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Prodded to Shape Up, Seller of Flawed Fitness Gear Agrees to $425,000 Penalty | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “A California company has agreed to pay a $425,000 civil penalty for concealing the fact that its Perfect Pullup exercise equipment was flawed and getting people hurt. The settlement between Perfect Fitness of Sausalito, Calif., and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission resolves allegations by the agency that the company violated the law by failing [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Justice Department Probes Merck’s Marketing Practices | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Merck & Co. has been subpoenaed as part of a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice into the marketing of three of its drugs. The pharmaceutical company disclosed the subpoena, which seeks information on marketing practices back to January 2004, in a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. The drugs at issue are Temodar, [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
Most Recently Shared on August 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm By:
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Justice Department Probes Merck’s Marketing Practices http://t.co/LLvthyE via @fairwarningnews
Imported Fish with Banned Chemicals Reaching U.S. Consumers | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “More than 80 percent of the fish consumed in the U.S. is imported, even though there long have been questions about whether imported seafood is safe to eat. A recent government report declared that the FDA's inspection system is so haphazard that seafood tainted with banned and potentially harmful drugs may be getting into this country. FairWarning has found that the potential problem is already a reality, and that tainted fish are winding up on American dinner plates.” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Healthy Child Health Organization
Imported Fish with Banned Chemicals Reaching U.S. Consumers http://j.mp/nW2dQ8
Report Cites More Evidence of Cardiac Effects From Pfizer Drug Chantix | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “More evidence has emerged that the stop-smoking drug Chantix slightly raises the risk of heart problems. The latest analysis of Chantix’s heart risks was published in CMAJ, also known as the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University and University of East Anglia reviewed accounts of heart problems among 8,216 [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Report Cites More Evidence of Cardiac Effects From Pfizer Drug Chantix: http://tinyurl.com/3n2w6b4
Chinese Children Denied Care Despite Massive Lead Poisoning, Report Says | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Hundreds of thousands of children in China are suffering permanent mental and physical damage from lead poisoning, yet local officials are limiting blood testing, refusing treatment and covering up the scope of the problem, according to a report by the watchdog group Human Rights Watch. The report, based on research in heavily lead-contaminated villages in [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Sandra Cottingham Parenting Supporter and Health Business
Chinese Children Denied Care Despite Massive Lead Poisoning ... http://bit.ly/jUOOwv
Dentists Often Turn Away Medicaid Kids Seeking Urgent Care, Study Finds | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Undercover researchers have extracted some painful news about dentists — they apparently often turn away children who rely on Medicaid for insurance. In the study, a team led by University of Pennsylvania researchers posed as the mothers of a 10-year-old boy with a fractured front tooth in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago. The researchers [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Dentists Often Turn Away Medicaid Kids Seeking Urgent Care, Study Finds http://bit.ly/lGmXvR
Chinese Hospitals Often Reject AIDS Patients, Study Finds | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Hospitals in China may be routinely refusing to treat AIDS and HIV patients because of fear and ignorance about the disease. Reuters, citing a study by the United Nations International Labor Organization, said these patients commonly are shunned by health care workers even for ailments unrelated to AIDS. The conclusions were based on interviews conducted [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Chinese Hospitals Often Reject AIDS Patients, Study Finds http://bit.ly/kA1HQc
ADHD Drug Study Stimulates Debate Over Heart Attack Risk | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Prescription medications used to treat children for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder do not increase their risk of potentially deadly heart attacks or strokes, a new study concludes. But at least one prominent critic says the study --" funded by Shire, a pharmaceutical company that makes ADHD medications --" is too limited to give much reassurance [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
Most Recently Shared on May 18, 2011 at 3:48 pm By:
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ADHD Drug Study Stimulates Debate Over Heart Attack Risk http://t.co/BxyVTLz #heartdisease #heartattack
Some Doctors Refuse to Treat Fat Women, Survey Finds | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Some South Florida doctors are refusing to treat otherwise-healthy women because they are too fat, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sun Sentinel reports. The newspaper says that 15 of the 105 South Florida obstetrics-gynecology practices it surveyed turn down new patients who exceed obesity limits, with weight cut-offs starting at 200 pounds. Doctors explained that they [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Yale Rudd Center Health Organization
Survey finds that some doctors refuse to treat obese women. Docs concerned about lawsuits: http://bit.ly/kl0Mv2 What do you think? #obesity
Bogus Antibiotic Pulled From Shelves | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Following an inspection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a Georgia-based company accused of falsely marketing a dietary supplement called “Amoxilina”as an antibiotic is recalling the product from stores, the agency announced. company accused of falsely marketing a dietary supplement called --Amoxilina-- as the similarly named antibiotic has recalled the product from stores, the [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Diet Supplement Confused With Antibiotic Pulled From Stores http://bit.ly/l74gGy
Definition of ‘Gluten-Free’ Food Eludes Regulators | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “When is a food gluten-free? That may seem like an obvious question but, as The Washington Post reports, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled to answer it for seven years. In 2004, Congress ordered the FDA to come up with a threshhold by 2008 dictating when a food can be labeled as free of [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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Definition of 'Gluten-Free' Food Eludes Regulators http://bit.ly/ktorNX
Study Links Welding Fumes to Brain Damage | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “The manganese in fumes from welding may cause neurological damage similar to what is found in the brains of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis evaluated brain scans of 20 welders with an average of 30,000 hours of lifetime welding exposure, and compared the findings [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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@AssemblyMag1 You may be interested in this: Our Dr. Pourfar comments on "Study Links Welding Fumes to Brain Damage" http://bit.ly/eMnV7u
Federal Panel Endorses Cell-Blasting Device to Combat Brain Cancer | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “A federal advisory panel recommended approval of a device designed to fight brain cancer by using electrical fields to blast the diseased cells. AsThe Wall Street Journal reports, the approval comes despite worries that the device, known as the NovoTTF, will not prove effective. The device would be used after conventional remedies fail for glioblastoma, [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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FDA Takes Heat From Consumers, Industry On Medical Device Approvals | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “The Food and Drug Administration is receiving criticism from both sides of the debate about the way it approves medical devices. Some critics say the agency takes too long, while others complain that the FDA doesn’t adequately scrutinize products before giving them the green light. As the Associated Press reports, last week members of a [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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FDA Takes Heat From Consumers, Industry On Medical Device Approvals - FairWarning: FDA Takes Heat Fro... http://bit.ly/e5lAn8 #MedDevice
Trial of Lung Cancer Drug Curtailed Over Blood Clot Concerns | FairWarning
fairwarning.org — “Drugmakers Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have stopped enrolling patients in a clinical trial of an experimental lung cancer drug, citing concerns that it may be linked to blood clots. The drug, necitumumab, was in a late-stage trial testing it as a first-line treatment for patients with a form of the illness [...]” View full resource at fairwarning.org
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