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Elizabeth Warren: Consumer Protection Agency Would Have Prevented Crisis (VIDEO)

Posted 01.07.2010 | Politics

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Maddow, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Epa, Cfpa, Banks, Financial Crisis, Fda, Rachel Maddow Show, Politics News

Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee TARP bailout funds, made the case for financial reform and the cre...

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Studies Show Need for Medical Device Accountability

Anthony Tarricone | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: American Associaton for Justice, Aaj, Fda, Medical Device Safety Act, Mdsa, Politics News
Anthony Tarricone

Avery deGroh of McHenry, Illinois, was just three when the Medtronic lead to her implanted heart defibrillator fractured, sending nine shocks to her h...

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LSG Sky Chefs Faces FDA Restrictions After Inspectors Find Roaches In Kitchen

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 01.04.2010 | Denver

Read More: Roaches, American Airlines, LSG Sky Chefs, Food and Drug Administration, Fda, Delta Airlines, Denver News

DALLAS — A company that prepares food for major airlines says it has cleaned up its Denver kitchen after federal inspectors found live and dead ...

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Spectranetics Will Pay $5 Million To End Federal Probe

AP | By MARLEY SEAMAN | Posted 12.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Coral, Fda, Medicare, Justice Department, Colorado Springs, Spectranetics, Immigration and Customs, Denver News

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American Public Health Association: Ban Genetically Engineered Hormonal rBGH Milk, Meat Adulterated With Sex Hormones

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 12.27.2009 | Living

Read More: American Public Health Association, Fda, Hormonal Meat, Milk, Rbgh, Beef, Health, Vegan, Hormones, Vegetarianism, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The Cancer Prevention Coalition has announced that the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association has voted to oppose the sale of hormonal rBGH milk, and meat adulterated with hormones.

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Why You'll Need A Personal Brain Trainer

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Senior-Living, Nih, Brain-Health, Brain-Games, Parkinsons, Schizophrenia, Drug Development, Neurological, Cognitive-Science, Allstate, Adults, Technology, Medicine, Efficiency, Games, Therapy, Telemedicine, Safer Driving, Neurocognitive, Myelination, Brain-Fitness-Training, Ucsf, Neuroplasticity, Posit-Science, Internet, Brain-Trainers, Brain-Assessments, Psychiatric, Aaa, Working-Memory-Training, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training-Software, MATRICS. Neurocognitive Assessment, Neurodegenerative, Mental-Health, State-Farm, Innovation, Embedded Assessments, Alzheimers, Public-Libraries, Cochlear-Implant, Institute-of-Medicine, Fda, Brain-Training, Fitness, Memory, Brain-Functioning, Neuropsych, Cogmed, Coaches, Automated, Scalability, Home Health, Brain-Gym, National-Academy-of-Sciences, Seniors, Speed-of-Processing, Keck Center, Novavision, Insurers, Scientific-Learning, Teens, Integrative Neuroscience, Piano Teachers, Neuropsych Assessments, Personal Brain Trainers, Michael-Merzenich, Scil, Nih-Toolbox, Mci, The Balanced Life, Health, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Substantial gains could be achieved by organizing everyday activities that grow neurological abilities and sustain brain health. If the ordinary citizen is to achieve brain fitness, they'll need to work at it.

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Dorgan Accuses White House of Unethically Politicizing Safety Warnings From the FDA

David Sirota | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Byron Dorgan, Obama Administration, White House, Fda, Politics News
David Sirota

It's one thing for the White House to oppose or a measure. But if the White House political staff played ventriloquist for a science/safety declaration from the FDA, that's a huge problem.

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Reading Between the Lines: Kids of Color; Mental Health Care

Nisha Agarwal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: New York Times, Mental Health, Medicaid, Fda, Children, Health Care, Anti-Psychotic Drugs, Living News
Nisha Agarwal

The children who are being systematically over-medicated and denied high quality mental and behavioral health services are disproportionately young people of color. What we are talking about is race.

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Vaccine Tested In Fight Against Tainted Beef

nytimes.com | William Neuman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Food Poisoning, Cows, Fda, Beef, Health, Tainted Beef, E Coli Vaccine, Vaccine, Bacteria, Germs, Wellness, E. Coli, Living News

Jason Timmerman coaxed a balky calf into a chute on his feedlot one recent afternoon and jabbed a needle into its neck. He was injecting the animal wi...

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FDA May Tighten Rules On Omniscan, A GE MRI Drug

BusinessWeek / ProPublica | Jeff Gerth | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Kidney Damage, General Electric, Bayer, Mallinckrodt, Magnevist, Nsf, Fda, Omniscan, Ominiscan, Ge Healthcare, Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, Mri, Mri Drugs, Ge, Business News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing further regulation of three drugs used to create high-contrast images on MRI scans, based on a new a...

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FDA Questions Safety Of Alcoholic Energy Drinks

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy Drinks, Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholic Energy Drinks, Red Bull, FDA Approvals, Joose, Charge, Fda, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing c...

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BPA Wrecks Sex, Fouls Food -- And Probably Worse

Elaine Shannon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Sexual Dysfunction, Bisphenol A, Erectile Dysfunction, Fda, Fda-and-Bpa-Baby-Bottles, Children's Health, Green News
Elaine Shannon

A slew of recent studies are proving that even low levels of BPA exposure can lead to health complications. Unfortunately, BPA is contained in a staggeringly high amount of everyday items.

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Raw Oyster Ban: FDA Considers Banning Warm Water Oyster Sales

nytimes.com | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Oysters, Food Safety, Fda, Raw Oysters, Food Politics, Green News

At issue is how far the federal government should go to save the lives of 15 people each year who die from eating contaminated raw oysters. ...

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FDA: Drug Companies Pressure Agency For More Online Ads

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Big Pharma, Online Ads, Pharmaceutical Companies, FDA Drug Companies, Online Advertising, Fda, Drug Companies, National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, Big Pharma Online Ads, Twitter, Facebook, Pharma FDA, Fda-Pharmaceuticals, Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry and Online Ads, Technology News

WASHINGTON — As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical ...

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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Alzheimer's Disease, Unapproved Uses, Doj, Drug Marketers, Criminal Lawsuit, Eli Lilly, Regulation, Fda, The Fed, Lawsuit, Pharma, Nimh, Jama, Department of Justice, Kickbacks, Federal Reserve, Fed, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Warner Lambert, Marketing, Warner-Lambert, Neurontin, Thalidomide, Depression, Bankruptcy, Off-Label Promotion, Zyprexa, Bextra, Suicide, Lilly Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Felonies, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Bristol Myers Squibb, Morning Sickness, Drug Regulation, Profits, Health, Drug Sales, Corporate Greed, Atom Strategic Consulting, Birth Defects, Zyvox, Business News

Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

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A Question of Harm -- The Legacy of Vaccination

Tim Ellis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Cdc, Anti-Vaccinators, Health, Disease, Science, Thimerosal, Autism, Fda, Vaccines, Living News
Tim Ellis

The anti-vaccination movement has picked up steam in the past few years, and authorities now believe that pockets of unvaccinated children are forming. This is beginning to have deadly results.

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Hormones in U.S. Beef

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Usda, Melengesterol, Sex Hormones, Fda, Trenbolone, Beef, Food Politics, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

Increased levels of sex hormones in U.S. beef are linked to the escalating incidence of reproductive cancers in the U.S. since 1975.

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The Gardasil Vaccine Series - An Interview with Merck & Co., Inc.

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Merck & Co, Living News, Genital Warts, Vaccine Side Effects, Medical News Today, Pap Test, Cdc, Gardasil, Health News, Vaccines, Jama, Cervical Cancer, Pharmaceutical Industry, Women in Government, Pharmaceutical Lobby, Human Papillomavirus, Girls's Health, Fda, Health Care, Women's Health, The Washington Post, Source Watch, Vaers, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

I recently spoke with a Media Relations person at Merck regarding the efficacy and side effects of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine. Here's what she had to say.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Church of Scientology, Mental Illness, Scientology, Depression, Mental Health, Fda, Electroshock Therapy, Schizophrenia, Scientologists, Bipolar, Psychosis, Ect, Food and Drug Administration, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Shock Therapy, Nami, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Japan, American Psychiatric Association, Living News
DJ Jaffe

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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Consumer Group Finds Elevated BPA Levels In Range Of Foods

latimes.com | Andrew Zajac | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Health. BPA. Epoxy Resin, Plastic Hardener, Children, Food, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Union, Consumer Reports, Living News

A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A, or BPA, across a range of foods...

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Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Consumers Union, Fda, Canned Foods, Consumer Reports, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain measurable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA).

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The Gardasil Vaccine -- Introduction to a Series

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Glaxosmithkline, HPV Vaccine, Stds, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Living News, Merck, Genital Warts, Harvard School of Public Health, Pap Test, Gardasil Vaccine, Teenage Sexuality, Fda, Center for American Progress, Ceravix, Human Papillomavirus, Girls's Health, Women's Health, Dissident Voice, Ins, New England Journal of Medicine, Health News, Cervical Cancer, Lucinda Marshall, Healthcare, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

As the nation's attention is riveted on the discourse about health care reform, another debate is taking place around the Gardasil vaccine.

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Halloween Horror: Cattle Fed Chicken Poop and Recycled Cow Remains

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Cafo, Consumers Union, Fda, Mad Cow Disease, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Feeding cattle chicken litter is everyday practice in feedlots. Surprisingly, this unhealthy and inhumane practice is legal and poorly monitored, creating unacceptable risks to human and animal health.

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House Health Care Bill: A Death Sentence For My Fellow Breast Cancer Survivors

Jane Hamsher | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Anna Eshoo, Medical Students, Breast Cancer, Kay Hagan, Biologics, Nancy Pelosi, Avastin, Herceptin, Fda, Biologic Drugs, Health Care Reform, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

Pelosi made a choice about the lifesaving biologic drugs I took when I was in chemotherapy that will cost many fellow breast cancer survivors everything they own, and quite possibly their lives.

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