NEW SALMONELLA OUTBREAK> COOK CHICKEN TO 165 DEGREES

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With nearly 300 people infected with a multi-drug resistant Salmonella infection in California and across the West Coast, it’s important to identify the potential offending chicken and avoid eating it, but even more important is handling chicken properly and cooking it to 165 degrees to kill any bacteria that you may get exposed to. There …

NEW ‘CANCER THEORY’ FROM ASU PHYSICIST PROMOTES INTEREST

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Paul Davies is an ASU physics professor and an expert in astrobiology (the potential formation of life on distant planets).  If an ALIEN comes to visit our world, it is said that Davies will be among the first scientists contacted to interact with them (far fetched….yes….but this is actually the case.) His latest foray into …

THE FLU IS HERE….SO NOW WHAT?

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The flu is widespread throughout the country and in Arizona. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm   In the past two weeks we have seen more flu, in one compressed timeframe, than at any other time in my career. The said, the flu is milder than in years past.  We have sent ‘ZERO’ people from the office, to the hospital …

MORE WEST NILE NATIONALLY

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West Nile is having a banner year in 2012 unfortunately, with an increase in cases across the country. Most are in Texas and Oklahoma…..Arizona, fortunately has not been having a marked increase. Still….West Nile, a virus transmitted by mosquito bites, is still prevalent here in Arizona and has it’s peak occurrence in August. So….be aware …

WHAT A GREAT GUY…AND HE’S HERE IN TEMPE

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Did you see the article in the AZ Republic today about the PhD student who won his insurance battle with Aetna, to get coverage beyond his 300,000 lifetime maximum? Read it here…. http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2012/07/27/20120727asu-student-fighting-cancer-twitter-victory-aetna.html It’s a great story of a strong student who is fighting for his life after being diagnosed with advanced cancer at the …