Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation toMexico.
Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa fields of this southwestern town. But he was uninsured. So the hospital disregarded the strenuous objections of his grief-stricken Read the rest of this entry »
It turned out to be the Weston State Hospital, an enormous mental hospital in Weston, W.Va., begun in 1858 and completed in 1882. It is now the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a moniker that doesn’t sit well with advocates for the mentally impaired. And it was open for tours!
As I was pulling out my credit card to pay for my tour, I did feel a momentary twinge of conscience. Was it ethical to play voyeur in a place where so many undoubtedly had Read the rest of this entry »
At a recent retreat for Food and Drug Administration employees, a slide show likened the agency’s top drug regulator, Janet Woodcock, to “visionary leaders” such as Golda Meir and Gandhi.
Some lawmakers are fuming about a $1.5 million contract for morale-boosting that the FDA awarded the consultant that prepared the slideshow. The agency’s problems, including questions about decisions on the safety of some popular medicines, are likely to come up Read the rest of this entry »
Anzalone, a hairdresser with the ends of her blond hair dyed hot pink, declined to comment as she stormed out of court.
Prosecutors said Anzalone and her then-husband, Christopher Anzalone, lived with Gentissi from March to early July 2006 in North Bellmore. Anzalone, who was pregnant at the time, felt that Gentissi was creating an unsafe environment for her unborn child by smoking in the house, among other things, said her lawyer, Nancy Bartling Read the rest of this entry »
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(NaturalNews) The FDA has decided against placing new warning labels on anti-seizure medications used to treat epilepsy, in spite of recent findings that those drugs can increase a patient’s risk of suicide.
In January, the FDA raised the possibility of labeling 11 anti-seizure drugs with “black box” warnings, after numerous studies linked them to increased risks of suicidal behavior: carbamazepine (marketed as Carbatrol, Equetro, Tegretol and Tegretol Read the rest of this entry »
While 78 percent of mothers in the United States consider influenza a severe and potentially life-threatening disease that can strike anyone, only half say it is likely their families will get vaccinated this season, according to a new survey from the American Lung Association.
“Our survey was done to help underscore that families are largely unaware they are at risk for influenza infection and to reinforce the need for greater awareness about the Read the rest of this entry »
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials still are working on the rules to guide
the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The Department of Community Health’s first crack at
drafting official procedures for the program ran into some
opposition at a public hearing Monday.
Medical marijuana advocates say the draft rules put too many
restrictions on patients. They oppose a proposal that
patients and caregivers be required to keep records of Read the rest of this entry »
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Just how much impact do those endless TV drug advertisements have on consumers? The truth is, nobody’s sure just how much of an impression they make–but the FDA would like to find out.
The agency has set plans to launch a study designed to measure subjects’ recall,and how well theyunderstand risk and benefit information presented in the ads.To conduct the study, the agency is planning to produce ads for a fictitious blood pressure medication, then Read the rest of this entry »