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Homeland Security color-coded Advisory System

August 24, 2004 After the Department of Homeland Security raised the threat level to Orange for the areas mentioned above, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Lester M. Crawford sat down with The Associated Press to discuss "cues" that had been picked up "from chatter." And guess what? It turns out that one potential terrorist... Read More >

Categories: Contaminated Food and Drugs FDA homeland security prescription drugs Terrorist Target

Prozac and placebos

July 22, 2004 It's people like Kelly who have been messing up the results of clinical trials for antidepressant drugs. In some cases the positive results in these trials were stronger among placebo subjects than those taking the drugs... Read More >

Categories: cheating results in drug trials drug trial tricks manipulating drug trials placebo effect placebo responders Prozac

Direct-to-consumer drug advertising

May 11, 2004 A new study from Dartmouth Medical School concluded that consumers would better understand the benefits and adverse side effects of a drug if commercials included a "prescription drug benefits box... Read More >

Categories: direct to consumer advertising drug advertising drug companies and advertising drug misinformation

Preschoolers and prozac

April 21, 2004 The study, conducted by researchers at a managed care prescription company, called for further studies to evaluate the effects of antidepressants on pediatric patients... Read More >

Categories: antidepressants and children medicating children preschoolers and prozac

Antidepressant drugs and suicide

April 12, 2004 The growing controversy surrounding suicides among minors taking antidepressant drugs reveals disturbing priorities when the issue of safety comes into conflict with the agency's close relationship with the drug industry... Read More >

Categories: antidepressants and children antidepressants and suicide FDA regulations on antidepressants

Homocysteine and heart health

March 25, 2004 It's hard for me to understand why anyone would assess cardiovascular health by looking just at cholesterol levels when there are other factors to consider that are far more important... Read More >

Categories: homocysteine and heart health lowering homocysteine levels nutrition and heart health nutrition and homocysteine

Accutane and pregnancy

March 10, 2004 Here's how you know when a drug's side effects are completely out of control: When the federal government requires you to place your name and personal details about your sex life in a national registry in order to purchase the drug... Read More >

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Acetaminophen overdoses

January 19, 2004 Last year an FDA review estimated that there are more than 14,000 unintentional overdoses of acetaminophen every year, with about 100 of those cases resulting in death... Read More >

Categories: acetaminophen ephedra ban liver health overdose

FDA bans ephedra

January 8, 2004 A handful of people have blatantly misused products that contain a hyped-up, synthetic version of the active ingredient in ephedra, and now ALL ephedra products will be banned... Read More >

Categories: dietary supplement industry drug company control ephedra banned

Boston and New Hampshire plan to buy prescription drugs from Canada

December 18, 2003 On the same day, Boston's Mayor Thomas M. Menino told reporters that beginning next summer his city will buy Canadian drugs for city employees, creating a projected savings of $1 million per year... Read More >

Categories: Boston and Candian prescription drugs Canadian prescription drugs New Hampshire and Canadian prescription drugs

FDA trying to extend control to Canada

December 11, 2003 FDA officials are apparently not content to have jurisdiction over the regulation of drugs in the U.S. Now they're trying to tell Canada what to do... Read More >

Categories: drug regulations FDA. Canada

Drug expiration dates

November 18, 2003 She was going through containers of over-the-counter medications when she laughed and showed me an aspirin bottle that was almost two years past the "best if used before" date... Read More >

Categories: best before dates drug expiration dates expired supplements using expired medication
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