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US FDA head says China improving food, drug safety (AP)
Aug 13, 2010 3:50:54 AM | Yahoo

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, left, leaves a laboratory building of Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 in Shanghai. Hamburg is in China for talks on improving the safety of goods exported to the United States. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says China is improving its oversight of its exporters following a slew of scandals over bogus or substandard drugs and foods ranging from vaccines and infant formula to dog chow.




Avandia Approval: FDA's Drug-Safety Protection in Doubt (Time.com)
Aug 13, 2010 3:00:00 AM | Yahoo

A pharmacist holds a bottle of Avandia in a store in Falls Church, Virginia July 14, 2010. GlaxoSmithKline expects to record a legal charge of $2.4 billion for the second quarter after settling the Time.com - A TIME investigation of Avandia's journey from lab to pharmacy reveals serious flaws in the way the Food and Drug Administration protects consumers from harmful medicines




Spanking Remains Common, Studies Show (HealthDay)
Aug 12, 2010 10:47:56 PM | Yahoo
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Spanking and other forms of corporal punishment are still common worldwide even though 24 countries have adopted bans on physical punishment since 1979, according to recent studies.

Problem Children Torment Parents Even After They Grow Up (LiveScience.com)
Aug 12, 2010 10:21:12 PM | Yahoo
LiveScience.com - SAN DIEGO - Problem children can be a psychological burden for parents well after the youngsters have left the nest.

Gene testing could have saved weight-loss drug (Reuters)
Aug 12, 2010 5:54:53 PM | Yahoo
Reuters - Genetic testing might have helped identify people who would become depressed or suicidal while taking Sanofi-Aventis' weight loss drug Acomplia, which might have helped keep the drug on the market, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

CDC: Fruit pulp linked to rare US typhoid cases (AP)
Aug 12, 2010 4:18:39 PM | Yahoo
AP - A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday.

Obesity linked to lower risk of glaucoma in women (Reuters)
Aug 12, 2010 3:24:01 PM | Yahoo
Reuters - A recent study found that heavier women were less likely to get one type of glaucoma than their thinner peers - the first time this association has been shown, the authors report.

FDA warns of brain problem with Glaxo seizure drug (AP)
Aug 12, 2010 1:55:55 PM | Yahoo
AP - Federal health regulators are warning doctors and patients that an anti-seizure drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC can cause rare inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.

Sen. Durbin of Ill. has stomach tumor removed (AP)
Aug 12, 2010 12:13:35 PM | Yahoo
AP - Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois has had a stomach tumor removed and is recovering at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Poultry named the No. 1 food poisoning culprit (AP)
Aug 12, 2010 12:10:04 PM | Yahoo

In this photo taken Dec. 19, 2008, chickens are seen on a farm near Vacaville, Calif. A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water and other ingredients can be promoted as 'natural' has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday.




  
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