According to World Health Organization (WHO) there are one billion overweight adults worldwide and 300 million are categorized as obese. The World Health Organization cited several contributing factors among which are: “increased consumption of energy-dense foods high in saturated fats and sugars, and reduced physical activity, Economic growth, modernization, urbanization […]
Most parents want the best for their children. We meticulously search labels, check sugar and salt contents, pack balanced lunches, and try to fix healthy meals for our families. But before you pack that applesauce or tuna fish sandwich into your child’s lunch box, you might want to check the […]
FDA investigations occurred during February to April of 2009 at a drug manufacturing plant. A drug recall was instituted in July of 2009. A voluntary nationwide recall of drugs is instituted on December 21, 2009. In January of 2010, I am just hearing about it. The drugs that were recalled […]
The Food & Drug Administration has recently notified Eli Lilly & Co. and Bayer Healthcare that it has objections to ads used for some of their drugs. For Eli Lilly, it was print advertisements for its depression drug, Cymbalta. Print ads used on WebMD Little Blue Book; a publication to […]
Breast Cancer. It strikes over 187,000 people every year; mostly women between the ages of 40 and 59. Over 40,000 women die from breast cancer yearly. Breast cancer in one of the ten leading causes of death for women. Breast cancer is a family disease — it affects the whole […]
You may recall last year when several accidents and a couple deaths happened as a result of some defective tires manufactured by Chinese companies. Now, there are reports of bad valve stems manufactured by…you guessed it, a Chinese manufacturer. A recall has been issued involving some six million valve stems. […]
A recent study out of UCLA, published in the January issue of the “American Journal of Ophthalmology,” has found that Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) occurs more than five times more often among female smokers over 80-years-old compared to non-smoking women of the same age. Although this recent study was gender […]
You just have to love Big Tobacco. Produce a product you know kills people; hide or deflect all the information that would alert the public of the totality of the dangers; engineer nicotine delivery in a way that maximizes addiction and write memos talking about the whole scheme as if […]
The European and the British people are warned about aging tires. They are warned that old tires can be dangerous. The European and the British people are educated that a brand new tire, fresh from the store shelves, might not be brand new. The European and the British people are […]
The short answer in Florida is…No. In Fields v Kirton, 961 So. 2d 1127 (2007) the 4th District Court of Appeals certified a question to the Florida Supreme Court of great public importance: Whether a parent may bind a minor’s estate by the pre-injury execution of a release. The Florida […]
