What happens when a mentally ill inmate is imprisoned naked for nine months living in filth in dark solitary confinement and is so abused and traumatized that he can only speak gibberish when released? Judge dismisses family's lawsuit, of course!

The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.

Here's a scary story by Carolyn Lochhead, from the San Francisco Chronicle, about how corporate fears of E-coli contamination lead to environment damage to the farmscape of America. Surely there must be a better way to grow safe food. This is an excerpt f

So what does it mean that Swine flu is more lethal to fat people? Think about who is fat in the U.S. -- it's mostly the poor, uneducated minorities. Wouldn't the Swine flu and its vaccine be convenient tools for those secret-government elites to wipe these

US - A top US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official has opposed the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to pigs, cattle and chickens to promote growth. In a written testimony, Joshua Sharfstein, Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug

The Weatherill listeriosis report was leaked to CTV last night and it will be publicly released later today. Here are a few of the leaked recommendations that I think are notable (*starred, bolded) and why. The recommendations from Weatherill become a lit

WASHINGTON - The race is on: The government and vaccine makers are seeking thousands of volunteers, from babies to the elderly, to roll up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots - to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against this novel v

US - Red meats and poultry have been found to be major sources of exposure to polybrominated flame retardants, known as PBDEs, in the US. The conclusion follows research just published in Environmental Health Perspective by Fraser and co-workers.

Uncooked meat products enhanced with food additives may contain high levels of phosphorous and potassium that are not discernable from inspection of food labels, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American S

In the early hours of this morning, Maple Leaf announced a voluntary recall of a number of wiener products. This has many people asking "why another Listeria recall - can't Maple Leaf get it right?" It's a fair question. The truth is that the