A woman who wanted to lose weight died after taking banned slimming pills that she bought over the internet.

Selena Walrond, 26, died five days after she started taking DNP, a drug that increases metabolic rate to burn calories and make bodybuilders and athletes lose weight more quickly. DNP is also used as a pesticide

A hand-held trans-cranial magnetic stimulation device could be helpful in treatment of most severe migrane attacks, researchers say. When held against the back of the head and turned on, the device delivers two quick magnetic pulses into the brain, which scientists believe short-circuit the electrical storm.

Invented by Medtronic, the device was tested in a trial of 61 patients who experienced on average 15 or more headache days in a month and whose condition did not respond to conventional medicine for three months. The device is put up against the back of the head, and users push a button to administer the magnetic pulse

The total illness toll in the Salmonella outbreak has reached more than 756 and the government says it is still clueless about the source of outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a statement that no deaths have been attributed to the illness.

The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said people in 34 states and the District of Columbia have been infected with a rare strain of bacteria known as Salmonella Saintpaul

The controversial anti-obestity drug rimonabant, marketed as Acomplia, has been approved for National Health Service (NHS) use in the England and Wales. The National Institute for Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has approved use of this diet drug in people who are clinically obese or people who are seriously overweight with complications such as diabetes.

The drug, made by Sanofi-Aventis, is approved for sale in Britain and elsewhere in the European Union but was rejected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel in June 2007 because of concerns the drug increases the risk of depression and suicidal thoughts

The largest U.S. grocery chain, Kroger Co., is voluntarily recalling all ground beef products sold in Michigan and certain Ohio stores between May 21 and June 8 after the meat was linked to an outbreak of illness from E. coli bacteria.

Testing has confirmed beef samples contain a strain of the bacteria that has sickened at least 19 people in Ohio. Another 15 have been sickened in Michigan