Clare Jalonick

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FDA approves easy-to-use heroin overdose antidote

FDA approves easy-to-use heroin overdose antidote

lauran-neergaardmary, Clare Jalonick · April 3, 2014 7:19 pm

This handout image provide by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows, from left, a current food nutrition label, a proposed label and an alternate label. Revamped food nutrition labels would change serving sizes for popular items like ice cream and sodas, make calories listing more prominent, and, for the first time, list any sugars that were added by the manufacturer. The overhaul of the omnipresent 20 year-old label comes as science has shifted. (AP Photo/FDA)

New food labels aim to make healthy shopping easy

darlene-supervillemary, Clare Jalonick · February 27, 2014 7:49 pm

First lady Michelle Obama recites a "wrap" song written by students from George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., about healthy eating as she announced proposed guidelines for local school wellness policies during an event in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Cut out junk food ads in schools, government says

darlene-supervillemary, Clare Jalonick · February 26, 2014 2:01 am

This photo taken Jan. 8, 2014, shows the contents of a specially prepared box of food at a food bank distribution, as part of a research project with Feeding America to try to improve the health of diabetics in food-insecure families.

Doctors say cutting food stamps could backfire

lauran-neergaardmary, Clare Jalonick · January 10, 2014 8:50 am

FILE This July 26, 2013 file photo shows a motorist filling up with gasoline containing ethanol in Des Moines. The Obama administration on Friday proposed to reduce the amount of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply for the first time, acknowledging that the biofuel law championed by both parties in 2007 is not working as well as expected.

EPA proposes reducing biofuel mandate

dina-cappiellomary, Clare Jalonick · November 15, 2013 9:28 pm

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2010 file photo shows a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.

Food stamps again a vivid symbol in poverty debate

Connie Cassmary, Clare Jalonick · September 21, 2013 4:12 am

In this Aug. 1, 2013, photo, Donna Heller talks about her recent stomach illness in Burleson, Texas. After multiple visits to the doctor for debilitating nausea and diarrhea lasting a month, Heller was diagnosed with cyclospora by the CDC last week and began taking the antibiotic treatment just this week. A mysterious outbreak of the parasitic illness usually found abroad is growing, with more than 400 confirmed cases in 16 states. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Cause of stomach illness difficult to detect

david-pittmary, Clare Jalonick · August 3, 2013 12:26 pm

Time to take a bite out of food stamps?

Connie Cassmary, Clare Jalonick · August 2, 2013 1:49 pm

Deal reached for stopping spike in milk prices

Deal reached for stopping spike in milk prices

alan-frammary, Clare Jalonick · December 31, 2012 3:00 pm

This undated image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows Salmonella bacteria in a petri dish. It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning _ but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation's ability to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks. Next-generation tests that promise to shave a few days off the time needed to tell if E. coli, salmonella or other foodborne bacteria are to blame for a patient's illness could reach medical laboratories as early as next year.(AP Photo/CDC)

New tests could hamper food outbreak detection

lauran-neergaardmary, Clare Jalonick · December 11, 2012 7:58 pm

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