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The FDA said Thursday it issued inspection reports to all but one of the pharmacies citing unsanitary conditions and quality control problems, including: rust and mold in supposedly sterile rooms, inadequate ventilation, and employees wearing non-sterile lab coats

Washington DC - Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported it has uncovered potential safety problems at 30 specialty pharmacies that were inspected in the wake of a recent outbreak of meningitis caused by contaminated drugs. 

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by Lou Kilzer | Tribune-Review   

Reported cases of Legionnaires' disease in the United States have jumped more than 260 percent since 2000, but the true number could make annual cases of the disease more common than brain cancer, leukemia or HIV, a Tribune-Review investigation has found.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded fewer than 400 cases of the deadly form of pneumonia in the 1990s. Then in 2000, the cases exploded to 1,100. By 2011, about 4,200 cases were reported, according to CDC figures obtained by the Trib.

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by Dr. Clifford Bassett - FoxNews.com

More than 25 million American children, adolescents and adults currently have a diagnosis of asthma.

Previously it was thought that underlying allergies were only prevalent in children with allergies. In fact, almost 80 percent of children with asthma have underlying allergies, so perhaps that was not necessarily the case with adults with asthma.

However, a new study published in this month's Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology found that...

by Afshan Ahmed | theNational.ae

DUBAI - Children may be losing concentration in class and taking more time off with illness because of poor air quality in schools.

Tests in five state and three private schools over a period of eight hours found excessive levels of carbon dioxide in one classroom and of volatile organic compounds elsewhere.

Few schools realise air quality affects the learning process, said Dr Moshood Fadeyi, an assistant professor at the British University in Dubai who is overseeing the air-quality study.