Posts tagged health

• Popular Contraceptives Raise Health Concerns

  Greg Webb | October 08, 2009 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer Healthcare, largely because the products’ marketing presents them as much more than just pregnancy...

• Toxic Water Is Major Problem In US Cities

  Greg Webb | September 17, 2009 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Residents in an area near Charleston, West Virginia have started to avoid contact with tap water after scabs began developing on their arms, legs and chests where the bathwater, which is polluted...

• Feds Seek to Change Drugmakers' Practices With Pfizer Settlement

  Greg Webb | September 13, 2009 2:41 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A record $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer has reinforced the Obama administration’s stance on health-care fraud. Recently, “Pfizer unit Pharmacia & Upjohn pleaded guilty to a...

• Former Insurance Executive Outs Insurance Companies in Healthcare Debate

  Greg Webb | August 19, 2009 9:34 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Wendell Potter, the former head of communications for health insurance giant Cigna, understands why many people across the country are showing up to town hall meetings extremely upset when members...

• Many College Athletes Have Insufficient Health Insurance

  Greg Webb | July 26, 2009 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In 2005, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) began requiring universities guarantee their athletes have adequate health insurance due to many years of concerns that college athletes had...

• Mattel and Fisher-Price Fined $2.3 Million for Lead Toy Hazard

  Greg Webb | June 09, 2009 5:09 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Mattel Inc. and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price, have agreed to pay $2.3 million in civil penalties to the United States for importing and selling toys with excessive levels of lead, and for violations...

• FDA Warns Consumers About Contamination In Procter & Gamble Plant

  Greg Webb | May 18, 2009 9:02 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In a letter released last Tuesday, U.S. regulators claimed Procter & Gamble failed to sufficiently address manufacturing and contamination problems at a plant in Puerto Rico that produces...

• Obama Advocates Food-Safety Overhaul

  Greg Webb | April 05, 2009 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  President Obama has promised to strengthen and reorganize the nation’s food-safety system after declaring the government’s failure to inspect ninety-five percent of processing plants a...

• Judge Rules CPSC Must Correct Loophole Regarding Hazardous Chemical

  Greg Webb | February 22, 2009 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A judge has recently ruled that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) may not allow toys containing toxic manufacturing chemicals to remain on shelves after a ban goes into effect on...

• Peanut Salmonella Outbreak Reveals Inspection and Regulatory Problems

  Greg Webb | February 15, 2009 6:20 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The salmonella outbreak which occurred at the Georgia peanut plant Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has caused eight deaths and sickened almost 19,000 people in 43 states. While the company,...