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Brown Widow Spiders At Home In Southern California

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

July 5, 2012

Brown widow spiders are making themselves at home in Southern California, researchers say.

The spiders, which were first spotted in North America in 1935, didn't arrive in Southern California until 2003. They now outnumber the native black widow in some parts of the region, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. "The brown widow is really taking over," Richard Vetter, a staff research associate at the University of California, Riverside, told the newspaper.

AMA Votes In Favor Of Soda Tax

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 22, 2012

The American Medical Association voted at its meeting in Chicago in favor of taxing soda and beverages with added sweeteners to fight obesity and diabetes.

Dr. Alexander Ding, an AMA board member, said numerous studies have shown intake of sugar-sweetened beverages has been strongly and consistency associated with increased body weight and a number of health conditions such as type 2 diabetes. "Where taxes are implemented on sugar-sweetened beverages, using revenue for anti-obesity programs and educational campaigns explaining the adverse effects of excessive consumption of these beverages will help to reduce the consumption of these caloric beverages and improve public health," Ding said in a statement.

Heavy Tea Drinkers Have Higher Prostate Cancer Risk

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 21, 2012

Men who drink several cups of tea a day for decades have a higher risk of prostate cancer, researchers in Scotland say.

Dr. Kashif Shafique of the Institute of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow and colleagues found those who drank more than seven cups of tea per day for years had a 50 percent higher risk of developing prostate cancer compared with non-tea drinkers or those drinking less than four cups per day. "Most previous research has shown either no relationship with prostate cancer for black tea or some preventive effect of green tea," Shafique, the study leader, said in a statement. "We don't know whether tea itself is a risk factor or if tea drinkers are generally healthier and live to an older age when prostate cancer is more common anyway."

Pests Adapting To GM Crops

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 21, 2012

Pests are adapting to genetically modified crops in unexpected ways, U.S. researchers say, showing the importance of closely monitoring biotech crops.

To decrease the need for insecticides that can harm animals other than the target pests, cotton and corn have been genetically engineered to produce toxins derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, which kill certain insect pests but are harmless to most other creatures including people. However, scientists say, initially rare genetic mutations that confer resistance to Bt toxins are becoming more common as a growing number of pest populations adapt to Bt crops.

Collections Agency Threatens To Keep Baby

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 21, 2012

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson says a collection agency, Accretive Health, threatened to withhold a woman's baby unless she prepaid for her delivery.

The incident was one of a dozen complaints amended to Swanson's suit against the agency, filed Tuesday. Swanson accuses Accretive of sending agents to patients' bedsides in hospitals to ask them to pay their bills, often misleading them into thinking they needed to pay for treatment before it could be administered. In one case, Swanson alleged a doctor had to chase a debt collector out of an emergency room.

U.S.: Some Vaccines Stored Improperly

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 11, 2012

Some vaccines stored in offices that provide free immunizations were stored improperly or at inappropriate temperatures, U.S. health investigators said.

The Department of Health and Human Service Office of the Inspector General's report - Vaccines for Children Program: Vulnerabilities in Vaccine Management - said a study conducted in April and May of 2011 looked at 45 providers in five states and cities. The program provides millions of free vaccines at 44,000 participating provider sites in all states and territories.

More Child Food Allergies In Urban Areas

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 8, 2012

Children living in rural areas of the United States have fewer food allergies than children who live in urban areas, researchers found. Lead author Dr.

Lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta - an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a physician at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - and colleagues said the study involved 38,465 children age 18 and under, a representative sample of U.S. households. The subjects' food allergies were mapped by ZIP code.

Rite Aid Apologizes To Man Denied Plan B

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 6, 2012

Rite Aid has apologized to a New Jersey man who says he was denied the emergency contraceptive "Plan B" because he is not a woman.

Andrew Andrade, 25, of Jersey City, received an apology letter from Rite Aid, based in East Pennsboro Township, Pa., that was penned Friday, The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, N.J., reported. "Please be assured that Rite Aid takes reports of incidents such as you reported very seriously," the letter stated. "The incident you reported to the [American Civil Liberties Union] is being thoroughly investigated, including interviews of our store associates and management."

Coffee/Caffeine Link To Less Dementia Risk

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by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

June 6, 2012

U.S. researchers found direct evidence that caffeine/coffee intake is associated with a reduced risk of dementia or its delayed onset.

Lead author Dr. Chuanhai Cao, a neuroscientist at the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy and the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute and colleagues at the University of Miami said the collaborative study involved 124 people, ages 65-88, in Tampa, Fla., and Miami.

State wants iris scan to get medicine

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by Unruh, Bob

March 11, 2012

A plan being proposed by three lawmakers in Colorado, Reps. Ken Summers and Tom Massey and Sen. Betty Boyd, would require consumers to submit to a biometric scan of their retina or provide a fingerprint in order to get medication.

The plan is HB12-1242 and is under consideration by the Colorado Assembly, which is deliberating the demand that "practitioners and PDOs (prescription drug outlets)" install and maintain "biometric scanning devices and to use those devices to obtain a biometric scan of a person's biometric identifier, such as a fingerprint or retinal scan, and to submit the scan to the database." The pharmacies would have to "prior to prescribing or dispensing a prescription drug or dispensing a restricted over-the-counter substance ... submit specified information to the [state] database."

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