Salami tests positive for salmonella

The Rhode Island Department of Health said Thursday that pepper-coated salami manufactured by Italian sausage company Daniele Inc. has tested positive for the strain of salmonella associated with a recent national outbreak.
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Obama’s language reflects his mood

What did Wednesday’s State of the Union address say about the president’s state of mind? One scholar dissects President Obama’s language and offers an analysis.
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Haiti’s ‘Little hospital that could’

Here’s an inside look at one of the improvised hospitals that sprang up in Haiti after the earthquake. It was assembled in two tents by a medical team from the University of Miami.
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What you eat after exercise matters

Many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session (rather than weeks, months and even years of exercise training), and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards.
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Pelosi: Congress will pass health reform bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Wednesday that Congress will pass a health care reform bill, despite recent setbacks that have raised new questions about the changing political climate.
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Early Cometary Bombardment May Explain the Divergent Paths of Jupiter’s Biggest Moons

Ganymede and Callisto are the largest of Jupiter’s so-called Galilean satellites, the four moons of the giant planet that were discovered 400 years ago, in January 1610 , by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, even bigger than the planet Mercury, boasts its own magnetic field and [...]

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Hard lessons for big-city docs in Haiti

Drs. Roberto Feliz and Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from cutting edge medicine in Boston to the most rudimentary of care when they got to Haiti.
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FDA recalls needles used in port implants

Millions of needles used in ports implanted under the skin of chronically ill patients are being voluntarily recalled, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
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Hard lessons for big-city doctors in Haiti

Drs. Roberto Feliz and Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from cutting edge medicine in Boston to the most rudimentary of care when they got to Haiti.
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Opinion: Uncovering secrets to a longer life

In the same way organisms select for characteristics that favor the survival and well-being of its species over successive generations, so too do cultures. With organisms, we call this process evolution and it represents a sort of accumulated wisdom. There is no word for this process in cultures, but there is one for the result. [...]

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