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Swine Flu - H1N1 influenza

Swine flu is the common name given to a relatively new strain of influenza (flu) that caused a flu pandemic in 2009-2010. It is also referred to as H1N1 influenza (because it is the H1N1 strain of...

Smoking

Smoking tobacco and cigarettes has long been associated with lung cancer and other respiratory conditions such as COPD. Since this link has become common knowledge, there has extensive programs to h...

Food Safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avo...

What is the FDA?

The US FDA is the Food and Drug Administration . FDA is responsible for:   Protecting the public health by assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled; human...

People who don't stink still wear deodorant, study finds

For most people, putting on deodorant is a necessary ritual on par with brushing teeth or washing hands. But for those who produce no armpit stench, it is totally unnecessary. Despite that, nearl...

Some Women Who Don't Need Deodorant Use It Anyway

FRIDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Some consumers could be saving money spent on deodorants, a new study suggests. Most women with a rare version of a certain gene who do not produce underarm body o...

Junior Varsity Naturals launches sweepstakes with Sweepstakes Ninja

Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) December 23, 2012 Consumers have the chance to win a set of children's deodorant products from Junior Varsity Naturals. Junior Varsity Naturals Children Deodoran...

Flu vaccine safe in pregnancy, study confirms

A large study offers reassuring news for pregnant women: It's safe to get a flu shot. The research found no evidence that the vaccine increases the risk of losing a fetus, and may prevent some deaths....

Unilever Buoyed By Emerging Markets, Dove Global Sales

Unilever is “the emerging-market consumer goods company,” CEO Paul Polman suggests, as the firm derived more than 55% of its first-half turnover from emerging markets. Meanwhile, Dove sales exceed...

Clinique, Dove Named “Top Risers” In BrandZ Report

More than half of the top 100 global brands identified in Millward Brown’s “BrandZ” report lost value this year compared with the prior year, a trend of magnitude not seen since “the depths of...

One million Brits can 'dump their deodorants'

"One million people who have non-body odour gene still use deodorant," is the headline from The Daily Telegraph, with a similar Daily Mail report saying many people use deodorant needlessly...

Beaumont recipient of 2013 Dove Award from the Arc of Oakland County

(Beaumont Health System) Beaumont Health System's participation in Project SEARCH was recently recognized by the Arc of Oakland County with its "Employer/Contractor of the Year Award." The presentatio...

Deodorant Spray: A Newly Identified Cause of Cold Burn.

Two patients encountered a first-degree cold burn after use of a deodorant spray. The spray-nozzle to skin-surface distance was approximately 5 cm, and the spraying lasted approximately 15 seconds. Un...

Measurement of Raman χ((3)) and Theoretical Estimation of DOVE Four Wave Mixing of Hydrogen Peroxide.

Hydrogen peroxide has strong infrared (IR) transitions ν(6) and its combination band ν(2)+ν(6), which may provide a unique opportunity to implement doubly vibrationally enhanced (DOVE) four wave mi...

High-throughput gender identification of three Columbidae species using melting curve analysis.

The objective was to perform high-throughput gender identification of three Columbidae species (Columba livia, Columba pulchricollis, and Streptopelia tranquebarica). Although the chromo-helicase-DNA...

Women's exposure to phthalates in relation to use of personal care products.

Several phthalates, particularly diethyl phthalate (DEP) and di-n-butyl phthalate, can be used in personal care products (PCPs) to fix fragrance and hold color. We investigated associations between wo...

Antagonistic effects of cadmium on lead accumulation in pregnant and non-pregnant mice.

People are frequently exposed to combinations of contaminants but there is a paucity of data on the effects of mixed contaminants at low doses. This study investigated the influence of cadmium (Cd) on...