The retail giant sells a lot of food to Americans, and Americans eat mostly bad food. If Walmart starts telling people the best options to pick, will it change diets? It plans to find out, with a little happy label on the best foods ...READ»
That honey you buy from the store might barely be honey at all, and all trace of where it came might have been intentionally erased. Oh, and it might be poisonous.READ»
If you’re a frequent reader of our site, you know we’re not terribly fond of crowd-sourced design. It’s an all-too-easy way for a company to take work away from professional designers, driving down the value of their services -- ...READ»
With new requirements to be honest about how well they protect and how easily they come off, new sunscreen regulations are a step forward, but could still result in you not getting the protection you paid for.READ»
If approved by the FDA, Allergan could market its product to teens--and insurers might be more likely to give the go-ahead for the surgery, which can cost up to $20,000.READ»
MobiUS is a simple medical ultrasound imaging system like many others--but it has one rather astonishing bonus: All you need to use it is the wand, some gel, and a smartphone.READ»
Researchers at AgriLife Research have figured out how to drastically cut down on the dose of radiation needed to kill bacteria found on fruit and vegetables. READ»
Chalk one up for the sun in the ongoing battle to keep ourselves from frying. A study of U.S. sunscreens finds that most offer minimal protection from ultraviolet A rays, which can burn us even on cloudy days. Some are even carcinogenic.READ»
Now that tobacco advertisements have been cut down to size by the U.S. government's Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act (no more color ads for tobacco, audio ads that use music or sound effects, mail-in cigarette coupons ...READ»
It's a tough week for cigarette companies looking to recruit the next generation of smokers. Cigarette companies can no longer lure the young with claims of "light," "mild," "medium," or "low." And candy-flavored cigarettes have ...READ»
Cigarette manufacturers, beware: the FDA won't stand for any creative workarounds to its ruling requiring companies to remove descriptors like "light," "mild," and "low tar" from cigarette packaging. The New York Times reports that ...READ»
BPA--a chemical found in adhesives, dental linings, water bottles, and a number of other plastic products--has increasingly come under fire from the EPA and FDA for its toxic effects in the human body. The EPA recently added BPA to ...READ»
Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, as they're commonly called, have been giving the FDA the shakes for almost a year now. But as the regulatory debate over the tobaccoless nicotine delivery systems rages on, a new issue has ...READ»
More than 50% of food manufacturers don't know that they are supposed to provide the FDA with updated contact information in
the case of emergencies, such as salmonella or other forms of food
contamination. This is the ...READ»
Dearest hillbilly heroin, you're nothing if not addictive, but now that the FDA is planning to make it even more difficult for doctors to prescribe you, we need to talk. It's not you, it's ... Actually, it's you.READ»
