Monthly Archives: September 2010

Perhaps it’s the record numbers of troops returning home from the Middle East with traumatic brain injuries. Or maybe it’s the tragic TBI-related deaths and injuries of young athletes, such as University of Pennsylvania football player Owen Thomas, who took ... Read More

Switching from a brand name drug to a generic is considered safe for most people, but surveys conducted by the Epilepsy Foundation show that this practice could be dangerous to patients who suffer from seizure disorders. Participants in the survey ... Read More

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on the pomegranate product maker POM Wonderful and its billionaire owners, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, claiming that the company violated federal laws by making “false and unsubstantiated claims” about the health benefits ... Read More

An automotive research company has just released its list of the 2010 and 2011 models that spend the most and least time on the dealership lot waiting to be sold. Topping the list of 2010 cars spending the most time ... Read More

A video produced by Jenny Thompson, director of The Health Sciences Institute, outlines the myths and untold dangers surrounding the vaccine Gardasil. Gardasil, manufactured by Merck & Co., is marketed as a preventive treatment for girls beginning at age 9 ... Read More

When Bayer announced that its newly approved birth control pill Bayaz, with the same active ingredients as its best-selling Yaz pill, also contains a B-vitamin that helps prevent neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida, consumers couldn’t help but ... Read More

There was nothing in their 47 years of marriage that would make Lucy* suspect her husband Joe* was anything besides energetic and optimistic. That all changed when the 70-year-old was prescribed the drug Reglan, also known by the generic metoclopramide, ... Read More

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of deadly truck crashes declined 20 percent last year, dropping from 4,245 in 2008 to 3,380 in 2009. The drop in commercial trucking fatalities puts them at their lowest level ... Read More

Certain lots of Epogen and Procrit (epoetin alfa) used to treat anemia are being recalled because the vials may contain extremely thin glass flakes, or lamellae, that are barely visible. If these flakes make their way into the bloodstream they ... Read More

On August 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced BP finally agreed to pay a record $50.6-million fine for safety violations that led to the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and injured ... Read More