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		<title>H1N1 scare pays off</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2010/04/08/h1n1-scare-pays-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government&#8217;s purchase of H1N1 vaccines cost taxpayers $1.6 billion, according to figures reported recently by the Washington Post. Despite the relatively mild effect of the actual swine flu pandemic, the panic by U.S. health officials resulted in big profits for Big Pharma, with a resulting glut of flu vaccine that is now being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bisphenol-A poses major health risks</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/29/bisphenol-a-poses-major-health-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/29/bisphenol-a-poses-major-health-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BPA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We first wrote about bisphenol-A (BPA) about two years ago. In that article, we noted that while parents were shying away from plastic baby bottles containing the substance, they were largely unaware that BPA was actually found in larger quantities in most liquid baby formulas because it leaches from the linings of the cans used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington negotiates on tobacco rulings</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2010/01/18/washington-negotiates-on-tobacco-rulings/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2010/01/18/washington-negotiates-on-tobacco-rulings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British American Tobacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R.J. Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a story that appeared over the weekend from the Associated Press, the U.S. Solicitor General has been meeting with lawyers representing the tobacco industry&#8217;s four largest companies in an effort to forestall an appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court to follow up on a 2006 ruling by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tylenol, Motrin, St. Joseph&#8217;s aspirin recalled</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2010/01/16/tylenol-motrin-st-josephs-aspirin-recalled/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2010/01/16/tylenol-motrin-st-josephs-aspirin-recalled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals and manufacturers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acetaminophen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspirin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnson and Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Joseph's]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Johnson &#038; Johnson announced yesterday that it was recalling Tylenol, Motrin, and St. Joseph&#8217;s aspirin as well as other over-the-counter drugs because they emit a moldy smell that has sickened some users. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has criticized the New Brunswick, NJ-based company and sent it a warning letter for not taking faster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst type of drug-resistant TB appears in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/28/worst-type-of-drug-resistant-tb-appears-in-u-s/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/28/worst-type-of-drug-resistant-tb-appears-in-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infectious diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pneumonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug-resistant tuberculosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuberculosis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember the case of Andrew Speaker. He went to Italy to be married and returned with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that caused a national furor and was reported on this website. The furor arose because Speaker traveled by plane with a highly contagious, hard-to-cure disease. At one point, Speaker was diagnosed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor to sue Taiwan CDC over swine flu vaccination death</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/22/doctor-to-sue-taiwan-cdc-over-swine-flu-vaccination-death/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/22/doctor-to-sue-taiwan-cdc-over-swine-flu-vaccination-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[swine flu (H1N1)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Taiwan News is reporting that a gynecologist identified only as Dr. Liu plans to sue the Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan over the death of his seven-year-old son in the wake of an H1N1 vaccination the child was given at school on November 19.
The case has been made public by Chang Yao-tsung, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu may be on the wane</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/03/swine-flu-may-be-on-the-wane/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/03/swine-flu-may-be-on-the-wane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu (H1N1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A(H1N1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H1N1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandemic flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve made it this far, chances are better you won&#8217;t be getting the swine flu. The fall wave has peaked, experts seem to agree, and while there will surely be more cases to come, they are on the wane. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that another (winter) wave may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu: no big deal for some, deadly for others</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/27/swine-flu-no-big-deal-for-some-deadly-for-others/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/27/swine-flu-no-big-deal-for-some-deadly-for-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avian flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu (H1N1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A(H1N1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H3N2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H5N1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits it: H1N1 swine flu is a mild disease for most people, but for those whom it hits hard, it is often fatal.
Approximately a third of those who die from the disease do so because of other complications&#8212;generally pneumonia or MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman and Citibank get swine flu vaccine</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/11/goldman-and-citibank-get-swine-flu-vaccine/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/11/11/goldman-and-citibank-get-swine-flu-vaccine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaccines/vaccinations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as a feeding frenzy surrounds the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, New Yorkers were confronted with the news that Wall Street banking firms Goldman Sachs and Citibank were given 200 doses of swine flu vaccine&#8212;the same quantity given to Lenox Hill Hospital.
Goldman and Citibank were not the only corporations given doses of the vaccine, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu U.S. national emergency</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/24/swine-flu-u-s-national-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/24/swine-flu-u-s-national-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu (H1N1)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[H1N1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama today declared the swine flu epidemic in this country a national emergency. Forty-six of the 50 states now have widespread flu contagion.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to note that this is a proactive measure &#8212; not a response to a new development,&#8221; an administration official said.
&#8220;H1N1 is moving rapidly, as expected. By the time regions or [...]]]></description>
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