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E. Coli-Tainted Romaine Threatens Frail, Sick Most

By EJ Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials have warned all Americans to stay away from romaine lettuce this holiday season, due to potential contamination with E. coli. So far, 32 people across 11 states have been sickened. Although no one has died, illnesses have been so severe… Read More: E. Coli-Tainted Romaine Threatens Frail, Sick Most »

How a Carnival Cruise Director Keeps Himself Shipshape

Take your current job. Add thousands of people whom you have to make happy for days and days. Add a staff that includes comedians and blackjack dealers. Add a Motown Night, the mechanics of which you still need to figure out. Also, your office might get tossed around by a bomb cyclone. Oh, and you… Read More: How a Carnival Cruise Director Keeps Himself Shipshape »

Don't let hearing loss take away the sounds of the season

For most people here in the U.S., the holiday season kicks off at the end of November. The days are shorter, there’s a crispness to the air and whole neighborhoods compete to shine brightly after dark. Whatever you celebrate — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or the New Year — this time of the year is filled… Read More: Don't let hearing loss take away the sounds of the… »

Novartis's pricing might be tested with costly eye therapy

ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis’s price-setting muscle is about to be tested after it won European Union approval for a blindness-fighting gene therapy whose $ 850,000 list cost in the United States has been labeled too expensive by some groups. FILE PHOTO: A Novartis logo is pictured on its headquarters building in Mumbai April 1, 2013.… Read More: Novartis's pricing might be tested with costly eye therapy »