The St. Louis Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced that it will host a Dine Out for the Cure event on Thursday, June 11. (The St. Louis Race for the Cure is that Saturday, June 13.) Participating restaurants will donate part of their proceeds to battle breast cancer. Already on board are several Clayton restaurants: Portabella, Mazara, Bistro Alexander, Cafe Napoli and both locations of J. Buck's.Restaurants interested in participating should contact the St. Louis branch of Sus
Pork mega-producer Smithfield Foods is cutting jobs, closing factories and losing stock value. (AP)Guilty pleas in a big food-safety and graft case involving California's tomato-processing industry. (San Francisco Chronicle)A new study suggests eating apples might fight breast cancer. (Daily Telegraph)
The USDA's new Country of Origin Labeling (pr COOL) law goes into effect today. (MSNBC)Apparently, it's food-allergy-news week: A new study finds that black male children have the highest risk of food allergies. (U.S. News & World Report)Research suggests that eating mushrooms could reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer. (Daily Telegraph)
Tonight is Dine out for the Cure, sponsored by the St. Louis Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Participating restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to fight breast cancer. The list of participating restaurants is available, as a PDF file, here.
obgyn.wustl.edu​We shall let the New York Times' international wanderer-columnist Nicholas D. Kristof open this blog post with a description of obstetric fistula, a truly grotesque condition suffered by women mostly in the global south. Such a woman, writes Kristof,suffers obstructed labor, has no access to a C-section, and endures internal injuries that leave her incontinent -- steadily trickling urine and sometimes feces through her vagina.She stinks. She becomes a pariah. She is typically a
