Loading ...If you relish hot dogs, beware. The Cancer Project so firmly believes you should fear frankfurters that last week it sued meat makers to force them to label wieners with cancer warnings.
The move comes just a few weeks after the same group caused a stir…
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Technology manufactured by Sigma-Aldrich Corp. in St. Louis has been used to generate rats with permanent heritable gene mutations paving the way for the development of new human disease models, according to a new study.
According…
Loading ...In today’s paper, I wrote a story about an infection one woman got from an area salon that left her legs badly scarred. A dangerous bacteria had grown in the foot spa, where customers soak their feet when getting a pedicure. Read the story…
Loading ...St. Louis Public Schools reports that a Nance Elementary student has a confirmed case of the swine flu. The student has been absent since symptoms started and the school will not be closed.
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Other schools that have reported…
Loading ...Four new cases of swine flu were confirmed in Missouri over the weekend, health officials announced today.
Three of those cases involve a teenage boy and girl in St. Charles County and a teenage girl in St. Louis County. The fourth…
Loading ...Another teenager in St. Louis County has swine flu, the state health department reported late Thursday. That makes 10 confirmed and four probable cases of swine flu in the state. Another St. Louis county teenager and a 24-year-old man from O’Fallon…
Loading ...The National Community Pharmacists Association is plenty worried about the prospect of a marriage between Express Scripts and WellPoint’s NextRx that would create the nation’s second largest pharmacy benefit manager.
The NCPA, which represents over 23,000 independent pharmacies and tens of thousands of community…
Loading ...St. John’s Mercy Children’s Hospital has opened a new pediatric outpatient sedation unit, which has five large private rooms designed for children and their parents.
The unit is being used for children requiring sedation for tests such as CT, MRI and brain…
Loading ...SSM Health Care St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake St. Louis is one of the few U.S. hospitals that’s made real progress towards being completely wired, according to the online version of BusinessWeek.
Although the federal government wants electronic health records for every U.S.…
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