For years, pharmaceutical companies have asked Congress to pass a law protecting them from liability lawsuits for drugs that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Members of Congress, knowing only too well the fallibility of the FDA in approving drugs and monitoring their safety after approval, have rightly refused.
Now one drug company is trying to get the Supreme Court to rule that an FDA-approved warning label on its drug Read the rest of this entry »
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TAIPEI, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian was interrogated by prosecutors here Friday, a day after being sent back to the Taipei detention center after a hospital stay.
It was the first time he was questioned since being detained last Wednesday. Chen is accused of money laundering and misusing a special fund during his eight years in office. His term ended in May.
Prosecutors did not brief the media about the interrogation. Read the rest of this entry »
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ASPEN — After more than a month’s hiatus, the Aspen City Council will convene Monday to review a proposal that seeks to nearly quadruple the size of Aspen Valley Hospital.
Hospital officials want to redevelop the existing 75,700-square-foot facility into a two-story building that adds another 214,395 square feet.
The expansion includes a parking garage, a rooftop heli-pad and numerous improvements to medical departments.
If approved by council, Read the rest of this entry »
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) – A potentially less-costly version of Female Health Co’s condom for women won unanimous backing from a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday.
A lower price could attract more users and allow health organizations to distribute more of the condoms to help stem the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, the panel heard.
The new version is also quieter, with panelists saying the new, softer material Read the rest of this entry »
A recent visit to a rural part of the state to shadow a rural surgeon typified the struggle that exists in some areas to get by in harsh economic times. His office, a pale yellow, appeared unrenovated and looked to be a remnant of another era. However, the building was only euphemistically representative of the greater social predicament that takes place daily inside its walls.
The insufficiency of rural health infrastructure and management is one Read the rest of this entry »
was rushed to the hospital after her plane landed in London Wednesday.
The Daily Mail is reporting that the probable cause was an overdose of tranquilizers used to combat anxiety. The waif-like actress, 37, reportedly loathes flying.
, she was taken to Hillingdon hospital in West London soon after arriving in England just after noon.
refused to confirm the nature of the star’s illness last night, she said her client was discharged an hour later Read the rest of this entry »
Just days after the US Food and Drug Administration found traces of the industrial chemical melamine in some samples of infant formula, the agency wants to assure us that the quantity does not pose any threat to our kids.
Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDAs Center for Food safety and Applied Nutrition, said levels of melamine alone or cyanuric acid alone, at or below 1 part per million in infant formula do not raise public health concerns. Read the rest of this entry »
HEARD of zero-calorie food? Never
thought that it existed? If you believe clinical exercise specialist Namita
Jain, water is a zero calorie nutrient. In addition to water, certain diet sodas
and herbal teas are also zero in caloric content. But, since they are beverages,
they can’t take the place of solid food.
She lets us in on a
trick, though. There are foods that call for extra calories when being digested.
So, in effect, they become Read the rest of this entry »