The FDA came under fire March 25 from women demanding that certain “cancer-causing breast implants” be banned. Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, known as BIA-ALCL, was the topic at a two-day hearing where the women pressed an FDA advisory panel to recommend more long-term research, bans or restrictions on certain products, … [Read more...]
App Alerts Consumers to Dangerous Products
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has created a recall app that alerts people when a product has been declared defective and recalled. The country’s chief product safety regulator created the app to make recall information more accessible to consumers. The app is just one part of the CPSC’s efforts to make the recall … [Read more...]
Women of a Certain Age Should Avoid Artificially Sweetened Drinks, Studies Show
If you’ve recently received an invitation to join the AARP and you’re a woman, you may want to hold off on drinks with artificial sweeteners after a new study says that having two or more artificially sweetened drinks a day can increase the chance of blood clot-based strokes, heart attacks, and early death in women over the age of 50. Diet sodas … [Read more...]
FDA Wants Tougher Oversight on Supplements
It seems there’s a dietary supplement for everything today. On store shelves and online, we see supplements to lose weight, gain muscle mass, have softer skin, stabilize our moods, improve our sleep, increase our sexual stamina, and reduce our breakouts. Whether you’re young or old, male or female, overweight or underweight, muscular or lean, … [Read more...]
Are Our Children Still Drinking Lead-Laden Water at School?
Lead in school drinking water has been a problem for decades, but still, to this day, federal regulations don’t require schools to test their drinking water, and there’s no one health standard for school drinking water that’s consistent across the entire country. Because of this, millions of American children are drinking water at school that has … [Read more...]
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