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Door IAN AUSTEN
OTTAWA - de Canadese overheid schijt bereid om als gifstof een chemisch product te verklaren dat wijd in plastieken voor babyflessen, drank en voedselcontainers evenals voeringen in voedselblikken wordt gebruikt.
Een Nalgene merkfles, die met bisphenol-a wordt gemaakt.
Een persoon met kennis van het chemische het overzichtsprogramma van de overheid sprak…
Door David Gutierrez
heeft de uitgaande presidentambtenaar van farmaceutisch reuzeWyeth FDA van „het vestigen van monopolies“ door nieuwe drugs te vereisen om te bewijzen beschuldigd dat zij dan beter producten momenteel op de markt werken.
„Als u het eerste erkend te worden bedrijf bent op een bepaald gebied en de concurrenten niet op de markt kunnen krijgen, vestigt FDA nu monopolies. En dat is zeker niet hun mandaat, „Loodje bovengenoemde Essner.
Bovengenoemde Essner…
Door de Auteur van Onnesha
Roychoudhuri bespreekt Charles Barber de onrealistische begrippen van Amerikanen over geluk.
We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses.
While we've now become accustomed to the barrage of prescription drug commercials on prime-time TV, it's jarring to learn that this advertising is legal only in the United States and New Zealand. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't just target Americans directly, but also ...
British Researchers Find Artificial Colors Harm Children's Brains, Request Phase-Out
By Annie Bell Muzaurieta
A team of British researchers from Southampton University carried out a study to look at seven food additives, and their findings were grim: The additives are doing as much damage to children's brains as the lead in gasoline.
According to an article in The Independent, the researchers said children's intelligence was being damaged by the ...
Cathy Sherman
Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, "What'll you have?" "A beer", says the first guy. Second one says, "Whiskey" and turning to the third guy asks, "what about you?" "Oh me, I really need a good strong kick, one with lots of punch to it... Yep, I think this day calls for a big one on tap! Hey bartender, how about some of your ...
As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just today, for example, Fox News ran a story entitled, Skip the Water, Have a Soda Instead. ((http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345...)
Other news organizations, such as the Chicago Tribune also jumped on the bandwagon, declaring that drinking eight glasses ...
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, ...
CHICAGO - America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants.
These statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies indicate ...
Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls. ...
Shake-up of hospitals will open door to McDonald's sponsorship.
Firms such as McDonald's and Virgin could be allowed to sponsor NHS hospital wards under radical plans announced by the Government to allow sponsorship of health services and create a new era of open competition between hospitals.
Private companies will be allowed to create some "brand awareness" such as a logo on hospital property but they would not be allowed to gain a ...
John C. Lechleiter, an Eli Lilly official who is about to become the company’s top executive, wrote an e-mail message in 2003 that appears to have encouraged Lilly to promote its schizophrenia medicine Zyprexa for a use not approved by federal drug regulators.
Mr. Lechleiter’s comments came in a March 2003 e-mail ...
Former Eli Lilly Rep Says He Wined and Dined Doctors to Make a Sale
To sell their drugs, pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate the drug's benefits and underplay their side-effects, a former sales rep told a Congressional committee this morning.
Shahram Ahari, who spent two years selling Prozac and Zypraxa for Eli Lily, told a Senate Aging Committee chaired by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., ...
An antibiotic-resistant strain of the common staph bacteria is now responsible for more deaths in the United States than AIDS, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "This is a significant public health problem" said CDC medical epidemiologist Scott K. Fridkin. "We should be very worried."
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a variant of ...
 Trace amounts of pharmaceutical drugs are lurking in Louisville's drinking water, including one used to treat people with bipolar disorder and alcohol withdrawal, and another prescribed to combat seizures.
Swimming with them in the city's water supply is a favorite pick-me-up: caffeine.
The findings are part of a nationwide investigation into pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water ...
A new study brings to light a potentially dangerous link between chemicals used in ordinary products, such as baby shampoos and lotions, to reproductive problems in children. The chemicals, called phthalates, have been under attack by some environmental advocacy groups, according to a Feb. 4, 2008 AP News article, although experts are uncertain what dangers they might pose.
The study, which appears in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, found ...
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