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Applesauce packets recalled due to levels of lead Applesauce packets recalled due to levels of lead 00:37 Applesauce pouches contaminated with heavy amounts of lead remained on Dollar Tree store shelves for nearly two months after being recalled and linked to hundreds of lead poisonings nationwide, according to federal regulators. In the weeks and months
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A coalition of organizations is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to add extreme heat and wildfire smoke to its list of scenarios worthy of being labeled a major disaster. Dozens of environmental, health and labor groups on Monday filed a petition with FEMA in a bid to unleash FEMA funds that historically have
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Surgeon general says social media should come with health warning for teens – CBS News Watch CBS News The surgeon general is calling for a health warning for social media, similar to the ones found on tobacco products. Dr. Vivek Murthy says teens and adolescents should be notified the platforms are associated with possible harm
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Is pet insurance worth it? Is pet insurance worth it? 07:55 Nationwide will cancel coverage for about 100,000 animals across the country, with the nation’s biggest provider of pet insurance citing the escalating cost of veterinary care in axing the product in some states. The canceling of thousands of coverage plans starts now and will
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Social media platforms should post warning labels, similar to those now used on cigarette packs, for teenagers who are increasingly suffering from mental health issues that are partly tied to the apps, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Monday in an opinion piece in the New York Times. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s
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Growing up on 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and ’50s, Anthony “Tony” Fauci was the precocious son of the corner pharmacist. “They called him Doc,” he said. “The pharmacist back then served as the neighborhood psychiatrist, marriage counselor. So, it was serving the community.” The Fauci Pharmacy is long-gone. But beneath
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on pandemics and partisan attacks – CBS News Watch CBS News There are millions today who owe their lives to the work of the man who devoted his career to public health. But in recent years Dr. Anthony Fauci, who combatted infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, has been targeted
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How scientists are using technology to limit the spread of tropical diseases – CBS News Watch CBS News Climate change means there’s a growing risk of spreading tropical diseases like dengue, which has seen a massive rise in cases in recent years. To limit the spread of such illnesses, scientists are using technological advancements like
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on turning down millions in private sector – CBS News Watch CBS News Preview: In an interview airing June 16 on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases tells CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook he turned down millions to leave his
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A “small but detectable quantity” of infectious H5N1 bird flu virus was able to survive a common approach to pasteurizing milk, according to new research co-authored by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine, were based on experiments run at the agency’s lab. The
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