It has happened again.  This time, 21 people in 16 states have been victimized by the sometimes-deadly E. coli 0157:H7 after eating beef supplied by National Steak and Poultry, of Owasso, Oklahoma.  Yes, that’s the same company that made news earlier this week for E.coli outbreaks in 6 states that sickened many. The Washington Post [...]

A new research program called the Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program (MEPREP) will fund research to study the effects of prescription drugs used during pregnancy.   The project is a collaboration among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and researchers at the HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics (CERT), [...]

No surprise, but massive disappointment for health advocates and consumers…the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is again stalling on the bisphenol A (BPA) conundrum.  For the third time this year, the agency refuses to inform consumers whether or not it is safe to use products made with BPA, the industrial chemical contained in the lining [...]

One would think the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would get their house in order after a barrage of criticism for various bungling.  The latest, according to the Wall Street Journal, involves accusations from two respected medical journals that say the FDA has approved cardiovascular medical devices based on inadequate and biased tests. The latest [...]

Be extra careful driving your Corvette if you notice a problem with the roof.  General Motors is recalling 22,000 of the sporty little cars that could have defective roofs.  The ones involved are model year 2005-2007 Corvettes and model year 2006-2007 Corvette Z06, which has a removable roof. This is the second recall concerning roofs.  [...]

“Though there is no proof of a cause-and-effect relationship between computer use and hair loss, it does happen to many people with long-time exposure to electromagnetic radiation in electric appliances, such as the computer,” says Dr. Yan Chonghuai, director of the Environmental Medicine Laboratory at the Shanghai Institute of Pediatrics. Karen Luo, a 26-year old [...]

Smell your Tylenol before you pop that pill.  All product lots of Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet 100 count bottles sporting the colorful red EZ-OPEN CAP have been pulled from the shelves as a precautionary measure (UPC# 0045-0838-21, CODE# 8382100). McNeil Consumer Healthcare recalled five lots of this particular product in November because of reported odd [...]

The bad news and the good news…mercury exposure in America increases with age, then declines around age 50, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported Greenwire. The significant findings were the first to focus on a broader U.S. population instead of concentrating on only childbearing age women [...]

Did the makers of OsmoPrep, a bowel cleansing product, know the risk of serious kidney damage before marketing it to the public?  Four users think so and have filed a lawsuit against Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., and Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The suit alleges that using oral sodium phosphate (OSP) OsmoPrep caused acute kidney damage including phosphate [...]

At least six patients have died from pancreatitis after taking Byetta, Amylin Pharmaceuticals’ type 2 diabetes drug.  Thus, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mandating that the following new safety studies be done: *A clinical trial to assess whether Byetta increases the risk of gallstones and therefore pancreatitis