The California Supreme Court will hear consumers' complaint that grocery chains aren't obeying the law on labeling.What could unite such fierce competitors as Bristol Farms, Costco, Safeway, Albertsons, Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's? A group of fish-eating consumers who want to know whether the salmon in the stores' display cases is wild or farmed.
SEIU factions seen as more conciliatory to the governor's plan are pressing for the ouster of the state council's president.Leaders of California's largest and most influential healthcare union are embroiled in an intense power struggle that could affect the shape of any deal lawmakers reach this year to overhaul the state's healthcare system.
The number of hospitalizations linked to the drug-resistant bug has doubled over six years, researchers find.Hospitalizations associated with a drug-resistant form of a Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six years in the United States to nearly 280,000 cases in 2005, according to a new study published Thursday that provides a wider picture of the bug's impact.
The percentage of overweight adults has stayed the same recently, but it's still at an all-time high. 'You can only get so fat,' one physiologist says.After 25 years of what health officials call an obesity epidemic, American adults finally may be getting a handle on the battle of the bulge, according to federal data released Wednesday.
The AMA, which says Americans should consume 50% less sodium, has joined consumer groups asking for government intervention.Best known for deciding whether medications are safe and effective, the Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to crack down on plain old salt, which doctors say is harmful in the quantities most Americans consume.
She steps up criticism of her leading Democratic rival on a campaign stop in Iowa, saying his proposal betrays party principles.Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Sen. Barack Obama's healthcare plan breaks faith with core Democratic beliefs and would leave millions of Americans uninsured.
If the trend continues, it could lead to a health crisis, researchers say.Doctors might be overusing CT scans, the popular diagnostic tool that exposes patients to far more radiation than conventional X-rays, scientists in Manhattan will report today.
Formulas had been based on white women, but new data upgrade the risk to African Americans and could bring better treatment.The formula doctors use to calculate a woman's risk of breast cancer underestimates the danger for black women most of the time, and especially for those 50 and older -- when they are most likely to benefit from screening and protective drugs, according to the first major reassessment of the widely used tool.
UCLA researchers find that Latinos in the U.S. illegally are 50% less likely to visit emergency rooms.Illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries are 50% less likely than U.S.-born Latinos to use hospital emergency rooms in California, according to a study published Monday in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
