Due to risk of contamination with salmonella, PA state Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson today advised consumers not to eat and to discard Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter with product codes that begin with the number ?2111.?
The sugar substitute xylitol affects the bacterial composition of the oral cavity even in low doses. On the other hand, a relatively high intake is needed to counteract the production of acid between the teeth, according to Pernilla Lif Holgerson in the dissertation she will defend at Ume? University in Sweden on February 23.
The US Federal regulators – FDA has narrowed the approved uses and indications of the controversial Sanofi-Aventis’ antibiotic Ketek.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to purchase, or use, Wild Kitty Cat Food due to the presence of Salmonella, a pathogen.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced revisions to the labeling for the antibiotic Ketek (telithromycin) designed to improve the safe use of Ketek by patients.
Bioengineers and public health researchers have developed a novel spray drying method for preserving and delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. The low-cost and scaleable technique offers several potential advantages over conventional freezing procedures, such as greater stability at room temperature and use in needle-free delivery.
The first draft of the horse genome sequence has been deposited in public databases and is freely available for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers around the globe, leaders of the international Horse Genome Sequencing Project announced.
Anthrax has been found on a dairy farm at Tatura, east of the outbreak area at Stanhope in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley in Australia.
CNRS France and a team of Portuguese researchers at the Istitut Pasteur have just identified a protein in a micro-organism which allows it to colonise a host by modulating its immune system and may show the way to combat Group B Streptococci.
Loren Miller, M.D., M.P.H. has found no reliable epidemiological or clinical risk factors that could distinguish patients with CA-MRSA infection from patients with CA-MSSA infection. “What this means,” says Dr. Miller, “is that the average Joe or Jane can get CA-MRSA.”