A U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman has said that Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, following a salmonella outbreak, recalled half a billion eggs and federal agents visited these farms.

Patricia El-Hinnawy said that the agents were at two Iowa locations.

Further questions were referred by her to the U.S. attorney's office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

It has been stated after a research that women are more prone to knee injury while paying games like football as compared to men.

The reason was spotted when significant differences in knee alignment and muscle activation between men and women while kicking a ball were found by researchers.

India’s efforts to increase measles vaccination by anti-measles campaign and routine immunization drives have been supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

UNICEF stated that the government’s efforts aimed at increasing measles vaccination campaigns were strongly supported.

A survey has stated that in Singapore, the elderly are not eating right. Malnutrition risk varying from moderate to a high level is faced by three out of 10 people.

It was found that with age the risk of malnutrition also increases and this was proved when about 421 relatively healthy elderly people aged 50 years and above were surveyed.

The FEI have announced new detection times for Methylprednisolone Acetate following the recent studies on the use of corticosteroids in the horse.

Methylprednisolone Acetate is approved by the FDA to treat equine joint disease and the detection times as 28 days for the 200mg dose and 14 days for the 100mg dose has been shown by studies on the intra-articular use of the drug.

Scientists have now compared junk food with heroin and cocaine. Recent studies states that sugar, fat, salt have a similar effect on brain that hard drugs have.

These findings mean that warnings that appear on cigarette boxes should also appear on food packets that are high in sugar, fats and salt. And these findings have also led to the suggestion that manufacturers could be sued for knowingly putting people's health at risk.

At Waikato Hospital the visiting time for visitors will soon be reduced from what it is at the moment as there have been complaints from patients stating that visitors were noisy.

Next week a six-week trial will start in which visitors will visit the hospital only 11am and 1.30 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm.