Posts tagged public health

• Alcoholic Energy Drinks Come Under FDA Scrutiny

  David Mittleman | November 16, 2009 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Alcoholic energy drinks have gained in popularity, particularly among younger drinkers. But now, the drinks, marketed under flashy names like Evil Eye or Max Fury, are coming under the Food and...

• Medical Negligence Law Equals Accountability, Tort Reform Equals Insurance Greed

  David Mittleman | October 15, 2009 4:14 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There's some smoke and mirrors going on at the Congressional Budget Office and it's designed to take away your rights as a patient and to diminish the value of the 7th Amendment. We're in the middle...

• Eleven California Hospitals Fined for Failure to Properly Care for Patients

  David Mittleman | September 26, 2009 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Public health officials seem to be cracking down on hospitals a lot harder these days, and rightly so. In fact, eleven California hospitals were recently fined $25,000 each for alleged regulation...

• Update on La Salle County Nursing Home Sex Abuse Investigation

  Beth Janicek | August 07, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Recently I blogged about a La Salle County Nursing Home under investigation due to a male resident molesting 10 female residents. The nursing home now faces monetary damages from federal and...

• FDA Less Careful With Bottled Water Than EPA Is With Tap Water.

  Wayne Parsons | July 09, 2009 2:05 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In a story that generated a great deal of media interest, congressional hearings today focused on two separate reports that concluded that the EPA regulates tap water more carefully than the FDA...

• Change for the Better at the FDA

  David Mittleman | May 30, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Food and Drug Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, signaled a major shift away from the old ways of business at the FDA. In a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine,...

• Change for the Better is Coming to the FDA

  David Mittleman | May 23, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Food and Drug Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, signaled a major shift away from the quid pro quo attitude of the FDA of the past. In a recent article published in the New England Journal of...

• N.Y. Lab Increases Staffing To Test Swine Flu Samples

  Chrissie Cole | May 20, 2009 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New York City’s public health laboratory is increasing its staffing to help assist testing hundreds of swine flu samples, reports NY Daily News. The lab took over testing for the CDC on May...

• Obama Advocates Food-Safety Overhaul

  Greg Webb | April 05, 2009 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  President Obama has promised to strengthen and reorganize the nation’s food-safety system after declaring the government’s failure to inspect ninety-five percent of processing plants a...

• Food Safety: California Company Recalls 1 Million Pounds of Pistachios

  David Mittleman | April 01, 2009 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA and the California Department of Public Health are investigating a possible Salmonella contamination in Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, California, pistachio products. In response, the...