Researchers have developed a tobacco plant-based vaccine for patients with a chronic form of lymphoma, a specific type of cancer.

According to the first human study of the approach, researchers found that the vaccine could trigger an immune response in the body, which could lead to personalized vaccines that may kick start the patients' immune systems to attack the cancer

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors found the salmonella strain linked to a nationwide food poisoning outbreak in a Mexican jalapeno pepper at a Texas produce distribution plant on Monday.

Agricola Zaragoza Inc., owner of the plant, decided to recall fresh jalapenos it distributed after one tested positive for the salmonella Saintpaul, which has sickened 1,251 people in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada since April. Two died from the poisoning

The Clinton Foundation has forged a deal with six drug makers to sell anti-malaria medicine at a fixed lower price to make it globally affordable to poor patients suffering the disease.

The charity formed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the deal Thursday with two Chinese suppliers of artemisinin and four Indian firms that process the anti-malaria drug ingredient into finished products

France will test the groundwater on all of its nuclear facilities. The French government agreed to examine the safety after previous tests indicated a uranium leak at the Tricastin nuclear plant in southwestern France.

The source of the leak of non-enriched uranium was an overflow from a tank being cleaned on July 7. The reservoir collected the overflow, of which 7,925 gallons (30,000 liters) seeped into two nearby rivers and the ground

- A new law will go into effect on July 1 banning smoking tobacco indoors throughout the Netherlands. What this means for Amsterdam's historic coffee shops, where smoking tobacco laced with marijuana is more of the main draw, remains up for debate.

According to reports, coffee shop owners say the new ban should not effect them because 'coffee shops' are a place where people go to smoke. They say it is preposterous for the ban to extend to their shops, just as it would be for food to be banned from restaurants, or alcohol from a bar