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In an about-face to their stance during the Clinton Administration, leaders of the nation’s healthcare industry have promised to cut prices in response to the Obama Administration’s vow to resolve the healthcare crisis and make …
According to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most Americans consume too much salt for optimum health. Almost 145 million adults (69%) are considered medically sensitive to salt, …
The last few years have produced a rough ride for food safety in the United States and around the world. Problems with imported foods and foods produced in and shipped across the United States have …
The top six makers of baby bottles have agreed to stop using bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles after attorneys general in Connecticut, Delaware, and New Jersey asked them to. The industrial plastic has been …
According to a recently released US study, rage kills, and so do other strong emotions associated with stressful events. These emotions become deadly when they trigger irregular heart beats (arrhythmia) and cardiac arrest. More than …
The American Red Cross is finding it’s harder to save lives as the national economic recession deepens. Local chapters depend largely on donations and fund raisers to finance their daily operations but donations are fewer …
Two women from Tampa, Florida, are suffering serious health consequences after they allowed a woman to inject their buttocks with a homemade silicon solution to enhance their appearances. Both women, in their 30s, were hospitalized …
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 …
The January issue of ‘The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease’ features a study of long-term coffee drinking and its effect on age-related dementia. The findings suggest drinking coffee today keeps dementia away.
The list grows as more and more peanut-based products are being voluntarily recalled after a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning was issued on Saturday, January 17. At this time, the source of Salmonella …










