Engine 2 Diet asks men to go vegan?
The “Engine 2 Diet” is a 28 day weight loss program created by a Texas firefighter. Originally created to help his fellow Engine 2 firefighters in Austin, TX, professional athlete-turned-firefighter
plan.
Many of his coworkers were in dire physical condition-several had dangerously high cholesterol levels. At the end of the 4 week plan, everyone
. Some even lost 20 lbs! The plan also lowered their cholesterol Read the rest of this entry »

Swiss-based Arpida is the latest company to be turned down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the approval of its antibiotic that is meant to treat drug-resistant infections. Arpida's iclaprim is the most recent in a long line of antibiotics that have been sent back by the FDA for further proof that they can actually treat these killer strains of bacteria that have recently begun to infect those outside the hospital setting.
The FDA Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who’s been following the vaccine trade knows that Merck is working hard to expand the use of its human papillomavirus shot. Now approved for marketing to girls and young women, Gardasil has been tested on boys, young men and on women as old as 45, with the aim of growing the potential HPV market beyond preteen, teenage and early-twenties females.
Now, Merck has officially asked the FDA to give Gardasil its blessing for use in males aged 9 Read the rest of this entry »

Miss Goody, who has terminal cancer, will get married to Tweed, a trainee
football agent, at Down Hall, a country house hotel in Hertfordshire eight
miles from her home in Ongar, Essex.
The couple have booked out the entire 99-bed hotel, which is set in 110 acres
of woodland and gardens, for Sunday’s ceremony.
Kate Jackson, 30, said she will be at Miss Goody’s side during the ceremony on
Sunday.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: Jan. 23, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked a federal judge to order changes in how medication is administered to inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution, Wisconsin’s largest women’s prison.
The action is part of a federal class-action lawsuit the ACLU filed in 2006 on behalf of prisoners.
The ACLU contends the state is violating the rights of Taycheedah prisoners by having guards without medical training Read the rest of this entry »

The day after Thursday’s media invasion, all was quiet in Leland.
So quiet, in fact, there were only a few cars parked on the two main streets that make up the hub of this small LaSalle County town.
So quiet even the police and fire departments seemed locked up tighter than drums.
So quiet that, even over the lunch hour, there was only one table of patrons in the pretty downtown diner that was all dolled up for Halloween in festive orange Read the rest of this entry »

California asked a federal judge today to end the receivership he created to remedy the state’s long-running failure to address the dysfunctional, deadly prison health care system.
State Attorney General Jerry Brown’s motion, announced by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his finance and corrections chiefs at a State Capitol news conference, doesn’t claim the system’s problems — which at their height led to an average of one preventable inmate Read the rest of this entry »

FDA Panel Asks: Are Asthma Drugs Safe?
Dec. 9, 2008 – Are the commonly prescribed
Serevent, Symbicort, and Foradil safe?
, drug safety, and pediatrics.
Analysis of data pulled from clinical trials shows that patients taking Serevent, Symbicort, or Foradil have a small but significantly increased risk of asthma-related hospitalization. This is especially true for kids 4 to 11.
The same analysis shows that patients taking Serevent have a small Read the rest of this entry »

DVAX.O
) said
U.S. health regulators asked for additional information on its
experimental hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav, and maintained a
clinical hold on the drug.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which placed a
clinical hold on the drug in March, asked for additional
clinical and safety information to help with risk assessment.
Heplisav was placed on hold — an FDA order to delay or
halt trials — after a patient receiving the vaccine Read the rest of this entry »

said Monday the Food and Drug Administration requested more information about the controlled-release form of the company’s Vicodin painkiller.
The drug maker said the FDA sent a “complete response letter,” which the company will discuss with the agency. The FDA sends complete-response letters when it wants more data before deciding whether it will approve or reject a drug candidate.
The company had expected the drug to be approved in the fourth Read the rest of this entry »