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WASHINGTON Health advisers are urging slightly more flexibility in rules designed to prevent pregnancies among women taking an acne drug that has caused birth defects Д even though women taking the drug still are getting pregnant.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration decided Wednesday that minor changes would ease access to Accutane and […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Fewer children and workers at out-of-home day care centers would get sick if the centers had better equipment for changing diapers, washing hands and preparing food, according to a study.
Automatic faucets and foot-activated, rollout bins for diaper disposal can help reduce the spread of infectious diseases. But those and other […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida:
A robotic dirt and ice digger is rocketing toward Mars, beginning a 422 million-mile journey that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planets Arctic Circle.
The Phoenix Mars Lander blasted off before dawn Saturday, hurtling through the clear moonlit sky aboard an unmanned Delta […]

BEIJING (AP) Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children’s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday.
China’s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods […]

WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner has suspended plans to close more than half the agency’s field laboratories.
Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach is awaiting recommendations from a presidential panel about how to better guarantee the safety of imported food and other products.
He said Wednesday he wanted to make sure the FDA […]