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  1. Cherry tomatoes and hot peppers are displayed for sale in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts in this file image from August 14, 2007. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files
    Salmonella found in fresh jalapeno, FDA says Reuters - Tue Jul 22, 12:50 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found a jalapeno pepper contaminated with a strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people, officials said on Monday.

  2. Heart patient Taneal Wilson is seen in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2008. When it comes to hearts, Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover instead. Only a lucky few ever are weaned off those heart pumps. How to duplicate those successes is one of cardiology's biggest questions — as a new generation of the heart pumps begins U.S. testing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    Quest: Repairing more hearts with implanted pumps AP - Mon Jul 21, 7:14 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    WASHINGTON - When it comes to hearts, Taneal Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover instead.

  3. Health Tip: Exercising During Pregnancy HealthDay - Fri Jul 18, 11:47 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    (HealthDay News) -- Exercise is good for you during any stage of life. But among pregnant women, it can offset some common problems.

  4. Sleep apnea may trigger nighttime heart attack Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 5:18 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The blood pressure, nerve, and hormonal changes wrought by obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may increase the risk of heart attack during the night, new research suggests.

  5. Jalapenos pepper sit for sale at a market stand in Mexico City, Monday, July 21, 2008. U.S. government inspectors finally have a big clue in the salmonella outbreak in the U.S: they found the same bacteria on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled by a small Texas produce shipper. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
    FDA finds salmonella strain in jalapeno pepper AP - Tue Jul 22, 4:28 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WASHINGTON - Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas — and issued a stronger warning for consumers to avoid fresh jalapenos.

  6. Cell cultures are placed under a microscope in a lab. Researchers have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine capable of kick-starting the body's immune response and being tailored to a patient's specific tumor type, according to a study released Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Sandy Huffaker)
    Vaccine kick-starts immune response to cancer AFP - Mon Jul 21, 10:46 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    CHICAGO (AFP) - Researchers have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine capable of kick-starting the body's immune response and being tailored to a patient's specific tumor type, according to a study.

  7. New pill helps shrink prostate tumors: study Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 7:02 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    LONDON (Reuters) - A once-a-day pill significantly shrank tumors in men with advanced prostate cancer who had not responded to other treatments, researchers said on Tuesday.

  8. British study links IMF loans to tuberculosis Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 8:47 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    LONDON (Reuters) - Austerity measures attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans may have contributed to a resurgence in tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, researchers said on Tuesday.

  9. Health officials tout computer prescribing AP - Mon Jul 21, 5:34 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WASHINGTON - Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient.

  10. File photo shows surgeons operating to extract the liver and kidneys from a brain-dead woman at the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin January 12, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
    Livers from older donors work well in transplants Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 4:10 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liver transplant patients who receive an organ from a donor age 60 or older do just as well as patients getting a liver from a younger donor, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

  11. Children treated abroad as U.S. doctors push for devices Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 8:19 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Every year, Chicago-based cardiologist Ziyad Hijazi accompanies two or three children and their families to his native Jordan for heart operations using medical devices that are not approved in the United States.

  12. File photo shows a young carer holding the hands of an elderly woman in a residential home for the elderly in Planegg near Munich June 19, 2007. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
    Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's; experts worry Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 3:09 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and their families.

  13. A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source AP - 35 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    WASHINGTON - It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak.

  14. Most children with milk allergy tolerate warm milk Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 2:48 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Seventy-five percent of children with cow's milk allergy will be able to tolerate it if it is heated extensively, according to a report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

  15. Mass. woman diagnosed with rare brain disease AP - Mon Jul 21, 5:22 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    BOSTON - An elderly woman has been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder, state health officials said Monday.

  16. Foreign-born TB cases need better control, US says AP - Wed Jul 23, 2:53 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    CHICAGO - Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday that called for more aggressive action.

  17. Gene tied to muscle weakness from cholesterol drugs Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 5:29 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    BOSTON (Reuters) - British researchers have located a gene responsible for muscle pain or weakness experienced by some people taking statin drugs to fight "bad" cholesterol, they reported on Wednesday.

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