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The Food and Drug Administration is revising the nutrition facts label -- that breakdown of fats, salts, sugars and nutrients on packaging -- to give consumers more useful information and help fight the national obesity epidemic.
The FDA is putting the squeeze on a popular massage machine that's been on the market almost a decade, saying. The agency's safety alert advises owners to not just throw it away, but to toss the parts separately so others aren't tempted to reassemble it and use it again.
The government is detaining all papaya imports from Mexico after testing showed high rates of salmonella contamination in the fruit.
California lawmakers will consider whether local jurisdictions have the right to ban male circumcision or whether the practice should be covered by statewide rules.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind drug to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer by targeting a particular genetic mutation found in about half of patients.
A spike in radioactive sulfur from the damaged Japanese nuclear plant was detected in California in late March, but researchers say it posed no threat to health.
Oh baby! A Sacramento hospital was hopping over the weekend breaking a record when it comes to newborns. And the baby boom may have something to do with the moon.
If you are one of millions of Southlanders who frequent tanning salons, a new study suggests you may actually become addicted to tanning.
Scientists who hunt for "intelligence genes" used to think there were fewer than half a dozen of them.
Ask Bruce Bochy if he has a dip and San Francisco's skipper offers up a standard response: "I don't do that anymore."
Authorities say a 65-year-old Sacramento County woman is the only person to die in a nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey
The Agriculture Department says meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a death in California and at least 76 other salmonella illnesses.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government hopes to find the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey "very, very" soon.
California state health officials said Tuesday that the one death was in Sacramento County. Seventy-six people in 26 states have been made sick from the same strain of the disease.
Strokes have spiked in the U.S. among pregnant women and new mothers, probably because more of them are obese and suffering from high blood pressure and heart disease, researchers report.
