Recall of Topaz brand Wafer Rolls

Contact:
National Brands Inc.
1-866-238-5201
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — December 19, 2008 – National Brands Inc., Spring Valley NY is initiating a nationwide recall of all their 4.76oz (135gm) cans and 12.3oz (350gm) cans of Topaz brand Wafer Rolls because it may be contaminated with Melamine.
Product was distributed nationwide through retail stores.
The product comes in 4.76oz (135gm) metal […]

Flu View from last week

Flu: Where we are and where we were past 2 seasons

Deeper into Flu Season

During week 52 (December 21-27, 2008), increased influenza activity was reported in the United States.

Third-Hand Smoke

NY Times, 1/3/09
Link:  Third-Hand Smoke
“Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air for their children, but experts now have identified a related threat to children’s health that isn’t as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke.
That’s the term being used to describe the invisible yet toxic […]

Inorganic phosphates & cancer

LA Times, 1/2/09
Link:  Phosphates & cancer
A food additive that is becoming more common in a variety of products has been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer as well as a more vigorous spread of the disease.
A study, published in the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, […]

Melamine & Chinese adoptions

AP, 1/2/09 (Link):  Melamine in adopted Chinese kids?
“Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should not feed it to their […]

A Bedbug Epidemic

LA Times, 1/4/08:  BedBugs
Reporting from Cincinnati — In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bedbugs from biting.
When complaints about the bloodsucking insects first trickled in to Cincinnati’s public health department three years ago, officials assumed it was an anomaly — or perhaps the overactive imagination of a bug-phobic […]

On NJ’s new flu vaccination law for schoolkids

NY Times, 1/5/09
Click on the following for the full story:  Gestapo Tactics
“THE state’s new law requiring young children attending licensed pre-school and child care centers to get flu vaccinations will be tested this week when thousands of children return to classrooms and playrooms after the long holiday break.
New Jersey, the first state in the […]

Moving patients…

Houston Chronicle, 1/3/08
Click here if you think this is the greatest thing that’s been invented since round tires:  Talk about being behind the times…
A patient at the Memorial-area emergency department barely warms a seat in the waiting room before a nurse beckons and starts asking questions.
Beyond the desk and behind a thin curtain, the […]

Cytotec, among other means, as abortifacients

NY Times, 1/4/09
Amalia Dominguez was 18 and desperate and knew exactly what to ask for at the small, family-run pharmacy in the heart of Washington Heights, the thriving Dominican enclave in northern Manhattan. “I need to bring down my period,” she recalled saying in Spanish, using a euphemism that the pharmacist understood instantly.
It was […]

Free ER Testing of HIV

Link:  NY Times, 1/2/09
It didn’t surprise Dr. Joseph U. Becker, chief resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s emergency department, when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that some 1.1 million people nationwide are living with H.I.V. What did surprise Dr. Becker is that the report also said one-quarter of them did not […]

OMNI Postings of 1/5/09

As Mr. Moto said in the “Curse of the Crippled Kamikaze (1936, Universal), “Journey of 1000 miles begins with a pair of Nike Zoom Kobe MVP sneakers.”

But I digress…

1)  I’m not getting into politics, but imagine working in an ER in Gaza right now…
http://omniphysicians.com/2009/01/05/working-in-an-er-in-gaza/
http://omniphysicians.com/2009/01/05/forget-the-politics/

2)  I don’t know if it’s scientifically valid, but Obama’s use of […]

Working in an ER in Gaza

Link:  NY Times, 1/5/09
A missile hit their uncle’s house, which was made of concrete and so, the Basal family had thought in taking refuge there, safer than their more flimsy one. Fida Basal, 20, was not there when it struck. But her sister, Hanin, 18, was.
On Sunday, the day after Israel began its ground […]

Forget the politics…

CNN, 1/5/09
Gaza’s main hospital, already overloaded with Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, has reached critical mass, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.

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