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Sniffing out the meaning in 'Sell by' dates
Hold on before dumping that gallon milk down the sink; just because it's past the "sell-by" date doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be thrown out.
The American Academy of Pediatrics president says it's tragic the debate over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act led to the U.S. government shutdown.
Psychotropic prescription drugs in young kids peaked in mid-2000s
The use of psychotropic prescription drugs to treat mental disorders such as anxiety in very young U.S. children leveled off by 2009, researchers say.
About 4,000 U.S. infants die during sleep time each year
Each year about 4,000 U.S. infants die during sleep time from sudden infant death syndrome, accidental suffocation, or unknown causes, officials say.
Contraception mandate reaches justices
The bruising fight in Congress over President Obama's Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- may spill over into the U.S. Supreme Court, where a challenge to the act's contraception mandate is finally on the horizon.
Federal agencies set out plans to deal with possible shutdown
Planning is under way for a possible shutdown of the U.S. government as Congress and the White House face off over raising the debt limit, officials say.
GlaxoSmithKline and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, part of the U.S. government, signed a contract for anthrax treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday it prohibits manufacture of FDA-regulated drugs from Ranbaxy's Mohali, India, plant.
CDC: 23,000 Americans die yearly of antibiotic-resistant infections
More than 2 million U.S. adults and children get infections resistant to antibiotics each year, and at least 23,000 of them die as a result, officials say.
U.S. product safety regulators said they would ban drug imports from a Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. facility in Mumbai that failed a plant inspection.
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Obama visits Sandwich Shot in Washington, D.C.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool