Sabrina Tavernise The New York Times

The rules also include new safety standards for produce grown on American farms. Some take effect in a year.

Experts pointed out that far more work had been done to fight obesity in children.

Far-reaching food industry rules aimed at reducing food-borne illness in the United States have become final, the federal government announced.

Trans fats - a major contributor to heart disease in the United States - have already been substantially reduced in foods, but they still lurk in many popular products, including frostings, microwave popcorn, packaged pies, frozen pizzas, margarines and coffee creamers.

According to a new study, the global diabetes rate has risen by nearly half over the past two decades.

In 2014, there were 24,400 injuries associated with treadmills in emergency departments across the country, said the commission, a federal agency based in Bethesda.

The plan calls for "enhanced summary reports on the sale of distribution and antibiotics" used in food animals but without spelling out how that would be done.

The Food and Drug Administration will announce sweeping rules Tuesday that will require chain restaurants, movie theaters and pizza parlors across the country to post calorie counts on their menus. Health experts said the new requirements would help combat...

Two people, including a police officer, have been killed on the campus of Virginia Tech, the scene of a 2007 massacre in 2007, in which 33 people died, university officials said.

The Pakistani Taliban, which American investigators suspect were behind the attempt to bomb Times Square, have in recent years combined forces with Al-Qaida, experts say.

Student group Islami Jamiat Talaba's moral police have for years terrorized this graceful, century-old institution by brandishing a chauvinistic form of Islam.

These days, politics here look more and more like a movie Pakistanis have seen before. Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner.

This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, but its brick buildings, intact and thick with dust, tell not of an epic battle, but of sudden flight.

The rules also include new safety standards for produce grown on American farms. Some take effect in a year.

Experts pointed out that far more work had been done to fight obesity in children.

Far-reaching food industry rules aimed at reducing food-borne illness in the United States have become final, the federal government announced.

Trans fats - a major contributor to heart disease in the United States - have already been substantially reduced in foods, but they still lurk in many popular products, including frostings, microwave popcorn, packaged pies, frozen pizzas, margarines and coffee creamers.

According to a new study, the global diabetes rate has risen by nearly half over the past two decades.

In 2014, there were 24,400 injuries associated with treadmills in emergency departments across the country, said the commission, a federal agency based in Bethesda.

The plan calls for "enhanced summary reports on the sale of distribution and antibiotics" used in food animals but without spelling out how that would be done.

The Food and Drug Administration will announce sweeping rules Tuesday that will require chain restaurants, movie theaters and pizza parlors across the country to post calorie counts on their menus. Health experts said the new requirements would help combat...

Two people, including a police officer, have been killed on the campus of Virginia Tech, the scene of a 2007 massacre in 2007, in which 33 people died, university officials said.

The Pakistani Taliban, which American investigators suspect were behind the attempt to bomb Times Square, have in recent years combined forces with Al-Qaida, experts say.

Student group Islami Jamiat Talaba's moral police have for years terrorized this graceful, century-old institution by brandishing a chauvinistic form of Islam.

These days, politics here look more and more like a movie Pakistanis have seen before. Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner.

This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, but its brick buildings, intact and thick with dust, tell not of an epic battle, but of sudden flight.