November 20, 2014 Italian Police Seize 21 Tons of Easter Candy Covered in Mold, Parasites Italian police seized 21 tons of contaminated or damaged Easter eggs and other sweets worth $728,000. After more than 850 inspections, authorities responsible for food health and safety found a large amount of Easter candy covered in mold or parasites
November 20, 2014 Study Probes How Surgery Makes Diabetes Disappear Weight loss surgery appears to change the body's metabolism in a way that dieting alone cannot, helping to explain why diabetes often disappears after the surgery even before much weight is lost
November 20, 2014 Hepatitis C Drugs Await FDA Approval A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff review of Merck & Co.'s proposed hepatitis C drug boceprevir has raised safety concerns about anemia and other blood disorders
November 20, 2014 Stents: How New Technology Drives Health Costs Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday
November 20, 2014 Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Diabetes Risk Lower levels of vitamin D circulating in the bloodstream are tied to a higher risk of developing diabetes
November 20, 2014 Minorities More Willing to Spend All to Beat Cancer African Americans and other minorities in the U.S. would spend all the money they have in order to pay for cancer treatments that would extend their lives, according to research from the University of Alabama-Birmingham
November 20, 2014 Illness Rises Among Japan's Elderly Quake Victims Aging populations on Japan's northeast coast are struggling to recover from last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and health officials fear they could be hit by a potentially deadly new wave of disease
November 20, 2014 ALS Study Shows Social Media's Value as Research Tool A new clinical trial found that lithium did not slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, but the findings also showed that the use of a social network to enroll patients and report and collect data may deliver dividends for future studies
November 20, 2014 Not All Pneumonia Patients Need a Chest X-Ray Pneumonia patients who are under 50 and don't smoke don't need chest X-rays to look for lung cancer, suggests a new study from Canada
November 20, 2014 FDA Sees Safety Issue With Merck Hepatitis Drug U.S. drug reviewers have raised questions about safety issues with an experimental Merck & Co hepatitis drug, including anemia and reports of psychiatric problems
