Tuesday, November 25, 2008

BREAST CANCER ACTION-Hormones and Breast Cancer


The renowned organization Breast Cancer Action has started an important campaign to raise awareness about the health concerns concerning the synthetic hormone rBGH.

There are serious health questions regarding this hormone and the health of women's breasts. General Mills continues to use this hormone in the making of its dairy product Yoplait yogurt.

We urge everyone to participate in Breast Cancer Action's campaign to tell General Mills and Yoplait Yogurt to stop using this hormone.

Please join the THINK BEFORE YOU PINK campaign and help Breast Cancer Action.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

F.D.A. Medical Device Decision Making-Misconduct?

Yesterday, The New York Times published an article about the Food and Drug Administration's possible misconduct in its medical advisory review process. Breast implants are reviewed as medical devices and these allegations may possibly involve breast implants.

Here's an excerpt from the New York Times article:

"WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials engaged in “serious misconduct” by ignoring concerns of scientists at the Food and Drug Administration and approving for sale unsafe or ineffective medical devices, the scientists have written in a letter to Congress... The letter says that the scientists have documentary evidence that senior agency managers “corrupted the scientific review of medical devices” by ordering experts to change their opinions and conclusions in violation of the law."

Did the F.D.A. ignore scientists' opinions when it made its silicone breast implant approval decision in 2006?

Did senior F.D.A. management corrupt the process and violate the law?

Stay tuned into this story--if experts were coerced into changing their opinions regarding any medical device, this is very serious.

Read the New York Times Article in its entirety.