The Department of Public Health has issued a total tuna recall due to a possible listeria contamination in locally distributed bulk tuna. Throw out any readymade tuna salad bought between July 26 and August 10. Home Made Brand Foods of Newburyport has voluntarily pulled 5,000 pounds (that's a lot of tuna!) of “Ready-to-Eat Tuna Salad," which is so not ready to eat. Sampling discovered that Listeria monocytogenes might have contaminated the meat. The suspect salad......

The public may not be quite as freaked out by West Nile Virus as it once was, but the disease is definitely still around. WNV was detected in mosquitoes in Worcester on June 27, marking the first time the virus has been found here in 2008. There were six cases of West Nile Virus in humans in Massachusetts in 2007. People over 50 are more likely to be seriously affected by the disease, which is......

Photo by Flicker member AndyI used with permission In the interest of "protecting patient safety," the Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services has selected 28 "serious reportable events" that it will not pay for or allow hospitals to bill them for. These include surgery on the wrong body part or patient, performance of the wrong surgery, retention of a foreign object after surgery, and even death! Other nonpayable events include discharging an infant......