Adding Sliced Fruit or Veggies
It may make your water tastier and more refreshing. But if you’re not careful, it can also fill it with foodborne illness like salmonella and E.coli. That’s because when the rind isn’t clean, slicing into it moves bacteria to the flesh.
Fruit and veggies sliced on the same board used to cut raw meat can also lead to foodborne illness. So can items not stored at the right temperature. Be sure...
Three separate police investigations were opened, according to police and court records, as well as family members. Two of the inquiries ended, while it’s unclear what happened in the third.
KFF Health News – Medical device manufacturer Exactech has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations that it concealed defects in a popular line of artificial knee implants, which have been blamed for thousands of patient injuries in lawsuits.
The settlement resolves two whistleblower lawsuits alleging the Florida company violated the federal False Claims Act by billing government health care programs such as Medicare for knee replacement parts it knew were defective.
“Patients who need...
WCVB – McDonald’s is bringing back Free Fries Friday every Friday through the end of the year.
The deal: get a free order of medium fries with any purchase of one dollar or more.
To cash in, download the free McDonald’s app and place your order there.
Taco Bell’s value play is the Luxe Cravings Box, starting at $5. It includes a variety of items, like the Chalupa, a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito, a taco, chips and a...
For all the outrage aimed at rising drug costs in America, policymakers are targeting the wrong villain.
Instead of confronting the pharmaceutical manufacturers who set sky-high launch prices and raise them annually without consequence, Congress has decided to go after pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—the very entities that negotiate prices down.
It’s a politically convenient move. PBMs are complex. Their work isn’t easily understood. And in today’s populist climate, “middleman” is a dirty word. But scapegoating PBMs...
FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The International Food Information Council (IFIC) conducts ongoing online surveys of U.S. consumers.
The Washington D.C.-based organization recently released survey results for the periods of March 13-27, 2025, and June 7-13, 2025, with respondents weighted to ensure proportional results.
At the risk of mixing results from the two public opinion sweeps, the surveys reveal data on food safety in the current climate. The IFIC aims to measure and track the knowledge, attitudes,...
MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – Electronic health records, policies and procedures, and evidence-based practice guidelines are essential for high-quality care. Yet navigating multiple systems to find the right information can be time-consuming for nurses.
To address this challenge, a multidisciplinary team led by Mayo Clinic's Department of Nursing developed Nurse Virtual Assistant — a first-of-its-kind tool created by Mayo Clinic nurses for nurses.
Built entirely in-house, this generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution displays information in a single tab...
BuzzFeed – In r/AskReddit, when someone asked, "What is a little quirk about your body that you don’t think other people have?" the answers that rolled in were proof of that — and they weren't your typical double-jointed answers, either. Here's what people had to say:
1. "I'm literally hard-headed. I have no frontal sinuses, and where they should be is just bone. I never get sinus headaches."
—Rocklicker13
2. "I'm not colorblind in of my...
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is encouraging Michigan residents to take steps to avoid tick bites while enjoying the outdoors.
Tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, are increasing across the state.
Lyme disease cases in Michigan have increased by 168% over the last five years. The state recorded 1,215 cases in 2024, as compared to 452 cases in 2020. Anaplasmosis cases in Michigan have seen an almost fivefold...
Not all roaches go by “palmetto bug,” but almost anytime you hear that term, you’re dealing with a cockroach. While these species have slight differences in color, size, and preferred hiding spots, they’re all cockroaches.