The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors to stop prescribing painkillers that contain more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen because of reports of severe liver damage. Prescription painkillers, which include Vicodin and ...
The Healthy People 2020 initiative recently held a public webinar to update stakeholders on progress toward food safety objectives. Addressing the goals to reduce infections from pathogens commonly transmitted through food, Roberta ...
Alberta-based Kinnikinnick Foods is voluntarily recalling five products from the market as they contain milk which is not mentioned on the label, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The recalled products include ...
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Researchers say they have pinpointed a preservative found in many popular wet wipes and baby wipes as the cause of allergic skin reactions in some children. Reports of reactions have ranged from disfiguring patches to crusting, swelling, ...
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Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they want to hear from people if they think a tobacco product is defective or causes a health issue. The Department of Health and Human Services' Safety Reporting Portal was revised ...
Ford Motor Company is serious about what it terms "The Car That Cares." The company is working on embedding a significant amount of health-tracking technology into its vehicles to measure everything from driversFord:' stress levels to ...
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Low gut microbial diversity in the intestines of infants can increase the risk for asthma development. These are the findings of the age 7 follow-up in a multi-year study led by researchers at Link?ping University in Sweden. In 2011 the ...
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Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València have obtained new products fermented with probiotic bacteria from grains and nuts - what is known as plant-based or vegetable "milks" - which are an alternative to ...
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Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València have obtained new products fermented with probiotic bacteria from grains and nuts - what is known as plant-based or vegetable "milks" - which are an alternative to ...
Tags: Universitat Politècnica de València, yogurt, vegetable"milks"
Researchers have created products fermented with probiotic bacteria from grains and nuts — known as plant-based or vegetable "milks" — as an alternative to conventional yoghurts. The products, which were created by researchers ...
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Researchers say they've discovered why infants who live in homes with a dog are less likely to develop asthma and allergies later in childhood. The team conducted experiments with mice and found that exposing them to dust from homes where ...
Winter can be a difficult time for people with allergies, but they can take steps to reduce their exposure to indoor triggers such as mold spores and dust mites, experts say. "During the winter, families spend more time indoors, exposing ...
Women who eat nuts during pregnancy -- and who aren't allergic themselves -- are less likely to have kids with nut allergies, a new study suggests. Dr. Michael Young, an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical ...
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Women with no nut allergy who ate nuts during pregnancy had children with less risk of developing peanut or tree nut allergies, U.S. researchers say. Dr. A. Lindsay Frazier of the Dana-Farber Children's Cancer Center in Boston and ...
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Sweden-based Aerocrine has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Denmark-based Intramedic to distribute Aerocrine’s new airway inflammation monitor and test kit – NIOX VERO – in Sweden. Aerocrine's new ...