
The scientific claims made by the company partly owned by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the Christmas Day film release “Concussion,” elicited a rebuke from the Food and Drug Administration and a rebuttal in the scholarship of an unlikely source: Dr. Bennet Omalu.
by Daniel J. Flynn22 Dec 2015, 8:40 AM PST0

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nullified a 30-year ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
by Mary Chastain21 Dec 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

Calling them a “cancer risk,” Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed that minors be banned from being allowed to use tanning beds and other sunlamp devices.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Dec 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

This week, Darcy Olsen, president of the Goldwater Institute, released a vital and fascinating new book, The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need. It’s a must-read rebuttal of the left’s number one argument for big government: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protects us from evil capitalists who would alternatively poison us or toss us into meat grinders for the viewing pleasure of Sinclair Lewis.
by Ben Shapiro10 Nov 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

Palo Alto-based Theranos has come under heavy fire in recent weeks, as questions continue to surface about their supposed revolution in blood testing procedures.
by Nate Church28 Oct 2015, 1:33 PM PST0

As Theranos, Inc. was preparing for one of Silicon Valley’s biggest IPO’s when its pin-prick blood test for thousands of diseases was approved by the FDA on July 15, the company was rocked on October 15 by a Wall Street Journal article citing “unnamed” former employees claiming Theranos inflated its testing effectiveness to the FDA.
by Chriss W. Street23 Oct 2015, 12:43 PM PST0

The owner of a Worcester, MA, convenience store has been arrested and charged with allegedly running a $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme since 2010.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Sep 2015, 9:04 PM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is no stranger to criticism, having spent the better part of the last decade in the public eye. But she’s probably never faced negative publicity like this before: The Food and Drug Administration says Kardashian’s social media posts violate federal drug-promotion rules.
by Breitbart News11 Aug 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

More than 380 people in 26 U.S. states have been diagnosed with a stomach illness tied to Mexican cilantro contaminated by human waste, two federal agencies said Tuesday.
by Breitbart News4 Aug 2015, 6:21 PM PST0

Mexican grown cilantro, contaminated by human fecal matter, caused over 200 cases of a parasitic illness in Texas. This disturbing news comes in a statement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a statement on Monday.
by Merrill Hope28 Jul 2015, 3:10 AM PST0

Conditions are so terrible for Mexican farm workers, they actually defecate on the very crops they’re harvesting.
by Katie McHugh27 Jul 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — The drug industry’s decade-spanning search for a female equivalent to Viagra took a major step forward Thursday, as government experts recommended approval for a pill to boost sexual desire in women.
by Breitbart News4 Jun 2015, 5:35 PM PST0

Cory Gardner and Kelly Ayotte are pushing joint legislation that would incentivize drug companies that manufacture “routine-use contraceptives” to apply to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a switch to over-the-counter (OTC) sales.
by Dr. Susan Berry24 May 2015, 4:58 AM PST0

“You might think after 50 years and hundreds of millions of women taking various incarnations of the pill, there would be a large and cohesive and impressive body of evidence on it, but there’s next to nothing,” one researcher says in amazement.
by Dr. Susan Berry17 May 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

The Obama administration, more interested in pleasing its LGBT supporters than in protecting the health of the general public, is proposing new rules through the FDA that would terminate the 32-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
by William Bigelow12 May 2015, 7:57 PM PST0

Using the fear triggered by recent deaths catalyzed by superbugs as a launching pad for spending another billion dollars, the Obama administration is going to announce the spending of over $1 billion over the next five years to combat the problem of antibiotic resistance.
by William Bigelow27 Mar 2015, 6:15 PM PST0

The Texas ice cream icon, Blue Bell Ice Cream, has issued its first ever recall after three people in Kansas died from illness linked back to some of its products. No one in Texas has been affected by illness at this point. Five people in total have been diagnosed with contracting the listeriosis bacteria. Only the products shown in the photo above have potentially been exposed and recalled.
by Bob Price14 Mar 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) has called on Congress to investigate the “superbug” outbreak at UCLA that claimed the lives of two patients, infected five more, and possibly exposed 179 others.
by William Bigelow24 Feb 2015, 11:22 AM PST0

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center apologized on Thursday after news surfaced this week of two patients who died from contracting a “superbug” through the use of endoscopes called duodenoscopes that had been contaminated.
by William Bigelow20 Feb 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

There’s good news and bad news in a report that new drug approvals by the Food and Drug Administration have hit an 18-year high.
by James P. Pinkerton1 Jan 2015, 9:19 PM PST0