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21 safest booster seats revealed with new ratings
September 8, 2010Parents perplexed by the plethora of booster seats available now have a new guide to help them choose the safest option. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has reviewed the seat belt fit of 72 models.
Survey: Most of us think we're hotter than average
September 8, 2010
We’re fatter than we’ve ever been; at the same time, our idea of the “ideal” body has gone from lean to impossibly leaner. Still, we’re pretty damn pleased with the way we look, a new survey suggests.
Back in business after peanut deaths
September 8, 2010The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.
Half of "untreatable" asthma cases may be treatable
September 8, 2010NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Good news for kids with treatment-resistant asthma: Their breathing troubles just might be treatable.
Grassley seeks answers to USDA's role at egg farms
September 8, 2010Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to address accusations that federal workers ignored complaints about conditions at two Iowa farms involved in the recall of salmonella-tainted eggs.
Splint may be as good as cast for kids' wrist fractures
September 8, 2010NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A splint may work just as well as a cast in helping children with non-severe wrist fractures heal, a study published Tuesday suggests.
Jolie calls for hope in Pakistan
September 8, 2010Amid the overwhelming flood disaster in Pakistan, the world has "no choice but to be optimistic and to have hope" that things can improve there, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie told CNN Wednesday.
Quality-of-life care must start right away
September 8, 2010Theresa Brown's thoughtful essay on end-of-life care reminded me of a recent clinical encounter. It was a hot July afternoon when I found myself in a quiet hospital lounge, having "the family discussion" with a patient newly admitted to my medical service, a sweet middle-aged woman whose lung cancer had spread so extensively that it now encircled the vital vessels of her chest.
Survivors of food illness to demand action on bill
September 8, 2010After the recall of more than 500 million eggs from a salmonella outbreak this summer, food safety advocates and survivors of foodborne illness will call for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that has been in limbo since last year.
Michael J. Fox: Keep funding stem cell research
September 8, 2010Biomedical research is complicated. For patients, the pace of progress can be frustratingly slow. Two announcements last month -- one about biomarkers, the other about stem cell research -- left many of us feeling that for every promising discovery, there are even greater setbacks.
