LifeScript is the #1 website dedicated to women’s health. The company
provides practical, female-friendly content on diet and fitness, weight
loss, anti-aging, relationships, family health and other topics. Through
its newly redesigned portal (
),
LifeScript inspires women to be proactive about their health. It also
provides a platform for advertisers to reach the Internet’s most active
health decision-makers. Read the rest of this entry »
– At the federal level, Congress should enact the long-overdue legislation
granting the FDA authority over tobacco products. The U.S. House of
Representatives on July 30 voted 326 to 102 to approve this legislation,
and it currently has 60 sponsors in the Senate, including
President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This
legislation presents the incoming Administration and Congress Read the rest of this entry »
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths operated for almost two years without an inspection despite a series of complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles.
Court documents in the North Carolina case show the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only inspected the AM2PAT Inc. plant in December 2007 after an outbreak of illness was reported by the Centers Read the rest of this entry »
When drug companies seek approval to market new medicines, they must show the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the results of all the tests they’ve run on volunteer patients – at first on only a few, then on dozens, and finally on hundreds or sometimes thousands.
After winning approval, the companies typically sponsor reports of those tests in medical journal publications, which many doctors often rely on to determine whether to prescribe new drugs Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – U.S. health officials are
reviewing reports of accidents following use of Pfizer Inc’s
(PFE.N:
,
,
,
) anti-smoking drug Chantix to see if current information
on the drug’s label is sufficient, a Food and Drug
Administration spokesman said on Wednesday.
A watchdog group released an analysis earlier on Wednesday
saying the FDA had received more than 1,000 reports of health
problems and injuries in Chantix users Read the rest of this entry »
U.K. Drivers to Take 10-Year Health Checks, Telegraph Reports
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — British motorists will have to take
regular health tests to determine whether they are fit to drive
under a major reform of the U.K. drivers-license system, the
Daily Telegraph reported, citing a person close to the matter.
Drivers will have to declare they are medically fit every 10
years or take tests checking eyesight and reaction times, the
newspaper said. Read the rest of this entry »
Another day, another bloodbath in the banking sector.
has opened down more than 10% in early trading, setting itself up for its ninth consecutive day of losses, as traders continue to fret over the possible wholesale nationalisation of the bank.
The stock is down 6.7p at 52.5p after an hour’s trading, with the FTSE 100 index down 15.02 points at 4037.21 points ahead of the release of GDP data at 9.30AM which is expected to confirm what economists Read the rest of this entry »
Rodale Custom Publishing and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
have joined forces to publish Thrivent magazine, a quarterly
membership publication. Thrivent Financial is a not-for-profit financial
services organization serving nearly 3 million members with headquarters
in Minneapolis, MN and Appleton, WI.Recent custom programs include Born
Early, an annualmagazine for MedImmune, maker of the
pharmaceutical Read the rest of this entry »
LEWISTON, Minn. — Money, drugs and documents are missing from the Lewiston Police Department’s evidence locker; close to $50,000 sent to the city is unaccounted for; and a number of public records are missing from City Hall, acting Mayor Richard Ahrens said Wednesday.
Ahrens made the comments at the conclusion of his final city council meeting, saying that incoming council members should address the problems.
“I hope they get Read the rest of this entry »
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — Appalled that fighting was still under way in Gaza despite the Security Council’s truce resolution, senior United Nations officials said here Monday that they were horrified at the human costs amid reports that more than 40 percent of the nearly 900 Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive, and almost half of the 3,860 wounded, were women and children.
“Behind those statistics that we read out every day is Read the rest of this entry »