Departing health chief says food ripe for terror
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced his resignation Friday, warning as he left of dangers from a global flu outbreak and a possible terror attack on the nationâs food supply.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Memories of the 2001 anthrax attacks and planning mistakes haunt Dr. Julie Gerberding as she urges government and private companies to prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic.
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Fighting the  "superbug" MRSA will be the top priority for the new chief nursing officer, the Health Secretary says.
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President Bush nominated former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik on Friday to head the US homeland security department and accepted the resignation of Health
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President Bush played down on Saturday a stark warning from his resigning health chief that the nation's food supply is largely unprotected from terror attack.
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That was the message today from outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who said that his statement last week that terrorists could easily contaminate the nation&#39;s food supply &quot;lacked specific instructions&quot; as to how such a terrorist
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US officials announced final regulations to further safeguard the nation&#39;s food supply on Monday, only three days after outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
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The threat posed by Islamist extremists to the UK could last for up to 15 years, the new security minister says.
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David A. Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, has been terminated as dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
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PARIS -- The &quot;storm in a saucepan&quot; intensified yesterday for a former top restaurant inspector who has become the enfant terrible of French gastronomy.
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Political squabbling over a national pharmacare program is threatening to &quot;scuttle and destroy&quot; next month&#39;s federal-provincial health conference, which is fundamentally about the future of Canada, former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow has warned.
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The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.
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WASHINGTON: US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, whose name became synonymous with colour-coded terror alerts and tutorials about how to prepare for possible attack, resigned Tuesday.
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong health chief Yeoh Eng Kiong, who resigned over his much-criticised handling of Sars, said he knew all along there would be &#39;recriminations&#39; but, in retrospect, would not have done things much differently.
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Â· Rising numbers 'alarming' - minister Â· New rules on healthy school meals
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A top health official called for more integration within China's fractured food regulatory system Friday to boost its troubled safety record, while the military warned that unsafe food could undermine its combat readiness.
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A key House Democrat said Thursday that the head of the Food and Drug Administration should resign in the wake of a probe over an antibiotic and news of a blood thinner linked to allergic reactions and four deaths.