Posts tagged Drugs

• FDA Addresses Medical Errors And $4 Billion Pricetag

  Eddie Farah | November 06, 2009 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As we look at saving money on health care spending, Americans should consider drugs, specifically the huge cost of medical errors involving prescriptions. Medication interactions, a mix-up in the...

• CDC Links Two Antibiotics Taken During Pregnancy to Subsequent Birth Defects

  David Mittleman | November 06, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control who studied the effect of antibiotics during pregnancy have discovered a link between birth defects and several types of antibiotics, specifically...

• Unproven Drugs Allowed to Remain on Market By FDA

  Angel Reyes | November 02, 2009 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsNorth Dallas, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  We trust organizations like the FDA to keep us safe. After all, that's why they were created in the first place, right? Well, a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests...

• GAO Report Reveals that FDA is Failing on Forcing Drug Makers to Prove Drugs Work

  David Mittleman | October 28, 2009 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to a Government Accountability Office report released on Monday, between 1992 and 2008, the Food and Drug Administration asked pharmaceutical drug makers to complete 144 studies...

• Why Doesn't The FDA Follow Untested Drugs?

  Wayne Parsons | October 26, 2009 1:51 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) questions why the FDA has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend...

• H1N1 Means All Sorts Of Charlatans

  Mike Bryant | October 22, 2009 8:45 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA is warning the public about the number of fake offers for preventing or curing people form H1N1. Right now there are large number of websites that offer miracle protections. These offers...

• FDA - Beware of Bogus Swine Flu Products Sold Online

  Chrissie Cole | October 20, 2009 10:21 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers to be aware of the many bogus products that are being sold over the Internet that claim to prevent, treat or diagnose H1N1...

• Mecklenburg County Highway Chase Leads to Head-On Collision Causing Serious Injuries

  Randy Appleton | October 20, 2009 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two men were injured after their vehicle crashed with another vehicle that was being pursued by the police. Katrina Oxendine, 27, of 713 Lincolnton Road, was charged after she led the Salisbury...

• Do I have insurance if I have been the victim of a "hit and run" accident ?

  Doug Landau | October 19, 2009 8:19 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You might be familiar with Dudley Do-Right, the dull-witted but well meaning Canadian mountie who “always gets his man”. Do-Right’s slippery nemesis is the vile Snidely Whiplash...

• End Absolute Drug Industry Immunity in Michigan

  Mark Bello | October 15, 2009 6:39 PM | 0 CommentsVoices Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Show of hands, please? How many of those reading this post knew, before seeing the heading, which was the only state in the country that provided absolute immunity to the makers of (injury,...