BEIJING (AP) China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers’ use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze.
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used […]
WASHINGTON The public has little faith the government is adequately screening visitors to the country or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.
Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the U.S., the poll found. Just […]
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MRI scanning is far better at detecting an ‘early’ form of breast cancer than conventional X-rays, researchers have claimed. They are calling for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be taken more seriously as a method of identifying early-stage breast cancer.
At present, MRI scans, which produce images using magnetic fields and radio waves, are […]
By Peter Ritter
The Yangtze River dolphin, one of the world’s rarest mammals, is no more, a victim of China’s breakneck economic growth and competition for food with one of the world’s most common large mammals human beings.
“We can say that the animal is functionally extinct,” says August Pfluger, head of the Zurich-based […]
WASHINGTON The nation’s 45 million smokers will probably help pay for the spending increase that Democrats want for children’s health insurance, say analysts familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill.
Democratic lawmakers will push for $50 billion in new funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next five years. To pay for […]
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