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NATIONAL DUAL CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH CARE, AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING LAUNCHED IN THE U.S.

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imageWASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 32,719 people died in traffic crashes in 2013 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,076 people who died in drunk driving crashes, accounting for 31% of all traffic deaths that year.

One person is killed by a drunk driver every 39 minutes.

Meanwhile, it is estimated that 45,000 Americans die each year because of the lack of health insurance. Yet, the Republican  Party is unrelentless in its resolve to strike down the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.

So, in its commitment to significantly reduce American deaths caused by drunk driving and the lack of affordable care, the National Democratic Committee, in partnership with the NHTSA and the American Medical Association, launched a comprehensive and ambitious campaign to create greater public awareness about these unnecessary deaths.

The group has just unveiled the first of a series of billboards, posters and bus signs that remind the American people not to drink and drive and not to vote Republican. (See photo of traffic sign above).

Business, Health & Medicine, International, Technology

FDA APPROVES FIRST ‘SELFIE’ DRUG

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imageLENERKUSEN, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, Germany (The Adobo Chronicles) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to Bayer Pharmaceuticals for the marketing of the first drug to cure selfitis, an inflammation of the ego which last year was officially declared a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association.

Bayer is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well is known for its original brand of aspirin.

The FDA approval came after successful Phase III clinical trials which showed the new pill’s overwhelming safety and efficacy in combatting selfies – the taking of photos of one’s self and posting them on social media.

Because selfitis has become a highly contagious worldwide epidemic, the FDA granted Bayer a fast track approval process. FDA drug approval takes takes anywhere from 10 to 15 years, but it took just 14 months for Bayer to gain the marketing green light.

The new drug comes in pill form and requires a doctor’s prescription. Dosage is different for men and women.  Men need to take one pill a day while women need 5  pills.  Neither Bayer nor the FDA had any explanation on the dosage discrepancy.

Bayer is now pursuing drug approval in Europe and Asia.

 

Food, Health & Medicine

FDA ADMITS ARSENIC FOUND IN U.S. CHICKEN, ISSUES COOKING ADVISORY

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Chicken adobo (Photo credit: MyBayKitchen.com)
Chicken adobo (Photo credit: MyBayKitchen.com)

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (The Adobo Chronicles) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally confirmed that the cancer-causing chemical known as arsenic is found in more than 70% of all chicken sold in the country.

The FDA has asked drug company Pfizer to stop manufacturing the arsenic-containing drug, Roxarsone, that was found in the livers of nearly half of all chicken tested.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “The agency said it recently conducted a study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with 3-Nitro compared with untreated chickens .”

The FDA immediately issued the following advisory to all U.S. consumers in order to prevent a cancer epidemic:

“All consumers are advised to purchase only organically-raised chicken. If they have remaining chicken in their freezers, it is best to cook them as chicken adobo, the Filipino style of cooking in which meat is boiled then slowly simmered in a mixture of garlic, soy sauce, vinegar and basil.”

It is widely believed that adobo-style cooking neutralizes arsenic and other harmful chemicals used in food processing.

To learn how to cook adobo, ask your Filipino neighbor or follow this recipe.