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FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Jan. 29, 2010
Media Inquiries: Tom Gasparoli, 301-796-4737, thomas.gasparoli@fda.hhs.gov
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United States Seizes Unapproved Ozone Generators
FDA inspection shows devices produced under poor manufacturing condition; pose public health risk

At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized 77 ozone generators, models AOS-1M and AOS-1MD, from Applied Ozone Systems of Auburn, Calif. The seized go… Continue

Are You Annoyingly Cheerful? Despondex may be for you?

Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.

"Huge step forward in the battle against happiness"

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Mother’s gum disease linked to infant's death

Pregnant woman's gingivitis caused baby to be stillborn, scientists say

Pregnant women with untreated gum disease may have more at stake than just their teeth. They may also be risking the lives of their babies, a new study shows.

Expectant mothers have long been warned that gum disease can cause a baby to be born prematurely or too small. But for the first time scientists have linked bacteria from a mother’s gums to an infection in a baby that wa… Continue

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show

New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies

A grain elevator in Illinois. In 2009, 107m tonnes of grain was grown by US farmers to be blended with petrol. Photograph: AP Photo/Monty Davis

One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new anal… Continue

Sleep Routine Makeovers

7 Surprising Facts About Sleep - Sleep Better Tonight

Tired? You're not alone. About 20 percent of Americans get fewer than six hours of shut-eye nightly, and a growing number have to rely on sleep aids to fall asleep or stay that way, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Is getting more (and better) sleep possible without the help of drugs? To find out, we asked three Woman's Day staffers to share their nighttime troubles with the experts. Here's what they learn… Continue

Serologic study finds H1N1 infections surged past official estimates

Jan 21, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – In one of the first large serologic studies of pandemic H1N1 infection, British researchers found that in areas hit hard during the first wave, one in three children were infected by the virus, ten times higher than surveillance estimates.

Serologic studies, such as this report by scientists from England's Health Protection Agency (HPA) published today in The Lancet, are needed to help public heal… Continue

Trapped Under Tons of Rubble in an Haitian Earthquake? THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!!!

Haiti: Man Says iPhone Helped Him Treat His Wounds While Trapped In Rubble

This story's been getting a lot of attention in recent hours. Here's how Wired magazine begins its version of a tale about modern technology coming through in a crisis:

U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with… Continue

Ban butter to save our hearts, says doctor

Butter should be banned in a bid to save thousands from heart disease, a leading heart surgeon claims.

Dr Shyam Kolvekar said that he is "increasingly concerned" about the nation's eating habits as he is seeing patients as young as 30 in need of heart bypass surgery due to a diet "overloaded" with saturated fat.

According to a national diet survey, nine out of 10 of children, 88 per cent of men and 83 per cent of women in Britain eat too much saturat… Continue

Top 15 chemical additives in your food

Source: Fresno Bee

We don't just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf.

The longer manufacturers use these additives, the more we learn about their impacts. While some additives are harmless, others cause everything from hives and asthma to nausea and headaches in some people. Som… Continue

Unhealthy diets could fuel female depression

Research found mood disorders were more common among women who ate high-fat and sugary foods
Women who suffer from depression may be fuelling it with a diet of unhealthy, processed foods, a new study has shown.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne found that mood disorders were more common among women aged 20 to 93 who, over 10 years, ate primarily processed, refined, high-fat foods.

'There's no magic diet,' Dr Felice Jacka said, but added… Continue

Reversing itself, FDA expresses concerns over health risks from BPA

The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its position on the safety of Bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastic bottles, soda cans, food containers and thousands of consumer goods, saying it now has concerns about health risks.

Growing scientific evidence has linked the chemical to a host of problems, including cancer, sexual dysfunction and heart disease. Federal officials said they are particularly concerned about BPA's… Continue

An increasing amount of food product across the world is becoming nanofood. Ordinary food becomes nanofood when nanotechnology techniques or tools are used during its cultivation, production, processing or packaging. Nanofood does not necessarily mean atomically modified food or food produced by nanomachines. We may or may not want it, but the food industry does. Nanofood and nanofood packaging are already with us because the food industry has spotted the chance for huge profits. Every major foo… Continue

Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 Caused by 2,4,6-Tribromoanisole; Do You Know What That Is?

At the core of the Tylenol Arthritis Recall 2009 is a musty odor caused by 2,4,6-tribromoanisole. What is more concerning is what led to the formation of the chemical to begin with.

Tylenol Arthritis Recall

The FDA announces that McNeil Consumer Healthcare is expanding its Tylenol Arthritis recall to include all Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet 100 count bottles that come with the easy to recognize red "EZ-O… Continue

Feds Accuse Doc of Faking Research On Pfizer & Merck Drugs

It looks like Scott Reuben, the Massachusetts anesthesiologist said to have used phony research data in 21 published papers, has reached a plea deal with the feds.

Federal prosecutors accused Reuben of health-care fraud for allegedly faking data that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Merck’s Vioxx and Pfizer’s Bextra and Celebrex, the Justice Department said yesterday. The Justice announcement said he face… Continue

Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children: study


BOSTON – The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade, according to research released on Friday.

The research suggests that while it is still rare to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to 2-year-olds, the practice is becoming more frequent.

The data, compiled from 2000 to 2007, and published in the Journal of the American Academy… Continue

Activists protest experiments burying pigs in snow


VIENNA – Vehement protests by animal rights activists prompted scientists on Thursday to temporarily stop an avalanche experiment that involved burying pigs in snow and monitoring their deaths.

The two-week experiment — taking place in the Western Austrian Alps — was trying to determine what factors make it possible for humans to survive an avalanche in an air pocket until rescued without suffering permanent brain damage.

Hermann Brugger, co… Continue

Baby Dies After Swallowing Watch Battery

Ohio Couple Hopes Death Will Be Lesson For Others

HAMILTON, Ohio -- A 13-month-old boy is dead after his parents say he swallowed a watch battery.

Aidan Truett was like any other toddler, immensely curious about the world around him, and he stuck most anything he found into his mouth, his parents, Lonnie and Michelle Truett, told Cincinnati affiliate WLWT-TV.

Aidan's parents knew something was wrong when their son began having trouble eating, and they… Continue

Fort Myers macular degeneration treatment an eye-opener

Injections, medication improve sight of man with wet age-related macular degeneration

He was going blind and now, after 23 monthly treatments for macular degeneration at Retina Health Center, he can see.

Sweeney began losing vision in his left eye nearly two years ago and was diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration.

In wet AMD, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid. This leakage causes disruption… Continue

Secretive food firms risk public backlash, Lords warn

The secretive attitude of food companies towards nanotechnology research risks starting a consumer backlash against products that could improve health and reduce waste, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Nanomaterials that are 800 times finer than a human hair have the potential to deliver foods that are very low in fat and salt and packaging that changes colour when food is spoiled because of the strange properties of molecules at such a s… Continue

Study Turns up 10 Autism Clusters in California

CHICAGO - U.S. researchers have identified 10 locations in California that have double the rates of autism found in surrounding areas, and these clusters were located in neighborhoods with high concentrations of white, highly educated parents.

Researchers at the University of California Davis had hoped to uncover pockets of autism that might reveal clues about triggers in the environment that could explain rising rates of autism, which affects as… Continue