Author Eric Schlosser says he first became interested in where we get our food in the early 1990s, when he was doing research for a magazine article on strawberry harvesting. He learned that strawberry farms, once small-scale operations, had become vast corporate enterprises. And that the people who picked the strawberries were poor, underpaid, exploited immigrants.

It’s apparent that Google Maps already has the street map thing down. Now they’re moving on to bike trails. Google announced this week that they have added biking directions to Google Maps with Boulder one of the top cities on the list. Google partnered with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit that creates bike trails from former rails lines, to get information on all of the nation’s bike trails.

Many hardcore athletes and weekend warriors call Boulder home, enjoying the area’s hiking trails, cycling routes and nearby ski resorts. So it makes sense that chiropractor Sande Jacobson, an avid skier and golfer, would move his Living Health and Wellness Center to Boulder. A Philadelphia native, Jacobson has practiced for 18 years, combining traditional chiropractic techniques with nutrition counseling and other holistic practices.

Oops. If your family has lived, or at least survived, by the 5-second rule, researchers at San Diego State University say you may be living on borrowed time.

Women are known to be workaholics. And not just in our careers. Often, we're busybodies, working overtime to fill every other shoe we can fit our foot into — friend, wife, mom, volunteer.

LOS ANGELES — Cramps, those annoying contractions of muscles, particularly in the legs, may not be lethal, but they can be extremely painful. Surprisingly, there are no really good treatments for them, according to new guidelines issued Tuesday by the American Academy of Neurology in the journal Neurology. But one treatment that should be avoided, except as a last resort when nothing else works, is quinine, according to the guidelines developed by Dr. Hans D. Katzberg of the Stanford University School of Medicine and his colleagues.

LOS ANGELES — In the public perception, medical doctors are among the hardest-working, most dedicated professionals in the work force, routinely toiling through 12- or 15-hour days.

LOS ANGELES — The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it is investigating reports of adverse reactions from a combination of two HIV drugs and cautioned physicians and patients to be on the alert for such events. Both drugs, Invirase (saquinavir) and Norvir (ritonavir), are in the family of HIV medications known as protease inhibitors. They are sometimes used together in cocktails to reduce levels of the AIDS virus.

LOS ANGELES — Twelve years after Dr. Andrew Wakefield published his research in the international medical journal the Lancet purporting that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism, the journal on Tuesday formally retracted the paper.

LOS ANGELES — An infection of the uterine cavity during pregnancy combined with premature birth doubles the risk that an African American child will develop asthma, researchers have found. The combination also increases risk for some other ethnicities, though less severely.