Latest Health Articles for Digestive Disorder

• HK reports 2nd swine flu-related death

  article 2009-07-28  |  Author: Staff
  Hong Kong has reported its second swine flu-related death after a Filipino housekeeper with the disease died.Health authorities said in a statement that the 37-year-old woman was in critical condition requiring mechanical ventilation before she died on Monday.The statement also late Monday said she developed fever, sore throat, ......

• Texas mother charged with feeding her child feces

  article 2009-06-04  |  Author: Staff
  A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter's intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections.Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.According to an arrest affidavit, a ......

• Food poisoning kills Singapore woman, sickens 111

  article 2009-04-07  |  Author: Staff
  A Singapore woman has died, another is in a coma and 111 people have received medical treatment from food poisoning linked to a single street food stall, health officials said.A 57-year-old woman died Monday after eating last week at the street stand selling Indian rojak, which is usually a combination ......

• Salmonella found in central Calif. pistachio plant

  article 2009-04-07  |  Author: Garance Burke
  Federal officials confirmed Monday they found traces of salmonella in a central California pistachio processing plant that sparked a nationwide recall of the nut.The Food and Drug Administration said state and federal inspectors discovered the bacteria in "critical areas" at Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., the second-largest pistachio processor ......

• Tainted syringes behind Indian hepatitis outbreak

  article 2009-03-05  |  Author: R.k. Misra
  Investigators in western India looking into a deadly hepatitis B that ......

• Salmonella sickens people in 12 states

  article 2008-10-05  |  Author: Staff
  The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning.The health warning by the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited frozen dishes in which the chicken is raw, but breaded or pre-browned, giving the appearance of being cooked. They ......

• Canada links bacteria outbreak to tainted meat

  article 2008-08-24  |  Author: Staff
  Public health officials in Canada said Saturday they have linked a deadly bacterial outbreak that killed four people to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods.The outbreak has resulted in 21 confirmed cases of listeriosis, a kind of food poisoning that can be dangerous to the elderly, newborns, pregnant ...

• FDA approves Gilead AIDS drug for hepatitis B

  article 2008-08-12  |  Author: Marcus Wohlsen
  Gilead Sciences Inc. prepared to expand its reach further beyond AIDS drugs Monday after federal regulators approved the biotech drug maker's signature anti-HIV therapy as a hepatitis B treatment.Gilead announced that the Food and Drug Administration is joining regulators in Europe, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand by allowing ......

• Natalie Cole says she has hepatitis C

  article 2008-07-16  |  Author: Staff
  Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C is a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood. The statement said the disease was revealed during a routine examination and was likely caused by her drug ......

• Prisoners with hepatitis C sue California prisons

  article 2008-07-09  |  Author: Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
  State prisoners with hepatitis C aren't getting the health care they need, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that adds to complaints about the medical treatment of California inmates.The filing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles estimates that as many as 40 percent of the state's ......