The Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to set higher drinking water safety benchmark for perchlorate due to pressures from the White House and Pentagon. Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel found in tap water in at least 25 states and linked to thyroid problems in infants, young children and pregnant women.

The Washington Post cited documents from EPA's preliminary investigation, expected to end the six-year long battle between EPA scientists who are for regulation of the chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who are against regulation

A landmark decision may arise from a pre-emption lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court will hear involving a musician whose arm was amputated as a result of anti-nausea drug made by Wyeth which was injected into her artery and led to gangrene.

A Vermont court had earlier awarded the 62-year old musician, Diana Levine, $6.7 million damage. Wyeth appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which is set to hear the case in November

A disaster watchdog has criticized the no ice policy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) saying the health of Hurricane Ike victims in Texas are threatened without the food and medicine preservative.

"It's frustrating that the government can deliver $85 billion to bail out AIG, and they can't deliver ice in Texas," Ben Smilowitz, executive director of the Disaster Accountability Project (DAP), told ABC News. DAP, a nonpartisan organization that monitors the nation's disaster response system, has been receiving calls from Ike victims on where to get ice to preserve medicines like insulin for diabetics

Researchers at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry say they have uncovered the reason for high rates of tooth loss in two Pennsylvania towns and two West Virginia counties.

Nationwide about 20 percent of Americans have lost their teeth, but in West Virginia, it's 43 percent, researchers say

Earwax should not be removed as it is actually protective and has lubricating and antibacterial properties, new national guidelines say.

The American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation on Friday released the first comprehensive clinical recommendations meant to help health-care professionals identify patients with impacted wax and treat them properly