The number of American kids taking medication for chronic ailments, particularly type 2 diabetes, jumped by more than 50 percent from 2002 to 2005. With the rise, the current rate is six out of 10,000 children.

But that number covers only 23,000 privately insured children in the country, if the uninsured youth are included, the numbers could go even higher

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug, Toviaz or fesoterodine fumarate, to treat patients afflicted with overactive bladder.

Toviaz is manufactured by Schwarz Pharma of Zwickau, Germany and is distributed in the United States by Pfizer Inc. of New York

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

General Mills is voluntarily recalling cans of its Progresso Hearty Tomato Soup because of a labeling issue, the company announced Friday.

The recall was issued because the soup may contain allergens not listed on its label, specifically, eggs, milk and soy, according to a press release from Landover, Md. supermarket company, Giant Food

Amnesty International is alarmed over the risk of extreme hunger in Zimbabwe after a failed agricultural season. The economic difficulty of Zimbabweans is worsened by the ongoing political crisis in the country.

AI pointed out most of the victims of political violence after the March elections were subsistence farmers. Some became crippled because of secret police beatings that left them too weak to work in the fields. The bulk of the violent incidents were made by state security forces, AI said