food and drug administration

Health Begins Here

Health Begins Here

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… of the UAB Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine. But thanks to a major grant from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, UAB can now offer intensive help to mothers and babies with the greatest needs. … It includes enhanced …
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Agriculture Needs More Women

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I saw pregnant sows confined to iron-galvanized steel crates. I saw chickens … The study states that the greatest difference between men and women is sensitivity, a trait defined as differentiating “people who are sensitive, aesthetic, sentimental …
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Zoeller's comments on drug testing pregnant women stir debate

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As co-chair of the state's Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force, he has been speaking publicly and in news interviews about solutions to help prevent babies from suffering from the condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome when born to …
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Colorado Cantaloupe Farmers Arrested In Fatal Listeria Outbreak

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Prosecutors said the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined the Jensens didn't adequately clean the cantaloupe. Criminal charges in food poisoning cases are rare, said attorney William Marler, …
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