American Medical Systems, headquartered in Minnetonka, Minn., is a
diversified supplier of medical devices and procedures to cure erectile
dysfunction, benign prostate hyperplasia, incontinence, menorrhagia,
prolapse and other pelvic disorders in men and women. These disorders
can significantly diminish one’s quality of life and profoundly affect
social relationships. In recent years, the number of people seeking Read the rest of this entry »

Salem-News.com
Obama may stop the DEA Raids but will Obama stop Federal Prosecution & Imprisonment?
(LOS ANGELES) – Monday outside the Federal Courthouse dozens of medical marijuana supporters protested against all the local and federal tax-payer money wasted on the war on medical cannabis spent on local investigations.
They also protested Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids, Federal prosecutions and imprisonment for people like Charles Read the rest of this entry »

Goats can now make medicine in their milk. But they can't make money…yet.
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration approved Atryn, from
, a medicine to treat a hereditary deficiency of the clot-preventing chemical antithrombin. It will be the first medicine made in transgenic animals to be sold. Investors shrugged. Shares in the tiny company are worth only 75 cents and the stock market puts the company's value at a measly $75 million. Read the rest of this entry »

President-elect Barack Obama is prowling for a new head for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which, in the eyes of some outraged Americans, is like hunting for someone to put tainted toothpaste back in its tube.
In the last several years, the agency has lurched from crisis to crisis. Whether the problem was poisonous pet food, sullied toothpaste and blood-thinner from China; food-borne salmonella; or dangerous drugs such as Vioxx, the FDA Read the rest of this entry »

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With the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, expectations are high for the man who ran as a catalyst for change. Among his agenda items–righting an economic downturn and foreign wars–health care looms large as another problem the new president must tackle.
During his year and a half campaign, Obama promised to reduce the average family’s health care premiums by $2,500 and to increase efficiency and competition Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Can a change of character be due to a brain injury?
More than 10,000 people suffer an acquired brain injury in the State each year, with the frontal lobes being the most common area affected, writes
.
Q My 21-year-old son was involved in an accident almost a year ago when he was knocked from his bicycle. He wasn’t wearing a helmet and suffered a fractured skull and the doctors told us that he had an injury to Read the rest of this entry »

LA Medical Marijuana Patients Protest Sentencing, Call for Change
Salem-News.com
Protesters will gather on the corner of Main Street and Temple St outside the federal courthouse at 12:00 PM on Monday, February 23.
(LOS ANGELES) – Medical marijuana patients and advocates will gather in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles at noon on Monday to protest the upcoming sentencing of Charles C. Lynch, who was convicted for operating Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers on Saturday called proposals to modify a union-run health care fund “a non-starter.”
Alan Reuther, legislative director for the UAW, said the proposals from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC violated the automakers’ loan agreements with the U.S. Treasury Department, which call for the UAW to accept half of the funding for the health care fund in cash and the other half in company stock. The proposals call Read the rest of this entry »

Government health authorities have been recommending pregnant women and young children to consume fish in a limit to avoid exposure to potentially harmful amounts of mercury.
But recently FDA has been planning to change the prevailing advice. It has circulated a draft report within the government that argues the health benefits of eating fish outweigh the potential ill effects of mercury. This report has been based on the latest studies that indicate Read the rest of this entry »