Nutella health claims net $3.05 million settlement in class-action lawsuit
(CBS News) Is Nutella, the popular chocolate-hazelnut spread, actually good for you? A class-action lawsuit over the spread's purported health claims has just been settled, with a judge siding with a parent who says she was duped into believing it was good for her kids.
Nutella-maker Ferrero USA, Inc. will pay out $3.05 million as part of the settlement, with $2.5 million to be divided among consumers who file a claim, the New York Daily News reported.
Debate rages over 2,4-D-resistant corn
(CBS News) A debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is raging across the country from farms to the federal government. A company called Dow Chemical is on the verge of getting approval for a new genetically engineered corn that's supposed to be immune to the chemical weedkiller "2,4-D" - a primary component of Agent Orange, the New York Times reported.
Environmental advocates call the chemical a carcinogen that's also linked to birth defects, dubbing the product "Agent Orange Corn" and saying it has no place near food grown in the U.S.
Continue »Son: Bedbugs behind monkeypox plane incident
A rescue official speaks to a flight attendant after a Delta Airlines flight was quarantined on the tarmac at Chicago's Midway Airport April 26, 2012 for a medical emergency.
(Credit: CBS/Kayla Maree Sanders via Twitter)(CBS/AP) Passengers aboard a Chicago-bound flight from Detroit were reportedly kept from disembarking for three hours because a female passenger was suspected to have monkeypox.
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CBS News reported the plane landed Thursday afternoon at Midway International Airport. The CDC says emergency medical personnel determined the woman's rash was not related to monkeypox.
Doctors' salaries: Who gets paid the most? Least?
(CBS News) Do doctors make the big bucks? According to the latest annual survey from Medscape from WebMD, physicians across the board are earning less - and worrying more. Moreover, if they had a chance to start their careers all over again, 46 percent of doctors would not choose medicine, the report shows.
"Physicians' sense of worry may be greater than the reality, but it's understandable," Judy Aburmishan, a partner in FGMK, LLC in Chicago, a firm that represents physicians and other healthcare providers, told Medscape. "Hospitals are buying up private practices both in primary care and the specialties. The heavy-handed message they send out is that if you don't join us, you won't survive. There is great uncertainty and fear about what healthcare reform will mean for physicians once it's fully implemented."
Medscape surveyed 24,000 doctors from across 25 different medical specialties. The survey found wide pay differences, depending on the doctor's specialty - or gender. Female doctors make 40 percent less than male doctors.
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Continue »CDC: 30% of U.S. workers don't get enough sleep
(CBS News) If you happen to be at work right now and you're feeling tired, you've got a lot of company. A new CDC study finds more than 40 million workers get fewer than six hours of sleep per night - that's about 30 percent of the country's civilian workforce.
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And by not getting the National Sleep Foundation's recommended seven to nine hours of shut-eye per night, the CDC says these workers pose a serious and potentially fatal risk to themselves and coworkers. The CDC's study is published in the April 26 issue of its journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Continue »Cancer survivors urged to exercise and eat right
In a Wednesday, April 25, 2012 photo, cancer survivor Lawrence Gentner, 68, of Snellville, Ga., talks with his exercise group after a class, in Atlanta.
(Credit: AP)That's not something most doctors do, said Dr. Omer Kucuk, an Emory University oncologist who has researched the effect of nutrition on prostate cancer. Most doctors discuss surgery, chemotherapy or other treatments for their patients.
"Usually the last thing on their mind is to talk about diet and exercise," Kucuk said.
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Study: Imagining trying on a swimsuit worsens mood
(CBS News) With swimsuit season around the corner, new research finds that for women merely thinking about trying on a bathing suit may negatively impact their emotional well-being.
Previous research has focused on media images and other external factors that may contribute to body dissatisfaction in women, but the authors behind this new study wanted to focus on the role clothes play in impacting mood since they're such a big part of daily life. They were looking for the role clothing plays in "self-objectification," a theory that contends a person may internalize an outside perspective to objectify one's self.
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Experimental drug reduces autism symptoms in mice
(CBS News) Autism affects one out of every 88 American children and while there are available treatments for early intervention, there is no cure. A new government-funded study has found an experimental treatment is effective at reversing symptoms of autism in mice.
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For the study, published in the April 25 issue of Science and Translational Medicine, researchers from the National Institutes of Health bred a strain of mice to display autism-like behaviors. Similar to how children with autism have social deficits and engage in repetitive behaviors, these mice did not interact and communicate with each other and spent an inordinate amount of time engaging in repetitive behavior - in this case self-grooming.
Mad cow report spotlights food safety concerns
(CBS/AP) Mad cow disease is on Americans' minds after a dairy cow in California tested positive for the deadly disease this week. But when it comes to food safety fears in the U.S., mad cow disease isn't exactly high on the list.
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Just in the past few months, Americans have been sickened by contaminated sprouts, raw milk and sushi. Thirty people died last year from bacteria-tainted cantaloupe. And when it comes to hamburger, a dangerous strain of E. coli that can lurk in ground beef sickens thousands of people every year.
"What we know is that 3,000 Americans die every year from preventable food-borne illnesses that are not linked" to mad cow disease, said Sarah Klein of the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Things like E. coli, salmonella - that's where we should be focusing our attention, outrage and policy."
Continue »Study: Berries stall cognitive decline in seniors
(CBS News) Berries might provide a safe and easy way to boost brain power, a new study suggests. The study from Harvard researchers shows eating berries could stave off the cognitive decline and memory loss that comes with aging.
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For the study, researchers looked at data from the long-running Nurses' Health Study of nearly 122,000 registered nurses between the ages of 30 and 55 who completed health questionnaires starting in 1976. Every four years the nurses were surveyed on their eating habits and between 1995 and 2001, researchers began testing memory in 16,000 of the nurses who by this time were over 70 years old.
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