Turns out that the FDA had changed Labeling Rules so that drug companies could avoid lawsuits. The new rules say that the FDA has to approve new information about drug side effects and interactions before it can be put on the label of said drugs. Employees of long standing at the FDA tried to…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Michigan and Pot
Michigan has become a battle ground over the debate concerning passing a medical pot law. Both sides are airing commercials, the side against the pot has a short ad showing a wicked looking man standing outside a “pot store” talking to small children that pass. The ad claims that after it was legalized in…
BPA Arguement Rises Again With The FDA
A scientific panel is again blasting the FDA over their public announcements that BPA poses no immediate danger to infants or the general population. The panel and other panels say that the FDA has not considered all the findings by certain other studies and has dismissed them without good reason. The FDA has yet…
What Do You Think Of This Theory?
Please forgive me for getting sidetracked with my families health issues, but it got me to wondering why the hospital my parents are going to is so underpar, and the one we go to is so much better. Also still trying to figure out about the 2 to 3 month wait for the colonoscopy,…
Follow Up
Since I have already mentioned my daughter’s baby and my mother illness, I thought maybe some of you might be curious about an update, so here it is. My new grandson is a delight and what a good baby he is. Also some of you may already know this trick, but it was new…
How Backward Can China Be?
China has decided to come up with it’s first real food safety law. How old are the Chinese people? First now they are coming up with a major food safety law? Almost 4 thousand babies have been made sick, 3 are critical and 4 have died, because middlemen added melamine to watered down milk…
Placebos, A Help Or A Deception?
A recent study indicates that almost half of all doctor routinely prescribe placebos to treat certain conditions. Most of the placebos used were headache pills and vitamins, but some also use sedatives and antibiotics. The latter two really shouldn’t be classified as placebos because they do effect the body. Doctors say they doubt that…
Our Recent Hospital Stays
My mother was just in the hospital last weekend and told me that her room mate was so disgusted with the level of her care and the way she was treated, that she packed her clothes and walked out. A couple of doctors tried to stop her and convince her to stay but she…
More People Skipping Meds
More people now than ever are skipping or finding ways to stretch their medications because they simply can’t afford them anymore. This includes the elderly which have hit the “donut hole” in their medicare coverage. The so-called “donut hole” remember is the point at which they have reached the payout limit and must pay…
Low Blow Against Abortions
Three states in our union already require that ultrasounds be taken and made available to the woman before her abortion. The key words here are made available. Now a fourth state of Oklahoma want to enact the same law, however they want to require that the ultrasound screen face the woman during the ultrasound…