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Several hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with shortages of IV fluid after flooding from Hurricane Helene forced medical fluid manufacturers to halt production. Baxter International, the leading supplier of IV fluids to hospitals, said its facility in Marion, North Carolina, remains closed for the foreseeable future. “Baxter’s North Cove facility affected by flooding and
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new way for Americans to look up how high or low levels of viruses like COVID-19 and flu are in their local area for 2024. This year’s new “community snapshot” is the CDC’s latest attempt to repackage its data in one place for Americans deciding
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The effectiveness of this year’s influenza vaccine was lower in South America than last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, which might be a clue to how much protection the shots could offer people in the U.S. this winter. Vaccine effectiveness was 34.5% against hospitalization, according to interim estimates from a
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The Food and Drug Administration is now weighing whether to approve the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in decades, European skincare company DSM-Firmenich announced this week. DSM-Firmenich says the FDA is expected to decide within the next 17.5 months — by March 2026 — on the company’s request to approve the sunscreen
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Dave Lantz is no stranger to emergency department or doctor bills. With three kids in their teens and early 20s, “when someone gets sick or breaks an arm, all of a sudden you have thousand-dollar medical bills,” Lantz said. The family’s health plan that he used to get as the assistant director of physical plant
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Amazon, Walmart and Wayfair are among the retailers that continue to sell older dressers at risk of tipping over — a particular concern for U.S. households with little kids, according to findings released this week by Consumer Reports. A year after the implementation of new furniture safety standards, tests by the consumer advocacy group have
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In the year leading up to a deadly listeria outbreak now traced back to recalled Boar’s Head deli meats, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show that Biden administration officials quietly made significant cuts to planned testing for germs across America’s food supply. The department says the cuts did not translate to significantly fewer tests at
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Boar’s Head processing plants nationwide are now part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture disclosed Thursday, in the wake of a deadly outbreak blamed on some of the company’s now-recalled deli meats. At least 59 hospitalizations and 10 deaths have been linked to a listeria strain traced back to Boar’s
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Amended bill allows California to continue to conceal who is using newborn DNA for research — and why. Bills to shed light on newborn DNA storage in California quietly killed or gutted 03:22 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill (SB 1099) Wednesday prompted by a decade-long CBS News California investigation into California’s newborn genetic biobank.
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Manufacturers of the most accurate home COVID-19 tests on the market say they were left out again from the Biden administration’s latest round of free orders through COVIDTests.gov, which for a seventh time will rely on less sensitive “antigen” tests, which are generally the cheaper options available on drugstore shelves. Federal health officials have justified the millions
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