas, health facilities and child care centers, with exemptions for Detroit's casinos, tribal casinos, cigar bars and tobacco specialty shops.
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Updates from the FDA, CDC and other agencies.
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NIH Director Discusses Obesity and Other National Challenges
Martha Rosenberg covers NIH director Francis Collins' Chicago talk, where he showed progeria cell biology slides, cited falling US heart disease deaths, noted 84 percent of the NIH budget goes to extramural grants, and made room for translational and global health research.
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FDA Placing Firms on ‘Import Alert 99-08’ At A Rate of Four (4) Per Month in 2010 (PR)
FDAImports.com says the FDA added 16 foreign food processors to Import Alert 99-08 for illegal pesticide residues in processed foods, about four a month in 2010. Listed firms have shipments detained at the port unless they supply a valid certificate of analysis.
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FCC Raises the Red Flag about Cell Phone Hazards
The FCC's consumer fact sheet on wireless devices advises using an earpiece, keeping phones off the body, using the speaker, texting rather than talking and buying lower-SAR handsets. Mercola backs a proposed Maine bill mandating radiation warning labels on every phone.
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FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns
Former FDA scientist Julian Nicholas says the agency eliminated his job after he opposed approving a CT scanner for routine colon cancer screening and told a public hearing that staff were pressured to change their scientific opinions on radiation risk.
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Obamacare Creates Windfall for Drug Companies
Under the healthcare bill, flexible spending and health savings accounts would cover only prescribed medicines and insulin, not over-the-counter items such as prenatal vitamins. Mercola argues the change amounts to a tax rise of more than 40 percent on those purchases.
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FDA urges cut-back on salt
The FDA is urging food manufacturers to cut the salt in processed foods rather than regulating it, betting that processors can self-regulate. Most Americans eat more than 3 grams of sodium a day, above dietary guidance. The salt industry disputes any heart disease link.
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Will national parks have free admission during National Park Week?
Every national park waived admission during National Park Week, April 17 to 25, 2010, and offered family activities plus deals on tours, lodging and food. The waiver excluded fees collected in advance or by contractors. National Junior Ranger Day fell on April 24.
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CDC news releases: E coli poisoning, colorectal cancer screening, arthritis
Three CDC reports: severe E. coli O157 infections fell in 2009 to their lowest rate since 2004; more than 75 percent of primary care physicians use the less accurate in-office fecal occult blood test for colorectal cancer screening; and arthritis hits African-Americans and Hispanics harder.
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Would FDA ban antibacterial?
The FDA says it is reviewing the safety of triclosan, the antibacterial in many soaps and cosmetics, while maintaining there is nothing to worry about now. Studies suggest it may disrupt hormones, promote bacterial resistance, and react with chlorinated tap water to form chloroform.
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Obamacare Creates Windfall for Drug Companies
Mercola argues the healthcare bill's restriction of flexible spending and health savings accounts to prescribed medicines amounts to an effective tax increase of up to 40 percent on over-the-counter drugs, creating an incentive to use costlier prescriptions.
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FAA: Depressed Pilots on Medications Can Fly
The FAA will consider waivers letting some pilots fly while taking Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa or Lexapro, reversing a ban on psychiatric medications. Pilots must be satisfactorily treated and grounded for 12 months first, and undeclared users get six months to come forward.
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What are some signs of child abuse or neglect?
A guide listing warning signs of child abuse and neglect in the child, the parent and their relationship, with hotline numbers including the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1.800.422.4453.
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Obama ready to name head of Medicare and Medicaid
Media reports say the Obama administration intends to nominate Donald Berwick, a Harvard pediatrics and health policy professor who heads the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to run Medicare and Medicaid. The post has been open since Mark McClellan resigned in 2006.
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How can I renew my U.S. passport by mail?
A walk-through of State Department rules for renewing a US passport by mail: who may use Form DS-82, the circumstances that force an in-person application, and the documents required, including proof of a legal name change and two identical two-inch photos.
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We have made history tonight, President Barack Obama says
An email from President Obama to supporters marking the passage of comprehensive health care reform and thanking those who campaigned for it.
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Update: Dengue, Tropical and Subtropical Regions
A travel health update on rising dengue activity since early 2009: more than 21,000 suspected cases and 6 deaths in Cape Verde, over 6,200 cases and 23 deaths in Malaysia in early 2010, and 7,500 cases in Sri Lanka as of February 23, 2010.
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CDC advisory panel recommends flu vaccine for all Americans
The CDC's immunization advisory committee voted Feb. 24 to recommend flu vaccine for everyone aged 6 months and older beginning in the 2010-2011 season, saying it clears up confusion for people unaware they are in a high-risk group.
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