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FOX News
Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement to make them sleep.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters announced misdemeanor charges Wednesday against Pamela Hartley and Donna Scott. Allegations surfaced in December...
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Sick ships: Cruises see rise in norovirus cases
MSNBC
The stomach bug caught up with Kenneth Thompson just a few days before the end of the cruise. He’d seen others getting sick and was hoping he would escape unscathed. But then his stomach started to feel queasy....
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Reuters
By Andrew SternCHICAGO (Reuters) - Inoculating children against flu protects more people of all ages in the larger community, probably because young people tend to spread viruses through physical play, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.Researchers at McMaster University...
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FDA to Investigate Osteoporosis Drug Risk
ABC News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will look into whether a link exists between the long-term use of certain osteoporosis drugs and a particular type of leg fracture after ABC News reports investigated the...
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Powerful Catholic Quietly Shaping Abortion, Health Bill Debate
NPR
Richard Doerflinger doesn't look the part of a high-powered political strategist. Bearded and bespectacled, he works in a small, cluttered office out of one of Washington’s less fashionable neighborhoods, far from the lobbying bastions of K Street. Yet...
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'Drowning in Alzheimer's': Minorities struggle with dementia
CNN
Francisca Terrazas could not be left alone.She burned her foot pouring boiling water over an ant hill in her driveway. She would wander for hours searching for aluminum cans. The effects of Alzheimer's disease had taken hold.Minorities such...
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International Women's Day call for labour deaths action
BBC
By Jane Dreaper BBC News health correspondent Pregnant women in developing countries face the same risk of death as women in the UK did 100 years ago, according to a coalition of campaign groups. They are using International...
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