The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is recommending that people avoid using the diabetes drug Byetta until at least 2012, expressing concerns about potential side effects. The recommendations come the same week the FDA announced that new info...

A consumer advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Bayer AG for allegedly making false claims that Men’s One-A-Day multivitamins can help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) filed the compl...

More than 1,000 cases of parsley shipped to 10 different states have been recalled due to the risk of salmonella contamination and food poisoning. The parsley recall affects cases of 60-count bunched parsley by Muranaka Farm, Inc. There were 1005 ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has mistakenly notified hundreds of veterans that they have Lou Gehrig’s disease, in the most recent of a string of VA medical errors that have plagued the agency. The notification error comes as the VA faces...

New research has found that a popular spine surgery involving the use of bone cement for painful spinal fractures may actually provide no benefits when compared to patients who underwent a fake surgery. The procedure, known as vertebroplasty, was ...