Researchers Fighting Foodborne Illness With Bacteria
Foodborne illnesses pose a serious health concern for consumers and a potentially devastating risk to the companies associated with outbreaks.
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Foodborne illnesses pose a serious health concern for consumers and a potentially devastating risk to the companies associated with outbreaks.
Very old age is no longer an automatic barrier for aggressive therapies, from cancer care like the former President Jimmy Carter has received, to major heart procedures, joint replacements and even some organ transplants.
A visit to a Plano mom's home by Child Protective Services this week has triggered worries within the anti-vaccine community that authorities may be prosecuting them as bad parents for holding chickenpox parties.
When it comes to which state in the nation is healthiest, Texas falls at the lower half of the list. According to the America's Health Rankings annual report the Lone Star State comes in 34th of the 50 states for overall health.
Officials in Massachusetts say the number of students complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle this weekend has climbed to 80, up from the 30 it reported previously.
Federal officials said Tuesday further testing was unable to confirm the presence of E. coli in the onions and celery used to make chicken salad at Costco warehouses across the country.
Chipotle says it is tightening its food safety standards after its restaurants were linked to dozens of cases of E. coli.
An ex-fiancee of Charlie Sheen has sued the actor, claiming that he didn't disclose that he was HIV positive until after they had sex several times, and was physically and emotionally abusive during their relationship.
Health officials are seeing an increase of a rare illness called rabbit fever that was beaten back decades ago. In the last two decades, health officials saw an average of only about 125 cases each year of the illness — known to doctors as tularemia.
Parkland Memorial Hospital and Cook Children's Medical Center were named two of the top hospitals by The Leapfrog Group.
At an all-star event honoring the nonprofits ONE and (RED), co-founder Bono wanted to make one thing clear: "This is not a charity concert."
When presidential candidate Marco Rubio staked out a hard-line position on abortion, Hillary Clinton took notice. She quickly blasted Rubio's assertion that he did not support abortion exceptions for victims of rape and incest.
A nonprofit founded to combat obesity said that the $1.5 million it received from Coke has no influence over its work. But emails show that the world's largest beverage maker was instrumental in shaping the Global Energy Balance Network.
Planned Parenthood is suing Texas over attempts to block Medicaid dollars, beginning another courtroom fight between the nation's largest abortion provider and a Republican controlled state.
Research supported by the soybean industry is looking to convert some farm-raised fish into vegetarians. A fisheries scientist is developing a soy protein feed that's tasty and easily digestible to eventually reduce the industry's need for using wild-caught fish as food for farm-raised fish.