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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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Spending on Physician Services Crawls Out of RecessionSpending on Physician Services Crawls Out of Recession :: A slowly improving economy helped explain a 3.6% increase in spending on physician services in 2011 compared with 2.8% in 2010, says CMS. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)<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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Top Models To Watch And Faces to Know At New York Fashion Week [PHOTOS] :: <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>With New York Fashion Week just days away, the focus isn't only on the clothes and the designers who create them, but the models wearing them, as well.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/top-models-watch-faces-know-new-york-fashion-week-photos-1063754

Obama To Make First Presidential Visit To Israel In March :: <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>White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed a report coming out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office that U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Israel next month.</p>
<p>Israel's Channel 10 is reporting Obama will be in Israel on March 20, and will also visit Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Palestinian Territories. This will be his first visit to Israel as president; he previously visited while campaigning for the presidency in 2008.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-make-first-presidential-visit-israel-march-1063614

Chrysalis: Lingerie Brand Caters To Transgender Women [PHOTOS] :: <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>A recently launched lingerie brand will cater especially to transgender women.</p>
<p>Cy Lauz, who is herself transgender, developed her underwear line, Chrysalis, after noting the lack of suitable undergarments for those who have made the transition from male-to-female.</p>
<p>Her line features bras with full-cup inserts and seamless panties that aim to enhance the transgender body.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/chrysalis-lingerie-brand-caters-transgender-women-photos-1063414

Oscars 2013: Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Octavia Spencer And Christopher Plummer To Present At Academy Awards :: <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>Four actors who were honored with Academy Awards last year, will return again at this year's Oscars as presenters. In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2013/20130205.html">a press release</a> on Tuesday the Academy announced that Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer would all be presenting awards in the upcoming telecast.</p>
<p>"We are honored to have Meryl, Octavia, Christopher and Jean, last year's Oscar winners in each of the acting categories, return to the Oscar stage," the show's producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/oscars-2013-meryl-streep-jean-dujardin-octavia-spencer-christopher-plummer-present-academy-awards

Obama Asks Congress To Put Aside 'Political Dysfunction' To Pass Sequester Delay :: <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>President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to pass a small package of spending cuts and tax reform initiatives to delay the automatic spending cuts, known as the "sequester," that are scheduled to kick in next month, in the event that both the House and Senate are not able to pass a budget before March 1.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-asks-congress-put-aside-political-dysfunction-pass-sequester-delay-1063398

Top jobs of the week in digital media :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/0GsvshGfAlc/story01.htm

Toyota looks to profit boost :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/TCblvDoRjHI/

AUDIO: Do you 'live the brand'? :: Danny Rogers, editor of advertising industry magazine Campaign, explained to the Today programme presenter John Humphrys that this is "an extreme version of living the brand."
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21334885#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

South African ballet survival fight :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/e2ToK-BFIXU/

Toyota ups annual profit forecast :: Toyota raises its full-year profit forecast amid a weakening yen and a sharp recovery in sales in the US.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21333537#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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