FDA

When a drug or medical device becomes available in the marketplace, few if any experts (including doctors) or individual patients question its price. In her article in the NYTimes,
Dr. Gilbert Ross in The New York Post, April 25, 2014 Cigarettes continue to kill a half-million Americans every year while holding 100-fold that number in
Genetically modified foods have been in the news a whole lot recently. Those who use the media as a platform to scare people about GM foods are strategically using fear as their weapon of choice,
Dr. Josh Bloom on Science 2.0, February 27, 2014. On face value, if you read Anita Clayton'sHuffington Post piece entitled The FDA, Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Inequality, you could not come to any conclusion other that the FDA is overtly sexist...[Read more].
Nutrition labels on food may soon be getting a makeover for the first time in nearly two decades. The FDA is now proposing a new design based on the current reality of the American diet, taking
Here's a countdown of the top 13 health scares of 2013!
A new Surgeon-General s report, The Health Consequences of Smoking 50 Years of Progress, attempts to update the status of smoking and health in America. In fact, not much new is found in this lengthy report, and the explanation for why this is lies in the introductory blurbs preceding it.
In the past few years much attention has been paid to the toxicity of acetaminophen, (the generic name for Tylenol). And with good reason.
Following-up on their op-ed in the NYTimes last week, Drs. Amy Fairchild and colleagues published a Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, calling for a valid, science-based approach to e-cigarettes, and noting the vast potential benefits from these devices.
The FDA is planning to cleanse antibacterial cleansers of what they deem to be mislabeled ingredients: triclosan and triclocarban. The agency will require proof that the products so labeled are in fact antibacterial, and that they are not harmful. The makers have one year to show them the data.
Every now and then our government gets something right. This is one of those times. What is unfortunate is that it should have never come to this in the first place. Because 20 years ago our government got it really wrong, for which we are now paying a steep price.
Dr. Josh Bloom in the New York Post, December 2, 2013 Thanks to a thoroughly misguided move by federal drug bureaucrats, many Americans are going to have to live with needless pain...[Read more.]