A consumer watchdog is suing General Mills, one of the biggest makers of breakfast cereals including Cheerios, for misleading or false advertising over one of its products.
The FDA has issued new rules that are designed help prevent large-scale outbreaks of deadly foodborne illnesses like those that have been linked to fresh produce.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said that the chemical is unlikely to cause cancer in humans. The agency proposed a higher limit on the allowable daily amount of residue of the popular weed killer in foods.
A new study suggests that a common treatment to deadly MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus areus) can actually make a person sicker by causing inflammation and tissue damage, increasing the need of a more accurate guideline in issuing antibiotics.
Nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London to a hospital in her native Scotland. Cafferkey was hospitalized in October after suffering from a serious relapse of Ebola.
The rate of obesity is still rising among United States adults. Women have now overtaken men in number who are classified as obese, according to the report.
American women are twice as likely to die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth than Canadian women. The United States is one of only 13 countries where the maternal mortality rate rose since 1990.
Being of normal weight but having a beer belly is bad for you. Carrying fat around the middle of your body greatly increases your risk for heart disease and death
