Defibrillators are supposed to save lives by shocking a patient's heart back into a normal rhythm, but they have malfunctioned in about 45,000 cases since 2005, according to the Food and Drug Administration. So on Friday, ...
Mar 26, 2013
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Cholera, an infection that causes severe diarrhea and can be deadly, is once more spreading in several low-income countries. In its latest update on the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that the global situation ...
Apr 20, 2023
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Ghana will soon adopt new standards on food and nutritional products for children, and the coming guideline on dietary fats for infants will be informed in part by a University of Toronto researcher.
Nov 1, 2018
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Poultry farmers, the Dutch food safety board and the government all failed in their duties during a tainted egg scandal which spread to 45 countries causing millions in damage, a scathing report found Monday.
Jun 25, 2018
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Protecting New Zealand children from exposure to the marketing of unhealthy foods needs a world standard food rating system, according to new research from the University of Auckland.
Sep 9, 2016
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Rural Missourians often face more disparities in health outcomes than their urban and suburban counterparts, in part from challenges accessing health care—a problem amplified in recent years by a growing physician shortage. ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Thousands of individuals have had kidneys removed unnecessarily because doctors misdiagnosed their disease.
Jan 10, 2013
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U.S. food companies are mounting an aggressive year-end push to head off mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods.
Dec 8, 2015
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During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and some local governments may have underreported the percentage of Americans who experienced food insecurity by up to ...
Apr 12, 2023
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(AP)—An official at an organ donation service in Florida says it was the supplier of transplanted organs from a man who later was found to have died of rabies.
Mar 18, 2013
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