No illnesses have been reported, according to a news release from Phillips Mushroom Farms.
Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, an infection that mainly affects the elderly, pregnant women, newborns, and people with weak immune systems. Infection during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth, premature delivery, or infection of the [...]

The report, published on the web site of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), shows detectable levels of
mercury in 17 out of 55 tested products rich in high-fructose corn syrup.
But the researchers aren’t telling people to avoid those products or other
items containing high-fructose corn syrup, and they aren’t sure what form of
mercury [...]

ATryn, which is given by infusion, is for people with a rare condition
called hereditary antithrombin deficiency. About 1 in 5,000 people in the U.S.
have that condition, according to the FDA.
People with hereditary antithrombin deficiency don’t make enough
antithrombin, an anticlotting compound. That shortfall of antithrombin puts
patients at risk of life-threatening blood clots, especially during pregnancy, childbirth, [...]

The study found little association between the use of drugs like Clomid and
the cancer.
There has long been concern that the ovulation-stimulating and
ovulation-regulating drugs used to treat infertility raise ovarian cancer risk.
Several small studies conducted in the 1990s suggested that they do, but more
recent studies failed to show an association.
Now the largest, most rigorously designed trial [...]

Researchers used data from the National Center for Health Statistics and concluded that tobacco smoke may have led to more than 70% of cancer deaths among Massachusetts men in 2003.
“This study provides support for the growing understanding among researchers that smoking is a cause of many more cancer deaths besides lung cancer,” says researcher Bruce [...]

Researchers estimated radiation exposures from cardiac computed tomography (CT) scans at 50 teaching and community hospitals throughout the world. Their study appears in the Feb. 4 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
They found radiation exposures at the highest-dose sites to be six times as high as those at the lowest-dose sites.
And on [...]

The drug, called propoxyphene, has been sold in
U.S. pharmacies for more than 50 years and today is used in dozens of generic
pain medications. Two brand-name versions of the drug,
Darvon and Darvocet, are used by millions
of patients each year, according to the FDA.
The panel vote was 14-12 in favor of a recommendation to halt sales of [...]

More than 400 peanut products have been recalled in the wake of the
outbreak. Those items are listed in the FDA’s
searchable list of recalled products. That list is expected to keep
growing, so FDA officials encourage consumers to check it regularly. Companies
that have recently announced new or expanded peanut butter recalls include:
[...]