Tag: DrugSafety

Seasonal allergies might seem like a minor annoyance, but they have a greater impact than you suspect. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that allergies are […]

If you’re anything like most Americans, you have a medicine cabinet chock full of pills — and you take at least one every day. One wrong move, however, and the […]

The medical profession is notoriously stressful, especially for physicians and other high-level employees. Unfortunately, many self-medicate in hopes of managing the constant barrage of anxiety. This leaves both medical professionals […]

Prescription drug errors can leave patients with debilitating or life-threatening injuries. In some cases, patients lose their lives when they receive the wrong drugs at their local pharmacies. According to […]

The New York Times reported that Columbia University has closed the research arm of its Kreitchman PET Center, a prominent brain-imaging clinic, after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration found in 2008 […]

The FDA warned consumers and healthcare professionals today of the dangers of Que She, a capsule which was marketed as an herbal weight loss supplement but actually also “contains unlisted […]

Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, Esquire Dow Jones Newswires  reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged Sanofi-Aventis SA, a drug manufacturer, “to stop distributing certain promotional material […]

Red yeast rice and red yeast rice supplements are often marketed as cholesterol-lowering alternatives to medication.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administr