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Food industry fails at safety
Would we accept it if the federal agency charged with highway safety allowed cars on the road without brakes - and then warned drivers to exercise extreme caution in order to avoid injury and death? Of course not. But that, in effect is the U.S....Tags: Farms, Healthcare Policies, Consumers, Johns Hopkins University, Animals
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First look at best odds to beat cancer finds U.S. among leaders
Cancer patients in the U.S., Japan and France live longer than those elsewhere because of early diagnosis and treatment, according to the first worldwide study of survival rates of the disease. The research, published in the journal Lancet Oncology,...Tags: Technology, Government Health Care, Death and Dying, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Treatments
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Holding out hope for Mikey
By Andrew C. Martel Of The Morning Call Hope for 1-year-old Mikey Benincasa lies in a beachfront city in the Dominican Republic. At a small clinic run by a controversial California psychiatrist, Mikey could be given an injection that is illegal in...Tags: Eating Disorders, Hobbies, Agricultural Research and Technology, Mental Illness, Albrightsville
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Making the right call for phone service
Is it time to cut the cord? According to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, upward of 20 percent of the population no longer has landlines and relies exclusively on cell phones. Phone companies, most recently Verizon, have...Tags: Google Inc., Cell Phones, Consumer Electronics Industry, Long Island, Internet
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Downsizing government to death
Last week, consumers were worried about salmonella in their fresh tomatoes. Before that, it was E. coli in their spinach. Something is wrong. Eating a salad is not supposed to be a high-risk activity But the problem isn't so much farmers. It's ideology....Tags: Credit Ratings, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Standards, Moody's Corporation
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Public service announcements not getting message across
delthia.ricks@newsday.comBreast cancer specialists were alarmed last year when research from the National Cancer Institute revealed mammography use had dropped so sharply that doctors feared a rise in invasive cancers. Clearly, some women were not getting the message that...Tags: Stony Brook University, Medical Procedures or Tests, Newspaper and Magazine, Forests, Natural Resources
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Dying woman's hostility is tearing her sister apart
DEAR ABBY: Please help me -- I am in pieces. My sister is dying of cancer. She has shut me out of her life and has become very hostile toward me. This is breaking my heart, and I don't know how to deal with it. I have done nothing to offend her, and I...Tags: Death and Dying, Cancer, Abigail Van Buren, Diseases
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WINNERS
Shetal Shah professor Shetal Shah, assistant professor of pediatrics at Stony Brook University Medical Center, has received the American Medical Association Foundation's 2008 Outstanding Leader of Medicine Award for his leadership in advocacy, community...Tags: Stony Brook University, American Medical Association, Long Island, Melville, Clubs and Associations
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Discipline
Tribune staff reporterLike everything else, it begins in the cradle. "Babies quickly learn how much they have to cry to get their parents to pick them up," says Melissa Webster, a clinical social worker at the University of Michigan's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...Tags: Baby Products, Pediatrics, American Medical Association, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Parent and Child
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Greater dangers lurk in lawns
Do I have this right? A few neighbors are complaining about what they see as an aesthetic problem with Erin Alban's yard ("A plastic flamingo too far," July 12). Based on photos supplied by The Sun (online as well as in the paper), Ms. Alban is not...Tags: Pollution, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Martin O'Malley
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