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Diet products contain dangerous drugs, FDA warns

Maggie Fox, NBC News — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:46 GMT

Fat Zero sounds like a safe, natural product, containing bee pollen and other ingredients like green tea and lotus seed. But it also contains sibutramine, a prescription diet drug that was so dangerous it’s been pulled off the U.S. market, the Food and Drug Administration says.The FDA issued warnings about a batch of similar slimming products – all claiming to be natural, and all containing not on...

Toll reaches 118 in hepatitis A outbreak tied to frozen berry mix

JoNel Aleccia — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:39:41 GMT

At least 118 people in eight states are now sick with acute hepatitis A in an outbreak tied to a frozen berry mix widely sold at Costco stores. Fifty-one people have been hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Illnesses have been reported between March 18 and June 8, in the ongoing outbreak linked to Townsend Farms Antioxidant Blend sold by the Fairview, Ore., f...

Which spice can help reduce arthritis risk?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:33:14 GMT

Modern medical woes: Handling tech aches and pains

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:31:24 GMT

Yuck! Dirt soup sold at Japanese restaurant

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:25:30 GMT

Toddler takes first steps after mower mishap

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:02:00 GMT

Facebook boosts organ donor signups, study shows

JoNel Aleccia — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:55:58 GMT

The plight of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who got a high-profile lung transplant last week underscored the scarcity of U.S. organ donations, but a new study of a “Facebook bump” in registrations shows that social media may be key to solving the problem. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. took advantage of a Facebook change last year to allow certain members to identify themselves as organ do...

Vaccine advocate takes on the alternative medicine industry

Maggie Fox, NBC News — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:38:07 GMT

Dr. Paul Offit doesn’t like getting threats. But the 62-year-old pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says it goes with the territory when taking on powerful industries and interest groups whose beliefs are deeply rooted in emotion. He’s ready for a tsunami of criticism with his latest foray into debunking popular wisdom – “Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Altern...

Researchers: Sleep deficit can shorten your life

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:19:05 GMT

‘I was very happy with the results’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:45:09 GMT

‘I don’t have any second doubts about it’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:45:09 GMT

Improving health for Mandela, Prince Phillip

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:33:24 GMT

Unique treatment for early stage breast cancer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:33:24 GMT

Parents: Don't ignore sibling bullying, study warns

Melissa Dahl — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:00:38 GMT

The young sisters played outside together every day that summer in a Vallejo, Calif., suburb, and during one long, boring summer day, the older girl thought of a new way to pass the time. She led her little sister to the backyard, tethered the 9-year-old to one of the poles on the back porch, then taped her eyelashes to her eyebrows and left her there to stare into the bright California sun.That's...

It's OK, Miss Utah. Brain farts happen to all of us

Meghan Holohan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:00:38 GMT

When asked a question about fair pay for women during the Miss USA competition last night, Miss Utah, 21-year-old Marissa Powell, did what happens to so many of us in less glamorous situations. She totally blanked. And then said: “I think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to figure out how to create jobs right now. That’s the biggest problem and I thin...

Meningitis warning given ahead of NYC's Gay Pride weekend

Brian Alexander — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:00:38 GMT

People traveling to New York City for Gay Pride events over the June 28-30 weekend are being told to seek advice about vaccination for invasive meningococcal disease, in a report released Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Doctors from Weill Cornell Medical College and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are raising the alarm in the article due to a deadly bacterial me...

Boston hospital to offer hand transplants for kids

Marilynn Marchione — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:32:49 GMT

A Boston hospital is starting the world's first hand transplant program for children, and doctors say it won't be long until face transplants and other radical operations to improve appearance and quality of life are offered to kids, too. The move shows the growing willingness to do transplants to enhance a patient's life rather than to save it as donated hearts, livers and other organs have done ...

When sibling spats go too far

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:28:29 GMT

Dads whose wives died of cancer turn to NC group

MARTHA WAGGONER / Associated Press — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:52:33 GMT

When his wife died of cancer at the age of 39, Bruce Ham wondered whether the laughter would ever return to the house he and their three daughters share. "And it is back. It took a while, but it is back," Ham said, more than three years after the death of his wife, Lisa. "I still miss her. I think about her every day. But I don't cry every time I think about her. I smile and laugh. It's good to be...

Dad to son who donated kidney: He’ll always be my hero

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:49:30 GMT

Modern dad’s day has become longer, more hectic

Allison Linn — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:31:46 GMT

If there’s one word we might use to describe modern fatherhood, it would be: busy.In an average week, modern dads are spending nearly triple the time on direct child care, and more than double the time on housework, than their fathers or grandfathers did in the 1960s, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau data on how Americans spend their time. They're no slouches at the...

The Big Idea: 'Pharmacy on a Bicycle'

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:45:55 GMT

Home remedy death puts mom in hot water

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:11:30 GMT

Robotic surgeries on the rise, but are there risks?

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:11:30 GMT

Robotic surgery is high-tech 'tour de force' -- but is it safe?

Ami Schmitz and Melissa Dahl — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:54:27 GMT

The newlywed had been grappling with excruciatingly painful periods for as long as she could remember, when her doctor told her one way she could end the agony was a hysterectomy. Michelle Zarick, then 37, didn’t question it when the doctor wanted to use the latest high-tech option that medicine had to offer: a hysterectomy done with the help of a robot.“She mentioned that doing the robotic-assist...