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Specials

FDA Raises Objections To Diet Coke Plus Current Label

Federal regulators asked the Coca-Cola Company to change the label on a version of its Diet Coke...
» read full story December 26th, 2008 - 17:46
Coca-Cola Asked To Remove ‘Plus’ Claim From Diet Coke Plus Label

Coca-Cola Asked To Remove ‘Plus’ Claim From Diet Coke Plus Label

The FDA is warning the Coca-Cola Company that one of its products contains inappropriate...
» read full story December 25th, 2008 - 13:53
New Marijuana Guidelines Protect Medical Marijuana Users

New Marijuana Guidelines Protect Medical Marijuana Users

The guidelines on legal pot use issued this week by California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown offer...
» read full story August 27th, 2008 - 16:24
AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization

AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization

Participants at the 17th International AIDS Conference made a call on the last day of the meeting...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 17:00
Former Fugitive Hoping for Pardon after 32 Years on the Run

Former Fugitive Hoping for Pardon after 32 Years on the Run

A lawyer for Susan LeFevre, the San Diego woman arrested 32 years after escaping a...
» read full story May 02nd, 2008 - 15:30

San Diego Woman Arrested 32 Years after Escaping Prison

A 53-year-old woman who escaped from a Detroit prison 32 years ago was arrested in San Diego, where...
» read full story May 01st, 2008 - 16:28
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U.S.

Decade after Columbine, gun laws lax as ever

San Francisco - Ten years ago, two teenaged misfits walked into their high school in Columbine,...
» read full story April 17th, 2009 - 08:36

Ending flows of drugs, guns atop Obama's Mexico visit

Washington - As the death toll in Mexico's drug wars soars into the thousands, the United States...
» read full story April 15th, 2009 - 10:44

House approves new controls on tobacco in United States

Washington - The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved tougher anti-smoking controls in...
» read full story April 02nd, 2009 - 21:58

Fourteen Felons Granted Clemency In the 12th Hour Of Bush's Term

In addition the more high-profile commute of rapper John Edward Forte’s sentence, President George...
» read full story November 26th, 2008 - 18:00
U.S. Government Paying For Unapproved Drugs

U.S. Government Paying For Unapproved Drugs

Analysis of federal data conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the United States...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 13:08
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Music

History Repeating: George Michael Arrested in Public Toilet

History Repeating: George Michael Arrested in Public Toilet

Who could ever forget British singer George Michael’s infamous 1998 arrest in a public toilet for...
» read full story September 21st, 2008 - 17:27
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Business

FDA Offices Slowed Down by Chinese Bureaucracy

FDA Offices Slowed Down by Chinese Bureaucracy

After last year’s discovery of a series of contaminated drugs and food shipments from China, the...
» read full story May 25th, 2008 - 22:35
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Health

Medical Marijuana Supported By President Obama

Medical Marijuana Supported By President Obama

President Barack Obama said as a candidate that states should decide their own medical marijuana...
» read full story February 27th, 2009 - 20:30
Ely Lilly Settles For More Than $800 Million In Zyprexa Lawsuit

Ely Lilly Settles For More Than $800 Million In Zyprexa Lawsuit

  Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay approximately $800 million for unapproved marketing and...
» read full story January 21st, 2009 - 16:06
FTC Sues Ovation in Dispute on Drug Prices

FTC Sues Ovation in Dispute on Drug Prices

 The Federal Trade Commission alleged an Illinois drug maker illegally bought the only rival...
» read full story December 17th, 2008 - 20:53
U.S. Government Paying for Unapproved Drugs

U.S. Government Paying for Unapproved Drugs

Analysis of federal data conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the United States...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 22:10
Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua

Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua

A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 17:35
Michigan’s Marijuana Law Contested

Michigan’s Marijuana Law Contested

The contested and controversial Proposition 1, which would make it legal for doctors to prescribe...
» read full story October 15th, 2008 - 16:12
FDA’s Slow Handling of Problematic Drug Use

FDA’s Slow Handling of Problematic Drug Use

According to a draft report put together by congressional investigators, it turns out that federal...
» read full story July 27th, 2008 - 14:44
Bristol-Myers Squibb to Start Paying States in Medicaid Drug Fraud

Bristol-Myers Squibb to Start Paying States in Medicaid Drug Fraud

A number of 43 states will receive money from drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb as part of a...
» read full story July 16th, 2008 - 13:08
FDA Comes to Pregnant Women’s Aid with New Drug Labeling System

FDA Comes to Pregnant Women’s Aid with New Drug Labeling System

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to strengthen drug labels in order to inform patients...
» read full story May 29th, 2008 - 11:19
Medical Marijuana Patient Denied Liver Tranplant Dies

Medical Marijuana Patient Denied Liver Tranplant Dies

The patient denied liver transplant due to medical marijuana use died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay...
» read full story May 03rd, 2008 - 11:55
Last Year Brought More Cases of HIV Infections in Singapore

Last Year Brought More Cases of HIV Infections in Singapore

The number of HIV cases in Singapore hit a record in 2007 with 422 new infections recorded, the...
» read full story April 30th, 2008 - 12:51
Patient Denied Liver Transplant Due to Medical Marijuana Use

Patient Denied Liver Transplant Due to Medical Marijuana Use

The University of Washington Medical Center denied 56-year-old Timothy Garon’s request for a...
» read full story April 28th, 2008 - 19:50
NTSB Blames Pilot’s Medication and Alcohol Use for SF Oil Spill

NTSB Blames Pilot’s Medication and Alcohol Use for SF Oil Spill

Cosco Busan pilot Capt. John Cota whose container struck a Bay Bridge tower on November 7, causing...
» read full story April 10th, 2008 - 11:53
UK Announces Stricter Rules for Drug Firms after GSK’s Incident

UK Announces Stricter Rules for Drug Firms after GSK’s Incident

Following a four-year investigation which found that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline had held...
» read full story March 06th, 2008 - 14:35
Supreme Court Backs Medical-Device Manufacturers

Supreme Court Backs Medical-Device Manufacturers

The Supreme Court today ruled that patients could not sue medical-device manufacturers in state...
» read full story February 21st, 2008 - 11:03
WHO: Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion People In The Next Century

WHO: Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion People In The Next Century

Have you ever tried to count to 1 billion? It will take some time, isn’t it? Now try to imagine...
» read full story February 07th, 2008 - 21:35
Marijuana Available at the Touch of a Button

Marijuana Available at the Touch of a Button

Los Angeles premiered the medical marijuana vending machine on Monday, with three dispensaries...
» read full story January 30th, 2008 - 15:46
Medical Marijuana Users Can Be Fired, California Court Ruled

Medical Marijuana Users Can Be Fired, California Court Ruled

The California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that an employer could fire an employee who use...
» read full story January 25th, 2008 - 11:50
Supreme Court To Shield Drug And Tobacco Companies From Lawsuits

Supreme Court To Shield Drug And Tobacco Companies From Lawsuits

Smokers watch out: the Supreme Court announced on Friday it will decide whether consumers will...
» read full story January 20th, 2008 - 09:08
Report: Anti-Tobacco Efforts Insufficient in US

Report: Anti-Tobacco Efforts Insufficient in US

There was little praise for the federal government’s handling of smoking-prevention programs...
» read full story January 11th, 2008 - 16:49
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World

Indonesian Woman Faces Life in Prison for Smuggling Drugs

An Indonesian woman faces life in prison for smuggling more than 3 kilograms of heroin into the...
» read full story August 13th, 2008 - 14:45

Survey Shows U.S. Leads World in Drug Use

Surprise, surprise as a survey released this week by the World Health Organization showed that the...
» read full story July 02nd, 2008 - 17:37
Colombian Guerrilla Leader Sentenced To 60 Years In Prison

Colombian Guerrilla Leader Sentenced To 60 Years In Prison

Former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Ricardo Palmera was sentenced to...
» read full story January 29th, 2008 - 14:52
Attorney General Mukasey Asks For $200 Million To Stop Crime

Attorney General Mukasey Asks For $200 Million To Stop Crime

Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned on Thursday about the disastrous effects the release of...
» read full story January 25th, 2008 - 12:14
Dad Throws Kids Off Alabama Bridge

Dad Throws Kids Off Alabama Bridge

A shrimp fisherman confessed Tuesday that he threw his children from a bridge in the coastal...
» read full story January 10th, 2008 - 12:07
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