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Medical Implant Recalls Raises Questions about 510K Review Process.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

By | Nasima Hossain

Public Health Advocate

Medical devices can range from bandages and medical clamps to surgical mesh and hip replacements. The medical devices industry is a $100 billion-a-year industry and works aggressively with the FDA to push thousands of devices onto the market every year.

Public Health

Solution to Antibiotic Use in Animals- H.R. 965, Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2011

Thursday, May 3, 2012

By | Nasima Hossain

Public Health Advocate

The research points to an increasing body of evidence that overuse of antibiotics in animals is the leading cause of drug resistance bacteria. Every year 18,000 people die from the antibiotic-resistant bug MRSA, and 80 percent of all antibiotics are used on animals, not humans.

Public Health

Who Owns Big Oil? We Do!

Monday, April 23, 2012

By | Blair Bowie

Democracy Advocate

The American Petroleum Institute has a new public image campaign: http://whoownsbigoil.org. The purpose of this website, presumably, is to convince us that if we raise taxes on hugely profitable corporations we will only be hurting ourselves. Why? Because we are all shareholders of those corporations and when they are taxed we suffer.

While I am skeptical of API’s conclusions, it’s right to say we own the oil companies. In fact, shareholders across the country are demanding accountability and disclosure from the corporations that they rightfully own and the effort could be the key to slowing the flow of corporate money in the 2012 election.

Democracy

FDA Sets Voluntary Limits of Antibiotic in Animal Feed, But What Does This Really Mean?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

By | Nasima Hossain

Public Health Advocate

The Food and Drug Administration announced last Wednesday that it had finalized a plan asking drug companies to voluntarily limit the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed.