CNN's top health stories of 2007
The year 2007 is coming to a close and it's time for the year-end wrap ups. There were a lot of important health stories in 2007 -- MRSA, food recalls, toy recalls, etc -- and now seems like the perfect time to find out which ones made the biggest impact. CNN recently listed their top health stories of 2007. Here's their list, along with our take on the same topics:- Governor Rick Perry mandates HPV vaccine for girls and raises a ruckus in Texas.
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center comes under scrutiny after poor conditions are reported.
- Cats and dogs are killed by contaminated pet food manufactured in China. Several food and toy recalls follow.
- A patient with drug resistant TB leaves the country, then returns, risking the infection of fellow airline passengers and drawing attention to this rare disease.
- Performance-enhancing drugs make major headlines. Marion Jones is stripped of her Olympic medal.
- About 21.7 pounds of ground beef were recalled due to fear of E. coli contamination. Other food recalls follow.
- FDA experts recommend that cold medication not be given to young children.
- MRSA -- a drug resistant staph infection -- gets attention when it's learned that the infection is killing more Americans each year than AIDS.
- Avandia gets a black box warning that it may be associated with heart attacks.
- A stem cell breakthrough comes when scientists reprogram skin cells to perform like stem cells.
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