News tagged with 'CAD'

More trouble for Toyotoa while Hurricane Alex, now a tropical storm. About $260 million in swine flu vaccine will be destroyed as it's past its date, and trinkets for kids given away by doctors anddentists is found contaminated with cadmium. Some news headlines for this first day of July!

Take those Shrek glasses back to McDonald's for a full refund after an anonymous source informed a California congresswoman that they contained the metal cadmium. The government is issuing a recall for 12 million of the glasses.

Arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury were some of the heavy metals found in the 15 protein supplements tested by Consumer Reports.

"Best Friends" charm bracelets for children sold in the jewelry store, Claire's, are being removed from store shelves after an investigation by the Associated Press found they contained high levels of the toxic metal, cadmium. Those levels have now been confirmed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Two studies released this week find an increasing number of spinal injuries and amputations among young people who ride an all-terrain vehicle.

Consumers can add the heavy metal cadmium to their worry list as an AP investigation finds it is now used as a cheap substitute to make kiddie bling jewelry shiny and appealing.

The FDA is requiring TNF blockers to carry stronger warnings highlighting the increased risk of cancer in children and adolescents who receive these drugs to treat juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky surveying about 10,000 students from Kentucky on their sleep habits – found a reduction in auto crashes when the school hour started one hour later at 8:30 a.m. There may be a biological reason teens do better with a later start.

Not having your internal clock working properly may disable your immune response making you more susceptible to bacterial infection. This study on fruit flies out of Stanford, found that most ability to fight invading bacteria occured at night when the body is restoring. 

New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests, a computer together with one expert has the same effectiveness at detecting breast cancer as two different radiologists.

The manufacturers of arthritis drugs have been ordered to strengthen existing warnings on the drugs’ prescribing information and Medication Guides, on the risk of developing a possibly fatal fungal infection.

Over the past several years, two rheumatoid arthritis drugs have been approved, making successful treatment of painful arthritis symptoms a reality for thousands of patients worldwide. These two drugs, Enbrel and Remicade, act to inhibit tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a cause of arthritic pain. In August 2001 the Fo