By Doug Guthrie, The Detroit News Delay issued pending ruling in similar case before top state court. Detroit — Criminal assault charges are on hold against a mother accused of an armed standoff with police and child welfare workers over the removal of her teenage daughter from her home as the state Supreme Court considers […]
Few students vaccinated against whooping cough so far
Less than 15 percent of the Coachella Valley students required to get a whooping cough booster shot have received the vaccine, school district officials report. “It’s going to be a mess if they all show up in July,” said Denise Magee, director of Student Support Services for Desert Sands Unified School District. A new law […]
FDA regulation, and off label use of atypical antipsychotic drugs
By Jan Henderson, PhD Abilify, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperal – these are among the atypical antipsychotics for which Americans paid $10 billion in 2008. $6 billion of that was for off-label use. The FDA only approves drugs when their safety and efficacy have been tested for specific conditions. For example, an antipsychotic might be approved for […]
When It Comes to Natural Health for Children, We’re Living in a Police State
Increasingly, state governments are determining what treatments a child can and cannot have—regardless of parents’ wishes. Three shocking stories prove the point. In April 2003, Barbara Jensen took her son Parker, then twelve years old, to an oral surgeon to have a small growth removed from his tongue. The growth was diagnosed as Ewing’s sarcoma, […]
'Insider' Is Charged at FDA
By ALICIA MUNDY And BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON—A longtime chemist at the Food and Drug Administration was charged Tuesday with insider trading by federal authorities, who alleged he made as much as $3.6 million trading drug company stocks based on confidential drug-approval information. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Cheng Yi Liang, 57, […]
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