The number of people sickened by tainted McDonald’s salads has jumped to 163 in 10 states, and three of the victims have been hospitalized. The fast-food chain said it has removed the lettuce blend from Fresh Express’ Streamwood, Illinois, facility and replaced it with a new supply. The number of people sickened by tainted McDonald’s […]
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German Man Accused Of Murdering 21 People Over 2 Decades
Authorities in Germany launched a probe Wednesday into a string of 21 deaths over nearly two decades after the arrest of a man suspected of trying to poison a co-worker’s sandwich. The 56-year-old man, named only as Klaus O, was detained back in May after surveillance video showed him opening a colleague’s lunchbox and putting […]
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Pro-Life Clinics First Right Amendments
The Supreme Court ruled California cannot require so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” to provide information about the availability of abortion services elsewhere in the state, a move in favor of anti-abortion clinics that claimed the state law violated their First Amendment rights. The case, brought by two “crisis pregnancy centers,” challenged a California law called the […]
Poop Transplants Could Save Over 25,000 Lives A Year
Poop transplants work as well as antibiotics to treat a common and deadly cause of diarrhea, and perhaps even better, researchers reported Saturday. Their small and unusual study suggests that doctors should try fecal transplants right off when patients in the hospital get infected with Clostridium difficile, a frequent cause of diarrhea in frail and […]
Romaine Lettuce Claims 5th Life Due To E. Coli
Four more people have died from eating romaine lettuce tainted with E. coli, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. That brings the total death count from the recent E. coli outbreak to five. In the past two weeks, an additional 25 people have also become ill from eating contaminated lettuce, the […]
Obamacare Repeal? Congress Taking Another Shot
Congressional Republicans appear poised to take another shot at repealing and replacing ObamaCare — this, during a critical, election year in which Democrats are blaming the GOP for escalating health insurance costs. A coalition of conservative groups have for months purportedly been working behind the scenes to draft a measure that would pass in Congress, […]
CDC Says It’s Now Safe To Eat Romaine Lettuce
Any romaine lettuce being sold now is almost certainly not from the Yuma, Arizona region and so unlikely to carry the E. coli bacteria strain that’s been making people sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. The outbreak has made 172 people sick in 32 states, and one person has died, the CDC […]
Major Salmonella Out Break Has Made Over 30 Sick
Indiana farmers have issued a warning after at least 22 people have fallen ill. A salmonella outbreak linked to a massive egg recall expanded last week when 12 more people reported contracting the foodborne illness after eating the popular breakfast food item. A total of 35 people from nine states were sickened with salmonella after […]
Trump Promises To Lower Drug Prices For Americans
President Trump on Friday unveiled his administration’s plan for lowering prescription drug prices, vowing to “take on” the powerful pharmaceutical industry while calling for an end to “global freeloading” that has allowed foreign countries to pay less for American medicine. “America will not be cheated any longer, and especially will not be cheated by foreign […]
World Health Org Preparing For Major Ebola Outbreak
The World Health Organization is preparing for the “worst-case scenario” as it continues to respond to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Peter Salama, deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response at the WHO, said in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday that it’s “going to be tough and it’s going to be costly […]
Man Eats 30,000th McDonald’s Big Mac
A Wisconsin man who since 2016 has held the Guinness World Record for the most McDonald’s Big Macs consumed has reached another milestone after eating his 30,000th Big Mac on Friday. Don Gorske, 64, ate the record-extending double-patty sandwich at a local McDonald’s restaurant and says he’s eaten so many simply because he loves hamburgers. […]
Bill Gates Donates 12 Million Dollars To Further Flu Vaccine Research
Bill Gates is donating $12 million to fund research for a universal flu vaccine. The billionaire spoke Friday at the annual meeting for the Massachusetts Society of Medicine in Boston, where he announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page and his wife, Lucy Page, […]