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WHO urges action on contaminated meds after child deaths

Medical Xpress

Following the deaths of more than 300 children from contaminated cough syrup, the WHO appealed Monday for "immediate and coordinated action" to root out substandard and falsified medicines around the world.

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Cough syrup can harm children—experts warn of contamination risks

Medical Xpress

The organization called for more efforts to protect children from contaminated medicine. The recent deaths of over 300 children in Africa and Asia have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn about the use of "substandard and falsified" medical products. Toxicologists Winston Morgan and Shazma Bashir unpack the story.

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research into the evolutionary history of humankind

STAT News

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Pääbo unlocked scientists’ understanding of how genes from these extinct relatives have been passed down to present-day humans.

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High Lead Levels in Cinnamon + Kaiser Permanente’s New Food Is Medicine Center – Xtalks Food Podcast Ep. 155

XTalks

Cinnamon can become contaminated with lead through various pathways. One primary source is the processing of cinnamon, including drying, grinding and packaging, which can introduce lead if the equipment or materials are contaminated. Also in this episode, Sydney talks about Kaiser Permanente’s new Food Is Medicine Center of Excellence.

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Effect of Disposable Elevator Cap Duodenoscopes on Microbial Contamination and Technical Performance of ERCP

JAMA Internal Medicine

This randomized clinical trial determines contamination rates after high-level disinfection and technical performance of duodenoscopes with disposable elevator caps compared with those with standard designs.

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Prenatal environmental contaminants and childhood disease

Scienmag

Credit: PAS A state of the art plenary session during the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2021 Virtual Meeting discussed prenatal environmental contaminants and childhood disease, and the latest evidence for epigenetic mechanisms associated with transgenerational disease and public policy implications.

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Fecal contamination in popular Montana backcountry area primarily attributable to wildlife or pack animals

Scienmag

Investigators analyzed water samples from a suite of backcountry lake outlets in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area of Montana for fecal contamination. Combining a traditional fecal bacterial assay and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), researchers found fecal contamination, but in most cases the […].