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Disease is swift, response is slow
Sun reporterIt took two years on the job and a chemical in something as ordinary as butter flavoring to turn a strapping factory worker into someone who sleeps tethered to an oxygen tank. Francisco Herrera, 32, suffers from an aggressive disease that has destroyed...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Drugs and Medicines, Consumer Goods Industries, Labor Legislation, Trials
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Sleuths hot on the trail of a disease, its cause
Sun reporterThe knowledge that dozens of workers exposed to butter flavoring at popcorn plants in six states were falling ill wasn't enough for the federal scientists who investigate occupational health diseases. They had to collect thousands of samples of air and...Tags: Lungs and Airways, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Medical Research, Electrical Appliance, X-rays
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Flavoring perils get harder look
sun reporterA federal health agency says it is "greatly expanding" an investigation of the potential hazards of diacetyl and other flavoring chemicals that have been linked to nearly 200 cases of lung disease among factory workers who make or use the chemicals. In...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Labor Legislation, Death, Plastic Surgeons, Illnesses
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Federal measures sought to combat flavoring peril
sun reporterTwo large unions and dozens of leaders in public and occupational health are petitioning the federal government to use its emergency powers to control worker exposure to a chemical in butter flavoring that has sickened hundreds across the country. The...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Lungs and Airways, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Death, Labor Markets
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Potential hazards to consumers from flavoring agent unchecked
Sun reporterMillions of Americans are exposed regularly to vapors released when they heat products containing the same synthetic butter flavoring blamed for destroying the lungs of workers in popcorn and flavoring factories. But public health activists say no one...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Plastic Surgeons, Electrical Appliance, Government
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2008 - Study: Higher Rate Of Brian Cancer Not Statistically Significant
Hartford CourantA long-awaited study of almost 225,000 Pratt & Whitney workers from the 1950s to the early 2000s found a slightly higher rate of brain cancer among workers at a former North Haven plant than for the Connecticut population as a whole. But the study,...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Middletown, Southington, Medical Research, Rocky Hill
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Equine herpes virus
Equine herpesvirus (EHV-1, EHV-4) is also known as rhinopneumonitis and has received a lot of media attention in the last two years due to the rare neurologic form it has exhibited at some major equestrian events. Clinical Signs Equine herpesvirus has...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Flu, Disease Prevention, Physiology, Coughing
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Measuring methane: Can it evaluate cattle feed efficiency and overall health?
PIEDMONT, S.D. - Will cattlemen someday measure their animals' breaths and belches to determine feed efficiency, or whether they're getting sick? Pat and Scott Zimmerman think so. They are principals of C-Lock Inc. in Piedmont, S.D., which has...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Physiology, Symptoms, Global Warming, South Dakota State University
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Briefs: New Scientist
Premium Health News ServiceA LITTLE BIT OF STRESS DOES YOU GOOD We try to avoid it, yet being under pressure might be good for our health. It seems a little stress can sometimes blunt the harmful effects of aging -- as long as we aren't frazzled to begin with. When stressed,...Tags: Air Pollution, Hydrocortisone, Physiology, Environmental Pollution, Asthma
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Regeneron, Sanofi asthma drug seen as potential game changer
Reuters(Reuters) - A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said...Tags: Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Bayer AG, Trials, Asthma
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China's bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
ReutersGENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on Tuesday. Health authorities worldwide must be...Tags: Flu, Swine Flu, China, Health Organizations, Bird Flu
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Federal rules least of coal industry's problems
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.To see how mercurial a coal-fired economy can be, look at Wise County in Virginia's southwest corner. There were about 10 percent more people living there in 1920 than live there today, and the population has gone up and down like a roller coaster...Tags: Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Coal, Metal and Mineral, Petroleum Industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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