The World Health Organization (or, WHO) has launched what they call the e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA). It was announced by WHO yesterday amid a regional conference in Sri Lanka regarding nutrition. The eLibrary is WHO’s bid for preventing malnutrition around the world, and the organization also hopes that having information readily available [...]

Salmonella has been known to show up in a variety of meat products, but turkey may be a first for the bacteria.  Cargill, an international producer and marketer of food among other facets of company businesses has voluntarily issued a recall of potentially tainted turkey product. Cargill is recalling about 36 million pounds of fresh [...]

The United States Department of Human Health and Services (HSS) announced earlier this morning that birth control will be freely available with no cost attached.  This applies to women only, men are not eligible to receive services for birth control, such as vasectomy. “The Affordable Care Act helps stop health problems before they start,” said [...]

Scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research in the United Kingdom have identified an antibody that kills influenza A, including swine flu, bird flu and Spanish flu. This brings about the potential for wiping out the common flu. A vaccine has yet to be made, though. According to an issue of Science Express, mice [...]

The World Health Organization (or, ‘WHO’) says that commercially available TB (tuberculosis) blood tests are inaccurate and may be subjecting persons needlessly to “misdiagnosis, mistreatment and potential harm.”  In fact, the WHO stated just that this past Wednesday in a policy recommendation. One of the problems with commercially available TB tests according to the WHO [...]

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (or, Aubrey de Grey) suggests that the answer to the question “Can we live forever?” is “Yes,” with a 50/50 shot at the necessary research being done within the next 25 years. “I’d say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I’d call a decisive level [...]