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FDA Updates Health Information Advisory On Melamine Contamination 28 Sep 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers that seven Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products manufactured in China are being recalled by the King Car Food Industrial Co. Ltd. due to possible contamination with melamine. The products, manufactured by China's Shandong Duqing Inc., are: - Mr. Brown Mandheling Blend Instant Coffee (3-in-1) - Mr. Brown Arabica Instant Coffee (3-in-1) - Mr. Brown Blue Mountain Blend Instant Coffee (3-in-1) - Mr. Brown Caramel Macchiato Instant Coffee (3-in-1) - Mr. Brown French Vanilla Instant Coffee (3-in-1)...

Activists Blame Infection Rate, Unchanged Since 1990, on Policies and Funding The number of people in poor countries taking AIDS drugs -- about 1.4 million -- rises by tens of thousands every week. The spread of AIDS in Africa seems to have peaked. Three countries there -- Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe -- report declining HIV prevalence, largely thanks to changes in people's behavior. Even in India, considered AIDS's ticking time bomb, efforts to defuse the epidemic are paying off in some places. Amid these optimistic trends from around the world, however, is another statistic that is stuck in time, right...