WASHINGTON (AP) — Current and former Food and Drug Administration officials say in a lawsuit that the agency secretly monitored their private email after they raised concerns that approved medical devices might risk public safety. (more)
Government regulators and their enablers in Congress, always on the prowl to target industries for ever-more oppressive regulations and higher taxes, are now focusing on the venerable “good cigar” eloquently extolled by Rudyard Kipling and many other connoisseurs of a “good smoke.” (more)
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — The widening quality problems at health giant Johnson & Johnson have former regulators and analysts mystified, as yet another J&J business — at least the seventh — has come under scrutiny. (more)
SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 30, 2011 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae. (more)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal inspectors say the contract manufacturer for Johnson & Johnson’s cancer drug Doxil hasn’t been maintaining equipment or promptly investigating defective product batches and other serious problems at its Bedford, Ohio, factory. (more)
On Thursday President Barack Obama defended his administration’s 11th-hour decision to keep in place an age restriction on the sale of the “morning after” birth control pill. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government delivered a blow to some desperate patients Friday as it ruled the blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used to treat advanced breast cancer. (more)
Most people are familiar with the adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” but more relevant in today’s world, and certainly more accurate, is the reality that, “Hell hath no fury like a nanny-stater scorned.” (more)
The FDA’s new graphic warning labels for tobacco products showing diseased lungs, rotten teeth and dead bodies may violate the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled. (more)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The first combination pill for the millions of people with the dangerous combination of diabetes and high cholesterol won U.S. approval Friday, offering convenience — and savings — to patients taking multiple pills. (more)
There are two things that will make finger-wagging food cops go ballistic: sugar and salt. They may not use unnecessary force if you violate their food “laws,” but they do create unnecessary hysteria and, even worse, unnecessary regulation. (more)
Over the past decade, the continued loss of middle-class jobs has stoked anxiety and shattered dreams of many Americans. Factors largely outside of policymakers’ control — like globalization’s spread and technology-based efficiency gains — contribute to some of today’s anemic employment conditions. (more)
Four of the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturers are suing the federal government for what they say is a violation of their First Amendment rights. (more)
A yearlong sting operation involving a multitude of state and federal agencies brought to justice Wednesday a dangerous ring of raw dairy enthusiasts in California. (more)
The war against smokers continued in full force Tuesday afternoon with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) unveiling nine graphic health warnings that will be required to be on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States no later than September 2012. (more)
Giving acetaminophen to young children is not as straightforward as parents might think, or hope. So on Tuesday and Wednesday, federal officials will weigh whether to add new dosing information to Tylenol and other over-the-counter acetaminophen medications. (more)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. It seems the Food and Drug Administration agrees with Freud’s alleged assertion, announcing today that it would regulate e-cigarettes as cigarette/tobacco products and not under more stringent drug-device guidelines. (more)
You can’t blame Americans for feeling as though the government is increasingly crossing boundaries and reaching into their daily lives. The Obama administration and regulatory authorities such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appear to be coming at us on all fronts. (more)
After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods like Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid Lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems like hyperactivity in some children. (more)
Forget comedy clubs, if you really want a laugh these days you simply have to venture over to the Media Matters website. The extent to which the organization is willing to contort reality to keep fellow “progressives” in line is nothing short of an expert yoga class. Given their recent “declaration of war” against Fox News for perceived bias, and the questionable legality of it given the group’s “charity” tax status, this is as surprising as the sun rising in the east each morning. There is no length to which Media Matters’ employees will not go to defend anything Democrats do; it’s what they’re paid to do. So it came as little surprise that on the one-year anniversary of Obamacare’s passage, Media Matters was there to defend the unpopular law. (more)
