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• Something Has Happened

  Published: July 15, 2007, 8:28 pm

  Tags: Easter Seals, Cedillo, Fda, Verstraeten, Autism Society Of America, The Turning Tide, Doj, Thimerosal, Johnson And Johnson, Autism Speaks, Legislation, Nih, Epa, Vsd, Cdc, Evidence Of Harm, Studies

  The Powers that Be CDC, NIH, FDA, EPA, HHS, the House and the Senate, The Department of Justice (who are the governments "defendants" in the Cedillo Trial), The Department of Veterans Affairs, The US Forestry Service, The Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, The US Census Bureau, dozens of foreign, state and local

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• Bird Flu Vaccine. Now with TWICE the Mercury!

  Published: July 12, 2007, 11:48 pm

  Tags: Mercury, Thimerosal, Fda, Bird Flu, Vaccines

  FDA's newly approved Bird Flu vaccine contains 100mgs of Thimerosal which means 50 of Mercury!http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/h5n1san041707LB.pdfWhereas you needed to be 550lbs to safely take the mercury laden flu shot with 25 mikes of merc according to the EPA, now you must weigh 1100 lbs to safely take the bird flu shot. Oh... and you need two

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• Nanotech Regulation Nears

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:35 am

  Tags: Future Trends, Fda, Fei, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Regulations, Ibm, Mmm, Feic

  safe and effective FDA-regulated products that use nanotechnology materials."In all fairness, it's past time the FDA enhanced their awareness of nanotech. But for an agency that lacks even the funding (or talent, or political backing) necessary to properly ensure the safety of the products already on our markets, expanding its reach to

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• Fixing a broken FDA [Effect Measure]

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Fda

  and Drug Administration (FDA). So it's an important problem and fixing it is a priority. It's always a dilemma when a really excellent piece appears and you just want your readers to go read it instead of what we are writing about it. That's the case with an Op Ed in yesterday's Boston Globe by Susan Wood and David Michaels about upcoming

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• FDA Safety Labs To Stay Open

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Fda, Food Safety, Labs

  slighting re-assuring: FDA delays plans to close food safety labs. It seems the Food and Drug Administration's commissioner has suspended plans to close more than half the agency's field laboratories as the FDA awaits recommendations from a presidential panel about how to better guarantee the safety of imported food and other products. On

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• SmithKline Beecham Paxil Class Action Lawsuit

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:30 am

  Tags: Legal, Antidepressant, Fda Approves, Paroxatine, Paxil Class Action Lawsuit, Paxil Lawsuit, Paxil Cr, Smithkline Beecham Paxil Class Action Lawsuit, Smithkline Beecham Corporation

  antidepressant, fda approves, paroxatine, paxil class action lawsuit, paxil lawsuit, paxil cr, smithKline beecham paxil class action lawsuit, smithkline beecham corporationIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

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• Paxil Linked Causes Birth Defects

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:26 pm

  Tags: Legal, Health, Antidepressants, Cardiac Defect, Cardiac Defects, Cardiac Malformations, Congenital Malformations, Epidemiology Studies, Fda, First Trimester Of Pregnancy, Food Drug Administration, Insurance Claims Database, Paroxetine Hydrochloride, Paxil Cr, Pexeva

  and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that exposure to paroxetine in the first trimester of pregnancy may increase the risk for congenital malformations, particularly cardiac malformations. At the FDA’s request, the manufacturer has changed paroxetine’s pregnancy category from C to D and added new data and recommendations

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• FDA to toddlers: No cold medicine for you!

  Published: August 17, 2007, 6:31 am

  Tags: Children S Cold Medicine, Children S Cough Medicine, Children Scoldmedicine, Fda, Fda Advisory Panel, Fdaadvisorypanel, Infant Cold Medicine Dosages, Infant Cough Medicine, Infantcoldmedicinedosages, Infantcoughmedicine, Infants Cold Medicine, Infantscoldmedicine

  18-24 months, DrugsThe FDA issued a public health advisory stating children under the age of two should not be given cold or cough medicine without a doctor's order due to serious adverse effects that can occur if given too high a dosage. My personal advisory to the obviously childless FDA: Maybe you could............... oh, I don't

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• Codeine and breastfeeding a deadly combo for baby

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Alcohol Consumption, Alcoholconsumption, Autism, Breastfeeding, Breastmilk, Caffeine, Codeine, Cough Syrup, Coughsyrup, Doctor, Episiotomies, Episiotomy, Fda, Genetic Testing, Genetictesting, Healthcare Professional, Healthcareprofessional, Hemorrhoids, Ice Packs, Icepacks

  article. Last Friday, the US FDA put out an advisory that mothers who breastfeed and take codeine could potentially fatally harm their babies. If a mother takes the codeine, and it turns out she is what is referred to as a "ultra-rapid metabolizer," her body could quickly metabolize the codeine, which releases morphine (a metabolite of codeine)

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• FDA proposes suncreen rules and cancer warnings

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:43 am

  Tags: Fda, Skin Cancer, Skincancer, Sunscreen, Warning Labels, Warninglabels

  under: Skin CancerThe FDA proposed a new regulation on Thursday governing retail sunscreens, including adding a new label warning consumers about the risk of skin cancer linked to sun exposure. The FDA proposed testing and rating a product's level of ultraviolet A protection. UVA is responsible for tanning and UVB for burning. The FDA

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• Count Your Stars: Four Star Sunscreen

  Published: August 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Fda, Star System, Sunscreen Rating, Uva

  FDA hopes drugstores will soon be serving up 4 star sunscreen. In a move to help consumers select a wide spectrum sunscreen, the FDA has proposed a star ranking system to indicate how effective a sun protection product is at blocking UVA rays. The SPF ratings are only for UVB rays, the sun rays that tend to burn your skin, but UVA rays,

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• Skate Like The Dog Whisperer: LandRoller Skates

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Angled Wheels, Fda, Landrollers, Roller Blading, The Dog Whisperer S Roller Blades

  As a dog owner I must admit, I really enjoy watching "Cesar Milan - The Dog Whisperer." I'm not saying that I agree with everything he does, but I do LOVE that he encourages dog owners to exercise with their pets. He's not talking about casual walks in the park either. He's into heart pumping, muscle moving, panting and sweating. I'm into that

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• Reports of adverse drug effects on the rise

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:14 am

  Tags: Fda, Uh Oh, Health, Usa Today, Medical Research, Science, Studies

  How much are drug companies able to hide as far as really long term affects? Think about it... most drugs are really recent and how would they be able to know the affects that were going to come way down the road? Scary stuff. Lots of people take meds... America is a medicated country - we are all walking around high baby.The Food and Drug

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• Merck and FDA agree on cancer drug trial

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Cancer Drug, Cancerdrug, Fda, Merck

  Filed under: All Cancers, Clinical TrialsThe Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical giant Merck have agreed on a "special protocol assessment" that will determine if the cancer drug oral deforolimus for patients with cancer of the body's connective tissue(s).Merck and partner Ariad will begin patient enrollment for deforolimus later in

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• Amgen Set To Run (AMGN, JNJ, BIIB)

  Published: September 12, 2007, 8:25 am

  Tags: Biotech, Fda

  decision where an FDA panel rejected a proposal to set a specific target for red blood-cell levels in kidney-failure patients being treated with anti-anemia. The panel suggested a slightly broader range for hemoglobin values that are used to measure red blood-cell levels. This should remove part, once again part, of the anemia woes

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