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If you don’t like leafy greens in your plate, time has come to change your habit. A new study has suggested that eating vegetables, especially leafy greens, can help in offsetting risk of developing open-angle glaucoma, also known as POAG.

The study published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology was conducted by a team of researchers led by Jae Hee Kang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. For the analysis, the researchers collected data from Nurses’ Health Study, conducted in 1984, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study in 1986 and 2012.

Following fears of salmonella bacteria contamination, Trader Joe's has ordered the recall of its "Raw Cashew Pieces". The company has cited an alert by its supplier that some cashew bags may be laced with the bacteria.

The supermarket chain said it was particularly looking for bags carrying the label "BEST BEFORE 07.17.2016TF4." Please do not eat it, the company has posted on its website. The bacteria can cause illnesses such food poisoning and typhoid fever.

A few months ago, Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola virus by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the agency also issued a warning that the country should remain cautious for several forthcoming months since the virus outbreak might again occur. The disease can revive any time, in any part of the country, since this virus tends to remain in the blood stream of survivors for around a year.

An experimental drug trial took life of a participant in France and sent five others to hospital in city of Rennes. French prosecutors have started a probe into the controversial case, which has raised questions over drug testing on healthy humans.

The unusual case is linked to a Portuguese pharmaceutical company which was conducting trials on its drug, Bial. The company has admitted that the man who has lost his life and five others hospitalized were part of its drug test. The company will work with health authorities to understand what caused this ill-fated situation during the trial, it said.

Health officials of the United States have issued a warning where they have suggested people avoid flying to Zika virus affected countries. The travelling warning on late Friday is especially for pregnant women or who want to become pregnant, as per the officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The travel alert targets 14 countries and territories in the Americas that are exposed to the Zika virus. Brazil is among the most badly hit American countries by the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to thousands of birth defects in the country.

A pair of energetic mountain lions has been recently found in the Santa Monica Mountains and are two of southern California’s newest residents

The National Park Service released adorable video on Thursday, featuring the pint-sized babies hissing and purring at the camera in the front of their wooded den.

Biologists with the National Park Service said that the footage of the male and female was captured soon after their mother, who got a tracking device shortly after she was born, left the den.

Another video was captured when the mother came back to the den. The video showed the kittens squeaking and nuzzling one another before their mother inspected and licked them.