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Blue Bell Creameries Recall: Ice Cream Contaminated With Bacteria Causes Deaths

For the first time in the company’s 108 year-old history, there has been a Blue Bell Creameries recall, as the iconic brand’s ice cream seemingly left the factory so contaminated with the Listeria bacteria that it ultimately caused three deaths in the United States.
  • Paleo Diet For Babies: Celebrity Chef Pete Evans Cookbook Halted Over Infancy Mortality Fears

    The Paleolithic diet, also known as the paleo diet, is based on the idea that the human body hasn’t adapted to modern foods and the healthy way to go about one’s eating habits is to follow the diet of the prehistorical man – so much that there’s now a new paleo diet for babies as well.
  • 250 Year-Old Pretzel Discovered In Bavaria May Be Oldest European Pastry EVER! [PHOTO]

    Just about every type of dough should be eaten when it’s fresh out of the oven, though it’s known that some places might serve food that’s up to days old … however, certainly nobody would ever dare to serve the 250 year-old pretzel that German archeologists just found in the country.
  • Binge Drinking Urge May Be Stopped With Brain Protein, Study Shows

    There have been many studies regarding the effects of drinking a lot of alcohol in a short amount of time on the body, but scientists have apparently now found the first-ever possible way to stop the binge drinking urge altogether, something that could ultimately even lower bigger issues such as alcoholism.
  • FDA Biosimilar Approval: Zarxio, First US Biosimilar, To Prevent Infections In Chemotherapy Patients

    Also known as follow-on biologic or subsequent entry biologic, a biosimilar is basically a medical product that copies an original one manufactured by a different company, usually with high molecular complexity, usually permitted when the patent to the original medicine expires; now, the FDA biosimilar approval could carve the path for new developments on the area.
  • Mediterranean Diet Foods Prevent Heart Disease By Half, Study Shows

    Much has been said about Mediterranean diet foods, as different studies have shown that there’s a wide aspect of health benefits connected to the diet based on how the people in the area between Greece, southern Italy and Spain have eaten for centuries; now, the latest benefit seems to be a vast lowering of the risk of heart disease.
  • Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Possible With WWI Chemical, Study Shows

    In the midst of the obesity epidemic crisis, many other diseases related to it are being studied and treated, including the different levels of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance in the body – now, a new study has shown that there might be a way around type 2 diabetes reversal after first experiments with rodents.
  • Antibiotic Resistant Salad Listeria Monocytogenes Microbe Less Widespread Than Previously Thought

    For quite some time, scientists have been warning about the antibiotic-resistant salad microbe, Listeria monocytogenes, due to the fact that it’s fairly difficult to fight it off the body once it’s entered; however, new findings have shown that it may not be as widespread as had been originally thought.
  • Combating Breast Cancer: What Does the Future Holds for the Patients?

    Based on Science Daily, treating patients with the locally advanced inoperable breast cancer is a difficult task. Most patients treated with this disease suffer relapse and despite the finest multimodal treatment, they don’t survive. There’s a medical need for examining the potential and current treatments and researchers of EORTC have published an article based on this topic.
  • Acne Prevention-Proper Skin Care is the Key

    Acne breakouts are one of the common concerns of individuals these days especially the teens. Though there are several ways on how to prevent acne that sufferers can consider, recent news revealed that proper skin care is still one of the best keys toward effective acne prevention. You might have heard it before, but acne prevention is also considered as the best medicine. Preventing acne is proven to be an effective treatment solution to stop the breakout in the first place.
  • Leukaemia Mutations: Almost Inevitable

    On recent health news, many researchers stated that it is almost inevitable that the blood will take its initial steps towards leukaemia as individuals grow older. Researchers have analyzed the blood of about 4,219 individuals looking for DNA errors or mutations connected to blood cancer or leukaemia. The number of mutations on healthy adults without the disease is higher than what is expected. The research has concentrated on 15 hereditary leukaemia mutations and has found them in 0.8% individuals aged below 60 and then about 19.5% individuals aged 90 years old and above.
  • Court Case Challenging Health Law and Derailing Healthcare

    Since the submission of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, numerous court case challenging health law and legal actions in the federal court were cited challenging the constitutionality of legislation. The ACA or Affordable Care Act is again before the Supreme Court.
  • Dangerous Gut Microbe: Infections Associated With It Remain on the Rise

    A potentially serious gastrointestinal infection is more usual than the previously estimated. It was reported by the national officials last Wednesday. According to West Virginia Public Broadcasting, this infection is triggered by a dangerous gut microbe called Clostridium difficile or simply C-diff. It causes almost 500,000 diseases in US every year and it puts into death roughly 29,000, as stated by the national centers for illness control & prevention.
  • Hazelnut Market unmoved by the Newest Export Numbers

    The hazelnut market of Turkey stays unchanged and unmoved at TRY 35.5 or USD14.45 for every kilo and that is equal to roughly USD15, 300 for every tone C&F Europe for raw 11-13mm levants. It was noted by a trader in UK recently.
  • Prices of Spanish Canned Mandarins Go Up

    The high demand for food service canned mandarins this year expects the Spanish canned mandarin production to fall short at 20,000 tons. A lot of Spanish canners are complaining about the weak production of canned mandarin, asserting that there are enough fruit produced and to be packed. With this kind of situation, they are cannot do anything but to push up prices of Spanish canned mandarins.
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