FDA Finally Cleaning House?

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The FDA is making news again – this time it’s a mixed blessing. The new head of the FDA is clearly getting serious about the promise to clean up the FDA.

One FDA Director just resigned and another is apparently under investigation. The first one, Daniel Schultz, previously head of the […]

TV causes high blood pressure in children?

In a study showing that television may be even worse than anyone thought for your kids, researchers have discovered that television viewing is also linked to future high blood pressure in children, regardless of whether they were overweight or not. The results were published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. The study examined […]

Bad Beef An Opportunity For The ‘New’ FDA

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Once again tainted beef is in the news. Beef Packers, Inc., of Fresno has recalled 826,000 ground beef products that are possibly tainted with salmonella. There have been cases of salmonella reported in 11 states with Colorado the worst affected with over 21 cases through June and July. The ground beef […]

Wyeth Slime Tactics

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It turns out that a bunch of recent articles in scientific and medical journals about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women were paid for and secretly promoted by Wyeth Labs.

Court records, according to the New York Times, show that a total of 26 papers were […]