There are new developments in the outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella that I wrote about yesterday. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service…
The tranvaginal mesh implant was designed to treat female urinary incontinence and approved for use in 1996. In 2002, it was approved to treat female pelvic prolapse. However, industry studies show…
Yesterday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a public health alert pertaining to an outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground turkey. The alert is particularly serious as the bacterial…
Going green is all the rage these days and science generally supports the trend. Because of that, farmers’ markets, organic grocery stores, food co-ops, and homegrown foods have spiked. Most…
People don’t like to be uncomfortable. Minor aches and pains and fever can make everyday living unpleasant. That is why many people turn to Naproxen sodium, an internal analgesic available in…
Two new studies — one in veterans and the other in retired football players — add to the mounting evidence linking brain injuries to an increased the risk of dementia later in life. In…
Warts. Ugh! Get them off. You can buy a product to freeze them off. You can buy a chemical product to apply to them. Or, you can have a dermatologist remove them. If you choose to handle the…
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a condition in which the retina thickens and swells. DME can lead to blindness. A new study of more than 100,000 people which was presented Sunday at the Amercan…
This week the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated drug consumers rights to sue generic drug manufacturers. In reviewing cases brought by consumers of the anti-nausea drug Reglan which is generically sold…
Today’s New York Times discusses the American impuse to assume that the newest innovation is probably the best solution in hip implant and hip replacement surgery. The writer points out what many…
This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is adding information on bladder cancer risk to the label of medicines containing Actos (pioglitazone) and to patient medication…
Five days after Germany and France pulled Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ diabetes drug Actos off the market, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers that the diabetes drug…
