Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
FDA recommends that consumers stop using these products and throw them away
On June 16, 2009 The FDA issued the following product recall. The recall was triggered when the FDA received more than 130 reports of anosmia associated with the use of Zicam zinc-containing intranasal products. FDA is alerting consumers that Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size, a discontinued product that consumers may still have in their homes, have all been associated with long lasting or permanent loss of smell (referred to as anosmia).
February 16, 2009 – 12:00 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
A BIG thank you to the Philadelphia Inquirer…
One of the few major media outlets that consistently cover Big Pharma and the FDA…
This weekend The Philadelphia Inquirer examined how Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has “found a congressional calling” in “creating uproars that often transform public opinion and policy” and “in recent years … has repeatedly turned [...]
October 24, 2008 – 11:50 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
By DAN RODEN, M.D. • October 10, 2008
Dr. Dan Roden is professor of medicine and pharmacology, director of the Oates Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, and assistant vice chancellor for personalized medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced a public Web site listing potential drug [...]
September 18, 2008 – 10:22 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals
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Genetic Engineering
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting the public to comment on draft guidance that discusses FDA’s approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) animals.
Although the guidance, released Sept. [...]
August 26, 2008 – 8:01 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Follow The Money…
Merck has a growing economic interest in Virginia. In December 2006, Merck announced it would invest $57 million to expand its Elkton, Va., plant to make Gardasil, helped by a $700,000 grant from a state economic development agency that is part of the executive branch. Two months later, Gov. Tim Kaine, who has [...]
August 25, 2008 – 5:57 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Opportunistic marketing isn’t new. Mass merchandising of tobacco products to minors delivered millions of “Hooked for Life” or at least until premature death ‘users” for BIG TOBACCO. With recent regulations that allegedly limited marketing tobacco to minors, rapacious advertising agencies and armies of mercenaries (lobbyists) have moved to a new, even more, profitable venue —BIG [...]
August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
FINALLY!
In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]
August 18, 2008 – 11:20 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
In a previous Inconvenient Woman Blog entry we noted the death of 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, “an all-American teenager,” whose tragic death has been tied to the Merck vaccine Gardasil®. Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone, reported Jessie’s death to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Her family started the Jessica Ericzon Memorial [...]
August 14, 2008 – 10:55 am
Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
More Reports of Coincidental Collateral Damage
Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher
The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at: http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations.
And the only response that comes from officials at the CDC, FDA [...]
August 11, 2008 – 1:44 am
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