The FDA vs. Tylenol—Why?

Doesn’t the FDA have better things to do? Today we saw the mother of all scares, courtesy of Sharon Hertz, deputy director of the FDA’s Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Addiction. Continue reading → The post The FDA vs. Tylenol—Why?...

Pfizer to provide Prevnar 13 to poor countries at low cost

Pneumococcal disease kills almost 2 million people each year. Most of those deaths are individuals from poor countries and half are younger than five years of age. Prevnar 13 which protects against 13 strains of pneumonia Continue reading → The post Pfizer to...

Angry outbursts bad for the heart

167641073Recent research confirms something that is intuitively obvious — outbursts of extreme anger are associated with acute myocardial infarctions (AMI, or acute heart attacks). Continue reading → The post Angry outbursts bad for the heart appeared first...

Drug Shortages persist. Nutrients lacking too.

The shortage of generic injectable drugs in the U.S. has been an ongoing, grave (and sometimes life-threatening) problem. Although there are multiple factors given for these inexcusable shortages, the main reason is rarely mentioned: Continue reading → The post...

CDC: Outbreak mystery solved

Since June, the CDC has been notified of nearly 400 cases of infection by the parasite Cyclospora in seventeen states. At least twenty-two people have been hospitalized because of this outbreak. Continue reading → The post CDC: Outbreak mystery solved appeared...

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