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• Rat Poison May Be Behind Pet Food Recall

  Shannon Weidemann | March 23, 2007 12:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Menu Foods announced a large recall of pet food last week. It included over 90 brands of "cuts and gravy" style canned and foil packet food. It has been blamed for causing kidney failure in cats and dogs. Early reports coming out now are saying that rat poison has been found in the recalled food. The deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food produced by Menu Foods and...

• Car Accidents Number One Cause of Spinal Injuries in Children

  Shannon Weidemann | March 04, 2007 9:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Spinal Cord Injuries

  A new study by researchers at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has shown that the number one cause of spinal cord injuries in children is from car accidents. Most of the children were not wearing a seatbelt at the time."Motor vehicle accidents are by far the No. 1 cause of pediatric spinal cord injury within the U.S., accounting for more than 55% of cases," write the researchers. They add...