Our friends over at the Food and Drug Administration stated that they believe food from cloned livestock is just as good as getting food “the old fashioned way.” Personally I don’t exactly see what the big deal here is, whether it is cloned or not, it is still meat. However many people are skeptical about how...
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According to a study published by Synovate on Wednesday, Britons are the largest consumers of fast food in the world, followed closely by Americans. “People are inherently contradictory and nowhere is it more obvious than on such a sensitive and important issue as their weight,” says Steve Garton, who jointly produced...
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The Health Blog’s occasional encounters with bears have prompted various modes of reflection. One thought that’s never crossed our mind: Why doesn’t that bear have osteoporosis? But that’s just what Seth Donahue thought nearly a decade ago, when he saw a bear while hiking in California’s Sierra Nevada, according to WSJ’s...
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If you’re fretting about drinking, you might be skipping red wine despite evidence that the grape squeezings may carry health benefits. Some day, if all goes well in the lab, you may be able to take a pill instead. And Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a pioneer of the approach, just reported results from an early study in diabetic...
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An Arkansas neurosurgeon pleaded guilty yesterday to soliciting and accepting kickbacks from a medical device salesman, the Boston Globe reports. Patrick Chan also agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation into whether Blackstone Medical, which sells devices and implants used in back surgery, defrauded Medicaid and...
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With results from the Iowa caucuses coming tonight, two Big Pharma CEOs seemed unworried about how the drug industry will fare this election year. Despite the uncertainties, Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan struck an upbeat tone when asked about politics at Morgan Stanley’s “Pharmaceutical CEOs Unplugged” conference. The drug...
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