Health News:Which turkey producers allow routine antibiotic use ♦ Costco chicken salad linked to E. coli outbreak ♦ Smoking hits all-time low, but not for these three groups

Which turkey producers allow routine antibiotic use Humane farming advocates Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) have released an overview of the antibiotics and other drugs used in turkey production. The organization is part of the Keep Antibiotics Working coalition, which recommends that food animal producers limit the use of medically important antibiotics to disease treatment in order to prevent overuse and subsequent

Costco chicken salad linked to E. coli outbreak in CO,UT,MT,and WA. In a statement posted Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment  announced that it is working with other western states and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate illnesses due to E. coli O157:H7 from chicken salad purchased at Colorado Costco stores in late October.  

Continuum theory of sexual orientation disputed by researchers Researchers have established a categorical distinction between people who are heterosexual and those who are not. The findings are a clear departure from the homosexual-heterosexual continuum used to describe sexual orientation since it was hypothesized by sexologist Alfred Kinsey in 1948. However, the findings do support more recent biological hypotheses of sexual orientation

Smoking hits all-time low, but not for these three groups A first-of-its-kind program targets groups with highest tobacco rates and matches smokers with counselors in their demographic to help them quit, say experts from one of America's largest nonprofit quitline