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FDA Warns Public: Diet Pills May Contain Cancer Causing Unlisted Ingredients.

Posted on December 23, 2008
The CBS Evening News reported, "There is a new warning tonight for Americans looking to take a short cut to weight loss. The FDA has listed more than 25 weight loss products to avoid because they contain ingredients that are not labeled and could cause serious health problems...

Cancer Markers: MicroRNA Disruptions Drosha and Dicer Predict Ovarian Cancer Outcomes

Posted on December 22, 2008
pa href="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/12/22/antacids_linked_to_asthma_in_offspring/"Boston.com /aagain reports on significant medical discoveries, this time for ovarian cancer patients from the New England Journal of Medicine and M...

Taking Antacids During Pregnancy May Cause Baby To Develop Asthma

Posted on December 22, 2008
pChildren whose mothers took antacid drugs during pregnancy were 1.5 times more likely to develop asthma than children whose mothers did not take the drugs, researchers from a href="http://www.childrenshospital.org"Children's Hospital Boston /areport...

Legal Article Review: Attorney Andrew Cohen of CBS On: "Made in America: Corporate Gall"

Posted on December 22, 2008
p p p p pLike the child who kills his parents and then begs for mercy because he is an orphan, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce now is begging President-elect Barack Obama to protect corporate interests in the nationrsquo;s civil litigation system as a way of restoring jobs and bolstering an economy shattered largely (as we now know) by corporate greed and misfeasance...

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Benefits of Breastfeeding

Posted on December 21, 2008
Benefits of breastfeeding outweigh risks of infant exposure to environmental chemicals in breast milk. As reported in Science Daily on December 20, 2008 a new study compares infants who were breastfed with formula fed infants. The study showed that over time the known beneficial effects of breastfeeding are greater than the potential risks associated with chemical exposure to infants from dioxins that may be present in breast milk...

Toy Safety Buying Tips From the CPSC

Posted on December 21, 2008
Toy safety is on the top of the list with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) this month. The stores are filled with toys for the holidays and parents and grandparents are scouring department store shelves looking at a myriad of new toys. The CPSC hopes that parents and gift buyers check for toy safety as a part of every purchase...

Good Samaritans May Be Liable For Damages.

Posted on December 19, 2008
The AP (12/19, Elias) reports, "Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, the state's high court on Thursday said a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling her from a wrecked car 'like a rag doll' can be sued...

Hawaii Pedestrians Face Crosswalk Threats

Posted on December 18, 2008
pHawaii has had too many deaths and tragic injuries of a href="http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Mar/15/ln/FP703150352.html"pedestrians struck in crosswalks/a. The problem has been so bad that scientific studies have been made to get to the root of the the problem...

Bush Administration Midnight Regulations On Preemption Take Away Right To Sue

Posted on December 18, 2008
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American Association of Justice Warns That Preemption Laws Rremove Right To Sue

FDA Raises The Bar For New Diabetes Drugs

Posted on December 18, 2008
pThe American Association of Justice (AAJ) reports that the FDA has moved to protect diabetes patients by requiring more testing of diabetes drugs. In a report appearing in at least 66 media outlets, the a title="http://links.mkt1100.com/ctt?kn=29amp;m=3819395amp;r=MzczNjk3NjM0MQS2amp;b=0amp;j=MTA2MzY4OTY3S0amp;mt=1amp;rt=0" href="http://links...

New Diabetes Drugs Undergo Greater FDA Scrutiny

Posted on December 18, 2008
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Avoiding Car Accidents When Your Car Hydroplanes On A Wet Road

Posted on December 14, 2008
Hawaii is famous for good (great!) weather and lots of sun, but a few times a year Hawaii is hit with a storm and the rain is heavy and the visibility reduced. The systems that drain water from road surfaces get overwhelmed in these storms and water sheets the roadways at certain locations where drains are full...

Food Poisoning Update: FDA Blasted on Melamine Contaminated Infant Formula

Posted on December 01, 2008
The Washington Post reported today that the FDA is being blasted from all sides for allowing the Melamine food poisoning crisis to spin out of control. The story identifies sources of Melamine contamination: The FDA found melamine and cyanuric acid, a related chemical, in samples of baby formula made by major U...

Basic Rules That Make Good Cells Go Bad In All Cancers

Posted on November 30, 2008
The general approach to cancer research is to treat each cancer as a unique disease. Now Hartmut "Hucky" Land, Ph.D., is taking the opposite approach: what do all cancers have in common and how can scientists create treatments from those similarities? The James P...

New Article Offers Tips On Expressing Emotions In E-mail

Posted on November 30, 2008
Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian of the University of Chicago) have published a new study in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology on how we use emoticons, subject lines, and signatures to define how we want to be interpreted in email. They found that " ...

Kidney Injury Increases Risk Of Serious Kidney Disease

Posted on November 28, 2008
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is often caused by trauma, illness, or surgery. Research now shows that people who have suffered AKI have a higher risk later in life of getting the most serious form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), known as end stage renal disease (ESRD)...

The Center for Disease Control - Visit the CDC Website - The CDC.gov Top 10 List

Posted on November 27, 2008
Why would a person book mark and regularly visit the Center For Disease Control (CDC) website? There are many reasons from protecting yourself and your family from food poisoning to being vigilant about drinking water safety issues and epidemics. Here is an example of hwt they have for you...

Ask Questions and Investigate Before Getting Multiple Vaccinations

Posted on November 27, 2008
Research studies have raised concerns about the common practice of getting multiple vaccinations at one time. Most commonly this happens when a trip is coming up and particularly a trip to a foreign country. For instance you might get a flu shot, hepatitis, malaria or other vaccinations...

Have You Been Brainwashed About Attorneys And The Courts?

Posted on November 27, 2008
Yes we have three branches of Government: Executive (president, governor and mayor) Legislative (Congress, state legislature and county/city council) Judicial (the courts) In the first two the public has no direct input. You vote for a "Representative" and they in turn vote or do things on your behalf without consulting you...

Melamine, Melamine, Melamine - Food Poisoning In Infant Formula? Are You Kidding Me?

Posted on November 27, 2008
HEADLINE: "Consumers Union Calls on the FDA to Immediately Release All Results of Its Tests for Melamine Contamination in Food Products. Group ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Reports of FDA Test Results Indicating Melamine Contamination in U...

Please Help Jim Martin Win the U.S. Senate Election in Georgia

Posted on November 25, 2008
I am stepping outside of the normal topics on this Blog because I care about getting Jim Martin elected in the Georgia Senate run-off election. The race is close and national attention is focused on the race. Saxby Chambliss is currently the incumbent and he won his seat by attacking the patriotism of a great American hero - and one of my role models - Max Cleland, a double amputee veteran from the Viet Nam war...

Food Poisoning Risk Under the Radar: Is Mineral Oil A Health Problem - Scientists Suspect It Is

Posted on November 25, 2008
According to an editorial report from the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology that unless proof can be established that there are no health problems from mineral oil, people should reduce their exposure to and use of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and environmental contamination...

Food Poisoning Tips For Consumers in Hawaii

Posted on November 23, 2008
Any discussion of food poisoning should start with where a person can find out about the subject and where to report suspected food poisoning. The State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) has excellent resources for consumers on this subject. Start with the DOH "Food Borne Illnesses - Frequently Asked Questions" website to learn about food poisoning...

Breast Cancer Risk in Hawaii Linked to Pesticides in Drinking Water and Indoor Air

Posted on November 23, 2008
Pesticides leach into the Hawaii ground water system and end up in our drinking water. The warm tropical sun causes the pesticides to evaporate and enter the building through gaps in the foundation and infect breathing spaces inside the homes and schools and office buildings...

Thanksgiving Turkey Food Poisoning Tips

Posted on November 23, 2008
No this isn't about how to poison a turkey, or the people who will eat the turkey on Thanksgiving. Its about how to prevent that from happening. Why worry you ask? Here are the facts according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) WASHINGTON - At a news conference today, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) urged the U...

States Can Reduce Deaths in Car Crashes by Vision Screening Older Drivers

Posted on November 17, 2008
Science Daily reports that a Florida law mandating vision screening of all drivers over 80 is reducing death rates for car crashes in that age group. A correlation between vision and car crashes has not previously been established but it has been widely suspected...

Melamine Contamination, Food Poisoning and Foreign Products

Posted on November 16, 2008
While looking into some issues relating to food poisoning I came across a very informative article written By Michael Bryant from St. Cloud, Minnesota about pet food poisoning. It turns out that the food supply for our pets is threatened just like the human food supply and Mr...

Proposed "Organic" Standards for Fish Fail Consumer Expectations

Posted on November 16, 2008
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds a meeting on November19, 2008 of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) at which it intends to weaken the meaning of "organic" as used in fish labels according to Consumers Union...

Water Safety in Hawaii Threatened by Wide Use of Pesticides

Posted on November 16, 2008
Hawaii has suffered from contamination of ground water by pesticides in the past and the water system is always at risk from pesticides. In the early 1990's the University of Hawaii studied 40 common pesticides in the water system. Their focus was on comparing pesticides for leachability, recharge rates and depth to water...

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