A Danish company has delivered the first 1 million doses of a next-generation smallpox vaccine to the U.S. national stockpile, a vaccine reserved for people with weakened immune systems.

A new report from Center for Science in the Public Interest says that synthetic food dyes pose risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergies.
 
Did you know that food manufacturers use about 15 million pounds of eight synthetic dyes into our food every year? In fact, per capita consumption of food dyes has increased fivefold since 1955, thanks mostly to fun colors in breakfast cereals, fruit drinks and candies.

Nearly 20 years ago, Danish scientists first broke the news to the world that men from Western countries seem to be slowly becoming infertile. Recent research seems to back this up as well, with average sperm counts having dropped to half of what they were 50 years ago.

A NSW-based anti-vaccination group has been ordered to place a prominent warning on its website stating it "should not be read as medical advice".

The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) was given 14 days to comply, after an investigation concluded the group promoted "inaccurate and misleading" information to parents via its website.

Tens of thousands of kids may benefit from cholesterol-lowering medication, but no one would know because screening guidelines exclude too many children, U.S. doctors said Monday.

In a report published in the journal Pediatrics, they call for screening of all children, expanding one set of current recommendations that target only those whose parents or grandparents have heart disease or high cholesterol. Another existing set of guidelines doesn't call for screening in any children.

Shrimpers who were exposed to a mixture of oil and Corexit dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico suffered severe symptoms such as muscle spasms, heart palpitations, headaches that last for weeks and bleeding from the rectum, according to a marine toxicologist who issued the warning Friday on a cable news network.