You might want to tell the waiter to hold those french fries to cut down on the amount of acrylamide you re consuming. Well at least according to the FDA. Acrylamide is a chemical that forms in foods containing

As Oliver Hardy often said to Stan Laurel, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
We wonder if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is thinking the same about the FDA. Because in order to protect students at Princeton University from a particular strain of bacterial meningitis, the CDC had to get special permission from the FDA to import Novartis Bexsero from Europe and Australia. Bexsero is the only vaccine that is effective against the strain (serotype B) that is causing trouble at Princeton. Why was this necessary? Because the FDA has not approved the vaccine in the U.S.

As of mid-November of this year the FDA had approved 27 new drugs. Seven more are expected to receive approval by the end of 2013. Assuming this is correct, the total will fall short of the 41 approvals in 2012. But the trend of what is being marketed and the pricing of the products continues.

It s better to walk than to not be active at all. Walking a predominant exercise among the elderly, holds more importance in the way it reduces stroke in older men in than you may think

About 50 million Americans have arthritis, and about 22 million have some disability from it. As we age, this problem will only get worse. We need more research into its root causes, and also we should lose weight! Thank heavens for joint replacement surgery.

Two recent reports raise hope that both bariatric surgery and drug treatments can be effective in helping obese individuals cope with the rigors of weight loss.

While malaria deaths are in decline in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem remains huge,with 600,000 deaths, mainly toddlers. Fake and sub-standard drugs contribute to resistance, and diversion or theft is another problem making controlling the disease more difficult. Now the USAID is on the case.

Obesity rates among children in the United States and the UK have tripled in the last three decades. Along with this increase, physical activity levels have decreased. And now this decrease can be seen in

We at ACSH have warned repeatedly about the nightmarish scenario that continues to unfold as more and more bacteria become resistant to previously-effective antibiotics, bringing us to the precipice of the pre-penicillin era where common infections such as strep throat and pneumonia were killers.

We ve written about alternative medicine in the past, mainly pointing to the fact that there s no such thing as alternative medicine, only real medicine and fake medicine. And alternative medicine largely falls into the latter category there have been no studies showing that these