Year: 2013

Mass. teenager who lost skin after adverse reaction to Motrin awarded $50M, parents get $13M

A Scout Master for a boy scout troop in the Parker, Colo., area has been arrested for sexual exploitation of a child, the Parker Police Department announced on Wednesday. The announcement came as a Douglas County High School teacher was reportedly arrested for sexual exploitation of a child and days after a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy was arrested following an investigation into inappropriate text messages with a juvenile. Here are the details.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require creating a national drug-tracking system, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday.

Report calls for national drug-tracking system to counter growing threat of fake medications

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission has proposed increased DNA testing of meat products to assess the scale of a scandal involving horsemeat sold as beef that has shocked the public and raised concern over the continent's food supply chains. "The tests will be on DNA in meat products in all member states," European Union Health Commissioner Tonio Borg told reporters after a ministerial meeting in Brussels to discuss the affair. …

Overly salted food activates the taste cells that sense sourness and bitterness, sending unpleasant signals to the brain. Sophie Bushwick reports.