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Three batches of Banana Boat’s Hair and Scalp sunscreen are being recalled after tests detected trace levels of the carcinogen benzene, Edgewell Personal Care Company said in a press release Friday.
“While benzene is not an ingredient in any Banana Boat products, the review showed that unexpected levels of benzene came from the propellant that...
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Friday, July 29, 2022
California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers still have many details to work out, including contracting with a private company to do most of the work. But the budget was a put-his-money-where-his-mouth-is moment for Newsom, who has been calling for the state to launch its own brand of generic drugs to lower the overall price of medication.
“Nothing epitomizes market failures more than the cost of insulin,” Newsom said in a video...
Allergan Reaches Tentative $2.37 Billion Deal to Settle Opioid Suits
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A bipartisan group of state attorneys general announced Friday morning that it had struck an agreement in principle with the pharmaceutical company Allergan for $2.37 billion to resolve more than 2,500 opioid-related lawsuits brought by states, local governments and tribes nationwide who have suffered during the ongoing opioid epidemic.
The company declined to comment, but a quarterly earnings report on Friday by Allergan’s...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Gunmakers made $1 billion selling AR-15s to civilians, study finds
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Major U.S. gunmakers marketing a weapon used in a number of mass shootings have tallied more than $1 billion in revenue from selling the firearms to civilians during the past 10 years, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Five manufacturers — Daniel Defense, Smith & Wesson, Sturm Ruger, Sig Sauer and Bushmaster Firearms — collectively sell thousands of military-style semiautomatic rifles to civilians every...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Mom’s monkeypox mix-up caused by bedbugs and concerned grandma, son says
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A rescue official speaks to a flight attendant after a Delta Airlines flight was quarantined on the tarmac at Chicago’s Midway Airport April 26, 2012 for a medical emergency.
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(CBS/AP) Passengers aboard a Chicago-bound flight from Detroit were reportedly kept from disembarking for three hours because a female...
U.S. monkeypox cases are from at least two separate outbreaks, CDC says
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The U.S. is facing at least two separate outbreaks of monkeypox, federal health officials said Friday, based on samples of virus that have been genetically sequenced from some cases so far.
A CDC official said the sequenced monkeypox cases — which now include patients in Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia and Utah — suggest the majority of cases spotted in the U.S. are linked to the variant that has been spreading in...
U.S. spots first monkeypox case in a pregnant woman as cases climb
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The U.S. has spotted its first case of monkeypox this year in a pregnant woman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said over the weekend. The baby was delivered safely and both are “doing well.”
Pregnant women are among those the agency warns may be “at especially increased risk for severe outcomes” from monkeypox.
“There has been a case of a pregnant woman who delivered,” the CDC’s Dr. John Brooks...
PTV Group launches PTV Model2Go to automize the building of transportation models
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Basic supply model for any city within a week
A revolution in urban and transportation modelling
Cloud-based process combines smart automation technology with data sources, e.g. from Here, TomTom, OpenStreetMap, GTFS
Model-based decision-making now viable even for small projects
Karlsruhe, 26 July 2022. PTV Group, the market leader for mobility software, launches a new technology to automize the building of standardized...
Sunday, July 24, 2022
‘Parentese’ is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds
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We’ve all seen it, we’ve all cringed at it, we’ve all done it ourselves: talked to a baby like it was, you know, a baby.
“Ooo, hellooooo baby!” you say, your voice lilting like a rapturously accommodating Walmart employee. Baby is utterly baffled by your unintelligible warble and your shamelessly doofus grin, but “baby so cuuuuuute!”
Regardless of whether it helps to know it, researchers recently determined that this sing-songy...
Friday, July 22, 2022
Like the Rest of Us, Biden Learns to Live With the Risks of the Virus
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WASHINGTON — One after another, President Biden hugged and kissed them.
At a packed ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 7, Mr. Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on 16 Americans, some in their 80s or 90s. After reaching around to hang the medal on their necks, the president embraced most of them, shook hands with a few and gave three a smooch on the cheek.
It...
Family Dollar recalls more than 400 products that were improperly stored
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Family Dollar is recalling more than 430 products, such as toothpaste, over-the-counter drugs and hemorrhoid ointment, that had been stored at the wrong temperature before being inadvertently shipped to stores across the U.S.
The recall covers a slew of items regulated by the Food and Drug Administration that were shipped to stores on or around May 1, 2022, through June 10, 2022, the discount retailer said Thursday in a notice...
U.S. confirms first two cases of monkeypox in children
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Health officials have confirmed the first U.S. cases of monkeypox in children, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.
Walensky disclosed the cases at a virtual event with The Washington Post on Friday, saying that both children “are doing well.”
Children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns are...
COVID continues to hit nursing homes harder, AARP data shows
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It’s difficult to make a direct comparison in rates between nursing homes and the general population because of differences in data collection. While health officials regularly track facilities’ COVID data, many Americans use home tests and do not necessarily report their results to their local health departments.
Cases were also up 42 percent...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Deep in a Covid Wave, Europe Counts Cases and Carries On
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ROME — Customers in the Rome bookstore paid no attention to the circular stickers on the floor instructing them to stamp out Covid by maintaining “a distance of at least 1 meter.”
“These are things from the past,” said Silvia Giuliano, 45, who wore no mask as she browsed paperbacks. She described the red signs, with their crossed-out spiky coronavirus spheres, as artifacts “like bricks of the Berlin Wall.”
All across Europe,...
What is Paxlovid? What to know about Pfizer’s COVID drug that President Biden is taking
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Health officials are renewing their pleas to eligible Americans to get prescriptions to Paxlovid, Pfizer’s COVID pills, to curb their risk of hospitalization and death from the disease, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise. President Biden announced Thursday that he has contracted COVID and that he is taking Paxlovid to treat its symptoms
Figures published by the Biden administration this week count more than...
