FDA bans Korean shellfish, warns against eating product
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday warned consumers against eating shellfish from Korea that the agency banned on May 1 and may soon be recalled.
Rapper 50 Cent undergoes surgery, posts photos on Twitter
Rapper 50 Cent is recovering in a New York hospital after being admitted Wednesday for an unspecified condition.
Alaska targets an old foe: Tuberculosis
Until 1950, TB was the No. 1 cause of death in Alaska. That legacy means that a large number of Alaskans still carry the bacteria that can cause the disease. They have no symptoms, and they aren’t contagious, but full-blown TB can flare up at anytime and then spread.
Power to the people!
The UN Development Program (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report Tuesday, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all.
Airdrops to fight schistosomiasis in Ghana
At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometers from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move, a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of the dangers of schistosomiasis.
Some states mandate better coverage of oral cancer drugs
Cancer treatment is changing: Increasingly, pills are the drug of choice rather than intravenous chemotherapy that drips into a patient’s vein.
Red wine may ward off Alzheimers study claims
A new study aims to prove that a component in red wine may help ward off Alzheimer’s disease.
Doctors And Insurers Are Key To Fighting Obesity
Tracking this measure – an indicator of whether someone is obese or overweight – as if it were a vital sign at medical checkups is among a new set of strategies recommended for battling obesity, a concern that some experts predict will affect 42 percent of adults by 2030.
One in three white women use tanning beds, CDC reports
Tanning bed use among young white women is still hot, and a hot topic.
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