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...<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>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html
Take This Job and Love It! :: In a down economy, when your job loses its lustre, it's worth taking a new approach to it. (Source: Psychology Today)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ride80354&cid=ct_15_36_f&fid5651&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fcollections%2F201210%2Ftake-job-and-love-it
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)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridi17720&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid6062&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medscape.com%2Fviewarticle%2F777246%3Fsrc%3Drsshttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.medscape.com%2Fviewarticle%2F777246%3Fsrc%3Drss
Local Couple Creates Fertility App To Help Couples Get Pregnant :: var WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947 = new WNVideoWidget("WNVideoCanvas", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947", "1");
//Playback options
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("widgetId", 8297947);
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("addThisDivId", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947_addThis");
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("incanvasAdDivId", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947_adDiv");
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("clipId", "8297947");
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("isMute", "false");
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetVariable("isAutoStart", "false");
//AdRevenue settings
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetReportingKeywords("CBS.BOSTON");
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetAdvertisingZone("CBS.BOSTON/worldnowplayer");
//Special snowflake style for video container
WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947.SetStylePackage("dark");...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridp10432&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid7848&url=http%3A%2F%2Fboston.cbslocal.com%2F2013%2F01%2F31%2Flocal-couple-creates-fertility-app-to-help-couples-get-pregnant%2F
To meet the FCC's Gigabit Challenge, cities will have to get political :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/EexWDn8gug0/story01.htm
Manchester United Vs. Reading: Where To Watch Online Stream; Preview, Team News And Prediction :: <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>Sir Alex Ferguson will rotate his Manchester United side for the visit of Reading in the FA Cup fifth round on Monday.</p>
<p>United were happy to emerge with a 1-1 draw from Real Madrid in the Champions League last week and with the club also 12 points clear in the Premier League, the word "treble" is beginning to be quietly uttered around Old Trafford.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/manchester-united-vs-reading-where-watch-online-stream-preview-team-news-prediction-1091454
Chavez Quietly Returns To Venezuela Amid Health Uncertainty :: <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>Venezuelan officials hailed the return of their ailing leader President Hugo Chavez, who had been recovering from cancer surgery in Cuba for 10 weeks with little information revealed about his health status.</p>
<p>Chavez returned to Caracas at 2:30 a.m. on Monday, Venezuela's state-run media reported, and was promptly taken to a military hospital without the typical televised fanfare that has accompanied his previous returns from medical visits to Havana in the 20 months since he was first diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/chavez-quietly-returns-venezuela-amid-health-uncertainty-1091406
Obama To Visit Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu Allows Citizens To Choose Logo Via Facebook :: <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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/12771/20121114/hamas-leader-killed-israel-uses-twitter-youtube.htm" target="_blank">In another show</a> of the country's emphasis on a strong social media presence, Israeli Prime Minister <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.netanyahu.org/biography.html">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> is petitioning his citizens to vote for the official logo for U.S. President <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama">Barack Obama's</a> state visit in March.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-visit-israel-prime-minister-netanyahu-allows-citizens-choose-logo-facebook-1091342
Georgia To Execute Man Diagnosed With Mental Retardation By 10 Different Doctors :: <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></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>Warren Hill has been diagnosed with mental retardation by 10 different physicians. But on Tuesday, the Georgia death row inmate is scheduled to face execution by lethal injection, even though, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, such an act technically qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/georgia-execute-man-diagnosed-mental-retardation-10-different-doctors-1091222
Tough times for Anglo American :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/bOnfAL66Mmg/
Inga kommentarer:
Skicka en kommentar