CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid and other drugstores Thursday stopped selling over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children under age 2 after manufacturers asked them to pull the products because of safety concerns.
In the latest case, the deaths of at least 90 people are blamed on a bacterial outbreak at three facilities in south-central England.British health authorities have blamed the deaths of at least 90 people on a virulent bacterial infection that swept through three hospitals in south-central England, where patients allegedly were forced to defecate in their beds and wait for hours for clean sheets.
The Bush administration and Congress are working on a plan to require food importers to verify that suppliers meet U.S. safety standards.Agreeing that current safeguards have failed, Congress and the Bush administration are moving toward the creation of a new system for screening imported foods that would require American companies to certify that their foreign suppliers meet U.S. standards.
Today on the web: A classic AIDS illness poses new questions * Don't ignore students' threatening talk, experts admonish * Efficacy of chemo varies by patient * Exploring birth order and its effects on children * And finally we get to the bottom of the chewing-gum-digestion question.
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs help prevent heart attacks for at least a decade after people stop taking them, the first long-term study of the world's top-selling type of medication finds.
Daniel Levi couldn't find the kind of place he wanted for kids, so the ex-gymnast took a risk and opened his own.Jonah Graff regarded the barriers skeptically: a dark blue mountain twice his height, two bars that spanned a deep chasm and a wall that rose high above a light green sea. How to cross such an expanse?
An activist group sends a complaint to Marvel, which markets the toy.That little monkey is in trouble again. This time, a Curious George doll has found itself in the middle of national worries about lead contamination in toys.
Nearly 1,000 sites nationwide--including 10 in Los Angeles--will offer free depression screening Oct. 11 in recognition of National Depression Screening Day.
Report says there were 1 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases among people. Orange County had 53,566.An estimated 1 million young Californians had a sexually transmitted disease in 2005, including 1 in every 4 or 5 young people in Los Angeles County, researchers said Tuesday.
