Month: July 2014

The latest research, from academic studies to clinical trials, has shown that high fat low carb diets work best for weight loss and for health. But despite …

By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. military bases and military commissaries in five states that supply food to personnel and their families are among the outlets believed to have received salmonella-tainted chicken produced by Foster Farms, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday. U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine bases in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Washington state may have received the chicken, according to an updated list of recipients of the poultry, which was recalled last week. In a statement to Reuters, Foster Farms said it provided the USDA information "on involved products and customers" last week. "The only chicken products involved in this recall were produced on certain dates in March." Officials at the Department of Defense could not be reached for comment.

Twenty-five percent more children are falling ill with TB than the UN had thought, with more than 650,000 hit by the disease each year in the 22 worst affected countries, specialists said Wednesday. Reporting in The Lancet, they said that about 53 million children under 15 are living with latent TB infection, a condition that can develop into active TB at any time. A contagious disease of the lungs, TB is caused by a microbe called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Last year the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated there were 530,000 cases of active TB among children younger than 15 years in 2012.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s governor is pushing clinical trials for a marijuana-derived drug that proponents say could help treat severe seizure disorders among children, an unlikely election-year move for a Republican in a conservative part of the country that is just beginning to warm up to medical marijuana in narrow circumstances.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get the final $1.38 million payment of a National Institutes of Health five-year grant after a team member admitted last year to faking research results, the NIH said Tuesday.

Prosecutors in New York City’s most populous borough of Brooklyn will no longer prosecute low-level marijuana possession cases, particularly for first-time offenders, the office said on Tuesday. Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, who campaigned on limiting criminal penalties for people caught with small amounts of pot, said the new policy will lift the burden placed on the criminal justice system by thousands of low-level arrests that are ultimately dismissed. The move, which does not affect New York’s four other boroughs, comes at a time when states and cities across the United States are adopting more lenient stances on marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law. Fifteen U.S. states have made possessing marijuana a civil offense, and 23 including New York allow medicinal pot.

Only those living with anxiety or depression can truly understand the crippling effects of the symptoms that come along with them. From feeling empty to hopeless to totally out of control, people with these illnesses often struggle to believe that there is, in fact, a light at the end of the tunnel. But Ariane Sherine, a writer for The Guardian with depression and anxiety, encourages everyone to keep pushing toward that day when they will feel better. She joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani today to discuss who helped her cope with her illness and offer advice for others out