The CBS Evening News (12/22, story 10, 0:25, Smith) reported, There is a new warning tonight for Americans looking to take a short cut to weight loss. The FDA has listed more than 25 weight loss…
Boston.com again reports on significant medical discoveries, this time for ovarian cancer patients from the New England Journal of Medicine and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.. MicroRNAs are a tiny but…
Children whose mothers took antacid drugs during pregnancy were 1.5 times more likely to develop asthma than children whose mothers did not take the drugs, researchers from Children’s Hospital…
Benefits of breastfeeding outweigh risks of infant exposure to environmental chemicals in breast milk. As reported in Science Daily on December 20, 2008 a new study compares infants who were…
Toy safety is on the top of the list with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) this month. The stores are filled with toys for the holidays and parents and grandparents are scouring…
The AP (12/19, Elias) reports, Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, the state’s high court on Thursday said a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling…
In a report appearing in at least 66 media outlets, the AP (12/18) reports, Under new FDA policy, drug companies will have to test [diabetes] drugs on greater numbers of high-risk patients, such as…
A crosswalk has no barriers that protect pedestrians as they cross the street. The white stripes are not a safety zone for a pedestrian. We often see pedestrians in a cross walk looking down at…
In a story about the Bush administration’s midnight regulations, focusing on the efforts at pre-empting lawsuits in state courts, MSNBC with Keith Olberman (12/16, 8:32 PM EST) reported that: in…
In a story about the Bush administration’s midnight regulations, focusing on the efforts at pre-empting lawsuits in state courts, MSNBC with Keith Olberman (12/16, 8:32 PM EST) reported that: in…
The American Association of Justice (AAJ) reports that the FDA has moved to protect diabetes patients by requiring more testing of diabetes drugs. In a report appearing in at least 66 media outlets,…
Hawaii is famous for good (great!) weather and lots of sun, but a few times a year Hawaii is hit with a storm and the rain is heavy and the visibility reduced. The systems that drain water from road…