Health Highlights: Sept. 20, 2007

Mar. 23 -- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Pro Golf Announces Anti-Doping Policy

Following the lead of other major sports, professional golf's top organizations have announced an anti-doping policy that will take effect in 2008. The policy includes a list of banned substances including narcotics, stimulants, anabolic steroids, hormones, beta blockers and masking agents.

The organizations involved in the policy are the: PGA Tour; European Tour; U.S. Golf Association; Royal & Ancient Golf Club; Augusta National Golf Club; PGA of America; and the LPGA Tour, the Associated Press reported.

The policy will be coordinated so that a punishment imposed on a player for a doping infraction will be recognized and enforced worldwide.

Golf officials say there is no evidence of golfers taking performance-enhancing drugs, but they'd been facing increasing pressure to develop an anti-doping policy, AP reported.

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Chinese Food Products Banned From Philippine Schools

Four Chinese food products reported to contain cancer-causing formaldehyde have been banned from school canteens in the Philippines, the country's education department announced Thursday.

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The school ban -- which includes the popular White Rabbit and Milk Candy brand, Bairong Grape Biscuits and the Yong Kang Foods Grape Biscuit -- comes after health officials issued a public warning about the products, Agence France-Presse reported.

Tests conducted on samples of the products proved positive for formaldehyde, which is commonly used to preserve dead bodies.

In July, the Philippines government banned imports of the four food items. Only the makers of White Rabbit -- Guan Sheng Yuan Group Co. -- have denied using formaldehyde, AFP reported.

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FDA Targets CFCs in Asthma Inhalers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it wants to eliminate the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in metered dose inhalers for epinephrine, which are used to provide temporary relief of occasional symptoms of mild asthma.