Shellfish allergy seems to be the most confusing of all food allergies. Many people with this kind of food allergy aren’t sure what they can eat, what they should avoid,…

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare in the US is recalling and replacing a range of Robitussin cough and cold medicines and Children’s Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion medicine because the measuring cup does not show a half-teaspoon mark to help measure a dose for children aged two to six.The company was keen to emphasize that there were no problems with the medicines themselves, it was only the plastic cup that was faulty. [click link for full article]

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reiterated its recommendation that all women who will be pregnant during the flu season-October through mid-May-be offered influenza (flu) vaccination. According to ACOG, flu vaccination is an essential part of prenatal care that provides protection to both women and their babies. ACOG also supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation that all adolescents and adults be vaccinated against the flu. [click link for full article]

Australians face increasingly large-scale health risks from our expanding impact on the natural environment, ranging from increases in weather extremes and dengue fever to obesity, diabetes and mental health.Twelve of Australia’s top health and medical researchers have contributed to a new report which concludes that rapid environmental and climatic changes pose increasing risks to the health of Australians. [click link for full article]

Elekta (STO:EKTAB), a global leader in radiation oncology and non-invasive neurosurgery solutions, announced Elekta Infinity*, the definitive new digital linear accelerator optimized for delivering Volumetric Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy* (VMAT), a very fast Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) treatment delivered in single or multiple arcs, at the 49th Annual Meeting of The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO). [click link for full article]

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego; the Rady Children’s Hospital - San Diego; the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of South Alabama determined that television viewing is not only linked to childhood obesity, but also to hypertension in children, according to a study published in the December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Childhood obesity is a major health concern in the United States. [click link for full article]

Alere Medical, Inc., a leading health management company, announced today that it has been chosen by the State of Colorado to manage its Medicaid recipients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) beginning in October 2007. This is the second expansion of the State of Colorado’s contract with Alere Medical, which is also successfully managing the state’s Medicaid heart failure and asthma patients. [click link for full article]

Although some voters might “care deeply” about how a candidate views abortion “because that stance is accurately considered an important signifier of the candidate’s sensibilities and sympathies, and of his or her notion of sound constitutional reasoning,” those views are “not especially important” when it comes to abortion policy [click link for full article]

The Baltimore Sun on Sunday examined how the lack of progress toward the “goal” of ensuring that all U.S. residents have affordable health coverage “is causing a slow-motion health care crisis that is already threatening the well-being of millions. [click link for full article]

The link “implied” by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, between an increase in the number of adoptions and a decrease in abortions in the city is “unsupportable,” Cory Richards, senior vice president and vice president for public policy at the [click link for full article]