The pouches were marketed to parents and children under three brands: WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree and Schnucks and Weis cinnamon applesauce pouches.
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The recall only involves conventionally grown fruit, and not organic fruit.
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- By Jonel Aleccia / AP Health Writer
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Nov. 17, 2023
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Cinnamon from a manufacturer in Ecuador is the “likely source” of high levels of lead found in recalled pouches of applesauce puree linked to illnesses in at least 34 children in 22 states, the FDA said today.
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Traditionally, the winter flu season ramps up in December or January. But it took off in October last year, and is making a November entrance this year.
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The number of people aged 65 and older in the United States who had reported using cannabis in the past year rose to almost 3% by 2016. As of 2022, it was at more than 8%.
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Reports of the seasonal virus are rising nationally, but experts said RSV is not expected to generate the kind of patient traffic seen last fall, when hospital emergency departments were overwhelmed with sick, wheezing kids.
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The $4.9 million expansion doubles the clinic’s square footage, adding four treatment rooms, upgraded equipment and enhanced waiting areas and clinical spaces.
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Children ages 1 to 3 were affected, and at least one child showed a blood lead level eight times higher than the level that raises concern, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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The findings could shift perceptions that the new class of obesity drugs are cosmetic treatments and put pressure on health insurers to cover them.
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Honolulu exposed $387 million in federal COVID-19 relief money it received in 2020 to fraud, waste and abuse as it dispensed business and household relief funding during the pandemic, the Office of the City Auditor says.
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Hawaii’s exemption rate rose to 6.4%, nearly double the year before, according to a CDC report.
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The drug helped dieters lose about a quarter of their body weight, or 60 pounds, in a recent study.
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Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing age and their partners to get tested for the sexually transmitted disease.
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- By Matthew Perrone / AP Health Writer
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Nov. 6, 2023
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The generic drug can be purchased cheaply and prescribed by most physicians and some nurses, regardless of their training.
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Cooking Fresh is shut down until all violations are resolved and cleared by a follow-up inspection.
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Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.
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Children who have eaten WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches should be tested for possible lead poisoning, the agency said.
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No injuries related to the products had been reported at the time of the announcement, but the FDA encouraged doctors and patients to submit cases through the agency’s online reporting system.
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