Experts: Antibiotic resistance worsening
A University of Iowa study found MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in 70 percent of hogs on farms studied and in 64 percent of workers; resistant bacteria were found on an unopened...
View ArticlePrecocious puberty in girls is increasing and alarming
Sixteen percent of U.S. girls now experience breast development by the age of 7 and 30 percent by the age of 8.
View ArticleMarine life shows disturbing signs of pharmaceutical drug effects
Like canaries in the coal mine, the first signs of drug effects from the water often manifest in the fish
View ArticleDo drug industry perks affect prescribing? Yes says recent study
A recent study found that more than one free meal increased the likelihood of doctors prescribing the drug of the meal provider
View ArticleNew warnings about fluoroquinolones
In May, the FDA warned that fluoroquinolone antibiotics, because of common and sometimes permanent side effects, should only be used as a last resort. The agency followed up in July with language for...
View ArticleFDA orders antibacterial agents removed from soaps
Cleaning products with antibiotics do not get you “cleaner” than soap and water but they do encourage antibiotic resistance and “superbugs” and disrupt endocrine systems in humans and animals.
View ArticleAre Cloned Animals on the U.S Dinner Table?
When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was asked point-blank, during a 2010 trade mission in Canada, if “cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply,” his answers...
View ArticleYes, too much sugar is harmful but are artificial sweeteners the answer?
Most Americans consume at least twice the recommended amount of sugar and few people who have the soda “habit” only drink one soft drink a day as recommended
View ArticleFDA approved drugs may become riskier
Speedier approvals and the legalization of "off-label marketing" have drug safety activists worried.
View ArticleThe changing role of the pharmaceutical representative
Thanks to drug safety scandals and new methods of marketing, the bloom has fallen off the pharmaceutical representatives' roses.
View ArticleChronic Pain Patients Ill Served in U.S. Medicine
Despite steroid and pain-killer injections, expensive and invasive treatments like spinal fusion, disc surgery, spinal cord stimulators, nerve ablation and controversial opioid drugs, chronic pain is...
View ArticleBook review: 'Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short...
Gary Younge, a black reporter who grew up in England demonstrates in a moving new book, asks hard questions other reporters duck.
View ArticleBook: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most...
Review: Mental Health, Inc. exposes how various entities - from indifferent professional associations and pharmaceutical-subsidized patient advocacy groups to government regulators - enable Pharma's...
View ArticleNew lows reached with drug ads
Much direct-to-consumer drug advertising makes a mockery of the entire U.S. health care system by aggressively seeking people who are not sick to "treat" while millions who really are sick but for whom...
View ArticleNew warnings about fluoroquinolones
In May, the FDA warned that fluoroquinolone antibiotics, because of common and sometimes permanent side effects, should only be used as a last resort. The agency followed up in July with language for...
View ArticleFDA orders antibacterial agents removed from soaps
Cleaning products with antibiotics do not get you “cleaner” than soap and water but they do encourage antibiotic resistance and “superbugs” and disrupt endocrine systems in humans and animals.
View ArticleAre Cloned Animals on the U.S Dinner Table?
When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was asked point-blank, during a 2010 trade mission in Canada, if “cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply,” his answers...
View ArticleYes, too much sugar is harmful but are artificial sweeteners the answer?
Most Americans consume at least twice the recommended amount of sugar and few people who have the soda “habit” only drink one soft drink a day as recommended
View ArticleFDA approved drugs may become riskier
Speedier approvals and the legalization of "off-label marketing" have drug safety activists worried.
View ArticleThe changing role of the pharmaceutical representative
Thanks to drug safety scandals and new methods of marketing, the bloom has fallen off the pharmaceutical representatives' roses.
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