Don't disguise addictive drugs
Introduced in the United States two years ago, electronic cigarettes are no longer a novelty item but a popular option for many smokers especially those who want to quit. Inhaling on the cigarette-shaped device activates a built-in battery, which h...
 1.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 212.0 Unproven drugs stay on shelves
WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn t extend patients lives, say congressional investigators. A report due out today fr...
4.9K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 386.0 Recall Rebound
WASHINGTON Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months. Peanu...
4.8K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 303.0 Congress may regulate dietary supplements
WASHINGTON An influential senator is looking into whether Congress should re-regulate dietary supplements because steroids and other banned substances are finding their way into over-the-counter bodybuilding products. Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylv...
3.4K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 279.0 Study aims to determine who will get sick
WASHINGTON (AP) Coughed on by somebody with the flu? Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine with a mere drop of blood who will get sick before the sniffling and fever set in. And they re turning to hundreds of dorm-dwell...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 261.0 J&J recalls children's liquid Tylenol
NEW YORK (AP) Johnson Johnson s McNeil unit is voluntarily recalling 57 lots of infants and children s liquid Tylenol products because of possible bacterial contamination. The products being recalled were made between April and June and include ...
1.6K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 212.0 Vaccine helps prevent AIDS
BANGKOK (AP) For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possi...
8.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 315.0 Formula changes poverty figures
WASHINGTON The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living...
5.3K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 332.0 Government's done a lot for Americans
Without government involvement we would have no good highways, public schools, police, fire protection, Social Security, Medicare for our elderly, border security, military, Veterans Administration, Coast Guard, dams, flood protection, food and drug ...
1.6K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 212.0 Ore. AG moves to block e-cigarette sales
PORTLAND (AP) The state of Oregon has gone to court to block the sale of electronic cigarettes on the same day that a New York county banned their sale to minors. Oregon Attorney General John Kroger and Jon Cooper, majority leader of the Suffolk Co...
3.0K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 243.0 Study shows Americans spend $34B on alternatives
ATLANTA Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade. Chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and herb...
6.0K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 303.0 Oregon AG settlement blocks e-cigarette sales
PORTLAND (AP) Electronic cigarettes have been banned from sale at a pair of travel store chains in Oregon. The Oregon attorney general's office says the ban on the NJOY brand electronic cigarette is the first in the nation for a product that U.S....
0.8K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 178.0 Supplement maker focus of new steroid probe
The investigator who led the BALCO probe has taken aim at a San Francisco-area supplement manufacturer, claiming the products they sell are laced with designer steroids. Authorities filed a search warrant under seal Tuesday in federal court to raid t...
3.2K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 305.0 Other views
Republicans behaving badly The Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor presented everyone in Washington, D.C., with a rare opportunity to get to know a uniquely qualified and uniquely positioned candidate who brings a b...
6.1K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 315.0 Swine flu: Will there be shots?
WASHINGTON Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works? A meeting today of the Food and Drug Administration's scientific...
3.5K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 276.0 California sprouts marijuana green rush
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspec...
15.8K - Jul. 19, 2009; scored 389.0 Recalls: Sorbet products, supplements, teethers
The following recalls have been announced: Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream of Norfolk, Neb., is voluntarily recalling sorbet products manufactured for Espo s Cucina Dolce, Inc. because they contain undeclared milk. The recalled products are pint containers ...
2.8K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 344.0 This bill would ease drug pricing
The U.S. Senate took an important step to make prescription drugs more affordable by approving a measure that would permit buyers in the United States to order lower-cost drugs from Canada over the Internet. An amendment by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., ...
1.3K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 267.0 FDA will vote on painkiller restrictions
ADELPHI, Md. - Government experts were to vote this afternoon on a range of options to curb deadly overdoses with Tylenol and other pain relievers, including reducing dosages and even pulling certain products off the market. The Food and Drug Adminis...
3.7K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 341.0 A brief guide to regulation of health products
Here is a look at how homeopathic drugs differ from conventional medicines and dietary supplements. Q. What are homeopathic drugs? A. They are highly diluted drugs made from natural ingredients and sold with explicit claims of medical benefit. They a...
1.7K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 279.0 | 
