Mass Torts

Here’s one food safety campaign that is sure to get a lot of followers. Citizens for Health is asking for signatures to a petition, started by Center for Science in the Public Interest, to be presented to food and beverage companies. It asks them to stop using carmine, a red […]

It’s a popular sports pre-workout powder supplement that contains a methamphetamine-like compound, but don’t expect to see it on store shelves anymore. The manufacturer of Craze, bodybuilding.com, reports that sales have been suspended as has production. That move comes after an analysis from scientists in the U.S., the Anti-Doping Agency […]

Just how deeply has Big Pharma infiltrated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), especially when it comes to blockbuster drugs? On a regular basis the agency convenes experts to listen to the latest evidence and make decisions whether a drug should be pulled from the market or if it […]

There was nothing to indicate otherwise, so a Georgia man mixed Tylenol and the prescription painkiller, Vicodin. After all, both drugs were prescribed by his physician. The toxic result was acute liver failure. Now Jonathon Eric Tyler has joined dozens of others who have filed defective product lawsuits after they […]

A new study suggests pregnant women stay far away from prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin, especially early in their pregnancy. Published in Obstetrics Gynecology September and in print, October 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the study that confirmed what research to date […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sending out a warning to patients and health care facilities not to use a preparation for nasal irrigation that may be contaminated. The Compounding Shop in St. Petersburg, Florida created the solution. The 1000 ml bottle of budesonide contained white floating material observed […]

When it comes to the mind-robbing disease of Alzheimers, there are very few medications that have been found able to slow its progression. There also appears to be few medications to effectively treat mild cognitive decline that is not related to Alzheimer’s. Cognitive enhancers are given to patients who are […]

Amid a government shutdown, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot do the job of watching the nation’s health. With two-thirds of the staff furloughed, about 13,000 employees worldwide, the CDC’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, says he is losing sleep. Without personnel, the agency is not on […]

As we age, we are more likely to get cataracts, a cloudy lens in the eye that reduces our ability to see. Researchers from Dallas suspected the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, was correlated with the development of cataracts. Results from a new study prove that assumption is […]

Because the dangers of electronic cigarettes are unknown, attorneys general from 40 states have called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restrict the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes (e-cigs) are battery operated chambers that deliver a heated liquid formulation of nicotine from tobacco […]