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Small study: Drug may help stabilize Alzheimer’s
MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer
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Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays
Associated Press
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Produce safety testing program survives
SAN FRANCISCO – The Agriculture Department grudgingly extended the life of the nation’s largest produce safety testing program Monday, just as the initiative was slated to be shut down.
The tiny program samples thousands of high-risk fruits and vegetables for pathogens every year, and has found more than two dozen bacteria-laced examples that prompted recalls.
It was at risk of being scrapped after President Barack Obama’s proposed budget slashed the effort’s funding earlier this year. But USDA spokesman Justin DeJong said Monday that the Microbiological Data Program will continue operating through December, using existing agreements with the states to keep testing for salmonella, E. coli and listeria over the next six months.
Public health officials and food safety advocates have long argued that getting rid of the program would leave the country without a crucial tool used to investigate outbreaks of deadly foodborne illnesses.
More states vetting voters get data access
OLYMPIA – The federal government is expanding access to an immigration database so that several states can use it to cleanse voter rolls, officials said Monday.
Homeland Security Department representatives first notified Florida officials last week that they could check to see if registered voters are actually noncitizens who should not be eligible to cast a ballot. State officials said Monday that the department is now offering similar access to other states.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler had renewed his request for the data last week. Elections leaders in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio and Utah had signed on to Gessler’s request.
The data work is supposed to help states identify people who may be legal residents but not citizens.
Washington state has been requesting the data since the Bush administration. Shane Hamlin, the co-director of elections in Washington, said state officials aren’t getting full access to the database that they had sought but that they were pleased with the development.
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HIV-prevention pill OK’d by FDA
Move is on heels of over-the-counter infection test
Matthew Perrone Associated Press
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Democrats may allow ending all Bush cuts
Chenfei Zhang Correspondent
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This date in history
180: The Scillitan Martyrs were condemned and executed at Carthage.
1950: "Cousin Sam" was born in Coulee Dam, Wash.
1955: Disneyland had its opening day in Anaheim, Calif
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Opinion:
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health:
The season of swimmer’s itch has officially arrived
Adrian Rogers The Spokesman-Review
Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
Joe Graedon M.S. Peoples Pharmacy
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