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The old-fashioned practices of at-home canning, pickling and preserving are all the rage these days, with famous foodies and young urban hipsters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, mired in a health scandal over contaminated dairy products at home and abroad, said new tests had revealed no melamine in liquid milk on the home market.

One in 10 children thinks their parents take drugs, a survey of 500 teenagers in England and Scotland suggests.

SERIOUSLY ill Scots pin too much hope on new drug treatments and pharmaceutical firms are partly to blame because they over-hype their products, the head of Scotland's dru

FITNESS enthusiasts in some parts of Scotland have the poorest access to gyms and health clubs in the UK, according to new research.

AP - The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning.

AP - When critically obese, bedridden Jose Luis Garza pleaded for help in shedding a few hundred pounds, he landed the world's biggest weight watcher.

Hong Kong's food safety watchdog says that two China-made chocolate products sold there by British sweetmaker Cadbury contained dangerous levels of melamine.

The vet involved in the treatment of animals at Melbourne's Alfred hospital says no humans were put at risk by the service.

Burma authorities have urged people not to use Chinese milk and dairy products in the wake of the contamination scandal, state media has reported.