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FDA raises safety concerns for Vivus diet pill

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Fri, 02/17/2012 - 07:44

FDA raises safety concerns for Vivus diet pill Associated Press


 

Only 1 in 4 with HIV have virus under control

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Tue, 11/29/2011 - 21:11

Only about 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications, federal health officials said Tuesday.

Part of the reason is that about 20 percent of those infected with HIV don't know it.


 

APHA: HHS to Track Health Indicators

MedPage Today Emergency Medicine  Mon, 10/31/2011 - 12:37

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Federal health officials have released a list of 12 "high priority" indicators of health that the government will track over the next decade to determine the progress and status of the nation's health.


 

Dirty Equipment Likely Led to Listeria Outbreak

WebMD Health  Wed, 10/19/2011 - 17:14

farmer weighing cantaloupe

Results of an investigation by state and federal health officials have shed light on how cantaloupes grown by a Colorado farm became contaminated with deadly listeria bacteria.