Health Glance
More than 90 tons of ready-to-eat salads and sandwiches by a California catering company are being recalled after 26 people in three states were sickened by a bacterial strain of E. coli linked to its products, federal health officials said Sunday.
Richmond-based Glass Onion Catering are recalling approximately 181,620 pounds of salads and sandwich wraps containing cooked chicken and ham, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
Bacterial strain of E. coli linked to prepackaged salads, sandwiches by California company
Maine sued by Big Pharma because it won’t stop foreign drug imports
The pharmacies suing Maine to keep people from importing Canadian mail-order drugs carefully avoid using the word “profits” in their lawsuit. Big Pharma notes that some of its members have been injured, but no specific claim of damage is made.
Instead the complaint argues that Maine’s new law explicitly authorizing pharmacies in Canada to export to Maine businesses and residents violates the U.S. constitution and federal law, and skirts domestic medicine regulations, “circumventing the carefully-constructed closed federal regulatory structure governing prescription drugs and thus posing serious health risks to consumers.”
HHS funds $150 million for 236 health centers for primary care
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded $150 million under the Affordable Care Act to support 236 new health centers, the secretary says.
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of HHS, said the funding will help create primary care services for approximately 1.25 million patients in areas with historically high uninsured rates. "We are committed to providing more people across the country with the quality patient-centered care they deserve," Sebelius said in a statement.
FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats
Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.
The FDA planned to announce Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats, saying they are a threat to people's health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.
Genetically modified foods labeling initiative defeated by Washington voters
A closely watched ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified foods sold in Washington was defeated Tuesday night after opponents spent heavily on TV ads attacking the initiative.
Results showed Initiative 522 leading in populous King County -- which includes Seattle -- but losing in almost every county in the state. In Clark County, across the Columbia River from Portland, nearly 60 percent of voters were voting no on the measure.
Johnson & Johnson in $2.2 billion settlement over drugs marketing
Health care manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil investigations over allegations that they marketed three drugs for uses that were never approved, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday in Washington.
The settlements also cover claims that the companies gave "kickbacks" to physicians and to nursing home pharmacies to promote the drugs' usage.
The claims involve the schizophrenia drugs Risperdal and Invega and the heart-failure drug Natrecor.
Texas abortion clinics turning patients away after new ruling
Planned Parenthood's abortion clinic in Austin, Texas, is just off a freeway between a Wendy’s hamburger restaurant and a Brake Check. Visitors enter via a driveway and a parking lot designed to offer no mustering points for anti-abortion picketers.
A corridor into the building, known as the Robbie and Tom Ausley Clinic, channels visitors past plaques honoring individuals and businesses that fund the multimillion-dollar operation – which has seen a steady flow of women step through its doors over the years.
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