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Due to an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning, the FDA released a statement Saturday, June 7, warning consumers to stop eating Roma, raw red plum and red round tomatoes.




Cargill Meat Solutions, the same company whose Arkansas meat plant went up in flames Easter morning, just finished recalling almost 2 million pounds of ground beef because of E. coli.




Products designed specifically for babies may be making them sick, studies show. Shampoos, lotions and powders have chemicals called phthalates that were found in the urine of infants after they were exposed to the products.




The Centers for Disease Control reported this week that as many as one out of every four girls has at least one sexually transmitted disease. That includes the human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis.




Residents of Libby, Montana, home to the largest asbestos poisoning disasters in the U.S., received a bit of good news after the company responsible for causing thousands of asbestos-related injuries agreed to pay $250 million toward the cleanup effort.




Beef Recall

One hundred and forty three million pounds of beef was put on hold at the end of January as the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided what to do about it. In the end, they recalled it. That’s not before countless numbers of Americans were already exposed to the potentially harmful meat, however, in the form of hamburgers, sloppy joes and school lunches.




We’re barely halfway through February, and already there have been five children’s products recalled because of excessive lead levels. In January, there were 11. Here is a list of the 2008 recalls so far, complete with manufacturer contact info and identifying pictures. E-mail it to friends and family and get the word out there!




Yet another children’s product, A Life of Faith Charm Bracelet Sets, is being recalled because it violates lead paint standards. The bracelets, like many other products that contain excessive levels of lead, were manufactured in China.




The latest in the worrisome saga of lead contamination in Chinese-manufactured children’s toys continues with this most recent development. Tricam Industries voluntarily recalled its toy wagons on Jan. 3 after discovering that surface paint on the children’s toys contains harmful amounts of lead.




Pericarditis

Explanation and Causes:
Around the heart and the major blood vessels of the heart is a sac called the pericardial sac. Pericarditis is when this sac becomes inflamed and starts to swell. This presents problems for normal beating of the heart and irritation of the heart tissue due to the rubbing of the sac [...]




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