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Cervix Not Required: An Interview with Dr. Adina Nack

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stigma, HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Council on Contemporary Families, Merck, Gardasil, Public Health, Fda Approval, Men's Health, Fda, Sexuality, Vaccines, Human Papillomavirus, Women's Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Marketing, Sexually Transmitted Infections, HPV Vaccination for Boys, Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Cervical Cancer, Living News
Abby L. Ferber

Last Friday, the FDA approved the HPV vaccine for use in boys and men. Why is Gardasil only now being approved for males, when it was approved three years ago for females?

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Barcode On Your Broccoli: FDA To Approve Laser Labels For Vegetables

Slashfood | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Healthy Food, FDA Approvals, Health, Vegetables, Fda Approval, Food, Food Safety, Fda, Tag Vegetables, Laser, Technology News

The FDA is expected to approve laser-etching of fruits and vegetables in the next month or so, paving the way for produce "tattooed" with product info...

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FDA Needs To Dismiss Former Monsanto Counsel

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Genetically Engineered Milk, Monsanto, Michael Taylor, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Fda, Rbgh, Prostate Cancer, Colon Cancer, Fda Approval, Genetically Modified Food, FDA Warning, Is-Monsanto-Backing-Hr-875, Genetically Modified Organisms, Green News
Samuel S. Epstein

The recent appointment of Michael Taylor as FDA's Senior Food Safety Advisor is of major public health concern since he is a former counsel for Monsanto who argued rBGH was safe.

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Antibiotic-Free Meat: Is the FDA Finally Catching Up to the American Consumer?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Antibiotics, Bpa, Fda Approval, Organic Food, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

The beauty of our system is that when government lags behind, we as American consumers still have the power to direct the marketplace by the products we buy -- or don't buy.

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Setting Time Bombs in Our Chests: Our Unreliable FDA

Ian Millhiser | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Fda Approval, Riegel v. Medtronic, Fda, Justice Scalia, Medical Device Safety Act, Politics News
Ian Millhiser

Lacking sufficient resources to monitor thousands of medical devices on their own, the FDA relies on the medical device industry itself to disclose potential problems in the devices it regulates.

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Just How Corrupted Has American Medicine Become?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Neurontin, Big Pharma, New England Journal of Medicine, Medicine, Health, Drug Companies, Cme, Drug Sales, David Franklin, Pfizer, Fda Approval, Drug Marketing, Fda, Epilepsy Drugs, Drug Company Executives, Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Doctors and Drug Companies, Business News
Bruce E. Levine

Drug-company corruption of American medicine is of course not news. What is news is that such corruption has become so egregious, so transparent, and so embarrassing.

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New Fillers For Those Stubborn Wrinkles

Dr. Anne Chapas | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Fda, Collagen Injections, Fighting Wrinkles, Health, Injectable Fillers, American Society for Dermatological Surgery, Cosmetic Side Effects, Hylauronic Acid Fillers, Calcium Hydroxylapetite, Fda Approval, Facial Fillers, Restylane, Facial Appearance, Poly-L-Lactic Acid, Facial Health, Evolence, Anaphylactic Shock, Radiesse Wrinkles, Cosmoderm, Cosmetic Surgery, Cosmoplast, Style News
Dr. Anne Chapas

The latest generation of injectable fillers has been shown to stimulate collagen growth in order to replace the underlying skin scaffolding and create softer and more natural contours.

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FDA Is Considering More Specific Food Allergy Warning Labels

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 09.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Food Politics, Politics of Food, Green, Green News, Food Allergy Warnings, Food Allergy Labels, Food Allergy, Fda, Fda Approval, Food, Processed Food, Food and Drug Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Green News

WASHINGTON — It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contai...

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FDA Approves Zapping Greens With Radiation For Food Safety

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Food Politics, Food, Radiation, Food Safety, Lettuce, Greens, Green, Green News, E.Coli, Fda Approval, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Politics of Food, Green News

WASHINGTON — Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to...

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FDA Set To Approve Cloned Food

Wall Street Journal | JANE ZHANG, JOHN W. MILLER, LAUREN ETTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Cloned Livestock, Cloned Animal Products, Cloned Meat, Fda Approval, Cloned Animals, FDA Cloned Meat, Fda, Business News

Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring. After more than six years of wrestling with the question of wh...

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