The number of items pulled in the nation's latest peanut butter recall may be leading some of you to look twice, even three times, at what you buy. ...more

January 29, 2009

A new study from Italy adds to a mountain of evidence that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines doesn't hurt children, offering more reassurance to parents. ...more

January 26, 2009

Two Florida fire departments are dumping their fire-resistant uniform pants amid concerns that the fabric used is toxic. ...more

January 16, 2009

A peanut butter maker that sells bulk supplies to institutions issued a nationwide recall of peanut butter from one its plants because of possible contamination with salmonella. ...more

January 14, 2009

Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team - a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian. ...more

January 12, 2009

Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team - a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian. ...more

January 12, 2009

The Pasco County Health Department issued a rabies alert today after a stray cat tested positive for the disease. ...more

January 10, 2009

Teen pregnancies increased 7 percent in Florida from 2005 to 2006, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The state had the 17th highest rate of teen births among the states. ...more

January 8, 2009

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. ...more

January 7, 2009

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5 percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population gets the flu each year. Of those, about 200,000 people require hospitalization and 36,000 ultimately die. But imagine if, in addition to the stresses of cold and flu season, American health providers were annually confronted with widespread outbreaks of malaria or a host of other diseases that could spread into the United States due to global warming. ...more

January 3, 2009