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GENEVA (Reuters) - Millions of adults die every year from bugs and toxins in what they eat, according to new World Health Organization data that shows food-borne diseases are far more deadly than the U.N. agency previously estimated.

AP - As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.

AP - Utah has agreed to a $24 million settlement with Eli Lilly & Co. over claims the drugmaker engaged in off-label marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Wednesday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nearly 200 million children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth and health problems due to poor nutrition in their early years, the U.N. children's foundation UNICEF said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Africa faces a surge in cancer deaths unless action is taken in the next decade to stem rising smoking levels in a continent where anti-tobacco laws remain rare, U.S. scientists said Wednesday.

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Millions of adults die every year from bugs and toxins in what they eat, according to new World Health Organization data that shows food-borne diseases are far more deadly than the U.N. agency previously estimated.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Desiree Rosado's daughter got the flu last month, she took a week off without pay; just an hour after finally returning to work Rosado had to leave again to take her feverish son home.

have no clue what this is, its a round pill and all it says on it is D0-D0 or DO-DO on both sides.... anyone know what this is?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton visited the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to urge Senate Democrats to quickly pass a broad healthcare overhaul, but a party leader said final action could spill into next year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The flow of swine flu vaccines to the U.S. market is picking up, health and corporate officials said on Tuesday, and now the challenge will be to get the drugs to people.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of Danish women who had surgery for breast cancer, nearly half still reported pain 2 to 3 years later, according to a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

AP - New York officials say they've reached an $875,000 settlement with CVS Pharmacy Inc. to stop sales of expired products — including food, medicine and baby formula.

AP - Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday they expanded an existing development partnership to run through 2017.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Desiree Rosado's daughter got the flu last month, she took a week off without pay; just an hour after finally returning to work Rosado had to leave again to take her feverish son home.

AP - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration approved its generic version of the heartburn drug Prevacid.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cancer patients who took drugs to cut the risk of anemia were twice as likely to develop blood clots in the lungs or legs as other patients, a decade-long study of more than 55,000 cancer patients has found.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The state of US emergency departments has been called a "growing national crisis," and a report out today shows the situation is only getting worse.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most U.S. teenagers are not as active as they should be, but a lack of exercise does not seem to account for rising rates of teen obesity, a new study finds.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As more and more Americans have turned to hot tubs for some rest and relaxation, the number of hot tub-related injuries has grown as well, a national study shows.