About 500 airplane mechanics, technicians and tradesmen who belong to the Canadian Auto Workers Local 2215 struck Thursday over health and safety issues.

According to Scott Beaver, Local 2215 union president, 78 safety orders are hanging in the air for the past two years following the transfer of jurisdiction of their facility from the provincial government to the federal Labor Department

A report issued Monday by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said 94 percent of nursing home had reports on violation of federal health and safety standards in 2007.

Nursing homes that had deficiencies that caused actual harm or immediate peril to patients comprise 17 percent, according to Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the DHHS

British-based confectionery company Cadbury on Monday recalled 11 of its chocolate products in Hong Kong shelves as a precautionary step amid mounting fears over Chinese contaminated milk.

The Asia-Pacific regional management of Cadbury said the products include Cadbury Eclairs, dark and milk chocolate, hazelnut and praline chocolate, dark Chocettes, and products made for the Chinese New Year in February

Drug-coated stents cut death rates for heart attack victims and are safe to use, new study has found.

The 7,217-patient study found that 10.7 percent people with drug-coated versions died within two years, compared with 12.8 percent who had bare-metal devices. Also, the drug-coated stents are 16 percent more safe over older, bare-metal versions, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, offering fresh evidence about their safety

The World Health Organization has warned against the illegal entry of Chinese milk contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine that has killed four infants and sickened over 54,000 children in China.

Anthony Hazzard, regional adviser in Food Safety of WHO, said the United Nations health watchdog has already advised the 167 member-countries of the International Food Safety Authority Network to be on guard for the possible entry of 22 Chinese milk products found to be contaminated with melamine