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• Studies: Steroids do not help wheezing kids (Thursday, January 22, 2009)
  Steroid drugs, a common treatment for young children prone to wheezing and colds, do not help and may even be harmful, according to new research. Preschoolers in Britain who were hospitalized with a wheezing attack and treated with the steroid predni...>>More
• $630 million for new push to eradicate polio (Wednesday, January 21, 2009)
  Bill Gates and other donors are giving more than $630 million to the international effort to eradicate polio, after the disease spiked and spread to seven countries that were previously polio-free...>>More
• Study: Women less able to suppress hunger than men (Tuesday, January 20, 2009)
  Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new study suggests. Researchers trying to understand the brain's mechanisms for controlli...>>More
• General Mills and Kroger pull peanut butter items (Tuesday, January 20, 2009)
  General Mills Inc. and grocers Kroger Co. and Meijer Inc. joined the growing list of food companies and retailers pulling items with peanut butter amid a salmonella outbreak that has killed at least six people and sickened more than 470 others in 43 ...>>More
• MRSA rising in kids' ear, nose, throat infections (Tuesday, January 20, 2009)
  Researchers say they found an "alarming" increase in children's ear, nose and throat infections nationwide caused by dangerous drug-resistant staph germs. Other studies have shown rising numbers of skin infections in adults and children cau...>>More
• Study: Women less able to suppress hunger (Monday, January 19, 2009)
  Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new study suggests. Researchers trying to understand the brain's mechanisms for controlli...>>More
• Testing when eyes become vulnerable to cataracts (Monday, January 19, 2009)
  Space shuttle science may soon come to an eye doctor near you: Researchers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over...>>More
• Meijer voluntarily recalls crackers, ice cream (Monday, January 19, 2009)
  Meijer Inc. is recalling two types of crackers and two varieties of ice cream due to possible salmonella contamination...>>More
• More peanut butter products recalled (Saturday, January 17, 2009)
  What began as an investigation of bulk peanut butter shipped to nursing homes and institutional cafeterias has broadened with the Kellogg Co. recalling 16 products and federal officials confirming salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that s...>>More
• A list of products recalled by Kellogg's (Saturday, January 17, 2009)
  Here's a list of products voluntarily recalled by the Kellogg Co. because they could be contaminated with salmonella from a Georgia peanut processing facility:...>>More