The chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), widely used to make plastic packaging products, has just been declared toxic enough to be linked to a host of severe developmental and reproductive disorders common all across the United …

The latest issue of The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert addresses the high risk for error medical care professionals face when administering adult medication formulations to children. The chance of miscalculation puts children at …

“More needs to be done,” according to Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His assessment is based on 2007 data taken from the CDC’s Foodborne …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released some important statistics that reveal the number of heparin-related deaths before and after the recent recall of heparin and heparin-related products manufactured and/or distributed by …

Just as most of the rest of us have, two doctors at the University of Pennsylvania have always heard that we need to drink eight glasses containing eight ounces of water every day for optimum …

On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to grocers to remove from their shelves all cantaloupes shipped from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a melon-processing company located on the Pacific coast in southern …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning regarding consumption of cantaloupes from Honduras. According to the agency, cantaloupes originating from Agropecuaria Montelibano, Honduras-based grower and packer, appear to be linked to Salmonella …

A consumer watchdog group, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), has recently uncovered small amounts of a petroleum-based ingredient, known to cause cancer in animals, in some cleaning and personal grooming products manufactured and distributed by …

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is taking action against shipments of heparin coming into the country from China after an influx of reports describing allergic reactions, including four …

Outrage is spreading across the United States Senate floor faster than a summer wildfire. The Associated Press released a study indicating that tainted water is steadily flowing through American pipe line systems. The report stated …