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China will look into report of cadmium in childrens’ jewelry
Wal-Mart and Claire’s have pulled Chinese-made children’s jewelry suspected to have been made with cadmium. The decision to two of American’s largest retailers of costume jewelry comes on the heels of an investigation by the Associated Press which found some products contained dangerous levels of the toxic metal. Lab tests conducted for the AP on 103 pieces of low-priced children’s jewelry on sale in the U.S. found 12 items with elevated levels of cadmium, which can hinder brain development in young children, according to recent research, and is known to cause cancer. Twelve items had cadmium levels of at least 10 percent by weight. One piece had 91 percent, and others contained more than 80%. The government has no restrictions on cadmium in jewelry. The findings of cadmium contamination come on the heels of a string of product quality scandals in 2007 that caused Congress in 2008 to ban toys…
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One of three Paxil lawsuits settled
First Men in the Moon ipod Anastasia movie download The Warriors download Joy Ride: Dead Ahead download Two lawsuits filed by West Virginia families claim the antidepressant Paxil was responsible for their children’s birth defects. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in December 2005 that it was requiring Glaxo to add warnings of birth defects to the drug’s prescribing information. This decision was fueled by two studies that showed that women who took Paxil during the first three months of pregnancy were about one and a half to two times as likely to have a baby with a heart defect than women who took other antidepressants or women in the general population. The lawsuits claim that Glaxo knew that Paxil was associated with birth defects prior to the 2005 label change and that the heart birth defects that are present in their children wre the result of their mother’s…
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Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
Though not much is known about the causes of autism, angry families in the United States are blaming childhood vaccines. The Freshman divx Flash of Genius movie Blame It on the Samba movie We Were Soldiers download In 2004, the Institute of Medicine promised there was no credible evidence showing that the preservative thimerosal contained in some vaccines caused autism, but that has not stopped nearly 5,000 lawsuits alleging the contrary. Highlander ipod Dolls movie The Guns of Navarone film It is a general contention among all the pending lawsuits that the vaccines containing thimerosal were the cause of autism in the children—they do, however, disagree on exactly how. Red Rock West full Dead-End Drive In rip Two Lovers film Some of the birth trauma attorneys handling these cases say that only the thimerosal in the vaccines caused the neurological disorders. Others argue that the injections also contained a form…
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