State lawmakers are considering new food safety rules in Georgia, where a peanut plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people nationwide.

Federal health regulators are requiring more than a dozen drugmakers to develop plans to reduce the misuse of their painkillers, which cause hundreds of deaths each year.

Only a small percentage of people who get influenza or a similar illness are ever prescribed drugs shown to help the virus, according to a study released on Monday.

An experimental vaginal gel has shown some promise in preventing infection from the AIDS virus — the first study to offer hope that a microbicide may soon join the medical arsenal in the international battle against HIV, scientists announced Monday.

U.S. health officials were first alerted to the current peanut-based salmonella outbreak through a government computer network called PulseNet. But the system relies on doctors testing patients and it takes interviews with patients to identify the food source.

Do men who frequently smoke pot have a higher risk of testicular cancer than those who do not? It's possible, according to a new study. However, the researchers say the link is currently a "hypothesis" that needs further testing.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=Lolqo1zY"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=TkzUBZ0z"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=h6fthD0x"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=h6fthD0x" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=duugeyRW"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=SUxqhfkf"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=SUxqhfkf" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/SvlOF-QAbsU" height="1" width="1"/

The first U.S. case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in Colorado, and authorities say the patient has since recovered.

A melee broke out in northern Vietnam when more than 100 villagers prevented authorities from destroying chickens to stop the spread of bird flu, officials said.

Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions.

Years ago, a frustrated boy with a violent temper attacked his own mother with a hammer (his older brother restrained him). He stabbed a schoolmate over a dispute about which radio station to listen to -- the knife blade luckily hit a belt buckle.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=E1M4lkwr"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=C8gzgDAj"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=Be8uivAc"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=Be8uivAc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=erAYlHiM"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=aFedeD1Y"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=aFedeD1Y" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/wdSQgpzCHrI" height="1" width="1"/

The Georgia company whose peanut products have been blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak shipped some products even though they had tested positive for the bacteria and no other tests indicated they were safe, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=WgbPzKct"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=UZUGJVBK"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=vWSgFuSl"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=vWSgFuSl" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=ylzqobPo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=jsVJXxta"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=jsVJXxta" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/iJ4mOiItHgw" height="1" width="1"/

Anita Dunham's first heart attack started with a mysterious pain in her arm -- and, suddenly, the 34-year-old felt as if she couldn't breathe. After she got dressed, she could barely speak because the pain was so great in her arms and chest.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=yRuB3aBX"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=VnOodwYS"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=2fJJqrvS"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=2fJJqrvS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=AlPGpLQq"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=dD3jEvVW"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=dD3jEvVW" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/iFi0C8BdxZU" height="1" width="1"/

Pancreatic cancer is rare and extraordinarily lethal, experts say. Despite the relatively low number of people affected, about 95 percent of those with pancreatic cancer die from it, experts say.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=vCo08M91"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=ROaY6IIa"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=ESAIRl1Y"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=ESAIRl1Y" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=inozPt8d"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=JcgvDEnV"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=JcgvDEnV" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/PqpWQVKNs5E" height="1" width="1"/

Researchers say younger people seem to make judgments about the age and alertness of older folks by looking into and around their eyes.

The mother of octuplets, whose story has sparked controversy around the world, rejects suggestions that she may not be able to care adequately for all 14 of her children and that her decisions have been selfish.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=VD4TM85k"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=xUVGMZuy"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=VZB5lo6k"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=VZB5lo6k" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=EfEhGVxE"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?a=zjrN8vIB"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/rss/cnn_health?i=zjrN8vIB" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/gKIrnnWZMaU" height="1" width="1"/