(BBC) – Leprosy is a disease most associated with the developing world. And yet, on a bend of the Mississippi river in the Louisiana swamps is Carville, a former hospital and community for sufferers of the disease. An old sugar plantation, it became the only federal facility in the continental US to care for patients [...]

(Australian Broadcasting Corp) — The Western Australian Government has suspended all flu vaccinations for children under five while it investigates a spike in admissions to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth. The Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination. Dr Hames [...]

(Gaia Health) – In its latest salvo against our health and freedom, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to Diamond Foods stating that their claims for the health promoting qualities of walnuts have moved them from a food to a drug. At the same time, it allows Frito-Lay to advertise its [...]

(KPHO-TV) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1001 Thursday, a law that allows the governor to sue the federal government over the recently passed health care overhaul bill. Led by Florida, 13 states are already fighting the health care bill. State attorneys are arguing that the federal government cannot force people to buy [...]

(WORLDNETDAILY) — Left-leaning economic commentator Paul Krugman says the so-called “death panels” established by President Obama’s trillion-dollar nationalized health-care plan will end up saving “a lot of money” for the government. The comments from Krugman, who writes on the New York Times blogs, came during a discussion of “Obamacare” about the time it was adopted [...]

(FOX NEWS) — As Democrats tout the moral underpinnings of the federal health care system overhaul — ensuring health care coverage for nearly all Americans — one senator appeared to go off message when he said the legislation would address the “mal-distribution of income in America.” After the Senate passed a “fix-it” bill Thursday to [...]

(AP) — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval. It was initially unclear how much of a problem this posed for Democrats hoping to [...]

(CNN) — Federal health authorities recommended Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus. “There is no evidence at this time that this material poses a safety risk,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret [...]

(CNSNews.com) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the “good and welfare clause” gives Congress the authority to require individuals to buy health insurance as mandated in the health care bill. However, there is no “good and welfare clause” in the U.S. Constitution. via CNSNews.com – Rep. Conyers: ‘Good and Welfare Clause’ [...]

(AP) — A requirement tucked into the nation’s massive health care bill will make calorie counts impossible for thousands of restaurants to hide and difficult for consumers to ignore. More than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-throughs. The new law, which [...]

(ARMY TIMES) — At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug. And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily “cocktails” — for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches — despite minimal clinical research testing [...]

(CNSNews.com) – Under the standard procedures of the House of Representatives, Republicans will get only 30 minutes on the House floor to debate the special “rule” being prepared by House Rules Chairman Louise Slaughter (D.-N.Y.) that would deem the Senate health care bill passed in the House without an actual vote on the bill as [...]

(AP) — Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print. Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don't look [...]

(Stuff.co.nz) — Devotees of a man claiming to practice a traditional African religion said they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. US authorities in January raided the Miami man’s home after receiving complaints. The snail grows up to 10 inches long, can reproduce on its own and even [...]