On Monday, Dr. Virginia Moyer, Chairwoman for the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, made a recommendation that heavy smokers get checked for lung cancer through a CT scan procedure. By heavy smokers…
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FDA Issues Warning Over Health Life Chemistry Supplement
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning on Friday regarding the dietary supplement Healthy Life Chemistry by Purity First B-50. The B-50 product is promoted as a vitamin B…
Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked To Frozen Berries
More than 75 people, in eight states, have become infected and sick with Hepatitis A that has been traced back to Oregon’s Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen pomegranate and berry mix….
Google Introduces Health-Related Feature For Health Conscious People
Google makes it easier for people searching to learn the nutritional content of over 1,000 meats, vegetables, fruits and other foods with its newest feature. The feature, which uses Google’s Knowledge Graph,…
NCoV Virus Deadlier Than SARS or Other Common Cold Viruses
A France man has been hospitalized with a new possible deadly virus that’s similar to the common cold virus. The man, who was hospitalized in April, contracted the NCoV or the novel…
Gonorrhea Superbug Could Rival AIDS Virus In Potency
A new sexually-transmitted superbug could be even deadly than the AIDS virus. That’s according to a warning from doctors. The superbug – a strain of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea dubbed HO41 – was found…
Taco Bell Looks To Bring Healthy Menu Options… By 2020
Popular Tex-Mex food chain Taco Bell will be making some changes to its menu so that it includes healthier options for their health-conscious consumers. The franchise made the announcement Apr. 11 that…
Red Meat Chemical Carnatine Can Increase Possibility Of High Cholesterol Levels and Heart Disease
Carnatine, a chemical found commonly in red meat, is responsible for the increased risk of heart disease and high cholesterol levels. According to the U.S. scientists in a study published in the…
FDA Rejects United Therapeutics’ Oral Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Drug For Second Time
U.S. health regulators vetoed – for a second time – an oral hypertension drug manufactured by United Therapeutic Corp., a biotechnology company. The company’s shares dropped six percent on Nasdaq’s early trading…
CDC Study Finds No Benefit To Giving Infants Solid Foods Before Six Months Of Age
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows that many mothers are giving their babies solid foods much earlier than six months of age. According to the American Academy of…