Dr. Henry Morgentaler speaks to the media in Toronto, July 2, 2008. Dr. Morgentaler was named a member of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest honour, after spending decades of his life advocating the legalisation of abortion in Canada. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)

TORONTO (Reuters) -
Henry Morgentaler, the doctor who led
the fight to legalize abortion in Canada two [...]

The Nebraska Beef plant is seen in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Nebraska Beef Ltd. is recalling nearly 532,000 pounds of ground beef produced in the past two months because the meat has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli illnesses. The federal government said that some of the Omaha-based company’s beef was [...]

A pile of tomatoes are seen on display at a wholesale produce market in Washington, June 12, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)

GENEVA (Reuters) -
Food safety experts agreed for the first
time on the qualities defining a tomato, in a first step toward
an international code on preventing fruit and vegetable
contamination.

Tomatoes are currently the focus of an investigation by
U.S. [...]

Pakistani men at a police station reveal scars after their kidneys were removed. Two Indonesian men have been jailed and fined for involvement in illegal organ trading, a court official said Friday, in the first such case to be tried in Singapore.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)

SINGAPORE (AFP) -
Two Indonesian men have been jailed and fined for involvement in [...]

- FRIDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) — Fireworks can be breathtaking
spectacles, creating glittering showers of sparks and earth-rumbling booms
that thrill people for miles around.

Backyard fireworks can produce their own thrills, but mainly for young
boys who love to blow stuff up. And therein lies the danger.

“The natural predisposition for kids is to make the biggest [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Trying to get pregnant again after a
miscarriage can be fraught with a host of emotional and physical
concerns.

Here are suggestions when considering another pregnancy after a
miscarriage, courtesy of the American Pregnancy Association:

Doctors routinely recommend waiting six months to one year before
trying to get pregnant again. This is to make sure [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Food, fun and fireworks are all part of the
Fourth of July holiday.

If they're legal in your area, following firework safety rules must be
part of your holiday plans, too. In 2005, more than 10,000 people were
treated in emergency rooms for firework injuries. Nearly half were under
age 15, the U.S. National Safety [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Jalapeno Peppers Latest Suspects in Salmonella
Outbreak

If it's not the tomatoes, maybe it's the peppers.

That's the latest theory into the cause behind the salmonella outbreak
that has sickened almost 1,000 people across the United States since
April, according to the Baltimore [...]

- FRIDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) — Women who receive kidneys from
males have a higher rate of graft failure than other donor-recipient
combinations, and gender should be considered when choosing donor
matches, a new Swiss study says.

Researchers at University Hospital Basel analyzed data on 195,516
people in Europe who received kidneys from deceased donors between 1985
and [...]

Surgeons performing an operation. A Romanian court has ordered a surgeon who severed a man's penis during an operation to pay his victim 500,000 euros (785,000 dollars) in compensation.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)

BUCHAREST (AFP) -
A Romanian court on Friday ordered a surgeon who severed a man's penis during an operation to pay his victim 500,000 euros (785,000 dollars) [...]