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Ban on dairy's raw milk: Shot heard around state

When California's raw milk dairies learned about new legislation tightening safety standards for their unpasteurized milk and cream, they alongside passionate raw milk devotees bitterly lobbied against mandates they believed would destroy their ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  7 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Whole Foods Market, Inc.

New study reveals effects of stopping hormone therapy

Cancer risks may persist years after women quit taking hormone replacement therapy, researchers report in the first major follow-up to a groundbreaking national study of a common treatment for menopause. now prescribe hormone replacement therapy only ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: American Medical Association,  Stanford University,  National Institutes of Health

Curio to cardio: Chia hits shelves as new health food

Eat your Chia Pet. Help your heart? major chain to roll out chia products nationwide. Some researchers think so prompting distributors of the seeds used to sprout the pets' iconic frizzy green hair to tout them as the latest "superfood." Chia ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  24 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  eBay Inc.

From curio to cardio: Chia gets health food makeover

Eat your Chia Pet. Help your heart? first major chain to roll out chia products nationwide. Some researchers think so prompting distributors of the tiny seeds used to sprout the pets' iconic frizzy green hair to tout them as the latest "superfood." ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  22 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  eBay Inc.

From curio to cardio: Chia gets makeover

Eat your Chia Pet. Help your heart? major chain to roll out chia products nationwide. Some researchers think so prompting distributors of the seeds used to sprout the pets' iconic frizzy green hair to tout them as the latest "superfood." Chia ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  21 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  eBay Inc.

Boy who swallowed magnets appears on TV

At 5 years old, Braden Eberle's 15 minutes of fame is coming a little early. metal and they are far more powerful than those used decades ago. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has logged 33 injuries and one death from swallowed toy magnets, and ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  5 Feb 2008

Judge gives state prison health overseer the boot

A federal judge on Wednesday abruptly ousted the powerful overseer of California's state prison health system amid concerns about the pace of reform and his famously abrasive management style. when he ordered some poor-performing physicians who had ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV AND BRANDON BAILEY, Inside Bay Area,  24 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Chuck Quackenbush,  Todd Spitzer

Separated twin sisters heading home after healing

After six months of doctors poking and prodding, multiple surgeries and daily physical therapy sessions, it's time for Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias to go home not as one, but two. shared a liver. Their two separate hearts were connected at the ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  23 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Stanford University

State hospitals charging more

As a whole, California hospitals charge billions of dollars more for their services than it costs to provide them, according to a new report, which shows a wide range in the amounts hospitals in the state bill their patients. each hospital in an ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  22 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Bill Lockyer

Legislators face taxing times with anti-tax groups

SACRAMENTO The anti-tax creed is so ingrained in the Republican Party that all but one of the 47 GOP state lawmakers have signed a pledge to never raise taxes. disabled, insisting that taxes must be part of the mix. That illustrates not only how ...

From BARBARA FEDER OSTROV, Inside Bay Area,  22 Jan 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  George W. Bush,  Arnold Schwarzenegger

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