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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:&bull; 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).&bull; 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>
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Texas Woman Gives Birth To Two Sets Of Twins In A Day, But They Are Not Quadruplets :: <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 Texas woman bagged a one-in-70-million-opportunity when she delivered two sets of identical twins in a Houston hospital on the Valentine's Day.</p>
<p>Thirty-six-year-old Tressa Montalvo gave birth to four babies - two sets of identical twins at the Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston. Yet the babies are not quadruplets, as they are share two different placentas, which make them two sets of identical twins, a news release from the hospital said.</p>
<p>The babies were born after 31 weeks of pregnancy through Caesarean section.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/texas-woman-gives-birth-two-sets-twins-day-they-are-not-quadruplets-1092406

Russian Meteor Largest To Hit Earth In Over 100 Years; NASA Revises Estimate :: <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>The meteor that exploded over the Ural Mountains in central Russia, Friday, injuring over a thousand people is the largest to hit Earth in a 100 years, NASA said in a report.</p>
<p>Earlier, NASA had confirmed that the Russian Meteor was not part of the asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed the earth on the same day, but was an independent mass with its own trajectory. In a latest report on the Russian meteor, NASA said that the meteor was much larger than the initial estimate.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-meteor-largest-hit-earth-over-100-years-nasa-revises-estimate-1092354

Pakistan Hazaras Refuse To Bury Dead After Deadly Quetta Bombing; Blame Govt For Negligence :: <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>Pakistan's ethnic minority Hazaras continued to stage a sit-in Tuesday refusing to bury the bodies of scores of people killed in a bomb blast in Quetta Saturday.</p>
<p>The Hazaras, who practice Shia denomination of Islam, in Sunni-majority Pakistan and Afghanistan, blame the Pakistani government for its negligence in acting against Sunni extremism to contain the violence.</p>
<p>Saturday's attack that killed at least 89 people and injured some 169 was carried out by a Sunni militant group targeting Hazaras on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pakistan-hazaras-refuse-bury-dead-after-deadly-quetta-bombing-blame-govt-negligence-1092342

Colorado College Advises Vomiting Or Urinating To Stop Rapists After Lawmakers Pass Gun Control Bills :: <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>The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Public Safety updated Monday evening a statement advising female students to consider a variety of unusual actions if they are attacked, including vomiting, urinating and claiming that they are menstruating.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/colorado-college-advises-vomiting-or-urinating-stop-rapists-after-lawmakers-pass-gun-control-bills

Colorado Democrat Under Fire For Suggesting Female College Students Fearing Rape Should Not Have Access To Concealed Guns :: <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 Democratic state legislator from Colorado is in hot water over comments he made during a debate on Friday over a law that would ban concealed weapons permit holders from carrying guns on public college campuses in the Centennial State.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/colorado-democrat-under-fire-suggesting-female-college-students-fearing-rape-should-not-have-access

Take This Job and Love It! :: In a down economy, when your job loses its lustre, it&#039;s worth taking a new approach to it. (Source: Psychology Today)
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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)
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Local Couple Creates Fertility App To Help Couples Get Pregnant :: var WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947 = new WNVideoWidget("WNVideoCanvas", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947", "1");
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To meet the FCC's Gigabit Challenge, cities will have to get political :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/EexWDn8gug0/story01.htm

Tough times for Anglo American :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/bOnfAL66Mmg/