Stores pull items from shelves after a state investigation and tests find they contain levels far above the legal limit.Stores across California have pulled lead-tainted children's jewelry from their shelves after state investigators found bracelets, rings and necklaces contaminated with as much as 600 times the legal limit of the poisonous element.
California's top insurance regulator has accused Blue Shield, one of the state's largest health plans, of 1,262 violations of claims-handling laws and regulations that resulted in more than 200 people losing their medical coverage.
Isabelle Dinoire of France received a new nose, chin and lips in 2005. Her improvement -- she can manage a slight smile -- may boost the prospects for future transplant patients.Eighteen months after receiving a new nose, chin and lips, the world's first face transplant recipient has recovered enough use of her facial muscles to close her lips and draw her face into a slight smile, doctors in France reported Wednesday.
More than 1 million doses of a common vaccine given to babies as young as 2 months were being recalled Wednesday because of contamination risks, but the nation's top health official said it was not a threat.
The government is questioning if too many of the wrong people will take cholesterol-lowering Mevacor if it's sold without a prescription, days before Merck &Co. makes its third try to move the drug over the counter.
He said it was unacceptable because -- like the first one -- it allowed adults into the program, would cover people in families with incomes above the U.S. median and raised taxes.President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second rejection of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.
A brave new mix: daily farmers market plus artisanal goodies -- and wine.You say you want to know more about where your food comes from and how it is prepared? At Napa's new Oxbow Public Market that opens this weekend, the butcher and the baker will do their work behind windows that will allow you to observe almost every step of the preparation. And the wine will be fermented in barrels you can reach out and touch.
A study also finds that drinking and the use of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin remained steady from 2006 to 2007.Although fewer young people are using marijuana and other illegal drugs, the percentage of teenagers abusing prescription painkillers remains alarmingly high, according to a national teen drug use survey released Tuesday at the White House.
