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China plans new oral care regulations

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 […]

Honey can quieten a child’s cough better than any medicine, say researchers

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When it comes to helping a child fight off a cough, the centuries-old remedy of honey is still the best, researchers said yesterday.
The natural sweetener is a traditional […]

Essay: A Growing Debate Over Folic Acid in Flour

Every year, an estimated 200,000 children around the world are born with crippling defects of the spinal column. Many are paralyzed or permanently impaired by «health.nytimes.com»; some, with a condition called «health.nytimes.com» (literally, no brain), survive in a vegetative state.
It is a stubborn and terrible problem, in the developed and developing worlds alike. But […]

Avandia prescriptions decline after study

Prescriptions for Avandia have dropped about 10% since The New England Journal of Medicine posted a study suggesting the diabetes drug increases heart attack risk, GlaxoSmithKline representatives said Monday.
Before the journal posted the study May 21, U.S. doctors were writing about 240,000 prescriptions per week, Glaxo spokeswoman Alice Hunt says. That has dropped to […]

AP: Nutrition education ineffective

PANORAMA CITY, Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education Д fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such […]