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AP - The government was dispatching thousands of inspectors to monitor producers as officials reported Wednesday that the number of babies sick from tainted milk formula had climbed dramatically to nearly 6,200 from 1,200 a day earlier.

Reuters - A once-used practice of giving
antibiotics to some women at risk of premature birth may have
increased the odds their children will develop cerebral palsy
and other problems, British researchers said on Thursday.

Reuters - Health officials have called off
plans for a study examining a controversial type of treatment
that some autism activists have touted as alternative medical
therapy for children with the condition.

Reuters - Doctors who perform colonoscopies should
not be worried that they may lose business to so-called virtual
colonoscopies, despite reports that both approaches work
equally well at detecting colon cancer, a gastroenterology
expert said on Wednesday.

AP - A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.

Reuters - An enzyme that fights some kinds of
cancers may foster the growth of a rare type of leukemia that
affects babies, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding
that may lead to new drugs for the hard-to-treat cancer.

AP - A government agency has dropped plans to test a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) — A promising new
chemotherapy target for a deadly form of leukemia has been discovered by
researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in
California.

AP - Medical experts told lawmakers Wednesday that new television advertisements for medical devices pose even greater risks to patients than ads for drugs, which have been scrutinized for years.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) — Insurers last year placed
three times more ads and spent twice as much money to promote more
comprehensive Medicare Advantage plans than they did for stand-alone
Medicare drug plans, according to a new study.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — When children reach about 40 pounds, it’s
probably time for them to graduate from an infant car seat to a booster
seat.

AP - India’s government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that has killed more than 200 children since June, officials said Wednesday.

(NaturalNews) Plastic water bottles release the toxic chemical bisphenol A at a rate 55 times greater when filled with boiling water than when filled with room temperature water, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and published in the journal Toxicology Letters.
“Previous studies have shown that if […]

(NaturalNews) Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced that all the store-brand milk sold in both Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores in the United States will now be produced by cows not treated with artificial growth hormones.
Approximately 18 percent of dairy cows in the United States are injected with Monsanto Co.’s recombinant bovine somatotrpoin (rBST), […]