The Food and Drug Administration's determination that a widely-used chemical found in baby bottles is safe contained mistakes and should be redone, an FDA panel unanimously ruled.

The chemical, bisphenol-A, or BPA, is also found in many other plastic products

An eighth grader from Houston died Friday from meningitis prompting city health officials to set a medical exam for students who rode with the victim on a bus to see if they were infected.

The City Health Department will also examine the bus driver of the Revere Middle School as a precaution to contain a possible outbreak of bacterial meningitis

No matter what a person eats their basic scent, or body odor, remains detectably the same, researchers say.

It's serious research, because the same unique genes that determine body odor, called "odortypes," also in part are involved in the immune system, scientists from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit basic research institute Monell Center say

More Americans are becoming diabetic, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Within a decade the number rose to 9.1 diabetic per 1,000 adults in 2005-2007 from 4.8 per 1,000 in 1995-1997 in 33 states. That is equivalent to a 90 percent growth, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Four people have died in South African hospitals from a hemorrhagic fever caused by a new rodent-borne virus while one is recuperating from the same disease.

Cecilia van Deventer, a safari tour guide from Zambia, was the first fatality of arena virus dying on Sept. 14 at the Morningside Medi-Clinic in Johannesburg or two days after she was airlifted from Zambia