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FDA Warns L'Oreal About Drug-Like Claims For Anti-Aging Creams

Reuters | Posted 11.11.2012 | Fifty
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* FDA says L'Oreal claiming creams work like drugs * Companies that sell drugs must do clinical trials WASHINGTON, Sept ...

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Teens and Flavored Cigars. Seriously?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 01.18.2012 | Parents
Read More: Nicotine, Fda Regulations, Safety, Teens, Cigarette, Parenting, FDA Warning, Cigarette Smoking, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

Cigar use among teens increased by more than 11% from 2000-2010. And the cigars are not the ones that your uncles smoked. The cigars of choice are -- get this -- candy-flavored.

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Bestselling Drug Found To Be Ineffective For Treating Breast Cancer

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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WASHINGTON — Federal health authorities recommended Thursday that the blockbuster drug Avastin no longer be used to treat breast cancer, saying ...

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FDA Would Boost Food Inspections Under New Senate Bill

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration would have to step up inspections of food plants under legislation the Senate is expected to pass ...

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The FDA, Toxins and Your Body

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Samuel S. Epstein

The FDA has taken no regulatory action whatsoever over the last six decades, to protect the public from unknowing exposures to a wide range of toxic ingredients.

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FDA Needs To Dismiss Former Monsanto Counsel

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Chantix, Zyban Wa

AP | DAMIAN J. TROISE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency's strongest safety ...

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India: Wal-Mart's Drug Connection

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Al Norman

Most Americans have no idea that the drugs they are buying at Wal-Mart are produced in India, made by companies that are copying another company's products.

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