FDA Consumer

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Articles in May-June 2004 issue of FDA Consumer

• Advisory on antidepressants
• Protecting consumers from counterfeit drugs
• Exploring the fine points of acupuncture
  by John Henkel
• United States, Canada, Mexico agree to protect public health
• HHS tackles obesity
• Getting up to speed on tattoos
  by John Henkel
• Heart assist device available for children
• New treatments for colorectal cancer: colorectal cancer—cancer of the colon or rectum—is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, behind lung cancer, in the United States
• Kids and grownups: get wise to bullying
  by John Henkel
• Observations
  by Ray Formanek, Jr.
• HHS announces task force on drug importation
• A primer on summer safety
  by Michelle Meadows
• Have fun this summer, safely!
  by Bruce Bonanno
• FDA warns against feeding dietary supplement product to infants
• Crackdown on "andro" products
• First treatment for serious complications of kidney disease, parathyroid cancer
• Final rule on bar code labeling
• Faulty patient lifts recalled
• FDA science: from concept to consumer: the science behind the regulatory decisions made by the Food and Drug Administration often gets lost in media reports touting the "approval"—or "rejection"—of a food ingredient, drug, me
  by Carol Rados
• Final FDA acrylamide action plan, data
• Warning on herbal 'street drug alternatives'
• Former FDA commissioner heads CMS
• Agencies work to corral mad cow disease
  by Linda Bren
• Side effects of smallpox vaccine
• Counterfeit contraceptive patch
• FDA, EPA revise guidelines on mercury in fish: one minute you hear that eating fish is good for your heart. The next, you find out that eating certain types of fish can be harmful
  by Carol Rados
• New prescription drug safety plan: the Bush administration has announced a comprehensive plan to improve prescription drug safety, citing a significant increase in the nonmedical use of prescription drugs in recent years
  by Michelle Meadows
• Take the FDA consumer quiz
• First drug for rare cancer
• FDA launches Web sites on heart health, drugs
  by John Henkel
• FDA investigators respond to mad cow emergency
  by Linda Bren