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On Wednesday, federal health officials and Sabra Dipping Company announced that the company has voluntarily recalled 30,000 cases of hummus across the nation. The recall has been made owing to possible Listeria contamination.

Last month, a routine sample of Sabra hummus from a store was tested positive for the Listeria monocytogenes. The US Food and Drug Administration said that there is no evidence that hummus has caused any problem to anyone.

"'The potential for contamination was discovered when a routine, random sample collected at a retail location on March 30th, 2015 by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes", said the company.

An audit last summer revealed that Veterans Affairs clinic in El Paso had one of the nation's worst backlogs.

Although the clinic has struggled has tried to reduce wait times since audit, it still struggles to attract staff and build enough capacity to treat a large veteran population.

Also, after several efforts nationwide to lessen the wait times for veterans seeking health care, VA medical facilities across Texas have shown no progress.

According to federal data gathered by the Associated Press, nearly 66,000 medical appointments completed from September through February at VA facilities in Texas didn't meet the US Department of Veterans Affairs' goal to see patients within 30 days.

With the help of 3D printing, a two-year-old girl born with abnormal facial development has been able to smile, laugh and dance again. The 3D printing helped reshape her face in a major surgery.

Violet Pietrok, from Portland, Oregon, was born with frontonasal dysplasia. It is the malformation of the face and head when they are developing in the womb. The problem is quite rare and has been reported in just 100 cases so far.

Due to the condition, Violet's facial features got widened. Her nose did not have cartilage and there was problem in the space between her eyes. Violet's eyes were so far apart that her vision was like that of a bird of prey's.

Meeker County has now become the host to the ninth confirmed infection of a commercial turkey flock in Minnesota by the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza. This time it has happened in a Jennie-O-Turkey Store-owned facility.

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health, on Wednesday, announced that the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the infection in a commercial turkey flock of 310,000 turkeys in Meeker County.

On Jennie-O-Turkey Store's website, it has reported that the website is the first company-owned facility to test positive for the virus.

The recent cases that have got confirmation involved flocks owned or processed by Jennie-O-Turkey Store. But they were raised by contract and or by independent growers.

Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, said it was really exciting for him to see CBS'60 Minutes drawing attention to virus-based cancer treatments a couple weeks back. However, he said that there is a lot more involved when it's about treating a disease.

The episode surrounded an engineered polio virus being developed at Duke University to treat glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. Thompson's company was founded in 1998 on discoveries made at the University of Calgary about the cancer-killing prowess of reovirus.

A couple of years later, the company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The company that time was conducting early phase I trials of its reovirus-based therapy for head and neck cancer. The therapy was called Reolysin.

According to researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, they have found what is behind wasabi burn. The researchers have uncovered the structure of protein which is behind the burning sensation when an individual consume Japanese delicacy sushi with wasabi. As per the researchers, the new discovery could be helpful in improving future pain medications.

The protein, which is known as TRPA1, is able to detect the irritant in wasabi. TRPA1 starts a warning impulse. According to reports, the protein is also triggered by other irritants, including tear gas, and when a human body tissue is either injured or inflamed.