Updated: 10:48 AM School is almost back in session but there is still one thing parents need to do before sending their kids back to school.

Updated: 7:34 PM California health officials are warning consumers not to eat black licorice twist candies made by Red Vines because they contain too much lead.

Updated: 6:53 PM The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow nurses to dispense birth control, making it easier for women to get contraceptives at primary care clinics.

Posted: 9:03 AM During the summer months, it's easy to let your kids stay up late and sleep in. But with the new school year quickly approaching in Washoe County, doctors suggest parents adjust their kids' sleeping patterns immediately.

Posted: 9:06 AM With the start of the school year just around the corner, a lot of parents in Washoe County are scrambling to get their kids immunized.

Updated: 1:08 PM The state of Nevada wants low income seniors and the disabled to know there are programs to help them with prescription drug costs.

Posted: 2:12 PM The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Reumofan dietary supplements, after receiving reports of bleeding, stroke and death among people taking the pills.

Updated: 2:18 PM Fresno County reports that an elderly woman has died of West Nile virus, the county's first virus-related death this year.

Posted: 12:26 PM Food safety advocates are calling on federal officials to release the name of an Indiana farm that recalled its cantaloupes amid a deadly salmonella outbreak.

Posted: 4:17 AM Aetna is buying Coventry Health Care for $5.7 billion as the insurance industry realigns itself to better navigate the massive government health care overhaul.

Updated: 9:02 AM A Northern California produce supplier is voluntarily recalling romaine lettuce that was shipped to 19 states, Puerto Rico and Canada over fears of possible E. coli contamination.

Posted: 10:55 PM New research could have you skipping the gym, and opting for a workout at home.

Posted: 10:11 AM Health officials say six people have died and at least 100 others have been sickened by pickled cabbage contaminated with E. coli bacteria in northern Japan.

Updated: 11:21 AM As summer break comes to an end, kids are preparing to go back to school. Some parents may start to wonder what immunizations their kids need before heading back to class.

Updated: 3:43 PM Johnsonville Sausage, LLC, a Sheboygan Falls, Wisc. establishment, is recalling approximately 48,000 pounds of “Turkey Sausage with Cheddar Cheese” products because they may contain pieces of gloves, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

Posted: 8:22 AM Johnson & Johnson plans to remove potentially cancer-causing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic products worldwide within 3 1/2 years.

Updated: 8:35 AM Here's something chocolate lovers will want to hear. Chocolate may help boost brain power.

Posted: 1:31 PM The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the new flu vaccine for the season beginning this year.

Updated: 7:51 AM Sliced apples distributed to fast-food and grocery chains nationwide are among packaged products being recalled due to possible listeria contamination.

Posted: 4:06 AM In the more than half century that they've been growing crops in the Carson Valley, Andy Aldax and Fred Stodieck don't ever remember seeing the East Fork of the Carson River bone dry like it is now.

Updated: 1:39 PM California health officials are warning people not to eat oysters from a Northern California oyster company because they may be contaminated with bacteria that can make people sick.

Posted: 10:59 AM Officials say there's been a five-fold increase of cases of a new strain of swine flu that spreads from pigs to people.

Posted: 5:25 AM A badger wandered into a bottled water store in northern Nevada, dodged a tranquilizer dart and held authorities at bay for about an hour before the teeth-baring critter was lured into a cage with cat food.

Posted: 11:03 PM Sports drinks are a $7-billion worldwide industry. But just as the Olympics games began in London a group of researchers at England's Oxford University published a study of the marketing claims and the science behind them in BMJ, the British medical journal.

Updated: 2:54 PM A Wisconsin company that makes packaged salads is recalling nearly seven tons of products because they contain onions that are the subject of a separate recall.