Health

A California cheese and dairy company is the source of a decadelong outbreak of listeria food poisoning that killed two people and sickened more than two dozen, federal health officials said Tuesday. New lab and inspection evidence linked soft cheeses and other dairy products made by Rizo-Lopez Foods of Modesto, California, to the outbreak, which was first detected in June …

El dinero llega a raudales a la incipiente industria de la medicina psicodélica, con decenas de nuevas startups biotecnológicas que compiten por estar entre las primeras en vender medicamentos que expandan la mente y ayuden contra la depresión, la adicción y otras afecciones de salud mental. Si bien los psicodélicos todavía son ilegales bajo la ley federal, las empresas empujan …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new research may finally explain why. It’s all about how the body handles females’ extra X chromosome, Stanford University researchers reported Thursday — a finding that could lead to better ways to detect a long …