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We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco

Dan Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Smoking, Fda, Cancer, Tobacco, Smoking Cancer, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News
Dan Smith

More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.

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Salmonella: Jalapenos, Probably Not Tomatoes, At Fault

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Salmonella, Tomatoes, Jalapenos, JalapeñOs, Salmonella Scare, Fda, Salmonella Outbreak, Business News

WASHINGTON — Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a singl...

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Greening Hollywood: Eco-Beauty And Sustainable Skincare (Part 1)

Paige Donner | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Bio-Dynamic, Organic Skincare, Joshua Onysko, 1, Personal Care Products, Truth in Labeling, Environmental Working Group, Formaldehyde, Not Just a Pretty Face, Lead in Lipsticks, 4 Dioxane, Contaminants, California Proposition 65, Fda, Stacy Malkan, Eli Hallliwell, Goji Berries, Totora Tree, Preservatives, Whole Foods, Jurlique, Skindeep, Nordstrom's, Anthropologie, SB 1712, Environment, Pangea Organics, Johnson & Johnson, Estee Lauder, Procter & Gamble, Revlon, Green News
Paige Donner

Do we really know what we're buying when we buy "natural" and "certified organic" skincare products? Quite a few experts would insist that no, actually, we do NOT.

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FDA Lifts Tomatoes Salmonella Warning

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Salmonella, Tomatoes, Fda, Fda Salmonella Warning, Fda Tomatoes Salmonella, Tomatoes Salmonella Warning Lifted, Living News

WASHINGTON — It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday _ lifting its salmonella warning on the summer fa...

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Mental Recession: Like Manna From Heaven

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Seasonal Depression, Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Depression, Phil Gramm, Gramm Recession Is Mental, Light Therapy, Suicide, Epilepsy, Psychology, Spikol, Illness, Recession, Controversial Remarks, Fda, Health, Electroshock Therapy, Gramm Whiner, Denials, John McCain and Phil Gramm, Philadelphia, Mental, Phil Gramm Nation of Whiners, Headline News, Mental Recession, John McCain, Sad, Politics News
Liz Spikol

As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.

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Scandal Surrounding The FDA, Cows' Tooting, And A Monsanto Hormone

Greenwash Brigade | Heidi Siegelbaum | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Cows Belching, Cow Fart Scandal, Cows Farting, Methane Emissions, Cows, Fda, Cornell University, Climate Change, Posilac, Posilac Paper, Monsanto, Green News

What a riot! How complex is a story about: * The genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, somatotropin, trade name Posilac... * which is...

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Since Bad Government Costs the Same as Good, Let's Choose Good

Jared Bernstein | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Fema, John McCain, Unemployment Insurance, Foreclosure, Small Government, Fda, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

Under a McCain or any other modern conservative administration, it's not that there would be noticeably less government -- it's that there would be worse government.

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Dobbs: Impeach Bush Over Tomatoes

Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Impeachment, Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tomato Scare, Salmonella Tomatoes, Fda, Salmonella Scare, Tomatoes, Impeach Bush, Dan Abrams, Beat the Press, Media News

Thursday night, Lou Dobbs called for George Bush's impeachment over his mismanagement of the Food and Drug Administration which has, in Dobbs' view, u...

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The FDA Wants to Stop You from Protecting Yourself Against Drug Companies

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Legal Rights, Drug Company Fraud, Eli Lilly, Fda, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide, Prozac, Paxil, Gsk, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Suing a drug company is your only way as an individual to protect yourself against malfeasance. It should be a right under the law, but the FDA and the drug companies are on the verge of taking it away.

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Our Food Sucks And You Know It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Food, Vegetarian, Fda, Tomatoes, Green News
Allison Kilkenny

Americans can't fix their unhealthy eating until supposedly "healthy" food is clean of bacteria originating in diseased cows.

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FDA Makes No Attempt to Hide Industry Ties in Its Review of Baby-Bottle Safety

Paul Raeburn | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bpa, Food Safety, Bush Administration, Bisphenol A, Fda, Baby Bottles, Politics News
Paul Raeburn

If the FDA was going to rely almost entirely on industry-sponsored studies to come to its conclusions about plastics, why didn't it try to hide that?

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Does America Have a Prescription Drug Problem?

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Pharmacology, Medications, Medicine, Vioxx, Fda, America, Living News
Doug Bremner

Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here?

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Why Don't Drug Companies Just Pay Us to Swallow Their Drugs?

Doug Bremner | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Conflicts of Interest, Ghost Writers, Merck, Drug Companies, Safety, Vioxx, Fda, Pharmaceuticals, Arthritis, Rofecoxib, Celebrex, Living News
Doug Bremner

Since drug companies are spending so much money to do questionable studies clearly aimed at promoting drug sales, why don't they use that money to pay patients themselves to swallow their drugs?

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Our Daily Meds: Navigating the Polypharmacy

Derek Beres | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Prescription Pills, Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Melody Petersen, Health Care, Our Daily Meds, Fda, Living News
Derek Beres

Tragically, a drug often works no better than a sugar pill, yet the pharmaceutical industry is driving -- let's make that dominating -- our economy.

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Ortho Evra May Beat Cover-Up Charges, Thanks To Legal Technicality

New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS and ALEX BERENSON | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Estrogen, FDA Lawsuit, Fda, Ortho Evra Estrogen, Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Evra, Birth Control Patches, Food and Drug Administration, Ortho Evra Lawsuit, Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch, Pre-Emption, Business News

For years, Johnson & Johnson obscured evidence that its popular Ortho Evra birth control patch delivered much more estrogen than standard birth contro...

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Happy B-day Vitamin V

Jamie Reidy | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Hugh Hefner, Steroids, Ben Stiller, Fda, Zoolander, Botox, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Viagra, Phrma, President Bush, Pfizer, Propecia, Living News
Jamie Reidy

Oh, Viagra, I'd love to wish you another successful decade, but that's probably not realistic. In the next few years, your patent will expire, after which you'll be known by your given name, Sildenafil Citrate.

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More Reasons Not to Take Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 03.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Suicide, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Fda, Mood Stabilizers, Psychiatric Drugs, Home News
Dr. Peter Breggin

It's now well known that the newer antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and Celexa cause suicidal thoughts and behavior, and can wo...

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Pet Food Makers Regularly Taste Their Own Product

Slashfood | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Honest Kitchen, Eating Dog Food, Pet Food, Fda, Dog Food, Human Grade Pet Food, Business News

For the folks at The Honest Kitchen, quality control means tasting your own product - even though it's marketed for the four-legged crowd. The compan...

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FDA: Heparin Problems' Cause Unknown

AP | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Changzhou SPL, Blood Thinner, Heparin Allergies, Heparin Death, Fda, Heparin Recall, Heparin, Business News

WASHINGTON — U.S. inspectors found some mostly procedural problems at a Chinese factory that supplied the main ingredient for the recalled blood...

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FDA Clears Avastin for Breast Cancer

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Cancer, Lung Cancer, Tumor Growth, Avastin, Colon Cancer, Fda, Cancer Medicines, Greentech, Tumors, Breast Cancer, Cancer Medications, Business News

WASHINGTON — A Genentech drug received federal approval on Friday to treat breast cancer, a surprise decision that could represent a shift in st...

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Botox, FDA and Michael Clayton

Irena Medavoy | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Marcia Angell, Pharmaceutical Industry, Beauty Junkies, Public Citizen, Alex Kuczynski, Lawsuit Against Botox, Drug Companies, Allergan, Fda, Botox, Living News
Irena Medavoy

I had a quick lesson on the pharmaceutical industry with my lawsuit against Botox. We need to restore impartiality to clinical research and sever the ties between drug companies and medical education.

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Who Needs Meat When You've Got Bugs?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Sandor Katz, Roadkill, David Gracer, Fda, Bugs, Dr. Gene DeFoliart, Insects, Albert Bates, Living News
Kerry Trueman

We may find the concept of insects as livestock disgusting, but could an insect farm possibly be any more revolting than our fetid feedlots?

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Tainted Chinese Drug Scandal Linked To U.S. Abortion Pill

New York Times | AKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Drug Manufacturing, Mifepristone, Pharmaceutical Industry, Chinese Drugs, Fda, Drug Regulators, Abortion Pill, RU-486, Leukemia Drugs, Chinese Drug Regulators, Shanghai Hualian, Cancer Patients, Drug Scandal, Cover-Ups, Business News

A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide d...

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Is Botox Deadly? I Have Treated About 7000 Patients...Should I Stop?

Dr. Andrew Jacono | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Citizen, Myobloc, Plastic Surgery, Donda West, Donda West Plastic Surgery, Fda, Donda West Death, Ralph Nader, Botox, Living News
Dr. Andrew Jacono

I will continue to inject the next 7,000 patients in my practice, and continue to inject my family and friends as a facial plastic surgeon. This treatment is extremely safe and effective.

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The Contraindications of Our Pill-Popping Ways

Naomi Wax | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Heath Ledger Pills, Heath Ledger Dies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Heath LEdger Overdose, Prescription Drugs, Heath Ledger Died, Fda Approval, Heath LEdger Dead, Pills, Drugs, Fda, Heath Ledger, Pharmaceuticals, Heath Ledger Death, Living News
Naomi Wax

Six different medications in one person's apartment!? It's hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger's drug inventory was made public.

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