Jalapeño Recall Reaches Seven Grocery Chains In 26 States

Prepared foods sold at some Trader Joe's, Target, Walmart, Hannaford, Kroger, Stop and Shop and Whole Foods stores are being pulled from shelves because the jalapeños they contain may carry Salmonella.

Taylor Fresh Foods of Salinas, California, announced the voluntary recall Sunday after learning that its pepper supplier wa...

New Melanoma Drug Based On Herpes Virus Granted FDA Accelerated Approval

Federal regulators have granted accelerated approval to a novel therapy for advanced melanoma — giving doctors another weapon to fight this challenging skin cancer.

Tudriqev is an oncolytic viral therapy, which means it is a virus that targets cancer cells. For this new targeted therapy, scientists trained the herpes simplex virus to...

Working At Home Makes Breastfeeding Harder, Not Easier, Study Says

Working from home won’t necessarily help a new mother breastfeed, a new study says.

Mothers who worked from home had lower breastfeeding rates than those working outside the home, researchers reported recently in the Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Surprisingly, stay-at-home moms reported the lowest rates of exclu...

Even Light Exercise May Lower Stroke Risk For People With A-fib

If you have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, getting moving may make a real difference.

A-fib is an irregular heartbeat that raises the risk of stroke — and it affects an estimated 10.5 million adults in the U.S. Yet research shows that people with A-fib tend to be less active than the general population.

A new study of more than...

Heart Problems Linked To Brain Shrinkage Among People With Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's

Heart health appears to affect brain health among people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. 

People whose hearts are pumping blood less effectively tend to have brains that are shrinking faster, researchers recently reported in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association...