Departing health chief says food ripe for terror
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced his resignation Friday, warning as he left of dangers from a global flu outbreak and a possible terror attack on the nationâs food supply.
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WASHINGTON: Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped rally the cityâs police force and citizens following the September 11 terror attacks, is President George W Bushâs pick to run the Homeland Security Department.
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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A lawyer for a radical Muslim cleric facing a U.S. extradition warrant complained Friday that his health was suffering from the lack of proper food and facilities in prison.
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President Bush on Saturday played  down an unexpected warning from his outgoing health chief that  the U.S. food supply was an easy target for terrorists.
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The jailed Iraqi germ warfare scientist  dubbed "Mrs. Anthrax" by foreign newspapers has cancer and  should be freed, a lawyer for another of Saddam Hussein's  imprisoned aides said. "Huda Ammash is very ill and should be  released," said Badih Aref, who is defending Iraq's jailed  former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz. The information came  from Aziz, he added.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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David A. Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, has been terminated as dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new.
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When Tommy G. Thompson, the departing secretary of health and human services, used his farewell news conference last week to warn that terrorists could easily poison
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It&#39;s been more than three years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but it&#39;s only on leaving office that Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson tells us how vulnerable the nation&#39;s food supply is.
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Prime Minister Martin has appointed Doctor David Butler-Jones as the new Chief Public Health Officer. Butler-Jones will co-ordinate a national response team in Winnipeg, should Canada face another outbreak of a major disease like SARS.
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He copes with budget shortfalls, accidental deaths at King/Drew hospital and demands for his ouster. By Jia-Rui Chong. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, the embattled director of Los Angeles County&#39;s Department of Health
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The government warned consumers and retailers Monday to take urgent action to rid their shelves of more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked to a botulism outbreak. Castleberry's Food Company closed the suspect plant.
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong health chief Yeoh Eng Kiong, who resigned over his much-criticised handling of Sars, said he knew all along there would be &#39;recriminations&#39; but, in retrospect, would not have done things much differently.
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Doctors have begun force-feeding a jailed former leader of the Basque separatist group ETA who is staging a second hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, a prison department spokesman said Wednesday.
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There is a way to derail the fast food train to disease and earlier death, according to a Forest Grove doctor and health educator.