The powerful painkiller, fentanyl, can easily be made by street-wise chemists. But the illegal version killed more than 1,000 people in major cities, many who died before they finished their injection, the CDC finds.

Patients suing the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas for potential exposure to hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases are being allowed to claim emotional distress in a class-action lawsuit.

Electromagnetic radiation may be able to penetrate a child and teens' brain more easily than an adults, so today a major cancer researcher issued a warning memo to 3,000 employees to limit their cell phone use, and to have children use them for emergencies only.

The Bush administration "strongly” opposes the effort to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco. The bill is supported by both US Chambers; however, if the legislation passes both House and Senate, the Bush administration is most likely to veto it.

After being dismissed in 2006, lawsuits against military contractors Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a former subsidiary, may go to trial in 2009. The lawsuits are over an ambush that left six civilian truck drivers in Iraq dead.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill and Melinda Gates are joining forces and $500 million to launch a global anti-smoking campaign in low and middle income emerging countries which have never seen anti-smoking campaigns. Among their challenger are governments that derive income from a tobacco sales tax.

Recalls of toys and children’s products are up 22% over the first part of last year, according to an analysis of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) data by the nation’s leading consumer groups. With Congress’ August recess looming, consumer groups are urging lawmakers to complete reforming of the nation’s product safety system.

The Ride Proud. Dress Loud Campaign was launched by the Florida Highway Patrol on Monday in response to the increase in motorcycle fatalities. The campaign encourages bikers to steer clear of wearing neutral colors such as black, beige and gray. Officials feel optimistic that the campaign will help to lower the number of motorcycle fatalities each year.

Muscle pain affects roughly one out of every 1,000 people taking statins to lower cholesterol.Now British researchers believe they know why - a genetic variation seems to be the basis for muscle pain and myopathy. About two percent of the population carry the two variant genes, which cause roughly 60% of the muscle pain problem.

Infertility for men can be as simple as swollen veins in the scrotum, known as varicoceles, a tangle of blood vessels in the scrotum preventing blood circulation through the veins in the testicles. A procedure, using a tiny catheter, blocked the excessive blood flow into the veins, allowing them to return to normal size. Pregnancy resulted in one-third of the partners of men studied.