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Birth Control Patch Too Dangerous to Stay on Market, Warns Public Citizen 10/15/2008 - Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Evra birth control patch exposes women to too much risk for too little benefit and should be pulled from the market, the nonprofit group Public Citizen warned in a petition submitted to the FDA. "Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women," wrote Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of...

Hold the Spinach, Hold the Lettuce - the FDA Wants to Nuke Our Veggies 9/4/2008 - The FDA has just announced that food producers may now start zapping lettuce and spinach with just enough ionizing radiation to kill E. coli. The muckety-mucks at the FDA have decided, in their infinite wisdom, to use the American public as guinea pigs in an ongoing human experiment to find out the...

Deadly Botox? 16 Dead After Injections 7/31/2008 - At least 16 people have died after the botulinum toxin in a Botox injection spread to other parts of their bodies, according to FDA records. The deaths are cited in a petition by the group Public Citizen to have a "black box" warning about this risk placed on the packaging of Botox and related medications....

Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues 2/26/2008 - The recent widespread mainstream media coverage of the "blue man" Paul Karason and his rare skin condition known as Argyria is the latest in a series of largely misleading and sensationalized scare stories about the dangers of colloidal silver turning a person`s skin blue. Although this latest story...

Death by Botox? The Hidden Toll of the Quest for Beauty 2/25/2008 - How far are you willing to go for beauty? Would you be willing to gamble your life? Because that's what women are doing when they choose to receive Botox injections, based on analysis by Ralph Nadar's watchdog group, Public Citizen (http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2593) . With 16 recorded...

Why Merck Lost Its 3rd Bid to Sell Mevacor Over the Counter 2/4/2008 - An expert panel working with the FDA recently voted 10 to 2 against approving Merck's statin drug Mevacor for over-the-counter (OTC) sales. The FDA could potentially ignore this recent vote and approve Merck's request but this is not a likely scenario considering the results of a recent Merck sponsored...

Conflicts of interest at the FDA are rampant and largely ignored 1/5/2007 - Last year, Public Citizen, a national non-profit public interest organization, exposed that while conflicts of interest at the FDA's drug advisory committees are common and often have serious dollars at stake, advisory committee members and voting consultants rarely step down because of them. If a new...

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