Monthly Archives: August 2011

The typical oyster season in Louisiana, which starts in September, produces an average of 25o million pounds of oysters – about one-third of the nation’s oyster supply. This year, however, thanks to the BP oil spill and the Mississippi River ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers, businesses and health care professionals who use, sell or recommend the ShoulderFlex Massager to stop doing so because the device has been linked to life-threatening injuries and deaths. ... Read More

An independent study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) demonstrates that, contrary to NASA’s conclusions, an electronic cause for the sudden unintended acceleration problem in Toyota vehicles is not just probable, ... Read More

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, stepped down as CEO last week stating that he could no longer perform the duties of his job due to health reasons. The mastermind of the iPhone and iPad first acknowledged in 2004 that ... Read More

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the nation’s capital last week exposed a serious flaw in the emergency reporting system – a heavy reliance on cell phone networks that become easily overloaded, making 9-1-1 inaccessible. ... Read More

Another drug from a class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is being called out by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of serious injuries. Celexa, or citalopram hydrobromide, a drug used to treat major depression ... Read More

Members of Congress are asking why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are refusing to put tighter controls on the nation’s second-most abused drug, hydrocodone, a narcotic that has been linked to murders, celebrity ... Read More

Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., reported an 8.3 percent rise in quarterly profits last month despite new lawsuits filed by consumers who claim the company’s top-selling diabetes drug Actos caused them serious injury. Takeda booked an April-June operating profit ... Read More

The tobacco industry has filed a lawsuit against the federal government hoping to prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from making them put large, graphic warnings on packs of cigarettes. The new warnings are to be prominently placed on ... Read More

Owners of the popular Nissan vehicles including Frontiers, Pathfinders and Xterras are angry about the way the auto manufacturer has handled potential problems with their radiators, which have the potential to cause a serious failure in the vehicles’ transmission. In ... Read More