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Scientists and food inspectors remain baffled by the tomato salmonella scare. As CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports, finding the initial cause of the tainted fruit is like detective work.

New report suggests sunshine vitamin may have significant cancer benefits.

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The Indonesian health ministry has reported two deaths from bird flu in recent weeks, easing concerns about whether Jakarta would share information about the disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

LYON, France -- In capsule endoscopy to identify a GI bleeding source, an eight-hour fast provided diagnostic visibility that was just as good as bowel preparation with oral sodium phosphate, investigators here reported.

An experimental treatment that boosted a 52-year-old patient's immune system to fight advanced skin cancer was successful, his doctors report.

Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients. In order to survive, the gram-negative bacteria use genes that have evolved in tandem with ones in their hosts to essentially disarm immune system cells trying to kill them, the scientists report Friday in the journal Science.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash last week ruled that Georgia does not have the authority to deny or reduce health care services prescribed by a physician for child Medicaid beneficiaries, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The Group of Eight industrialized nations should increase assistance to Africa in order to meet pledges to double aid to the continent by 2010, according to a report released on Monday in London by the Africa ...

Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) at a hearing on Tuesday expressed interest in a federal health board that could make controversial health policy decisions without interference from special interests, CQ HealthBeat reports. The hearing, which focused on the fiscal impact of rising health care costs, came one day after a bipartisan health summit hosted by Baucus' committee.