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So here's a brilliant idea: If you want to keep fresh fruits and vegetables from becoming contaminated and making people sick, how about making sure that workers wash their hands, crops are irrigated with unpolluted water, processing equipment stays clean and animals are kept away from crops?…
Americans know that obesity is a health crisis, that junk food is far too prevalent and that we can't get ourselves off the couch to exercise, but, hey! Don't you dare try and force us to eat better through government regulation.
Just in time for those New Year's resolutions about diet comes this surprising news: While being obese is still bad for your health, new research suggests that those who are moderately overweight have a lower risk of dying than normal-weight people do.
Here's a healthy, money-saving New Year's resolution: Stretch your budget by helping fresh food stay fresh longer.
The pounding headache, the churning stomach, the remorse for having had one too many - just in time for New Year's Eve tonight, we have six ways to relieve or even prevent the effects of a hangover tomorrow morning. Oh wait, we forgot the seventh: Don't overdo it in the first place.
Since 2001, 150,000 patients have been given unsafe shots that in many cases resulted in life-threatening diseases, thanks to non-sterile needles and other unsafe injection practices, according to an investigation by USA Today.
Your favorite glass baking pan - the one you use for making lasagna or brownies or roasting a chicken? There's a chance it could unexpectedly shatter, according to a growing number of consumer safety complaints. Not surprisingly, there's also a growing debate over whether the pans or their users…
Here's a scary statistic: A surgeon in the U.S. leaves a foreign object, such as a sponge or towel, inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week.
It's the eighth most commonly prescribed drug in the U.S., with 52.3 million prescriptions written for it every year - many in winter for hacking coughs and suspected respiratory infections.
A heartfelt, searing blog post by a 40-year-old mother about her mentally ill son has made many parents and grandparents wonder how they would handle a child with frighteningly violent outbursts.