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Why nobody is happy with FDA ruling on Plan B (+video)
The FDA has lowered the age restriction on buying Plan B One-Step, a type of morning-after pill, without a prescription from 17 to 15. Some groups want no limits on access; others want bigger barriers.
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Obama budget: Is it 'austere'?
President Barack Obama's 2014 budget includes increases in spending for setting up health exchanges, increasing scrutiny for food safety, and gun violence and Alzheimer's disease research. It includes cuts to Medicare, such as reducing subsidies for wealthier people and diminishing the pay rate for physicians.
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What the 'sequester' means for you ... and what won't change
For millions of Americans, life should go on much as usual, but for millions of others cuts in federal spending from the 'sequester' are likely to bring tangible effects. Which camp are you in?
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New FDA rules: safer food, $500 million cost
New FDA rules are biggest change in food safety in decades. Precautions against contamination range from farm workers washing hands to required safety plans from food manufacturers, under new FDA rules.
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Cantaloupe deaths and illnesses: CDC on ways to combat
Cantaloupe deaths and illnesses: The heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said consumers who have cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado should throw them out.
09/29/2011 05:32 pm -
Warning labels for cigarette packs take a grisly turn. Will they work?
Warning labels unveiled by the FDA would be the first change to cigarette pack warnings in 25 years. Nine graphic images were chosen using consumer surveys that involved 18,000 people.
06/21/2011 05:14 pm -
Egg recall: Does it rank with other major food recalls?
[Editor's note: For an updated list of brand names and plants involved in the egg recall as of Aug. 26, click here.] Egg recall? It's just the latest in a number of high-profile food recalls in the United States in the past five years. The rate of major food-borne illnesses is down since the 1996-98 period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported earlier this year. But with food production concentrated in large companies with regional or nationwide distribution, the US has seen several major food recalls. Among the biggest (click the right arrow for each new item):
08/23/2010 07:31 pm -
New FDA rules restrict tobacco marketing to kids
Marketing tobacco products to kids and teens will be restricted under new FDA rules to be published Friday.
03/18/2010 07:46 pm -
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