Medical Health

The move comes after a recent, widely publicized study raised the possibility the once-a-day insulin slightly increases risk of cancer.
In a statement, the FDA said patients should not stop taking their insulin without consulting a doctor because of the risk of serious complications, both immediate and long term. Patients with Type 1 diabetes and [...]

Each year in the United States, about 200,000 people (including 16,000 children) are injured in lawn mower-related accidents, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Those injuries include severed fingers, toes and limbs, broken bones, eye damage and burns.
“In 19 years of practice as a plastic surgeon [...]

“Currently, the only Western country with a substantial number of home births is the Netherlands, where 30 percent of births are in the home,” Dr. Michael H. Malloy pointed out. “In the U.S., less than 1 percent of births are in the home, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology ’does not support [...]

Almost half of the tree-care workers died while trimming or pruning a tree. Common causes of these deaths included being struck by tree branches and trees, falling from trees and equipment used to reach trees, or being electrocuted through contact with power lines.
Fifty-seven percent of the tree-care workers who [...]

State and local agencies have difficulty preventing and responding to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses because of chronic underfunding, varying levels of resources, different methods in addressing food safety and barriers preventing collaboration, the researchers said in a report.
“It really starts with the reality that they are the foundation of the system,” said [...]

“We want to take the ’F’ out of FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and create a separate food safety administration to make sure this issue gets the attention and resources it deserves,” said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, during a March 25 teleconference marking the [...]

Bob Stallman, president of the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation, said in a letter to Congress that its members “carefully, judiciously and according to label instructions” use antibiotics to treat, prevent and control disease in animals. “Antibiotic use in animals does not pose a serious public health threat,” said Stallman, who urged [...]

Kellogg Co, King Nut Corp and Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets Inc defended their oversight of purchased products and said it was common practice in the food industry to rely on a third party to conduct audits. The U.S. food industry has been shaken by a salmonella outbreak tied to peanut products that [...]

Kellogg Co, King Nut Corp and Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets Inc defended their oversight of purchased products and said it was common practice in the food industry to rely on a third party to conduct audits. The U.S. food industry has been shaken by a salmonella outbreak tied to peanut products that [...]

Kellogg Co, King Nut Corp and Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets Inc defended their oversight of purchased products and said it was common practice in the food industry to rely on a third party to conduct audits. The U.S. food industry has been shaken by a salmonella outbreak tied to peanut products that [...]