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  • L.A. cops asked to crack down on kids buying energy drinks

    Police should crack down on kids who buy too many energy drinks, said one Los Angeles City councilman who wants tougher regulations on the caffeine-filled beverages.


  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    ARMSTRONG: Advertising as free speech

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made national headlines when, following legislation passed by Congress in 2009, it sought to compel cigarette manufacturers to devote half of the front and back of each pack to health warnings and graphic images of potential damage, such as diseased lungs.


  • Brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade?

    When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.


  • A man carries a red-heart balloon for Valentine's Day as he passes by a column decorated with hearts in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Valentine's Day, named after the Christian patron saint for lovers, has gained popularity in Orthodox-dominated Bulgaria over the past few years. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

    Three K-Y Jelly products recalled as Johnson & Johnson avoids new regulatory reviews

    Johnson & Johnson has quietly recalled some of its popular personal lubricants in order to avert potentially expensive new regulatory reviews.


  • Hip implants a bit more likely to fail in women

    Hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to one of the largest studies of its kind in U.S. patients. The risk of the implants failing is low, but women were 29 percent more likely than men to need a repeat surgery within the first three years.


  • Hip replacements more likely to fail in women

    A new study shows that hip replacements are more likely to fail in women than in men.


  • FDA won't regulate Pa. birth control machine

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill.


  • AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

    A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.


  • AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

    A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.


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