A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and gradually has regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported Wednesday in the first detailed account of her progress. ...more

December 13, 2007

Shad Ireland was diagnosed with kidney failure 25 years ago and once weighed 75 pounds. Today, he is an Ironman competitor. ...more

December 1, 2007

Cargill Inc. is voluntarily recalling more than 840,000 pounds of ground beef patties distributed at Sam's Club stores nationwide after four Minnesota children who ate the food developed E. coli illness, a Cargill official said Saturday. ...more

October 7, 2007

The Tampa Bay Diabetes Expo is under way today at the Tampa Convention Center today ...more

October 6, 2007

Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67 years after it first opened its doors. ...more

October 6, 2007

The Agriculture Department on Thursday defended its decision to wait 18 days before seeking the recall of millions of pounds of ground beef after initial tests showed E. coli contamination, saying it was following standard policy to rule out other factors. ...more

October 5, 2007

The Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded its recall of frozen hamburger patties to include 21.7 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria that sickened more than a dozen people in eight states. ...more

September 30, 2007

Twenty-one people in eight states may have fallen ill after eating hamburgers possibly contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. ...more

September 27, 2007

The competition was keen, including the scientist who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for confirming the big-bang theory. ...more

September 20, 2007