Rolf’s Patisserie desserts recently issued a recall on some of their foods, according to the U.S Food and Drug Administration which made the announcement on Christmas day. Apparently the cause of the recall was food poisoning and a number of advisories to consumers were written on the packages themselves so nobody ate them. The bacteria [...]
A recent salmonella outbreak that has been linked to numerous alfalfa sprouts has sparked quite a bit of health concerns among consumers who have purchased them. So far there have been a total of 89 complaints of salmonella poisoning over 15 states. Those who have gotten sick from the alfalfa sprouts have complained of numerous [...]
Mothers now have a new online entrepreneurial opportunity: selling their breast milk for profit. Sites like OnlytheBreast.com and EastonFeets.org profit from the sale of breast milk. At a glance, OnlytheBreast.com looks like any other classifieds page. However, it is more uniquely the classifieds page for breast milk. Apparently, selling of breast milk has not taken [...]
Recently there was a mass recall of glucose test strips from Abbott Laboratories. The Chicago-based company ended up pulling over 359 million strips because they may have problems with giving false low reading for those who have diabetes. As of right now 22 cases of false test results have been reported and there are expected [...]
A report which was recently released by the Environmental Working Group stated that water in at least 31 different U.S cities could be significantly contaminated with bacteria that could mean harmful side-effects if ingested on a regular basis. It has been long debated whether bottled water is cleaner and better for you than unfiltered tap [...]
Kroger has recently announced that it has decided to recall certain packages of dog/cat foods at specific locations across the country because of the potential health risks that they could pose to pets. The Pet Pride cat food along with Seafood Cat Food and Pet Pride Kitten Formula as well as a variety of other [...]
There were four different nursing homes in the Bronx that were hit with rather hefty fines after it was discovered that the facilities offered only sub-standard care, with one home allowing a man with epilepsy to simply wonder around off the grounds. The Bronx Center for Rehabilitation was fined a total of $36,450 for a [...]
Donna D’Errico who recently complained that she had been singled out by security at a Los Angeles airport for additional invasive screening has suffered a major blow to her health and the culprit has been reported to be staphylococcus aureus. The staph infection became very serious, even life-threatening for the former Baywatch star. She is [...]
There are doctors in Germany who have claimed that they have cured a man who used to have HIV. An American man by the name of Timothy Brown was supposedly cured with the help of stem-cell therapy as well as chemotherapy. A few years later the 42 year old shows no signs of the virus [...]
58 year old William Hamman has been exposed as a fake after 15 years of claiming to be a Cardiologist. Hamman, an airline pilot, claimed millions in research fees, grants and salaries in the time he claimed to be a fully-fledged physician. However, a routine background check recently exposed him to be a fraud. He [...]
Judge Henry Hudson of Virginia recently decided in a ruling that President Obama’s healthcare policy is unconstitutional. The judge stated that because the legislation requires people to get healthcare or pay a fine, it goes against the very nature of the constitution. The measure was signed into law last March and since then there have [...]
