The American catfish industry is demanding that the USDA ensure that imported catfish is safe.
This fresh out of Jackson, Miss.: Catfish farmers – a major industry in the Southeast, and growing in Missouri — are demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture impose the…

Genentech  is removing its psoriasis drug Raptiva from the U.S. market through a phased withdrawal.  The company said there’s a potential risk to patients of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare, serious, progressive neurologic disease caused by a virus that affects the…

At least twice a day, I tell a PR person why I don’t write about food supplements: they’re too expensive to test, there are so many that we wouldn’t write about anything else, and most of them give benefits you…

If you haven’t noticed, our health section doesn’t feature dietary food supplements. We do stories on trends, such as sports drinks or vitamins. But that’s it. The reason is we can’t test them or check out the claims. That’s pretty important.

The U.S.…

The best — with respect to the superlative — line I’ve ever read on nutrition came from Michael Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food,” that I discovered after reading an article he wrote in the New York Times Sunday Magazine last…

Nearly half a million syringes for diabetics have been recalled by their manufacturer because of possible mislabeling that could lead to insulin overdoses.
Wire services are reporting that the manufacturer, Covidien , is recalling 4,710 boxes of single-use ReliOn syringes sold at Wal-Mart…

Emerging medical news junkies, I’m your family. I need to let you in on a few insiders notes to help you more easily navigate one segment of sometimes confusing and contradictory information: references to medical journals. I’ll get right to…

Using alcohol-based hand sanitizers and wearing a surgical mask will cut your chance of catching the flu by 50 percent — as well as make you look like the strange guy in the office. So while the University of Michigan…