Year: 2014

You would be healthy and mindful about what you ate; restrained and aware of … You may even have considered the raw food diet and going vegan.

(Reuters) – The death of a New York college student from brain trauma in a suspected fraternity hazing incident in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in December was a homicide, a county coroner said on Saturday. Chun “Michael” Deng, a freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan, died of injuries inflicted by one or more persons, the definition of homicide, said William Lisman, coroner of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Deng, 19, had traveled with about 30 people to Tunkhannock Township, Pennsylvania, about 75 miles from New York City, for the weekend and took part in a pledging ritual for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi, authorities said shortly after his December death. E. David Christine Jr, district attorney for Monroe County, said in December that Deng “got tackled too many times” during a hazing incident and that criminal investigators were seeking the identities of people responsible for Deng’s injuries.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday certain lots of the supplement L-citrulline, used to treat genetic disorders found mostly in children, sold by compounding firm Medisca Inc were found to contain none of the drug, and warned doctors and patients not to use it. The FDA said the company is voluntarily recalling eight lots of the supplement. The agency said it has received “several adverse event reports associated with Medisca’s L-citrulline product.” “Health care professionals should discontinue dispensing from these lots, contact patients, and return all unused product to Medisca Inc. Patients and caregivers should stop using any product with these lot numbers,” the FDA said. The FDA said testing by Medisca indicated that those lots at issue did not contain L-citrulline.