Salmonella Could Be Beef Industry's New Biggest Challenge

Salmonella Could Be Beef Industry's New Biggest Challenge

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In September 2012, nearly 50 people in nine states became ill from eating ground beef tainted with Salmonella Enteritidis, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It was always … “And some strains of Salmonella that have …
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New Depakote payouts would fall on AbbVie, not Abbott

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Abbott orchestrated a campaign to wrongfully market the powerful drug as a treatment for ailments such as dementia and schizophrenia, uses that were not approved. The plaintiffs in the new case, including a northwest suburban … Last year's settlement …
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Feds Investigate Antipsychotic Prescribing in Children

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The time frame is a 6-month period from January to June 2011, when 84,654 children were prescribed antipsychotics in the 5 states selected for the probe, where Medicaid prescriptions are the highest — California, Texas, Illinois, New York, and Florida …
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Kerfuffle Over Marijuana Claim

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Last November, Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational weed use in their states, and Illinois recently became the latest state to legalize the drug for use as a medicine. In a speech at the American Bar … PolitiFact, which fact-checks …
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