The latest issue of the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ carries a report that indicates losing weight helps ease the symptoms of incontinence experienced by as many as 13 million American women.  Incontinence, or the …

Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company making recent headlines for knowingly selling salmonella-tainted peanut butter to some of the nation’s leading makers of packaged food products, has been called in …

When US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientist Renee Dufault found measurable amounts of the toxic heavy metal, mercury, in nine of 20 samples of high fructose corn syrup, she reported it to her supervisors.  …

Bisphenol A (BPA) is back in the news but no concrete conclusions of its safety have yet been established.  The latest evidence feeding the BPA safety controversy is a study that suggests BPA lingers in …

Repeated inspections didn’t get the job done.  Nor did regulations governing how to operate a safe food-handling facility.  Building codes didn’t do the job, either.  Instead, it took a widespread salmonella outbreak that made more …

President Barack Obama is a staunch advocate of ‘paperless’ hospitals, where patient records, doctors’ orders, and other medical data are kept electronically rather than on paper.  The Congressional Budget Office and other critics of the …

The current issue of the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ carries a study suggesting human brains are wired for rhythm and, within just a few days of birth, can detect when that rhythm …

Nancy Shute, expert writer on all things parenting for US News and World Report, has just described the current salmonella outbreak as the ‘scariest’ she’s ever seen.  Her fears don’t stem from the number of …

Think of Salmonella infection and most people think about food.  The current outbreak of infection traced to peanut butter and last year’s tomato scare put food-borne outbreaks in the headlines but food isn’t always the …

1999 was a good year for Merck.  In its 64-page annual report it predicted arthritis medicine Vioxx–Our Biggest, Fastest and Best Launch Ever!–would prevent Alzheimer’s disease and colon cancer.