Yuma News
FDA permits marketing of first diagnostic test to aid in detecting prosthetic joint infections
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 24 May 2019 24 May 2019
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the Synovasure Lateral Flow Test Kit as an aid for the detection of periprosthetic joint infection (infection around a joint replacement) in the synovial (lubricant) fluid of patients being evaluated for revision surgery, which is surgery performed to replace or compensate for a failed implant.
Blount Fine Foods Recalls Soup with Chicken Products
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- Written by USDA USDA
- Published: 24 May 2019 24 May 2019
Yuma, Arizona - Blount Fine Foods, a McKinney, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 6,690 pounds of soup with chicken products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
FTC Returns Nearly $315,000 to Consumers Who Bought Worthless Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Programs
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 24 May 2019 24 May 2019
Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 305 checks totaling $314,945 to consumers who paid up-front for worthless credit card interest rate reduction programs pitched by Payless Solutions using illegal robocalls.
AFP-AZ Joins National Kick Off Effort for Summer Driving Season
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- Written by Nicole Tardif Nicole Tardif
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
Phoenix, Arizona - Americans for Prosperity-Arizona (AFP-AZ) today joins a national grassroots effort urging Congress to focus on comprehensive reforms to prioritize financing on roads and bridges, streamline regulation and permitting processes, and reject increases to the federal gas tax. Just this session, the Arizona legislature rejected a state increase to the gas tax and AFP-AZ plans on holding its federal representatives to the same standards.
NIH announces two awards for multi-year studies of influenza immunity in children
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- Written by Elizabeth Deatrick Elizabeth Deatrick
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
Washington, DC - The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced two awards for the study of influenza immunity in children. The awards, which may total more than $64 million over seven years, will support studies led by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, examining how young children’s immune systems respond over multiple years to their initial influenza infection and their first vaccination.
Early weight-loss surgery may improve type 2 diabetes, blood pressure outcomes
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- Written by Heather Martin Heather Martin
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
Washington, DC - Despite similar weight loss, teens who had gastric bypass surgery were significantly more likely to have remission of both type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, compared to adults who had the same procedure. Results are from an NIH-funded study comparing outcomes in the two groups five years after surgery.
NIH study finds heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain
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- Written by NIDDK NIDDK
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
Washington, DC - People eating ultra-processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate a minimally processed diet, according to results from a National Institutes of Health study. The difference occurred even though meals provided to the volunteers in both the ultra-processed and minimally processed diets had the same number of calories and macronutrients.