LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –  The operator of a Springdale turkey plant responsible for a massive recall of ground turkey continues to investigate what caused the outbreak. A spokesman for the meat giant Cargill says officials are still trying to find how a strain of salmonella got into millions of pounds of ground turkey. Mark Klein says the company is getting closer, but is still searching for answers. The company has recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey... 

PHILADELPHIA –  Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson has a rare brain condition that most likely caused his seizure this week at training camp, the National Football League (NFL) team said. The Eagles’ first-round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft was hospitalized after suffering a seizure on Wednesday for about four minutes and losing consciousness at the team’s training camp in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has been diagnosed with brain... 

Heat-related illnesses that strike during a sport or recreational activity send nearly 6,000 people in the U.S. to emergency rooms every year, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These illnesses include heat exhaustion and dehydration, and males between the ages of 15 and 19 had the highest incidence, the report said. All heat illnesses are preventable, the CDC said, and the findings highlight the need for... 

MTV has turned 30, an apt age for reflection. There’s a famous saying in psychiatry (or at least one that a mentor of mine, the late Dr. Theodore Nadelson) told me was famous: “By 30, a man owns his face.” One’s character is formed. Your legacy is being written. So it is, with MTV. By 30, the character of a network can be judged. MTV brought music to television, beginning as a 24-hour forum for music videos, fueled by a brilliant marketing campaign—“I... 

Scientists have identified an emerging “superbug” strain of salmonella that is highly resistant to the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, often used for severe salmonella infections, and say they fear it may spread around the world. The strain, known as S. Kentucky, has spread internationally with almost 500 cases found in France, Denmark, England and Wales in the period between 2002 and 2008, according a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. French... 

Adults who took vitamin and mineral supplements for almost a decade performed better on one type of memory test than those who didn’t take the supplements, according to a new study from France. The researchers say the findings suggest that getting enough nutrients could aid thinking and memory skills as people get older. But further studies are needed to confirm the results, they add. The effect was “nothing wild that you’d say, ‘Everybody... 

More than a thousand Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder would be given lifetime disability retirement benefits such as military health insurance under the terms of a settlement reached between the government and the veterans. Attorneys for the veterans, the Justice Department and the military jointly filed a motion on Thursday that spelled out the terms. The settlement must be approved by a judge to be final. It also affects... 

College is giving your child an education, but your happy-go-lucky freshman might also pick up a few health problems and generate some doctor’s bills to go with that $25,000 tuition tab. College dorm rooms have their perks for the aching-to-get-away-from-home high school grad: parent-free, coed floors, and 24-hour pizza delivery. But they also pose several health concerns that both students and parents should consider this fall semester. 1. The hazard:... 

As if falling off a bike isn’t painful enough, imagine bones growing on your injured muscles. For hundreds of thousands of people, this complication is actually quite common, but researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have learned what causes this abnormal bone growth, which currently has no treatment. As their studies showed, a neuropeptide in the brain... 

July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, and I’d like to take this opportunity to help clear up some of the misconceptions regarding umbilical cord blood collection. First, let’s start with cord blood itself. Cord blood is the fetal blood that is found in the umbilical cord and in the placenta of a newborn child. Typically, this material was always discarded after delivery – that is, until scientists discovered that cord blood is full of stem cells. Adult...