Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Grocery chain joins peanut-product recallKroger -- a grocery chain with stores in 31 states -- has issued a recall for foods made with peanut products, widening recalls related to the Peanut Corporation of America.


Lab warns of possible beryllium exposureLos Alamos National Laboratory announced Wednesday it is notifying nearly 2,000 current and former employees and visitors that they may have been exposed to beryllium in the lab and may be at risk of disease.


Sunday, March 22, 2009

Stimulus bill would fund stop-smoking programsSmoking cessation programs make up million of the economic stimulus bill making its way through the Senate, according to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who sponsored the funding.


India culls thousands of birds after flu outbreakIndia has culled more than 4,000 birds in Sikkim since the outbreak of avian influenza in the remote northeastern state last week, federal authorities said Thursday.


Friday, March 20, 2009

Zimbabwe cholera cases pass 60,000More than 60,000 people have now been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


Obama lauds bipartisan kids' health insurance planPresident Obama pointed Friday to a "bipartisan" legislative success, at the end of a week in which his economic stimulus bill triggered a partisan divide.


Thursday, March 19, 2009

Mother of octuplets has six other childrenThe mother of a woman who gave birth on Monday to octuplets said her daughter already has six children at home and was undergoing fertility treatment.


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

FDA: Criminal probe begun in salmonella outbreakGeorgia's agriculture commissioner wants to know whether the state can conduct a criminal investigation of the Peanut Corporation of America, whose products have been linked to a salmonella outbreak.


Is extreme prematurity a risk for autism?Children who are born more than three months premature have double the expected rate of autism at age two as full-term children, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics.