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...four strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), two of which are believed to cause 70% of cervical-cancer cases; for females aged 9 to 26; by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; in Maryland. The drug, produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., is the first to attempt to prevent infections that can develop into cervical cancer, which each year kills as many as 233,000 women worldwide...
...contributes to one more public-health problem. Overuse of antibiotics has caused more and more bacteria to become resistant to treatment, a factor in the deaths of more than 60,000 Americans each year. An estimated 70% of the nation's antibiotics are fed to livestock and poultry to prevent illnesses and promote growth. Some 300 organizations, including the American Medical Association, have called for an end to nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in animal feed. The NCBA counters that antibiotics are judiciously applied. But the line between necessary treatment and routine use is blurred by the fact that a grain...
...think so. It makes no sense to think that eating a sugary cereal will prevent heart disease. I'd like to see all health claims off food labels. Food is food. Medicine is medicine. Health claims are a slippery slope. Look, here's Cocoa Puffs, now whole grain. It has the Heart Association check box because it's low in fat and cholesterol. And food companies pay for these endorsements...
...Europe cooperates with - or at least tolerates - the cia's dark missions because it believes it needs to. Like the U.S., Europe's governments may have concluded that while torture is bad, terrorism is worse. The bombings in Madrid and London have put tremendous pressure on European governments to prevent another massive attack on their own soil - and that means coordinating efforts with U.S. intelligence. It may be a bogus choice, but if voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes...
...machinery may not be what introduced the fungus to the cave. Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, director of the LRMH, says that the presence of formaldehyde--used for decades as a foot wash to prevent fungal infections--may have killed off many other organisms present in Lascaux that might have prevented the explosion of fusarium. "The fusarium strains we found in the cave are extremely resistant to formaldehyde, unlike strains from elsewhere," says Pallot-Frossard. "It didn't come from outside, but had been there all along. All it needed was a slight modification in climate to take...