The FDA is recommending that US consumers stop eating pistachios nuts after Kraft Foods issued a pistachio recall on a trail mix product. The pistachio recall is due to high levels of salmonella bacteria. So far, there have been no reported sicknesses due to the pistachio salmonella exposure....
The Senate gave approval on Thursday to a bill that will provide health insurance coverage to 11 million low-income children. This is the first time that the federal government will put up money to cover children, as well as pregnant women, who are legal immigrants. The State Children's Health...
The United States Army has announced that it will implement a service-wide training program to help identify soldiers at risk and teach personnel how to intervene in those situations. The program will start on February 15 and will run for a month. Once the initial training has been completed, a...
Starbucks Corp announced on Monday that it has pulled all products containing peanut butter from its stores. The move is being called a safety precaution. Tainted peanut butter products in the United States have been blamed for hundreds of cases of salmonella poisoning. Seven people have died as...
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that effectively reverses the funding policy that was reinstated by President George W. Bush in 2001. That policy stated that international family planning clinics that wanted to receive funding from the U.S. could not counsel women about...
Two men will be put to death and a woman will be imprisoned for life after at least six babies died and 300,000 people became ill after drinking infant powdered formula that was deliberately contaminated with an industrial chemical. Tian Wenhuaa, 66, was the head of Sanlu Group, a dairy company,...
The Food and Drug Administration confirmed on Monday that salmonella has been detected in a package of peanut butter sandwich crackers manufactured by Kellogg's. It was discovered in Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter, which was one of the products the company had voluntarily...
