Magic Power Coffee, an instant coffee sold online as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains a potentially dangerous chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra, FDA says.
People don’t always want to do what the data say to do.
A dietary supplement sold under the name STEAM is being recalled after a batch was found to contain the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Cialis.
This is the second recall the maker of STEAM, Nutracoastal Trading LLC, has had to announce recently.
Last month, another batch of STEAM was found to [...]
New rules to protect your prescription information
Information collected with your prescriptions, including your name, the drug and its dosage but your address and social security number, can be sold without your knowledge or permission, New York Times reporter Milt Freudenheim writes in today’s paper.
Freudenheim writes:
That may change if some little-noted protections from the Obama administration [...]
A dietary supplement marketed under the name STEAM is being recalled after it was found to contain a chemical similar to the drug found in the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today.
The chemical, sulfoaildenafil, is an analog of sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, the FDA said, making [...]
Consumers should stop using any body building products that are sold with claims they contain steroids or steroid-like substances, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today.
Many of these products are marketed as dietary supplements but, in fact, contain synthetic substances that can cause serious liver injury, kidney failure, blood clots in the lung [...]
They’re baaaack: Harry and Louise – but now with a different message
Nearly, two decades ago, the fictional couple Harry and Louise appeared in ads sponsored by the health insurance industry that helped doom President Bill Clinton’s health-care reform legislation.
The ads warned that if health-reform passed Americans faced having the government limiting their choice of health [...]
Men in Washington state continue to die at an earlier age, sometimes many years earlier, than do women, according to a new statistical report by the Washington State Department of Health.
X axis: cumulative percentage of population / Y axis: life expectancy
The analysis found that men in general had higher rates of death from such killers [...]
Men can help protect their health by using a checklist developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, writes Dr Carolyn M Clancy, the agency’s director, in her latest consumer-advice column.
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has teamed up with AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, to create a checklist to help men over age 50 stay healthy.
The checklist provides a list of the steps men over age 50 can take to prevent disease. These include eating well, keeping active and being [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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