FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Breast Cancer Awareness – Click to give a free Mammogram

  Steve Lombardi | October 03, 2008 1:05 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  As you know mammograms are the diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer and thus it saves lives. What if a simple click would bring someone somewhere a free mammogram? Well it does and it will if...

• Rx Safety - How can I tell what this pill is?

  Steve Lombardi | October 02, 2008 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Here is a website that addresses pill identification by numbers or letters imprinted on the pill or tablet, the shape and the color. It addresses the top 10 medication mistakes...

• Is Direct To Consumer Marketing by Big Pharma Backfiring?

  Steve Lombardi | August 04, 2009 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I’ve covered direct marketing to patients by the pharmaceutical industry in a previous post. I was critical that other countries don’t allow marketing directly to patients and that by...

• Food Safety: Melamine news, including the CCP takes action against government officials for melamine contamination debacle

  Steve Lombardi | March 27, 2009 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I’m surprised and elated of the action being taken by the Chinese Communist Party against government officials who were in some way involved with allowing the melamine scandal to develop...

• Federal Preemption: Not the Rite Aid Rx for Michigan's Joe and Dianne

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2008 8:30 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Today I'm printing, with their permission a Michgan husband and wife's story about how a drug reaction coupled with federal preemption has affected their lives. Their last names are not...

• China v. U.S., Toys, Recall List and Deregulation

  Steve Lombardi | August 26, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  With the growing list of recalled foreign manufactured products a risk-rewards analysis needs to take place. Where do you go to see for yourself where products including toys are made, which are being recalled and to file a complaint with the United States governement? MADE IN CHINA: A Chinese company operates this Web site, where U.S. and other firms can find manufacturers to build their...

• Implant Safety: How to use the Internet to help monitor your health

  Steve Lombardi | March 31, 2009 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  MAINTAINING VIGILANCE AS A PATIENT – IMPLANT RECALL SAFETY NEWS Yesterday we discussed the FDA recall classifications and today I promised to explain one method of how patients with implants...

• Lately, America’s largest imported product seems to be communism

  Steve Lombardi | February 06, 2009 1:25 PM | 6 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  As an American, if you don't believe in some form of regulating imported products then you're a communist. If as an American you don't think the people of China need freedom of speech then you are a...

• Diet Safety: Is it really smart to take One A Day?

  Megan Roth | January 20, 2009 1:36 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  The week before Christmas, I announced to family and friends­ that I was getting a dog. And in response, every single individual responded “You?” (or something along those lines)....

• Diet Safety: Amphetamines and Anorectic Drugs

  Megan Roth | January 06, 2009 10:02 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday I discussed ephedra, a drug commonly used in diet pills and known for its immense weight-loss capabilities. In that article, I briefly touched on the similarities between the side effects...