Thursday, March 23, 2017

Albertons, Safeway recall bakery products over possible Salmonella and other top stories.

  • Albertons, Safeway recall bakery products over possible Salmonella

    Customers leave a Safeway store in San Francisco, California.(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)Albertsons and Safeway stores in Oregon, Washington and Northern Idaho are voluntarily recalling bakery products supplied by Dawn Food Products made with Valley Milk Product's High Heat Nonfat Dry Milk Powder due to possible Salmonella contamination.No illnesses have been reported in connection with the bakery products; the recall has been issued out of caution.The recalled products were sold from ..
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  • Ronald Reagan nearly died before he became president. The Heimlich maneuver saved him.

    Ronald Reagan nearly died before he became president. The Heimlich maneuver saved him.
    Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan. (Mike Sargent/Agence France-Presse file via Getty Images) The campaign plane was high above the clouds, and Ronald Reagan was turning red. It was 1976 and Reagan — he was a candidate then, making his first presidential run — had been eating peanuts and drinking a Coke. Then he started making choking sounds, a witness, Nancy Reynolds, told The Washington Post. “His face turned red, and as it got darker and darker, we all froze,” she said. All except campaign ai..
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  • Nearly 50 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath oil in Siberian city

    Nearly 50 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath oil in Siberian city
    A Russian officer inspects bootleg vodka in Belorod Oblast, Russia, in 2006. (Itar-TASS via Associated Press)   MOSCOW — Authorities have declared a state of emergency in a Siberian city after at least 49 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking a bath oil they hoped would give them the same buzz as booze. An additional 15 people were in critical condition in hospitals in Irkutsk, Russia’s sixth-largest city, with a population of 1.1 million. Mayor Dmitry Berdnikov called for the stat..
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  • Ionis Pharma's rare metabolic disorder drug succeeds key study

    Ionis Pharma's rare metabolic disorder drug succeeds key study
    Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday its rare metabolic disorder drug for severe hypertriglyceridemia, characterized by elevated levels of a type of fat in the blood, met the main goal in a late-stage study.The drug, volanesorsen, brought about a statistically significant 71.2 percent mean reduction in triglycerides after 13 weeks of treatment, compared with 0.9 percent in those who got the placebo, the company said.However, Ionis said that a patient who was on the drug experienced a serio..
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  • Pennsylvania woman receives lifesaving lung transplant in time for Christmas

    Pennsylvania woman receives lifesaving lung transplant in time for Christmas
    For two weeks, Caitlin O’Hara, 33, was on life support, in desperate need of a double-lung transplant. Then, she got an early holiday gift when the perfect pair of lungs became available on Dec. 17. “Last week she was listed as the sickest person on the lung transplant list in the United States,” Caitlin’s father, Nick O’Hara, told Fox 25. Caitlin was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2. The life-threatening condition causes thickened mucus to form in the lungs and other organs, causing lun..
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  • The Latest: Senator: Exploding e-cigs need federal look

    The Latest: Senator: Exploding e-cigs need federal look
    FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schumer is increasing the heat on the federal government to consider recalling e-cigarette batteries and devices that explode and catch fire, injuring users. The New York Democrat calls e-cigarettes “ticking time bombs.” (Molly Riley, File/Associated Press) By Associated Press December 18 at 2:03 PM NEW YORK — The Latest on Sen. Charles Schumer saying the federal gov..
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  • Deaths from synthetic opioids up 72%, CDC says

    Deaths from synthetic opioids up 72%, CDC says
    Death rates from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, increased 72.2% from 2014 to 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The new report confirms the dramatic increase in opioid overdoses that first responders have been seeing as they respond to overdose calls. Fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin and made headlines as the drug that killed pop star Prince in April. The elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, a form of fentanyl and 10,000 times stronger than ..
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  • Pfizer finally convinces FDA to pull black-box warning on Chantix for psychotic side effects

    Pfizer finally convinces FDA to pull black-box warning on Chantix for psychotic side effects
    Seven years after safety concerns altered the trajectory of Pfizer’s stop-smoking med Chantix, the FDA has pulled its black-box warning from the drug’s label. FDA officials removed the warning after weighing data from the EAGLES postmarketing study showing that Chantix wasn’t associated with a higher rate of severe neuropsychiatric events. Another update notes that Chantix has a higher efficacy than GlaxoSmithKline’s Zyban or a nicotine patch, according to a statement. The announcement follows ..
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  • South Korea, Japan step up poultry cull to contain bird flu

    South Korea, Japan step up poultry cull to contain bird flu
    SEOUL –  South Korea and Japan have ordered fresh culls of poultry stocks to contain outbreaks of avian flu, authorities in the two countries said. The South Korean Agriculture Ministry said on Monday it had ordered the cull of an additional 2.4 million birds, taking the total number to a record 18.4 million since the first outbreak of avian flu was reported at a farm on Nov. 18. More on this... It has called the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of bird flu more severe than the H..
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