The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about buying any infant formula imported from China, after a brand called Sanlu was linked with kidney stones in infants.

Federal authorities have especially warned Chinese American communities across the United States, including Southern California, which houses the largest ethnic Chinese populations in the nation

At least 14 babies, all under 11 months, may have developed kidney stones after drinking powdered milk, Chinese local media is reporting citing doctors at a local hospital.

All infants, from a rural area of northwest Gansu province, drank the same brand of milk formula and were hospitalized in the past two months. Similar cases occurred in Jiangsu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Anhui and Hunan, Xinhua the state-run Chinese news agency, reported

A government panel of experts has released its final report on the possible human effects of bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical added to plastics to make it stronger.

The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, notes "some concern" for effects on the brain, prostate gland, and on behavior in fetuses, infants, and children

African health ministers signed here Thursday a declaration to use a new meningitis vaccine to immunize 250 million people in Africa.

The Yaounde Declaration was signed by the ministers on the fourth day of the five-day 58th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa. Under the document, health authorities in 25 countries composing the "meningitis belt" in Africa will introduce the new meningococcal A conjugate vaccine (MenAfriVac) from 2009 to 2015 to control the brain disease epidemic in the region

Mothers who drink a few glasses of wine over a short period in early pregnancy may have caused fetal problems to their unborn child, a new study says.

Erhard Bieberich, a biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies compared cell death in mice following different levels of alcohol consumption