FDA to Post Quarterly Report of Potential Safety Issues. The first report lists 20 drugs along with the potential safety issue associated with each drug.
In a move that can only help consumers and medical professionals make better decisions about drugs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that will begin posting lists certain [...]

The new report points to the key issue for public official and anyone truly interested in cancer prevention, public and children’s health.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 2.4 million cases of tobacco-related cancers were diagnosed in the United States from 1999 to 2004, with lung and bronchial [...]

Black raspberries slow cancer by altering hundreds of genes.
New research strongly suggests that a mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may more effectively inhibit cancer development than single agents aimed at shutting down a particular gene.
Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center examined the effect of freeze-dried [...]

Tel Aviv University researchers are combating cancer with a jasmine-based drug
 
Researchers hope the a non-toxic substance from the jasmine flower may hold the key to an effective new therapy to treat cancer?
Prof. Eliezer Flescher of The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University thinks so. He and his colleagues have developed an anti-cancer drug based [...]

Carbs and free radical team up to increase the fat.
A Monash University scientist has discovered key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, causing increased hunger and potentially weight-gain as we grow older.
The research by Dr Zane Andrews, a neuroendocrinologist is published in Nature.
Dr Andrews found that appetite-suppressing cells are attacked by [...]

Researcher find that along with healthy aging good sex is possible in your 80s.
According to research published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, healthy older Americans are enjoying long sex lives. At the same time, a decline in sexuality may be an indicator of pending serious health problems as sexual problems may precede diabetes and [...]

The interaction between cholesterol and heart medication can cause a “muscle injury called rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to kidney failure or death”, says FDA warning.
Patients are at risk of the life threatening condition when taking the anti-cholesterol drugs containing simvastatin are taken with the drug amiodarone, used to manage heart arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat).
The widely used drugs [...]

In a long over due, and surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that residue of the toxic pesticide carbofuran on domestic or imported food will no longer be allowed.
The EPA made the short announcement on July 24.  The announcement release said in part, “Due to considerable risks associated with the pesticide carbofuran in [...]

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger, according to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Older folks who did endurance exercise training for about a year got metabolically much younger hearts as a reward. By one metabolic measure, women benefited more than [...]

The U.S. health care system could save 100,000 lives and up to $100 billion annually if it improved performance on key indicators.
In case you have been living “off world”, this may come as a surprise.  Access to healthcare in the U.S. is getting worse and an overall a poor system is not getting better.  At [...]