ATLANTA - It has yet to sicken a single American, but the potential for a bird flu virus pandemic riveted the attention of health officials and ordinary people in 2005, making it the year's top health news story.
The Health Secretary yesterday unveiled a £5 million plan to encourage healthy eating. Under the controversial plan, a range of gambling devices will be installed in chip shops, schools and arcades acrosss the country. These machines will differ from...
An estimated one in three and a half (or two in seven) newborn Scots children are now beginning life morbidly obese, according to figures published earlier today. A study conducted by the Greater Glasgow National Health Serv...
Akron, Ohio---George Bush spoke at a rally today addressing his latest health care proposal. Young people will be given the opportunity to put some of their medicare payments into a Health Savings Account (HSA) which will accrue interest. Poor p...
Miami, FL - A study released this week by the National Institutes of Health reveals that pilots actually do a better job when drinking on the job or immediately before going to work. The study, due to be published in this month's issue of
President Bush's personal physician today pronounced the president in "excellent" physical health but expressed concern that the president's annual exam once again failed to turn up any evidence that his brain was capable of forming...
WASHINGTON DC - Following the lead of Health Canada, the FDA announced that three U.S. pharmaceutical companies were given the green light to market an over the counter pain killer that is made from marijuana. The aspirin-like pills are to be taken...
L.A. (lower alabama) -- Public health officials worst fears have now come true. Refugees from areas utterly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina including New Orleans, Gulfport, and Bilouxi have reportedly spread Cajun recipes and Zydeco music everywher...
CHICAGO-A local woman who for years was looking for health care in all the wrong places turned to litigation to cure what ailed her and uncovered a massive medical fraud scheme.
Bethesda, MD-A consortium of doctors from around the world gathered at the US National Institutes of Health to announce that they have discovered the reasons infamous genocidal terrorist Osama Bin Ladin has such a horrendous desire to, as they put it...
Washington, DC-PUT ALL YOUR FINGERS WHERE I CAN SEE ‘EM! Citing marked increases in loss of life and the obvious health and highway safety risks involved, a Pennsylvania legislator is putting Keystone State drivers on notice: "When this bill bec...
Record numbers of people say they are too stressed out to go to work, according to a report out today from the World Health Organisation. Its report comes after recent figures showed that almost 10% of working people were claiming some type of incapa...
New York - Sesame Street resident Elmo has checked into a mental health facility after reportedly breaking down in Oscar The Grouch's bin.
MESMARIA, Md. -- Scientists have been disturbed for decades about why Mars' southern polar cap is offset from its geographical south pole. It was getting so that these scientists were damaging their health over the issue.
Maybe it was too good to be true, but the thought that Jennifer Wilbanks would get her life in order now that she has checked herself into an unnamed "health facility" has disappeared like John Wilson's dream of a wild honeymoon night.
As hit television show ‘The Simpsons' celebrates the airing of its 350th episode this weekend fears are growing for health of the prized sucker behind Maggie.
The illegal red food dye, Sudan, has been found in artificial blood imported from outside the European Union it was revealed today and could be the biggest threat to human health since the salmonella in eggs alert back in 1988.
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