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OVER-THE-COUNTER COLD REMEDIES CONTINUE TO PROVE FATAL WHEN GIVEN TO INFANTS IN WRONG DOSAGES
Mar 1, 2007
Other common drug-related errors also expose infants to potentially deadly resultsFor the past two years, there has been an ever-increasing awareness...
Nursing Home Industry Still Plagued by Widespread Problems and Poor Governmental Supervision
Feb 1, 2007
The Latest InvestigationAlthough Congress passed legislation in 1987 to improve nursing home care and facilities, incidents of...
Are Silicone Breast Implants Really Safe? - Critics Remain Skeptical Despite Green Light from FDA
Jan 1, 2007
This past November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted a 14-year ban on the cosmetic use of silicone breast implants. Women who are least...
New York City Puts Public Health First By Banning Trans Fats
Dec 1, 2006
When Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., the Executive Director and founder of CSPI (The Center for Science in the Public Interest), began his campaign...
TOBACCO USE OF ANY KIND NOW FOUND TO POSE SIGNIFICANT HEALTH RISKS
Nov 1, 2006
Tobacco remains the most controversial consumer product ever sold. It is known to causes a multitude of debilitating and even deadly illnesses. It...
Advair, Serevent, and Foradil: Is the Promise of Breathing Easier Worth the Potentially Deadly Risk Posed By These Asthma Drugs?
Oct 1, 2006
When labels continue to have changes, especially significant (and ever more serious) changes listing severe (and even potentially fatal) side...
KETEK A Dangerous Antibiotic that Highlights the Flawed FDA Drug Approval Process
Sep 1, 2006
Over the course of the past few years, we have written many times about the serious problems at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it comes...
Wrong Site Surgery: Zero-Tolerance Is the Only Acceptable Standard
Aug 1, 2006
There are many situations that can be interpreted quite differently depending on the perspective of the person making the observation. Clearly, a...
Donor Tissue and Organs Life Savers or Deadly Time Bombs?
Jul 1, 2006
It was not very long ago that advances in science made the prospect of widespread transplanting of tissue from cadavers and organs from live donors...
How the Public is Victimized and Put at Risk While the Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from the Over-prescribing and Mis-prescribing of Drugs
Jun 1, 2006
The American Medical Association (AMA) and many individual doctors are strongly advocating moratoriums on consumer advertising promoting new drugs...
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