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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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10 Things the FDA Can Do to Improve Nutrition Labeling

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Serving-Size, Smart Choices, World Health Organization, Fda, Trans Fats, Who, Caffeine, Food Labeling, Food, Food and Drug Administration, Sugar, Green News
Hemi Weingarten

Wouldn't it be nice if the FDA cleaned up the mess originally created when it brought us the nutrition facts label as we know it today?

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Major Gaps In Oversight Of Human Medical Research

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Jerry Menikoff, Columbia University Medical Center, Gene Therapy, Human Test Subjects, Fda, Hetastarch, New York News, Cardiac Surgery, Hextend, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, Human Research Protections, Politics News

Ten years ago, an 18-year-old student named Jesse Gelsinger died during a medical research trial involving gene therapy at the University of Pennsylva...

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FDA to ban sale of raw oysters from Gulf of Mexico

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Vibrio Vulnificus, New Orleans, P, Gulf of Mexico, Fda, Oysters, Food, Food Safety, Oyster Ban, Bacteria, Oyster, Shellfish, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy p...

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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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FDA Crack-down on Food Packaging Claims and Logos

Ashley Koff | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Fda, Health Care, Nutrition, Food Labels, Food and Drug Administration, Health Food, Living News
Ashley Koff

After helping clients navigate the grocery store aisles and teaching them how to interpret a package, I was convinced that we needed something to truly help the consumer find healthy food.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Delivery Falls Short; Less Than Half Of Expected Doses Have Been Delivered

Wall Street Journal | BETSY MCKAY and JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Delivery, Swine Flu, Doses, H1n1, Pandemic, Cdc, Astrazeneca, Shot, Shots, Fda, Swine Flu Vaccine, Sanofi-Aventis, Vaccine, Thimerosal, Novartis, Glaxo, Medimmune, Glaxcosmithkline, Living News

Less than half of the swine-flu vaccine expected to be shipped to doctors, hospitals and clinics in the U.S. this month has been shipped so far. The d...

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"Smart Choices" Food Labeling Program Halts Over FDA Concern

Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Smart Choices, Fda, Food, Food Labeling, Kellogg's, Food Labels, Business News

(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. - A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such syst...

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Reckless Claims That Hormonal Milk Is Safe

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Organic Milk, Fda, Cows, Cancer Prevention, Growth Hormones, Hormones, Rbst, Milk, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The rBST hormone is injected in about 20% of USA dairy cows to increase milk production. While the industry claims that it's safe for cows, and that the milk is safe for consumers, this is blatantly false.

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How To Choose Healthy Fish

cnn.com | Denise Mann | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmon, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Health, Epa, Fish, Mercury, Heart Health, Fda, Tuna, Overfishing, Living News

Salmon, tuna, and other fish are loaded with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, so they must be good for you, right? Not so fast--some types of fish h...

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A Little-Discussed Issue That Puts "Care" Back in Health Care Reform

Kate Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Companies, FDA Approvals, Health Care, Cancer Treatments, Biologics, Chuck Schumer, Fda, Henry Waxman, Lupus, Food and Drug Administration, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Politics News
Kate Kelly

Legislation concerning the changes for the drug approval process on a special type of medicine (biologic medicines) could provide huge savings -- a major need with health care reform.

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