LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Yum Brands Inc's Long John Silver's on Sunday said it would roll out its first non-fried fish menu items later this month as the restaurant industry responds to consumer calls for healthier food.
The new menu, called Freshside Grille, is lower in fat and calories than the quick-serve seafood chain's standard fare. Entrees [...]
A construction portable toilet in New Orleans. Installing toilets and ensuring safe water supplies where needed throughout the world would do more to end poverty and improve world health than any other possible measure, according to a new UN study(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Morton)
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Installing toilets and ensuring safe water supplies where needed throughout the world [...]
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian officials ordered the recall of a milk drink and cake brand after tests showed they were contaminated with melamine, bringing to six the number of Chinese-made products withdrawn in Australia following China’s tainted milk scandal.
A spokeswoman for Food Standards Australia New Zealand said Monday that Orion brand Tiramisu Italian Cake with [...]
BEIJING - Hand, foot and mouth disease has killed three children and sickened about 110 others in eastern China, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said late Sunday that all the cases were reported in Jian’ou city of Fujian province from October 1 to 17.
Citing a provincial health official, Xinhua said the children who [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Whooping cough may be known as a childhood disease, but adults should be aware that they can contract the infection too, researchers say.
Whooping cough, known medically as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that causes uncontrollable attacks of coughing and breathlessness. Before a vaccine became available, whooping cough was a [...]
DALLAS - An ailing Democratic fundraiser has obtained an experimental cancer-fighting drug through the Mayo Clinic, according to his son, despite the drug maker’s refusal to sanction the treatment.
Fred Baron, a prominent political donor linked to the John Edwards mistress scandal, received the drug Tysabri after a “legal basis” for its use was found, his [...]
- SUNDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) — Ovarian cancer is one of the
most difficult cancers to diagnose, making it one of the most lethal.
The ovaries aren't easily accessible for examination, unlike a woman's
skin or breast or cervix. And the symptoms that accompany ovarian cancer
are vague and can be confused with other less life-threatening
conditions.
“A lot [...]
- SUNDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) — Standardizing the look of
medication labels could significantly decrease costly and potentially
harmful medication errors, a new study suggests.
Anesthesiologists at Penn State Hershey testing a simple color-coding
system in simulated emergency room situations said the universal system
could help prevent some of the 1.5 million adverse drug reactions each
year caused by [...]
- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Canada to Ban Baby Bottles Made With Bisphenol
A
Canada has moved to ban plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A
(BPA), a chemical widely used around the world in hundreds of household
items, food can linings, and eyeglass lenses, the Associated Press
reported [...]
Sean and Michele Trivedi laugh as they play with their 11-year-old daughter Ellie, outside their home in Carmel, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Ellie, who has autism, receives behavior therapy that is covered under the family’s health insurance. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
CHICAGO - In Washington state, Reza and Arzu Forough pay more than $1,000 a week [...]