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Officials investigate infection linked to 18 deaths in Wisconsin
2016-03-04 17:10:43| Biotech - Topix.net
A team of federal, state and local investigators are looking for the source of a bacterial bloodstream infection linked to 18 deaths in Wisconsin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a team of investigators to Wisconsin to find out how the bacteria, Elizabethkingia, has infected 44 people.
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Earthquakes linked to shale gas exploration cause house prices fall
2016-03-03 06:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Fear of fracking can have negative effects on the UK housing market around shale gas sites, economic researchers have warned. The research team, from the University of Bristol, the London School of Economics and Duke University in North Carolina, carried out a study that found licensing and exploration had minimal impacts on house prices. However, two highly publicised minor earthquakes linked to exploratory fracking near Blackpool in 2011 caused a three to four per cent reduction in house prices...
Zika virus linked to stillbirth, other symptoms in Brazil
2016-02-27 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In January, a pregnant Brazilian woman infected with the Zika virus had a stillborn baby who had signs of severe tissue swelling as well as central nervous system defects that caused near-complete loss of brain tissue. It is the first report to indicate a possible association of congenital Zika virus and damage to tissues outside the central nervous system, said Yale researchers. The researchers -- led by Albert Ko, M.D. at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Dr. Antônio Raimundo de Almeida...
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Johnson & Johnson must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to...
2016-02-23 21:12:29| Biotech - Topix.net
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the circuit court of St. Louis awarded the family of Jacqueline Fox $10 million of actual damages and $62 million of punitive damages, according to the family's lawyers and court records.
J&J must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to talcum powder: lawyers
2016-02-23 18:32:22| Food - Topix.net
In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the circuit court of St. Louis awarded the family of Jacqueline Fox $10 million of actual damages and $62 million of punitive damages, according to the family's lawyers and court records. Johnson & Johnson faces several hundred lawsuits claiming that it, in an effort to boost sales, failed for decades to warn consumers that its talc-based products could cause cancer.
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