The Food and Drug Administration has decided to take an important step when it comes to consumer safety. Thus, three offices will be opened in China this week. The FDA is taking measures to ensure the quality and safety of the products exported to the United States, after a period when several incidents happened. This move is novelty for the FDA, as the Administration has never opened an office outside the country. FDA officials are sure that opening Read the rest of this entry »
RosewoodFitnessAndHealth.com, a website dedicated to products that promote general health and fitness, plans to expand their product line to include infrared saunas. They have also recently launched an informational blog at MindBodyAndSoulInfo.com
Courtenay, British Columbia (
) November 19, 2008 — RosewoodFitnessAndHealth.com, an online retailer of health and fitness related products, has announced their intention to add a new infrared sauna Read the rest of this entry »
Leveraging health care dollars in D.C.
by Charles Hofmann, M.D., Guest opinion
While states across the country anxiously await congressional approval of tens of billions of new federal stimulus money to patch their health care safety nets, many of those states are failing to take advantage of even greater amounts of federal money already approved for their health care budgets.
Oregon is near the top of the list of states leaving health care Read the rest of this entry »
Afghan leader blames allies over civilian deaths, drugs
KABUL (AFP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday accused his Western allies of not doing enough to stop civilian deaths in the “war on terror” and failing to cut opium production in areas patrolled by foreign troops.
Addressing the opening session of parliament, Karzai called for a re-think in the international strategy aimed at rooting out extremists and cracking down on drug Read the rest of this entry »
I was playing with my crystal ball this morning and thought I saw few things through the mists of time. Either that or I got some bleu cheese dressing smudged on the ball. Regardless, I thought I would share some of my visions of the future with you all (we can decide in 2010 if it was just the bleu cheese talking).
#1.
More studies will be released showing the superior health effects of a low carbohydrate, high fat, adequate protein diet. Dieticians Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, January 9, 2009
In just a few months, the FDA Is expected to approve the first competitor to Botox.
It’s called “Reloxin.” It’s made from the same substance as Botox, and has been used for years in Europe and South America under a different name.
Clinical trials say it lasts longer, about five months. But those clinical trials are paid for by drug companies, so it will be up to the FDA to decide what claims Reloxin can make over its Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday October 5, 2008
(foodconsumer.org) — On Thursday, physicians and consumer advocates at a
public hearing asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban
over-the-counter or OTC cough and cold remedies for children younger than 6 years
or make them prescription drugs.
And the
agency said it will take time for it to consider taking any action.
There has been no evidence that
these OTC cough and cold products help children under the Read the rest of this entry »
CORPUS CHRISTI – A suspected truck thief led police on a winding chase through the Southside Thursday.
The suspect took off when he noticed an officer following him at the intersection of Waldron and Yorktown Boulevard. While he never went over 60 mph, he did go off-road to avoid spike strips on Rodd Field Road.
The suspect then hit several fences in a neighborhood and bailed out. He was found in someone’s backyard on Meadowbreeze. Police found Read the rest of this entry »
David H. Fater, President and CEO of Vicor
Technologies, Inc., today announced that on December 29, 2008 Vicor
Technologies received FDA 510(k) approval (K082709) to market its PD2i
Analyzer, permitting immediate commercialization of the technology. Vicor
Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VCRT) is a development-stage biotechnology
company focused on the commercialization of innovative non-invasive
diagnostics using its patented, proprietary PD2i algorithm Read the rest of this entry »
Thousands of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia take antipsychotic medicines. But these drugs are controversial, because research has shown that some of them increase the risk of a stroke for people with dementia. Now, new research has looked in more detail at which antipsychotic drugs increase the chances of having a stroke, and who is at most risk.
What do we know already?
Antipsychotic drugs were developed to Read the rest of this entry »