CDC: 24 E. coli illnesses linked to frozen foods
Health officials say at least 24 people have become sick from an outbreak of E. coli infections linked to frozen snack foods marketed to children.
240,000 Pakistani children miss anti-polio drive
Some 240,000 children have missed U.N.-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering ...
US launches new batch of graphic anti-smoking ads
Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they ...
Europe's financial crisis leads to suicide surge
The harsh spending cuts introduced by European governments to tackle their crippling debt problems have not only pitched the region into recession — ...
APNewsBreak: Ex-surgeon general joins e-cig board
Former U.S. surgeon general Dr. Richard Carmona, who highlighted the dangers of secondhand smoke and supported a ban on all tobacco products, is ...
105 US kids died of flu; most didn't get vaccine
The flu season is winding down, and it has killed 105 children so far — about the average toll. The season started about a month earlier than usual, ...
NYC looks to bump tobacco from prime retail space
Walk into any convenience store or gas station in the country, and chances are the cigarettes will be in roughly the same spot: at eye level, right ...
APNewsBreak: US to revise cigarette warning labels
The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the ...
Panel: Thumbs down on anthrax vaccine test in kids
Don't look for testing of the anthrax vaccine to begin in children any time soon. Controversy arose last year as experts debated whether such studies ...
NYC plan would keep tobacco products out of sight
Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday, ...
Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos
An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest meat recall in U
London rail workers find likely plague burial pit
Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death — a plague that ...
Brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade?
When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came ...
Philip Morris Int'l CEO Camilleri to step down
Philip Morris International Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Louis C. Camilleri will step down and be replaced by the man who led it before it became an ...
ADB: In Asia, wealth buys access to clean water
Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's ...
Correction: Sierra Leone-Gates Fund story
In a story March 10 about Sierra Leone charging 29 people with fraud, The Associated Press erroneously identified the Global Alliance for Vaccines and ...
CDC: Frogs with salmonella could still be in homes
They live underwater, eat bloodworms, and are promoted on pet websites. But African dwarf frogs can carry salmonella. An outbreak tied to the frogs ...
Utah moves to tax e-cigarettes like regular smokes
A proposal in the Utah Legislature that would tax electronic cigarettes at the same rate as regular cigarettes has put the state at the forefront of ...
Officials alarmed by increasing superbug reports
Health officials are reporting an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals. These superbugs from a common germ family have ...
Study: No quick savings from workplace wellness
Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you'll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace ...
Q&A: Chances of a horse meat scandal in the US?
The horse meat scandal that is hitting Europe has yet to spread to the United States, allowing American consumers to rest easier when buying ground ...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of ...
FDA Commissioner: budget cuts mean less safe food
Fewer food safety inspections and an increased risk to consumers will result from the lack of a new 2013 budget from Congress and the upcoming ...
Woman who smoked through hole in throat dies
A woman who smoked a cigarette through a hole in her throat to illustrate her struggle with nicotine addiction in a California public service ...
After meatballs, Ikea withdraws sausages
After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings company Ikea said Wednesday its own tests confirmed "a few indications of ...
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