The FDA has some fairly new powers to regulate the herbal supplement industry. Recently, those powers have been tested by the agency's effort to remove Hydroxycut from the market. Under the...
For many Americans, the Obama administration directive to seriously attack the heath care crisis was a welcomed plan. There is no doubt that costs are continuing to rise and more and more people are...
A congressional panel is set to question officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs about medical mistakes at VA hospitals that caused at least five patients to become infected with HIV,...
Reuters and the Lancet are reporting on the case of a thirteen year old boy recently hospitalized with caffeine intoxication. The boy consumed two packs of caffeinated gum within a four hour...
Burton, MI--three people were injured on interstate 475 in the early hours of Saturday morning. Local police closed the highway for approximately three hours after the car crash, while the three...
Early Saturday, a tractor trailer was driving on I-285 in Georgia. The tractor trailer struck a disabled car, killing a Riverdale man, according to Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).
The driver...
In a Beyond Pesticides story on May 28, 2009 the link between pancreatic cancer and two common herbicides was reported. Pancreatic cancer, gallbladder cancer and bile duct cancer...
No school bus automobile accidents all year and then two on one day late in May. Hopefully none of the eighteen students are seriously injured although they were taken to area hospitals for...
An Anaheim, California woman had less than a magical time at the Disneyland theme park when she fell from a tram and hit her head hard enough to cause her permanent brain injuries that will require...
Reviews of people without insurance, but have applied for coverage, find that what happens in most cases is:
Denial
Very high rates
Coverage with exclusions
The last two options can...