Stents can be life savers. The following release posted to Eurekalert points to a possible problem with Boston Scientific’s new Ion stent: Some stents that keep blood vessels open to treat heart…
Last week the Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class I recall of approximately 131,300 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with…
Today, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers to immediately stop using a massager that is associated with life-threatening injuries — including a death and a…
There are new developments in the outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella that I wrote about yesterday. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service…
Yesterday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a public health alert pertaining to an outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground turkey. The alert is particularly serious as the bacterial…
Going green is all the rage these days and science generally supports the trend. Because of that, farmers’ markets, organic grocery stores, food co-ops, and homegrown foods have spiked. Most…
People don’t like to be uncomfortable. Minor aches and pains and fever can make everyday living unpleasant. That is why many people turn to Naproxen sodium, an internal analgesic available in…
Warts. Ugh! Get them off. You can buy a product to freeze them off. You can buy a chemical product to apply to them. Or, you can have a dermatologist remove them. If you choose to handle the…
At a time when the North Carolina legislature is making it harder for its citizens to recover from negligent drug companies, word comes that the state is due to share in a $44 million settlement…
Future spinal cord injuries may have a dramatically reduced chance of leading to paralysis, thanks to some very courageous rats, a common food dye and scientists at the University of Rochester…
Two lots of a generic form (propofol) of the drug Diprivan — a drug Michael Jackson reportedly took before his death — have been recalled. According to CNN, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)…