Drinking too much water during a marathon can kill.

"During the marathon a good rule of thumb is to drink about one cup of fluid every 20 minutes," Dr. James Muntz, internal medicine service chief with The Methodist Hospital in Houston. "Drinking any more than that over the course of the race can get you into trouble

The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Saturday against eating oysters harvested from a part of West Karako Bay in Louisiana for possible contamination of the norovirus.

In an advisory published at the agency's website, the FDA said customers must particularly avoid mussels harvested between Dec. 3 and Dec. 21 from growing area 3 of the bay

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has called on all manufacturers of fentanyl patches to update patient-friendly information amid reports that thousands of people accidentally die due to

<p>The urgent call came as FDA continues to receive complaints about the apparent life threatening side effects, that sometimes even lead to deaths, of fentanyl patches among patients

The United States government, through the Food and Drug Administration, has issued a safety warning concerning Duragesic skin patch, a product of pharmaceutical giant, Johnson & Johnson. It has alleged life threatening effects if a physician prescribes the drug for uses that are not appropriate.

The warning came following reports that Duragesic has dangerous effects to end users and even causes deaths "if wrongly prescribed by doctors and incorrectly used by patients

At least two Pakistanis have died in a fresh outbreak of avian influenza close to the country's "poultry belt," the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.

Pakistani health officials informed WHO of eight suspected human cases of infection with the H5N1 virus - the virus responsible for outbreaks of bird flu around the world in recent years - in the area around the city of Peshawar