Easter is a popular time for America's bunny- and chick-shaped marshmallows friends known as Peeps. Every day, about 5.5 million Peeps are produced, roughly 2 billion a year.Peeps may be made with love, but they also have some less-healthy ingredients.Four…

The first medical device to treat childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, was OK'd Friday by the US Food and Drug Administration. Designated for children ages 7 to 12 who are not currently on medication for the disorder, the…

If you take blood pressure medicine, you'll want to double-check your bottle. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has expanded its recall of losartan potassium and losartan potassium/hydrochlorothiazide tablets.Tests found trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing impurity called N-methylnitrosobutyric acid in some of…

Behold the delightful kākāpō, a flightless bird that holds the honor of being the fattest kind of parrot in the world. These roly-poly land angels are native to New Zealand, and unfortunately, they are also critically endangered: Up until recently,…

It's official: This year's flu season is a record breaker.There have been 21 weeks of elevated flu activity reported in the United States during the current 2018-19 flu season, based on data from the weekly flu report released Friday by…

As one of the holiest Jewish celebrations of the year arrives, families in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, face a dilemma."Say you have six kids that want to come to the Seder, with all the grandchildren," said Eli Banash,…

Fainy Sukenik believes in vaccines, and her four children are up to date on all their shots.That's why she's furious that her baby got measles. Too young to be vaccinated, 8-month-old Shira Goldschmidt developed complications from the virus and had…

Russian authorities are growing increasingly concerned about a polar bear that has been wandering in a village hundreds of miles from its usual habitat in search of food, according to local reports.The bear, which looks exhausted but doesn't show any…

While the US grapples with a measles outbreak unlike any we've seen in decades, Indiana University has a different problem on its hands: mumps.At least 16 cases have been reported at the Bloomington campus since February 12, IU spokesman Chuck…

As a parenthood writer, I read a lot of parenting books. Most of them underwhelm by either repeating the obvious or suggesting approaches that are in deep denial of the vagaries of human nature.Very occasionally, I come upon one that…

Even as the Trump administration has taken steps to expand offshore oil drilling, a new report shows that thousands of oil spills are still happening and that workers in the oil and gas industry are still dying on the job.The…

Does sugar make kids hyper? Maybe."If you look at the peer-reviewed evidence, we cannot say sugar absolutely makes kids hyper; however, you can't discount that sugar may have a slight effect" on behavior, said Kristi L. King, senior pediatric dietitian…

Eight people in several states have been hospitalized with listeria infections, including one person who died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.The infections of the bacterium listeria monocytogenes have been reported in Michigan, New Jersey, New York and…

This product "may contain feces."That's the label that one consumer rights advocacy group wants for the government to require meat distributors put on the food they send out to grocery stores.The recommendation is tongue-in-cheek, Deborah Press, an attorney for the…

The Santa Clara County, California, health department said a person with measles visited Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley, which is in their county. The adult is a resident of San Mateo County.As of April 10, California has reported 21 cases…

Dannie Hawkins dreamed for her precious baby nephew, Ja'Ceon Golden, to experience the simple joys of childhood -- swimming in pools during the summer, going to birthday parties, playing in parks filled with people, having a pet -- without risk.Yet…

I try to be restrained in my judgments of other parents. We have so many obligations and pressures when it comes to parental duties that it's probably more detrimental to kids if their parents are further stressed by worrying that…

A new experiment has raised questions as serious as those surrounding gene editing: A support system delivering artificial blood to pig brains prevented degradation of important neural functions, Yale researchers discovered.Dr. Nenad Sestan, senior author of the new study and…

Eating even a moderate amount of red or processed meat is linked with an increased risk of colorectal (bowel) cancer, according to a new study published Wednesday.People who ate 76 grams of red and processed meat per day -- that's…

The parent company of Ben & Jerry's is pulling two ice cream flavors because of issues with nuts.Unilever is recalling some pint-sized containers of Ben & Jerry's Coconut Seven Layer Bar bulk and Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey because they…

An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials.The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus. She was otherwise healthy before getting…

Columbine and Parkland.Two high school massacres, two communities changed forever.Two fateful days, two decades apart. Tragic bookends in American history.In all, 30 lives lost: 13 in Colorado in 1999, 17 in Florida in 2018.Hundreds more survived the gunfire. Most escaped…

After childhood, about two-thirds of the world's human population loses the ability to digest milk. As far as we know, 100% of nonhuman mammals also lose this ability after weaning. The ongoing ability to digest lactose, the main sugar in…