DeMythified- FDA Approved
The procedure may help more people shed the pounds. But it will also fill the coffers of surgeons, hospitals, and a global specialty pharmaceutical company. (more…)...
We must keep the FDA from turning a vital nutrient over to Big Pharma. Action Alert! An important study finds that carbidopa, a standard Parkinson’s drug, “irreversibly binds to and permanently deactivates” pyridoxal-5’-phosphate (P5P), a key form of vitamin B6 in the body. The authors de...
Hope For Traumatic Brain Injury, Diabetic Failure-to-Heal Wounds, and More? On September 30, President Bush signed into law the FY2009 Continuing Resolution that contains the Defense Appropriations bill. In doing so, crucial funding became available to complete a scientific study important to all Am...
The agency is doubling down on a bad guidance that endangers access to important medicines. Action Alert! Recently, the FDA announced the withdrawal of Compliance Policy Guide 400.400, a document that had been in place since 1988 and which established the agency’s enforcement policies regarding...
A $66 billion buyout by the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer could make it harder for consumers to avoid products from the biotech behemoth. Action Alert! The number of companies controlling our food supply is about to shrink even further now that Bayer has bought Monsanto for $66 billion in cash,...
While policymakers and many in the scientific community are worried about measles, a deadlier threat from drug-resistant diseases like tuberculosis lurks on the horizon. Action Alert! The measles outbreak in California has unleashed a storm of heated debate across the country, including multiple ca...
Treating supplements like drugs will lead to one thing only: eliminating supplements altogether. Action Alert! Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is a key ally of Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL). Under the auspices of the Special Committee on Aging, where she is the ranking member, Sen. McCaskill sent letters...
There is a surprising reason why the government won’t go after drug companies for serious crimes. (more…)...
It depends on where you got your education. Let’s hope it wasn’t from Bloomberg. (more…)...
The California Right to Know 2012 Ballot Initiative collected enough signatures—and now, with your help, you can become part of history. (more…)...
I don’t believe anything the FDA says!!
We the People need YOU to Protect and Serve We the People as you are entrusted to do.
I’d rather die than take some of their products.
Many others do just the opposite.
Congress authorized that the cost of running the agency – FDA – should come from the companies it oversees… and that includes staffing.. Hence corporate contol of a supposedly whistleblower agency.
Congress authorized that the cost of running the agency – FDA – should come from the companies it oversees… and that includes staffing.. Hence corporate contol of a supposedly whistleblower agency.