FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Are Killing Pain Killers Better Than Chiropractic?

  Mike Bryant | July 30, 2009 9:54 AM | 11 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  I am amazed when talk comes up at the legislature or with individual insurance claims about whether chiropractic should be paid under the no fault act. Usually it involves discussions about limiting...

• Hydroxycut Recalled By FDA

  Mike Bryant | May 14, 2009 3:37 PM | 6 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Hydroxycut the weight-loss supplement is recalling 14 products after reports of liver damage and one death linked to the product. The Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to immediately stop...

• Hydroxycut Recall Is Another Example Of The FDA's Problems

  Mike Bryant | May 16, 2009 12:40 PM | 5 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  At the Injuryboard, many of the writers have discussed the horrid state of the FDA during the Bush Administration. The reality seems to be that there was either no oversight of products or there...

• 5,000 Americans Die Of Food Poisoning Each Year

  Mike Bryant | April 24, 2009 9:55 AM | 4 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control released these startling numbers. They also found that each year, 325,000 require hospitalization. The numbers show that over the last couple of years, our...

• Complete Immunity For Big Business Part of Bush Administration's Attack On Consumer Rights

  Mike Bryant | October 25, 2008 9:46 AM | 4 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  The Bush administration has been using federal preemption to create complete immunity for many big business. In a long term research effort by the American Association for Justice information has...

• Congress Reaffirms And Finances A Better FDA

  Mike Bryant | July 09, 2009 7:33 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Search Food Safety here at the Injuryboard site and you will find all sorts of alerts. Search FDA and you will find the list of failures by the organization over the last eight years. It's been an...

• Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough Recalled Due To E.Coli

  Mike Bryant | July 05, 2009 8:06 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  In mid June, the United States Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough because it may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The products...

• Seroquel Information To See The Light Of Day This Week

  Mike Bryant | May 23, 2009 10:45 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Previously, I blogged on the topic of the need for full disclosure of information about the drug Seroquel. The issue was the marketing that was being done to patients suffering from depression and...

• Is Big Pharma Drugging Our Water?

  Mike Bryant | April 29, 2009 9:55 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  This past week, the Associated Press released a startling study concerning our drinking water. Apparently, at least 271 million pounds of 22 pharmaceutical compounds was found in the tested water....

• Some Good Follow Up On The Peanut Crises

  Mike Bryant | April 25, 2009 9:58 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  With every tragedy, there is hope that we learn and fix what it was that caused the problem to begin with. One of the main goals of the civil justice system is to deal with problems unlike the gun...