Hershey wins lawsuit claiming its Reese’s Halloween candies aren’t spooky enough

[ad_1] Hershey received a treat Friday when a judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming the company’s Reese’s candies tricked customers by depicting spooky Halloween designs on their packaging, while the unwrapped chocolates were in fact featureless.  U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian ruled Friday that the consumers who filed the class-action lawsuit failed to show that the…

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Amid confusion over federal vaccine recommendations, states become laboratories of public health

[ad_1] When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, met last week, confusion filled the room.  Members admitted they didn’t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding.  Now…

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