Common Questions

Bath Safety Month takes place every January. The National Drowning Prevention Alliance’s annual outreach effort raises public awareness of the nearly 90 children who perish in the tub every year. Sadly, the primary reason for those deaths is lack of supervision. “Children can drown in only a few inches of […]

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning causes more than 20,000 emergency room visits and 400 deaths each year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, making it difficult to detect and therefore difficult to prove as the culprit in countless […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) slow and retroactive response to toxic chemicals found in cosmetics is being called into question. In the past year, there have been more protests urging the FDA to ban lead acetate, a compound found in hair dyes. It was banned in Canada and […]

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that pharmaceutical companies report dangerous side effects cause by medicines they manufacture is being flouted by a few bad actors. Such violations of the federal law are rare, fortunately, but the fact that some are failing to follow it can spell danger […]

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 […]

On January 9, 2015, the Department of Justice announced that Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese corporation who has its United States headquarters in New Jersey, was fined $39 million as a result of violating the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe drugs manufactured by […]

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 […]

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer found in humans, and is also the fifth most common type of cancer. In 2014, it is estimated that nearly 76,100 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in the United States, with around 9,710 patients dying from the disease. Melanoma […]

Oregon, Washington State and Vermont say the slogans for 5-Hour Energy drink are hype that is misleading. Last week the Attorneys General of all three states filed lawsuits against the drink’s maker, Living Essentials LLC and Innovation Ventures LLC of Farmington Hills, Michigan. They are seeking civil penalties against the […]