Cast iron: Marion native shares Dutch oven cooking
Marion resident Bob Hastings praises cast iron cooking from campouts to home kitchens. He demonstrates sandwiches dipped in batter, pork roast with vegetables, chicken pasta bake, and a camp friendly apple cobbler using multiple Dutch ovens and skillets. Hastings recalls learning on Shawnee Forest trips and notes proper cleaning and oiling for nonstick results.
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Marion
Shawnee Forest
Hastings
Essential Cast Iron Pan: The 12 Inch Skillet
Cast iron sauces can tint foods gray yet not harmful. The 12 inch skillet tops the essential kitchen list, popular for most cooks. A blackened patina from years of use makes it heirloom cookware to pass down. Lodge Manufacturing Co. offers ordering at lodgemfg.com or (423) 837-7181.
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Lodge Manufacturing Co
Lodgemfg.com
Samoan healers share AIDS drug profits in agreement
In Honolulu the AIDS ReSearch Alliance will give Samoa and two healers 20 percent of net profits from prostratin, an experimental anti HIV compound, with NIH to receive 5 percent. Trials may start within a year and profits could fund further AIDS research.
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Honolulu
Aids ReSearch Alliance
Samoa
National Institutes of Health
Paul Cox
Cox
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Congress
Los Angeles
Higher heart risk from older birth control pills
A Dutch study in The New England Journal of Medicine found second generation birth control pills double heart attack risk compared with other pills, while third generation pills showed similar risk to others. Doctors urge not overreact, noting conflicting studies on clot risks.
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Boston
New England Journal of Medicine
Europe
United States
Frits Rosendaal
Leiden University Medical Center
Merck Medco program cuts medication costs
Rich Douglass promotes generic switches to doctors through Merck Medco Generics First. The program aims to lower patient copays and insurer costs by urging use of 10 generic drugs, with $3.5 million saved from January to June. Supporters see broad savings. critics worry about brand-name undercutting.
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Trenton
N.J
Rich Douglass
Douglass
Merck Medco
Merck & Co
Merck-Medco
Merck Medco program promotes generics amid critique
Merck Medco pilots free generic samples to boost generic use and market share. Analysts warn the plan could boost Merck drugs while cutting costs for patients, with critics noting potential conflicts of interest and limited scope of drugs in the program. Merck Medco serves 65 million Americans via mail order pharmacies and nationwide claim processing.
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Shah
Medco
Merck
Merck-Medco
Vitamin A linked with hip fractures in older women
A JAMA study of over 70 000 postmenopausal nurses finds that high total intake of retinol from food and supplements doubles hip fracture risk versus low intake. Supplemental vitamin A raises risk by about 40 percent. beta carotene and fortified foods may pose less danger. Researchers urge labeling change and possible reformulation to lower retinol exposure while noting vitamins offer other health benefits.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Diane Feskanich
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston
Feskanich
Institute of Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Walter Willett
Harvard School of Public Health
Council For Responsible Nutrition
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Sidney Wolfe
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
Merck- Medco
Wolfe
Hemant Shah
Warren, N.J
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