Topic: The Associated Press

Health Highlights: Nov. 26, 2008

Trace levels of the industrial chemical melamine detected in some U.S. infant formulas pose no threat to infants, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration. Just last month, the agency said it couldn't identify any level of melamine exposure as safe ...

Health Highlights: Nov. 25, 2008

Some Asian patients may suffer severe skin blisters and bleeding when treated with certain epilepsy drugs such as Dilantin, Phenytek and Cerebyx, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.. Ten to 15 percent of people from China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the ...

Hackers Try to Trigger Seizures

In an attack that seems motivated more by malice than by money, the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site has been bombarded with hundreds of pictures and links using rapidly flashing images, reports an Associated Press story on MSNBC. Apparently the hackers did not ...

Health Highlights: Jan. 30, 2008

An unpublished, negative article about the diabetes drug Avandia was leaked to the drug's manufacturer before the article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.. Diabetes expert Dr. Steven M. Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Center faxed ...