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Kit Kat Will Limit Sugar Content By 10% Next Year To Promote Better Choices [VIDEO]
By Anne Collins | Mar 09, 2017 10:02 AM ESTChocolate bars including famous brands such as Kit Kat, Yorkie and Aero will contain 10 percent less sugar by next year according to manufacturer Nestle. Just last year, Nestle said their researchers had made a scientific breakthrough by discovering a way to structure sugar differently so that only 40% less is use.
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How Desk Jobs Are Modern Day Silent Killers
By Minnow Blythe | Mar 05, 2017 07:37 PM ESTThe growing number of evidence of the dangers of too much time spent sitting down have researchers urging policy makers into making it a public health concern.
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Government Spends Over $400,000 To Text Message Latino Men About Exercising
By R. Siva Kumar | Jan 21, 2016 09:38 AM ESTThe texting program has great potential for adoption on a large scale, thus impacting public health, according to researchers.
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Superbug 'Phantom Menace' Increasing In U.S., CDC
By R. Siva Kumar | Dec 07, 2015 06:26 PM ESTThe recorded cases of "phantom menace" superbug infections in the U.S. have expanded and threaten public health, says the CDC.
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WHO Says People do not Fully Understand the Threat of Superbugs
By Cheri Cheng | Nov 16, 2015 10:45 AM ESTThe World Health Organization (WHO) reported that people do not understand the threat that drug-resistant superbugs pose for public health.
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Experts Highlight Strategies to Mitigate Harmful Traffic Pollution
By Christine Hsu | Oct 21, 2013 03:08 PM EDTNew research reveals more evidence that traffic pollution is bad for health.
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Study Reveals Volunteers Lead Happier, Longer Lives
By Christine Hsu | Aug 22, 2013 07:00 PM EDTHelping others may be the secret to long life. A new study reveals that volunteering may improve mental health and promote longevity.
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Cockroaches' Sudden Evolutionary Trick Makes Sugar Bitter
By Makini Brice | May 24, 2013 10:00 AM EDTThe research may be apply to fields as diverse as malaria treatment and health problems in humans.
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Chinese Police Discover, Confiscate 4.7 Million Fake Durex Condoms
By Makini Brice | May 15, 2013 11:40 PM EDTPolice also discovered 1,100 pounds of condoms that had not been packaged on the premises.
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Researchers Eliminate Malaria With...Bacteria
By Makini Brice | May 10, 2013 12:31 PM EDTAccording to a recent study conducted by the World Health Organization, 220 million people are infected with malaria each year.
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Haitian Cholera Victims to UN: Start Talks for Compensation or We'll Sue for Billions
By Makini Brice | May 09, 2013 11:57 AM EDTLawyers from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti have issued the United Nations with an ultimatum: either start talks for a compensation claim within 60 days, or the international organization will be taken to court to the tune of billions of dollars.
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France Reports Its First Case of SARS-Linked Coronavirus, Saudi Arabia Reports 13 New Cases
By Makini Brice | May 08, 2013 09:58 AM EDTThe man is currently being treated in Douai, a city that is located in the northern portion of the country.
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SF Nordstrom Café Food Worker May Have Spread Typhoid Fever
By Makini Brice | May 06, 2013 09:59 AM EDTAn employee there, who worked as a line cook at the café, was recently found to have typhoid fever and may have contaminated food at his workplace.
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In California, Free Condoms for Kids As Young as 12
By Makini Brice | May 02, 2013 01:23 PM EDTOperating with a lean budget of $5,000 from the federal government, the program aims to serve counties in the state that are in the midst of a sexually transmitted infection epidemic among teens.
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390 Million, Not 100 Million, People Infected with Dengue Fever: Study
By Makini Brice | Apr 08, 2013 11:42 AM EDTA recent study has found that dengue fever, nicknamed “bone breaking fever” for the aches that it can cause, occurs three times as often as was previously thought.
