Totally Cool, a Maryland company, has recalled nearly 70 ice cream products sold under 13 brand names because they could be contaminated with listeria.
Why it matters: Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immunes systems, according to the recall notice on the Food & Drug Administration website.
Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America's stark shortage of health care workers.
Why it matters: As burned-out nurses leave the field, many hospitals and nursing homes have sought to recruit nurses from abroad to help fill vacancies estimated at nearly 200,000 per year.
Addressing America's gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in an advisory Tuesday.
Why it matters: The surgeon general's advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public's attention to a health issue, comes days before the first presidential debate and follows a spate of mass shootings in the first weekend of summer.
