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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<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>Study links sugar consumption with cancer</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2010/02/11/chinese-study-links-sugar-consumption-with-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study recently published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &#038; Prevention found an apparent link between consumption of sugary soft drinks and pancreatic cancer. Performed by Mark Pereira and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, the study followed 60,524 participants of the Singapore Chinese Health Study for up to [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category>

		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3113</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu (H1N1)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[swine flu vaccine]]></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>Dental amalgams revisited</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/14/dental-amalgams-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/14/dental-amalgams-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution/contamination/toxins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amalgam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury amalgam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury fillings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silver fillings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new report out that says mercury fillings&#8212;the so-called &#8220;silver&#8221; dental amalagam most of us have in our teeth&#8212;may not be so harmful after all. Using x-ray analysis, Graham George of the University of Saskatchewan analyzed the surface of mercury-based fillings that were about 20 years old and compared those to the surface of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public option out!</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/public-option-out/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/public-option-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama healthcare plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead, Medicare may open to those 55 and older
In a surprise move to appease moderate Democrats, sources say the Obama health reform plan may drop the public option in favor of extending Medicare to the uninsured who are more than 55 years of age, the Associated Press is reporting. Currently, only those over 65 are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A health care reality check from Earl Blumenauer</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/a-health-care-reality-check-from-earl-blumenauer/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/a-health-care-reality-check-from-earl-blumenauer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earl Blumenauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Represetative Earl Blumenauer has posted an open letter to his fellow members of Congress over on Huffington Post. For your convenience, we&#8217;ve posted the text here:

Senators who are filibustering and throwing sand in the gears to delay health care reform desperately need a reality check. It is ironic to me that members of Congress enjoy [...]]]></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>
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		<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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