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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
BELTSVILLE, Md., April 23 — What is happening to the bees? More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what ... Continued...

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Oslo Ministerial Declaration-global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time
Under their initiative on Global Health and Foreign Policy, launched in September, 2006, in New York, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand issued the following statement in Oslo on March 20, 2007-In today's era of globalisation an... Continued...

Monday, April 16, 2007

Four Leading Medical Organizations Tell FDA to Reject Animal Drug Used to Treat Life-Threatening Infections in Humans
Four of the nation’s top medical organizations have each sent letters to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging it not to approve an antibiotic for use in animals which could elicit resistance to antibiotics vital in human medicine. The animal drug, cefquinome, is a fourth-generation ce... Continued...

Friday, April 6, 2007

FDA Plans To Let Irradiated Food Be Labeled As 'Pasteurized'
FDA is proposing allowing irradiated food be labeled as "pasteurized" or with other euphemisms, according to a guidance document published Wednesday (April 4). A consumer advocate group argues FDA's proposed rule finesses the law instead of implementing it and the proposal contradicts FDA's position... Continued...

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Limited ban placed on flame retardants (WA)
Washington became the first state in the nation Tuesday to ban the use of chemical flame retardants in some common household items. With a 41-8 vote, the Senate passed a limited ban of the widely used chemicals, which research shows can cause health problems including neurological damage to mice... Continued...

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Mystery ailment strikes honeybees
A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of the ailment, called Colony Collapse Disorder. ... Continued...