LA City Clerk Approves Medical Marijuana Petition
Updated: 10:28 AM The Los Angeles City Clerk has approved a petition that aims to get a question on next May's ballot asking voters to limit medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.
Updated: 10:28 AM The Los Angeles City Clerk has approved a petition that aims to get a question on next May's ballot asking voters to limit medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.
Updated: 2:07 PM A popular exercise craze is teaming up with the largest breast cancer organization in the country. The event is called “Party In Pink” where Zumba exercisers hope to raise money for cancer awareness.
Updated: 8:40 PM The Washoe County Health District has released new information about the illness going around local elementary schools and some daycares.
Posted: 5:28 PM A British cancer group is turning to an unorthodox source of help in an effort to speed its research: web surfers.
Updated: 4:51 PM Massachusetts state officials say they found unclean conditions including visible black specks of fungus in steroids made by a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.
Updated: 8:11 PM October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While there are plenty of walks, dinners and auctions going on right now, there is one unique awareness campaign involving pink gloves and dancing, and it all could lead to a donation to the local American Cancer Society.
Posted: 12:09 PM The nation's leading pediatricians group is offering its first advice on organic fruits and vegetables for children.
Posted: 10:18 AM Kroger Inc. says it has stopped stocking sprouts as of Monday because of their "potential food safety risk."
Updated: 12:46 PM An outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots for back pain is now blamed for 284 illnesses in 16 states, and 23 deaths.
Updated: 9:54 PM Researchers have found signs of puberty in American boys up to two years earlier than previously reported.
Posted: 8:47 AM The Washoe County School District released the names of the three elementary schools affected by a stomach illness that's sickened hundreds of students and sent eleven children to emergency rooms in a single day.
Posted: 12:34 PM State health officials say contact with animals is the likely source of an E. coli outbreak linked to North Carolina county fair.
Posted: 9:26 AM The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling one of its spray-on products after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the lotion.
Updated: 11:54 AM Health officials have confirmed that a fungus behind a meningitis outbreak has also been found in unopened vials of steroid medication.
Updated: 9:17 AM A powerful stomach bug has been making several students sick in Washoe County over the past few weeks.
Posted: 2:02 PM Health officials say one child has died and 37 others have been sickened in an E. coli outbreak tied to a North Carolina county fair.
Updated: 10:15 AM New research suggests shots that protect against cervical cancer do not make girls promiscuous.
Updated: 8:22 AM A New Mexico food company that produced the peanut butter linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning has expanded an ongoing recall of its products to include raw and roasted peanuts.
Posted: 1:13 PM An investigation by The Associated Press shows that federal product safety regulators did not try to recall jewelry tainted with the toxic metal cadmium, despite their vow to keep the trinkets out of children's hands.
Posted: 10:39 AM A Southern California company is recalling preserved fruit products that may contain high levels of lead.
Posted: 11:12 AM An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled.
Posted: 9:39 AM An Ohio ice cream maker is voluntarily recalling some of its peanut-butter flavored products because of possible salmonella contamination.
Updated: 6:46 PM The HPV vaccine has been available to teenage girls for about 6 years now. Just recently the shot has been recommend for boys as well. Its designed to prevent Cervical Cancer and other HPV related cancers later in life. But in Nevada only about 30% of girls have been properly immunized.
Updated: 3:24 PM Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the specialty pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak may have misled regulators and done work beyond the scope of its state license.
Updated: 11:44 AM The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths.