New York schools, which serve about 800,000 meals a day, will also serve lower-fat versions of foods such as tacos and chicken nuggets. And beef ravioli and macaroni may soon be history. By 2008, the city expects to abide by federal recommendations that no more than 30 percent of the calories in school lunches come […]
NEW YORK Rain, snow, ice. There’s a lot of grumbling about the stiletto-adverse weather as New York Fashion Week hit Day 5 on Monday. But there’s a silver lining: cozy coats, especially styles with oversized fur hoods, never looked better. Phillip Lim, for his 3.1 brand, sent out his big coats in navy and black […]
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Health officials were scrambling to determine if the virus can be spread through blood transfusions, even as they emphasized that the blood supply is very safe. The risk of contracting West Nile from blood is significantly lower than the risk of forgoing any procedure that would call for a blood transfusion, they said. Ultimately, a […]
Most transplant organs are taken from brain-dead patients whose hearts have not stopped because doctors have long believed that if they wait until the heart stops, the organs will become damaged from lack of oxygen. But in the first-long term study comparing the two approaches, doctors at University Hospital Zurich followed nearly 250 transplant patients […]
“Learn To Fly” has been a hit Summer Song for the Foo Fighters for almost 20 years now … not that their long run has always been easy going, as Anthony Mason can tell us: Under the San Bernardino sun last fall, 30,000 fans came out for an old-school rock festival. If rock ‘n’ roll […]
One Internet site, NukePills.com, reported orders for 10,000 packs of the pills on Monday alone. People who live near nuclear reactors have been stocking up since Sept. 11, in case of an attack or accident. But don’t assume you need the drug because of “dirty bomb” scenarios now making headlines, experts caution. Potassium iodide would […]
Experts say the study, together with other recent authoritative reviews, show definitively there is no evidence of a connection between the inoculations and developmental and bowel problems in children, and that parents should be reassured the shots are safe. However, parents who believe their children have been harmed by the vaccine, known as MMR, were […]
Lotronex, made by North Carolina-based GlaxoSmithKline, may be prescribed only by certain doctors enrolled in a special program, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The drug also should be given only to the sickest patients, fewer than 5 percent of sufferers, who have failed other therapies. But the FDA stopped short of even tougher […]
That was the message from the advisers as they grappled with exactly what the Food and Drug Administration should tell women. The advice Wisconsin health officials offer pregnant women may be the right approach until the FDA gets better data, the panelists concluded: Two 6-ounce cans of tuna per week is fine if that’s the […]