The American Academy of Pediatrics updated earlier suggestions, which made parents feel like they were not doing their best to prevent their children from food allergies, asthma and allergic rashes. The AAP says breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no factual evidence to show that taking certain foods during pregnancy stage, either using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months could also be helpful.

The doctors group advised mothers of infants in August 2000 that mothers with family history of allergies should avoid taking cow's milk, fish, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts while breast-feeding

The state of Minnesota will ban the use of mercury in makeup and skin lightening creams starting 2008.

Minnesota is the first U.S. state to prohibit the deliberate inclusion of mercury in beauty cosmetics such as mascara, eye liners and beauty balms, according to The Associated Press

An international operation is underway to contain an acute virus that is spreading in Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote community in the middle of the south Atlantic.

The health of the elderly and the very young is the main concern, said Michael Swales, chairman of the island association, adding three patients are confined in a four-bed hospital which was full to overflowing last week

An Australian medical study has found that fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids may stop young people from developing schizophrenia, a psychotic condition characterized by hallucinations and delusions.

In an experiment conducted by researchers from the Orygen Research Centre in Melbourne, only three percent of 40 people aged 13 to 24 and previous sufferers of hallucinations and delusions developed schizophrenia one year after taking capsules of fish oil over a period of three months

Researchers at the University of Oxford in the U.K. has found that eating more fish could improve ones memory and lessen incidence of forgetfulness or "senior moments." The same study, conducted in Norway also shows that the more you eat fish, the bigger benefits you enjoy in reducing memory gap.

Dr. A. David Smith, principal author of the study said scientists have found that elderly men and women who have more fish on their diet scored better on memory, visual conception, spatial motor skills, attention, orientation and verbal fluency tests