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• Expert: 'I would put money' on linens causing UPMC mold outbreak - Tribune

  

  Updated 10 hours ago A hospital environmental expert who detected mold on linens supplied to UPMC from a DuBois laundry told the Tribune-Review on Friday that he believes laundry was the source of fungal infections that killed transplant patients at the health giant's hospitals. “I would put money on it,” Andrew Streifel said. “The odds are that it is.” Streifel, a hospital environment specialist with the University of Minnesota's department of environmental health and safety, was hired i..

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• ODU professor wants President Trump to stop citing, misquoting his research

  

  ODU professor wants President Trump to stop citing, misquoting his researchMoreNORFOLK, Va. - Jesse Richman, an associate professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University, has a message for President Donald Trump and his administration. "I wish he'd stop citing my research, frankly," he said. This comes following the president's latest claims that non-citizens voting at the polls could have influenced the outcome of November's popular vote when nearly 3 million more people cast a ballot..

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• Washington state mumps outbreak: 278 cases reported in 5 counties

  

  To stop the spread, officials urge people to get vaccinated and to take precautions. "The best protection against mumps is the MMR vaccine," said Dave Johnson, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, though it is not 100% effective. Though not currently on-site in Washington, the CDC is working closely with the state depar..

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• Oregon Planned Parenthood CEO: Trump 'has awoken a sleeping giant'

  

  Since President Donald Trump took office, he has threatened to cut or slash funding for several government agencies but no private organization has been threatened as much as Planned Parenthood.  For social conservatives, the Trump administration’s call for defunding Planned Parenthood is seen as a victory for the pro-life agenda and a welcome change from previous President Barack Obama’s stance on the organization.In Oregon, 40 percent of Planned Parenthood’s $24 million budget comes from f..

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• Flu Hospitalizations, Deaths Increasing: CDC

  

  FRIDAY, Jan. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Although this year's flu season appears to be an average one so far, more hospitalizations are being reported and deaths are increasing, federal health officials reported Friday.And it will be several weeks before the season peaks, said Lynnette Brammer, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."We are starting to see cases of severe disease and we are seeing excess deaths, most likely due to influenza," she said. Even ..

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• CDC's canceled climate change conference is back on - thanks to Al Gore

  

  It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta next month about climate change and its effects on public health. It just won't have the federal government behind it. The reason? Former Vice President Al Gore. "He called me and we talked about it and we said, 'There's still a void and still a need.' We said, 'Let's make this thing happen,' " said Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. "It was a no-brainer." News of a revived conference comes days after..

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• Throw out homeopathic teething tablets with belladonna, FDA says

  

  Standard Homeopathic Co., the Los Angeles-based maker of Hyland's, discontinued its product October 7. "We discontinued it because we are committed to our moms and our dads who choose to trust us to put medicines in their young infants' mouths, and we didn't want to put them in a place between the FDA warning and us saying the product was safe and having to decide who to trust," said Mary C. Borneman, a spokeswoman for Hyland's.Homeopathic teething tablets, which have been around since the early..

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