AFP - China and Japan scrambled to ease public alarm Thursday as hundreds of Japanese reported feeling ill from eating Chinese-made dumplings, triggering an emergency cabinet session in Tokyo.
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AP - The Chinese government on Thursday said it had stopped production and exports from a company whose insecticide-tainted frozen dumplings sickened 10 people in Japan, in the latest crisis to tarnish China’s food export business.
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A new freezing technique will allow GPs to treat benign breast tumours without resort to surgery.
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Africa’s own fruits are a largely untapped resource that could combat malnutrition and boost environmental stability and rural development in Africa, says a new report from the National Research Council.
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Apples, bananas, and oranges are the most common fruits in both Western and Asian diets, and are important sources of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. A new study in the Journal of Food Science explores the additional health benefits of these fruits and reveals they also protect against neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Reuters - Dozens more people in Japan said on
Thursday they fell sick after eating Chinese-made food, a day
after Japanese food companies recalled pesticide-contaminated
dumplings from China that made 10 people sick.
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dermaCM, announces successful findings of a double blind human taste test using proprietary nanolipidic particles (NLP) to mask the taste of sodium chloride in distilled water preparations. Taste-masking nanotechnology can be used to mask unpleasant tastes in beverage, pharmaceuticals and nutricuetical preparations, vastly improving consumer acceptance, patient compliance and user satisfaction.
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Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new University of Rochester study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium.In an article published in the February 2008 journal, The Prostate, epidemiologist Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., reports that PSA levels were 22 percent higher among American men who had zinc levels below the median (less than 12.67 mg/daily) and cadmium levels above the median.
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More than 1m prescriptions are made for obesity drugs a year - eight times the number dispensed seven years ago.
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New research suggests that women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant can cut their risk of having a premature baby by half.Researchers at the 28th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting - The Pregnancy Meeting™ - has unveiled a study linking pre-conceptional folate supplementation of at least one year to reduced early premature delivery rates of 50 to 70 percent, regardless of age, race or other factors.
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