Tag: Public Policy

In the near future, instead of being subjected to electronic scanners at airports, you may be searched by mice.

As of this morning, 16 people around the United States have died from eating listeria infected cantaloupes and 72 have...

Pending legislation would force tobacco companies to attach very graphic warning labels, including disturbing images, to cigarette packages.

FoodCorps is an offshoot of Americorps -- the evolution of the old VISTA program --  will train a team of...

Some experts calling on the federal government to start taxing unhealthy foods. Although debatable whether such a tax would actually...

By applying a tax to items like sugary drinks, greasy French fries, and foods such as cookies and doughnuts that...

International conglomerate Cargill Inc. has recalled almost 36 million pounds of ground turkey that was identified as the source of...

Measles is being reintroduced to the U.S. primarily by travelers who have not been vaccinated against it. According to the Centers...

A recent "commentary" article concerning dietary supplements, written by Bryan E. Denham, PhD was published in JAMA, thus carrying the imprimatur...

According to a 2009 New York Times study, 11 percent of all drivers on the road are blabbing away on...

The Fukushima Daiichi plant that was so badly damaged is now beleaguered by a tremendous amount of dangerously radioactive water....

Make no mistake; whatever happens in these elections will make little difference in the downward spiral we are about to...

In healthy adults the best evidence is that, on average, flu vaccination of a population prevents 0.1 per cent of...

In this podcast, Jon Barron looks at both sides of the FDA issue when dealing with FDA’s tactics. Learn what...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), working with government agencies in Mexico and Canada,...

Recently, the FDA has been on a tear, going after companies for making medical claims for non-pharmaceutical products. This is...

A recent study found that testosterone levels dip in men on the losing side of an election, is there really...

When it comes to the current healthcare bill, everyone is wrong and heading for a world of hurt. And for...

A survey of 1454 parents just completed by the British Heart Foundation discovered that an overwhelming majority get misled because...

Parents are losing their obese kids to foster care, but are they really the ones to blame for growing obesity...

Despite the popularity of alternative medicine, the press persists in trying to persuade readers to avoid health alternatives at all...

The FDA, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, GlaxoSmithKlein, Donald Rumsfeld, and the U.S. Senate have all been...

The FDA issued a warning to General Mills for the claim made on their Cheerios box stating that it lowers...

Until the alternative health community learns to stop focusing exclusively on "big picture" issues such as Codex and Congressional bills...

While alternative health certainly needs to be regulated, it doesn’t need to be regulated by people who don’t know anything...