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Gone are the times when women would willingly use lead-laden cosmetic products just to get that pale, ghostly aspect that was so revered many years ago. Today, the industry is aiming for healthy products that do not impact the environment, or so major companies claim. A recent FDA investigation shows that many brands... |
7 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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According to a new statistical report released recently, the use of antidepressants in the United States has increased steadily between 1996 and 2005, with no signs of deceleration. Most likely, the experts behind the new study say, it will continue to increase among those older than six years of age in the future as... |
4 August 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Although they’re often hailed as a healthier variant to regular cigarettes or even as a means to curtail nicotine addiction, the status of e-cigarettes or e-cigs continues to be as controversial as it was when they first appeared on the market. In the US, their sale is not banned, but the Food and Drug Administ... |
23 July 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The effects of bisphenol A, a chemical widely found in plastic products, have been debated ardently over the past few years, with strong arguments on both sides. And, since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems unable to take control of the issue and give a final verdict, researchers from the University of ... |
9 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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As we reported at the end of last month, the Food and Drug Administration is about to get increased powers over the tobacco industry soon, if the bill setting forth a new legislative frame on the matter is adopted by the Senate. The House of Representatives has already passed the proposals along party lines in April,... |
11 June 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration mysteriously seems to find nothing wrong with it, a growing body of researchers is urging people to avoid purchasing products containing the plastic compound bisphenol A (BPA). In a scientific statement issued on Wednesday, the Endocrine Society of the United Sta... |
11 June 2009
04:57 GMT |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the creation of a Transparency Task Force that will help the agency become more transparent to the public scrutiny and also seek “new technologies for informing the public” about its decision-making process. The new technologies they are referring to are... |
4 June 2009
03:26 GMT |
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon receive control powers over the multi-million-dollar tobacco industry, after proposed legislation that would allow the agency to do just that has passed a US Senate panel on Wednesday. The proposal was already passed by the House of Representatives in April, more alo... |
22 May 2009
05:50 GMT |
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to General Mills, maker of Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal, which claims to lower cholesterol by 4 percent in just 6 weeks. Because the product makes claims specific to a drug, the FDA is asking for the package to be changed – otherwi... |
13 May 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Despite seeming a bit far-fetched, there are numerous innovations created by NASA for space flight that now find alternative applications in the field of medicine. One such invention is a “super plastic,” originally created for high-speed test flights, which has currently found a suitable application as p... |
7 May 2009
04:51 GMT |
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On Thursday, a new federal estimate of tobacco consumption in the US showed that more and more teenage boys, especially in the country's rural areas, used snuff or chewing tobacco, rather than cigarettes. The conclusion of the research, which analyzed the trend for an entire decade, has raised numerous concerns ... |
5 March 2009
10:04 GMT |
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The American company has recently received a notice from the FDA, saying that it's inappropriate for it to label it's newest product with the Diet Coke Plus mark. The agency is particularly mixed up over the “Plus” part of the name, which in legal terms implies that the product has vitamins or m... |
5 February 2009
08:51 GMT |
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The European Union is currently faced with having to take a very difficult decision on whether or not to allow products coming from cloned animals into the market of the Union. This is a very challenging piece of legislation, regulators say, because, on the one hand, consumers and religious groups are strongly agains... |
2 February 2009
06:57 GMT |
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According to a new report released by US health authorities on Monday, children taking drugs designed to keep their Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) under control are very likely to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, even if they ingest the medication based on a prescription and in the corr... |
26 January 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Great mascara brands may soon find themselves at risk of women no longer buying their products – at least, not if the recently approved by the FDA drug really does what they say it does. Allergan, the company that also brought Botox on the market, has just announced that the Food and Drug Administration approve... |
29 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to ask pharmaceutical companies to label epilepsy drugs with a clear warning, following studies that had shown that they increased the risk of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts, after being on the prescriptions for a period of time. A user-fr... |
17 December 2008
02:40 GMT |
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeks to impose more legislation, to regulate the way drug ad campaigns are targeted at the citizens directly. America and New Zealand are the only two countries to allow such direct practices, while the European Union abandoned them a few years ago. Advertisements that are unsu... |
11 December 2008
05:09 GMT |
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On Monday, Democrats again called for increased powers being offered to legislators, so that they would be able to pull drug commercials that advertise insufficiently-tested products off the air. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca) says that companies should not be allowed to aggressively promote their products on the air and d... |
9 December 2008
09:28 GMT |
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The investigative arm of Congress announced on Friday that more governmental control was needed in the manufacturing and distribution of genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in the nation's crops. The number of accidents involving modified organisms has been fairly low over the last years, but the Government Acc... |
8 December 2008
02:56 GMT |
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A new survey of pharmacies in three major city sprawls in the US – Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta – showed that access to the morning-after pill, an emergency contraceptive measure, has greatly improved since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) passed on legislation in 2006, promoting the distributio... |
1 December 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Johnson & Johnson was directly involved in funding a research clinic, aimed at testing the effects of its various drugs on children suffering from bipolar disorder and autism, new evidence shows. The Wall Street journal reported yesterday that the research center was located at Massachusetts General Hospital, as stat... |
25 November 2008
17:01 GMT |
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Raising concerns about the safety of bisphenol A have constantly held first page in several major publications. Scientists draw attention to the fact that the chemical, used in bottles and packages, can be very harmful to infants and even adults. Health experts say that it is unacceptable for the substance to still b... |
30 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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The American Food and Drug Administration is currently backed into a corner, as reports about generic drugs being inefficient keep coming in, despite the fact that the FDA approved and cleared them as being equivalent to the brand-name products they are to substitute at a lower price. Independent analysts discovered ... |
7 October 2008
03:24 GMT |
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The fact that mobile phones are devices that people can easily carry around anywhere with the littlest effort makes them excellent for combining with other functions. FDA has just given its approval for the VX-5200 GlucoPhone model from HealthPia.The handset manages to pack one feature more important than a high reso... |
14 August 2007
04:28 GMT |
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