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Many men use bodybuilding supplements before, during, and after workouts to increase the potential for building and keeping muscle, while burning fat. These bodybuilding supplements often contain high levels of caffeine and other various chemicals to keep energy levels high during a tiring workout. Some men find it hard to […]

Benicar is prescribed to treat hypertension and contains the active ingredient olmesartan. One side effect of Benicar is villous atrophy. Villous atrophy is a condition which causes some users to be hospitalized for weeks or months as a result of being unable to properly absorb food and water. Furthermore, as […]

A reported 100,000 Americans, including a 54-year-old Illinois man and 36-year-old North Carolina woman, have reported severe side effects from Levaquin, an antibiotic that packs enough pill power to kill anthrax. Levaquin, a drug classified in the fluoroquinolone family, is now undergoing another Food and Drug Administration evaluation because of the controversy. Twelve […]

At the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the new year started off with an approval of the first therapeutic weight loss option for obese patients since 2007. The device – the Maestro Rechargeable System – was given a thumbs-up following a scientific study of a […]

Safeguarding, streamlining, strengthening the clinical trial process is one of three of the Food and Drug Administration’s primary goals for 2015. So states an 11-page document titled 2014 – 2015 Strategic Priorities. The other two goals focus on 1) striking a better balance between data collection requirements and the time […]

Since the passage of the “Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act,” the supplement industry has effectively been a wild west of snake oil salesmen foisting their sometimes fraudulent and dangerous miracle cures on the American public. We’ve been writing about this terrible federal law for years – a law that […]

As if Bisphenol A, or BPA, didn’t have enough of a bad rap in the bottled water world, it now has been linked to the plastic product that enables parents to feed their newborns. Baby bottles made from the industrial chemical used in epoxy, resin and polycarbonate – or everyday […]

Viagra (sildenafil) has featured prominently in the news over the past few months – for both positive and negative reasons. The drug has experienced a rollercoaster of a ride through the press this year, with research finding that the drug may increase your risk for melanoma by 84% while also […]

In laparoscopic hysterectomies, a power morcellator is used to mince the uterus into smaller pieces in order to extract it from the abdomen. A California woman is suing the manufacturer of a power morcellator that was used during her laparoscopic hysterectomy. She alleged the use of the power morcellator spread […]

The reasons the seemingly cutting-edge pharmaceutical industry lags behind in the mobile-application domain are far and wide, say medical marketers, who predict that, in the end, companies’ bottom lines, doctors’ choices and patient health will suffer. Let’s look at the facts: First, one-third of drug-makers’ Web sites are optimized for […]