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April 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Drug Giant Hit With $1.2 Billion in
Fines
Fines of more than $1.2 billion were slapped on Johnson Johnson
and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals after a jury found that the
companies minimized or concealed dangers associated with the antipsychotic
drug Risperdal.
Experts said the penalty imposed by an Arkansas judge is one of the
largest on record for a state fraud case involving a drug company, The
New York Times reported.
The judge issued a penalty of $1.19 billion for nearly 240,000
violations of Arkansas’ Medicaid fraud law and also fined the companies
$11 million for violations of the state’s deceptive practices act.
Earlier this year, Texas settled a similar case with Janssen for $158
million. Last year, Janssen was hit with a $327 million penalty in South
Carolina and nearly $258 million in damages in Louisiana, the Times
reported.
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Vehicle Seat Design Makes Child Seat Use
Difficult: Study
The design of passenger seats in many cars makes it difficult to
properly install child safety seats, finds a new study by the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety and the University of Michigan Transportation
Research Institute.
It found that just 21 of 98 top-selling 2010 and 2011 model year
vehicles have seat designs that are easy to use with child restraints, the
Los Angeles Times reported.
The low percentage is notable in light of the fact that the auto
industry uses a system called Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children
(Latch) that’s meant to make it easier to install child safety seats.
The insurance institute said the problem is that auto makers don’t pay
enough attention to how the Latch system works when designing passenger
seats.
“Installing a child restraint isn’t always as simple as a couple of
clicks and you’re done,” study co-author Anne McCartt, the insurance
institute’s senior vice president for research, told the Times.
“Sometimes parents blame themselves when they struggle with Latch, but
oftentimes the problem lies with the vehicle, not the user.”
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E. Coli Found in Nearly Half of Raw Chicken
Products: Study
The bacteria E. coli was found in nearly half of packaged raw chicken
products bought at grocery stores across the United States, a new study
says.
Researchers found E. coli — an indicator of fecal contamination — in
48 percent of 120 raw chicken products bought in 10 major cities, The
New York Times reported.
The study was conducted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, a nonprofit group that advocates a vegetarian diet, among other
things.
Food safety experts downplayed the findings, noting that the type of E.
coli found in the chicken was not the kind that threatened public
health.
“What’s surprising to me is that they didn’t find more,” Dr. Michael
Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of
Georgia, told the Times. “Poop gets into your food, and not just
into meat — produce is grown in soil fertilized with manure, and there’s
E. coli in that, too.”
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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of New Breast
Ultrasound Device
An automated ultrasound device that can help detect cancer in dense
breast tissue should be approved for use in the United States, a Food and
Drug Administration advisory panel said Wednesday.
Traditional mammograms may be unable to detect tumors in women with
dense breast tissue. Some research suggests that about 40 percent of women
have dense breast tissue, ABC News reported.
The automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) machine provides 3-D images of
breast tissue and is intended to used along with mammograms, not in place
of them, according to manufacturer U-Systems.
The FDA’s panel decision to recommend approval of ABUS came after a
review of the safety and effectiveness of the device, ABC News
reported. The FDA typically follows the advice of its expert panels.
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Group Urges Hospitals to Evict
McDonald’s
A U.S. advocacy group is petitioning several hospitals to remove
McDonald’s restaurants from their dining areas.
Corporate Accountability International, which fights corporate abuse,
outlined its position in a letter sent to the hospitals, CBS News
reported.
“In your role as a local health leader, you have allowed McDonald’s —
a corporation that has disregarded public health in the name of profits —
to operate within an environment devoted to helping our children get
well,” the letter stated.
“A 2006 study published in Pediatrics concluded that by allowing
a McDonald’s store to operate inside your facility, you are not just
affecting hospital guests’ consumption on the day of their visit, but you
are unintentionally boosting your guests’ perception of the
‘healthfulness’ of McDonald’s food. In other words, your hospital is being
used as part of McDonald’s comprehensive marketing strategy, a strategy
that is clearly inconsistent with your goals as a health institution.”
The group is targeting McDonald’s in this effort, but it’s not the only
chain that contributes to the problem of unhealthy fast food in hospitals,
according to campaign director Sara Deon.
A 2011 report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said
that some hospitals have up to five different fast food restaurants and
serve unhealthy foods such as country fried steak in their cafeterias,
CBS News reported.
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