With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Hobbits and hypotheses | Henry Gee :: All good tales should have a self-consistent back story. If they do, they are amenable to scientific investigation"Why?" If you have a toddler, this is a question that will assail your ears many, many times each day. Why is the sky blue? Why do people get old and die? Why am I here? To a person newly exposed to the world, everything is unfamiliar, and therefore deserving of explanation, even if the encrusted taboos of adulthood are broken in the asking. To a parent, who is old enough to have the luxury of taking everything for granted, it's infuriating. "Scientist" is a name we give to a person who has never really got beyond the toddler stage of inquiry. To a scientist, the world is still full of marvelous phenomena that demand explanation, and in which nothing should ever be taken for gr...
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Lives Saved And Profits Increased By Alcohol Pricing Policies :: Setting minimum prices for alcohol increases health and economic benefits, say international experts, who met for a seminar on alcohol pricing and public health. The meeting - sponsored by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia (CARBC) and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) - focused on new analyses on Ontario and other provinces where minimum pricing policies have been implemented for a number of years. Alcohol costs the Canadian economy $14.6 billion in indirect healthcare and social costs each year... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Bangladesh Tribunal Sentences Convicted War Criminal To Death, But Where Is He? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>One of the most prominent suspected war criminals from Bangladesh's war of independence has been sentenced to death more than four decades following the commission of his many crimes.</p>
<p>In the first verdict handed out by Bangladesh's second war crimes tribunal, Abul Kalam Azad (also known as "Bachchu Razakar") will die by hanging after the court found him guilty of arranging large-scale atrocities during the 1971 war, including genocide, rape, abduction, and mass murder.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/bangladesh-tribunal-sentences-convicted-war-criminal-death-where-he-1028532
Beyoncé Inauguration Performance: Listen To 'Queen Bey' Rehearse National Anthem In Soundcheck [AUDIO] :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As the 2013 Presidential Inauguration kicked off, thousands of attendees patiently weathered the cold on the National Mall, not only for a glimpse of President Obama and his family, but perhaps equally importantly, to stand in the presence of Beyoncé.</p>
<p>The 31-year-old singer, better known to the Twittersphere as "Queen Bey," took the podium at around 12:30 p.m. on Monday to thunderous applause, and instantaneously earned rave reviews on Twitter for her rendition of the National Anthem.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/beyonce-inauguration-performance-listen-queen-bey-rehearse-national-anthem-soundcheck-audio-1028496
'Movie 43' More Likely To 'Gross Out' Than Gross Millions :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As the release of "Movie 43" nears, one would expect to see the film's star-studded cast making the promotional rounds for the multi-story comedy. But that certainly isn't the case.</p>
<p>The film's cast includes Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and a slew of other A-list stars. Yet no actors from "Movie 43" have come out to promote it, leading the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_ungodly_gross_out_epic_wood_mfCWrFl3qus9d0e1CRNWZN">New York Post</a> to conclude that it's a film "Hollywood's A-list wants to forget."</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/movie-43-more-likely-gross-out-gross-millions-1028468
It's Going To Be Politics As Usual After Obama's Inauguration Weekend :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The four days of parties, parades and celebrity-headlining events planned to celebrate President Barack Obama's second Inauguration have managed to, albeit temporarily, distract the nation from the political headaches and showdowns that have come to define his relationship with Congress. But on Tuesday, it will be business as usual on Capitol Hill.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/its-going-be-politics-usual-after-obamas-inauguration-weekend-1028436
Sales of e-cigarettes continue to soar :: The smoking alternative is peeling away customers from Big Tobacco, but taxes and new restrictions could snuff out its recent success
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VIDEO: Traveller's four-day Heathrow ordeal :: Ian Aitchison first spoke to the Today programme on Saturday morning, having spent six hours on a plane that didn't leave, then a night in a nearby hotel. But on Monday morning he still had not taken off.
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