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Chinese drug maker probed after infant deaths tied to vaccine
2013-12-26 08:42:48| Biotech - Topix.net
Health authorities in China are investigating one of the nation's biggest vaccine makers after eight infants died in the past two months following injections that were meant to immunize them against hepatitis B. The government said this week that it had suspended the use of millions of doses of a hepatitis B vaccine produced by the manufacturer, ... (more)
Focus Oceans Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar
2013-12-23 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Like a macabre marine mystery, the carcasses many badly deteriorated and tossing about in the surf first turned up along the coast of New Jersey in June. Soon, droves of them washed up in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and most recently Florida, their winter home. So far this year, nearly 1,000 bottlenose dolphins eight times the historical average have washed up dead along the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Florida, a vast majority of them victims of morbillivirus. Many more are...
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Lyme disease linked to 3 sudden cardiac deaths
2013-12-16 20:19:57| Biotech - Topix.net
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports three people died over an eight-month period from 2012 to 2013 from heart complications due to Lyme disease.
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NYC Tests Lasers, Thermal Cameras to Stop Subway Deaths
2013-12-12 22:29:56| Railroads - Topix.net
Can high tech gizmos like lasers, motion sensors, thermal cameras and smart video software prevent people from dying on the subway tracks? The New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to find out.
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China coal emissions responsible for 'quarter of a million premature deaths'
2013-12-12 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study. The study by a US air pollution expert, commissioned by Greenpeace, comes as many areas in northern and eastern China have been experiencing hazardous levels of air pollution in recent weeks. In some eastern cities including Shanghai, levels were off the index that tracks dangerous pollution,...
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