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Florida health department suspends compounding pharmacy Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:39 AM PDT (Reuters) - The Florida Department of Health has temporarily suspended compounding operations at a pharmacy, the latest in a growing number of closings since a deadly meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated drugs in a Massachusetts facility. The Florida pharmacy, based in Boca Raton and called Rejuvi Pharmaceuticals, prepares injectable drugs and medications. The Florida health department ... Bayer's regorafenib gets priority review by FDA Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:25 AM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators granted a priority review for Bayer's cancer drug regorafenib for the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, potentially speeding up the treatment's route to market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants priority reviews to medicines that are considered potentially significant therapeutic advancements over existing therapies. A priority ... New UN "atlas" links climate change, health Associated Press via Yahoo! News Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:14 AM PDT Two U.N. agencies have mapped the intersection of health and climate in an age of global warming, showing that there are spikes in meningitis when dust storms hit and outbreaks of dengue fever when hard rains come. Hospitals should make flu shots mandatory for health-care workers, journal says The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT TORONTO - The Canadian Medical Association Journal is adding its voice to calls for mandatory flu shots for health-care workers. French judge orders release of implant firm boss AFP via Yahoo! Maktoob News Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:09 AM PDT A French judge on Monday ordered the release of the founder of breast implant company PIP, which sparked a global health scare over potentially faulty products, after eight months in preventive detention.

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