The Vermont Department of Health is warning people about a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to certain raw, red tomatoes.
The Health Department says no illnesses have been reported in Vermont.
Since mid-April, there have been 145 reported cases of salmonella poisoning across the country caused by the rare Salmonella Saintpaul. At least 23 people have [...]
Many popular notions about the health benefits of water apparently aren’t true - or there is no scientific proof to back them up. That’s the conclusion of two University of Pennsylvania researchers - Stanley Goldfarb and Dan Negoianu - who combed the medical literature for evidence of water’s supposed medicinal properties. [...]
NEW ORLEANS - If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can’t sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says you can’t sue a mattress maker if your mattress bursts into flame despite meeting CPSC [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
“I can’t stand missing school, and I’ll try to keep outside symptoms to a minimum,” said Demmel, 18, of Lincoln Park. Demmel packs cough drops and takes over-the-counter medication so she doesn’t disturb her classmates. And though it’s tolerable to sit through a statistics seminar with a sore throat or slight fever, there are times [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that cases of dengue in Jamaica have been declining, with the Ministry intensifying its efforts to stem the spread of this and other communicable diseases. %26quot;The dengue fever outbreak which started in July last year, peaked in November and since then, has been [...]
Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone.
At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society of [...]
Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone. At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society [...]
Repositories of body moisture, dead skin and drool, pillows offer irresistible digs to dust mites and fungi. A 2005 medical study of pillows, said to be the first since 1936, found 16 species of fungi in a single pillow. Testing both feather and synthetic pillows that ranged from 18 months to 20 years old, University [...]
Could Ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms one day be legitimate prescription
medicines? It sounds unlikely, but doctors and researchers in the US and
across Europe believe it is possible and that new science will prove the
case.
Second chances are rare in science. In the Fifties and Sixties, hallucinogenic
drugs, such as LSD, were hailed as the magic bullet to [...]
