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May 17, 2006
Prince Valeant and Mary Jane
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, based out of Costa Mesa, wants to give cancer patients the munchies. The FDA has just approved Valeant's Cesamet, already on sale in Canada as Nabilone, to moderate nausea and vomiting in those undergoing chemotherapy. A Belgian company has made a similar project, Marinol ... More >>
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March 14, 2007
Asleep at the Wheel...
… or, Drive, He Snored. Ever feel you spend all your waking hours in your car? Well, thanks to modern science, now you can also spend your non-waking hours trapped in traffic. The Associated Press reports: All sleeping pills, including the blockbusters Ambien and Lunesta, may s ... More >>
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June 4, 2007
Reeejected, from China
Once, the only worry Americans felt when consuming products made in China, was that they were complete crap. But times have changed, and with recent hysteria over tainted dog food and toothpaste mixed with industrial compounds, we have demanded that the Chinese do something to make us feel secure ag ... More >>
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July 22, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises
'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducate ... More >>
News
April 1, 2004
The Ecstasy Factor
Bad science slandered a generations favorite drug. A new study aims to undo the damage.
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December 16, 2008
Is Orange County Injecting Itself Into a "Judicial Hellhole"?
Our stuck-up neighbor to the north, Los Angeles County, is among America's leading "Judicial Hellholes," which is what the American Tort Reform Association calls finalists on its annual list of the nation's most unfair civil court jurisdictions. But don't gloat too hard, Orange Countians, because we ... More >>
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December 24, 2008
FDA Wags Finger at Diet Coke's Vitamin Claims
The FDA has issues with Coca Cola's new Diet Coke Plus. It sent the company a letter earlier this month about the drink, which Coke purports to have a "refreshing taste...AND several essential nutrients" with "each 8 fl. oz. serving of Diet Coke Plus provid(ing) 15% of your RDI ... More >>
Food
February 12, 2009
Oyster Species Guide, Plus a Couple of Tips
The FDA has issues with Coca Cola's new Diet Coke Plus. It sent the company a letter earlier this month about the drink, which Coke purports to have a "refreshing taste...AND several essential nutrients" with "each 8 fl. oz. serving of Diet Coke Plus provid(ing) 15% of your RDI ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Adderall Treats ADHD But Can Lead to Addiction. One Clinic Tries to Help OC Kick 'College Crack'
The FDA has issues with Coca Cola's new Diet Coke Plus. It sent the company a letter earlier this month about the drink, which Coke purports to have a "refreshing taste...AND several essential nutrients" with "each 8 fl. oz. serving of Diet Coke Plus provid(ing) 15% of your RDI ... More >>
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August 31, 2006
Commie Girl
Real Live Boys: The snowflakes make us crazy
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June 8, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
May 30 - June 6
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January 26, 2006
Totally Tubular
Numbers from the early part of the century
Food
August 18, 2005
Healthy Inc.
Sidneys Cafe rides the resurgent health-food wave
Columns
May 26, 2005
We Must Have Syph
Or the far right will have won
Food
April 14, 2005
Natural Selection
Survival of the fittest at the Natural Products Expo
News
June 3, 2004
FDA FUs Plan B
Plan Your Unplanned Sex Accordingly
Columns
February 5, 2004
Of Mice and Menstruation
Or Venus in Fur, with Convenient Slits
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January 15, 2004
Theres Got to Be a Morning After
Emergency contraception may go over-the-counter
News
September 11, 2003
Time for a Plan B
Do you have your morning-after pill?
News
September 27, 2001
No Gay Blood, Please
Crisis or not, only straights can donate to the Red Cross
Columns
May 18, 2000
Baked Alaska Airlines
Crisis or not, only straights can donate to the Red Cross
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June 24, 1999
The Talking Drug
Crisis or not, only straights can donate to the Red Cross
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August 5, 2009
Barbara Coe Adds Another Jewel to Her Crown of Conspiracies
It would take me a while to list all the vile things and views California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe believes, but a short list includes: Reconquista, Sikhs and Muslims deserve deportation, Obama wasn't born in the United States, Sonny Bono was murdered because he knew too ... More >>
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September 2, 2009
The Other Side of the Health-Care Debate Strikes Back
The other side of the health-care debate (think opposite of Fox News' town hall criers) has come out swinging of late.California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee just issued a statement with the provocative title, "California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims." ... More >>
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September 24, 2009
"Natural Doctor" featured in OC Register Charged With Being a Fake
Daryn Peterson Daryn Peterson must have been flying pretty high on June 10, when he opened the Orange County Register and read Courtney Perkes' feature story on him, "A Rejection of Western Medicine." Today, the 37-year-old Las Vegas resident was arrested and charged with unauth ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Have Your Robo-Responder Contact My Robo-Responder and Set Up a Virtual Lunch, Madame Senator
This is either Sen. Dianne Feinstein or her screen saver.Have you ever been leaving a political website when a pop-up asks you to weigh in on an issue? And have you ever decided it would be just as quick to click a couple boxes indicating your support/opposition as it would be to close the pop-up ... More >>
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February 11, 2010
UPDATED: Daryn Peterson, Fake Doctor Boosted in Register Story, Sentenced to Jail and Probation
Daryn Peterson, who was convicted in December of posing as a doctor and claiming to heal serious or incurable diseases including cancer and AIDS, was sentenced today to 270 days in jail and five years probation, and is prohibited from working in any medical field or selling any vitamins or pharma ... More >>
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January 18, 2010
Canadian Chain To Open 30 Units In Orange County
Photo Courtesy of Chain LeaderAs with Rumbi, Cafe Rio, et al, the out-of-state chains are continuing their invasion of Orange County. There's now word that a Canadian chain called Freshii has just signed a deal to open 30 locations of itself in Orange County over the next six years. There a ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Buzzkillers Aim to Kill Cannabis Initiative
"Parents, grandparents and concerned citizens of California have filed paperwork to form a political action committee to defeat the November initiative that will help legalize marijuana," announced a group of busybodies known as Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana (BUZZKILL).Sorry, that should ... More >>
Culture
April 29, 2010
Eyelash Perms? Yep
[Trendzilla] The FDA might not approve, but you do end up with curlier lashes
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May 13, 2010
Dr. David Kessler: The End of Overeating
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June 30, 2010
East Coast Chain Introduces A Sandwich With Two Sandwiches as Bun
Friendlys.comThis is not a joke. Behold what the success of KFC's Double Down has wrought. As an obvious escalation of the fast food gimmickry that is KFC's bunless sandwich, an east coast chain called Friendly's has introduced a so-called "Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt", wherein two gril ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Irvine Botox Maker Fined $600 Million, Irvine Viagra Maker Gets Competition in a Cup
Two giant drug companies with a heavy presence in Irvine this week suffered separate blows, possibly to their bottom lines.One took a hit from the U.S. government, the other from a new wonder product out of the U.K.As part of a settlement with the Food and Drug Administration, Irvine-based Allerg ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Judge Greenlights $600 Million Fine Against Irvine-Based Maker of Botox
Allergan, Inc.'s misleading marketing cost them big time. A judge this week approved the $600 million fine feds previously announced against the Irvine-based pharmaceutical company whose most popular product is Botox. But don't cry too hard for Allergan: Botox earns the company $1.3 billion in an ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Got Migraines? Try Botox, Says Irvine Drugmaker
There's some good news and bad news for Allergan, Inc. Bad news: The Irvine-based pharmaceutical company tops the list of Department of Justice fraud settlements in the 2010 fiscal year, having lost $600 million in an October lawsuit that accused them of marketing Botox for "off-label" uses.Good ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Four Loko Loses Caffeine--and its Cool-Factor
Four Loko is about to become as hip as Smirnoff Ice. The popular caffeine-spiked alcoholic beverage, commonly known as "Blackout in a Can," has been deemed unsafe by the FDA. A warning letter was sent to Chicago-based Phusion Projects, which makes the stuff.
News
November 18, 2010
Shock the Junkie
A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?
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December 29, 2010
Alcoholic Chocolate Milk Now On Sale at Costco
If this was the year of anything, it's the year of creative and not-so-creative alcohol-based products. You may have heard of Four Loko, the caffeinated alcoholic energy drink that became the subject of bans and dire FDA warnings. Then there was CREAM, the booze-infused whipped topping that our ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Congressman Darrell Issa to Oversee Federal Food Regulation: Good or Bad?
With the newest Congress sworn in comes Capitol Hill's traditional musical chairs of parties switching leadership roles for committees and the like. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is charged with investigating the government's regulations to see if they're overreaching. Th ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Allergan Seeks to Expand Fatty Pool for Lap-Bands
Allergan Inc., which is already rolling in it thanks to remedies such as Botox, Latisse and Natrelle breast implants, aims to roll in even more of it by increasing the fatty pool for its Lap-Band weight-loss devices.The Irvine-based pharmaceutical company wants the government to decrease the mini ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
[UPDATED] Two Teens in Huntington Beach Found Dead Alongside Empty Can of Four Loko
UPDATE, JAN. 25, 9:41 A.M.: The victims have been identified as Aaron Saenz, 15, of Westminster, and Chelsea Taylor, 16, of Huntington Beach. Their bodies were found at an apartment in the 15500 block of Huntington Village Lane, LA Times reports.ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 24, 4:21 P.M.: A 15-year-old ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Lawsuit Demands a Refund For Every Person Who Purchased a Four Loko
Poor Four Loko. All it ever wanted was to get us sloshed and hyper with a single can. Now, not only has it been stripped from shelves and replaced with a decaf version that's totally lame, the company that makes it has been smacked with a massive class-action lawsuit that demands, among other thi ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
FDA Tells Cilantro Growers Not to Allow So Much Damn Salmonella on its Cilantro
Flickr user QFamilyAh, cilantro: soapy scourge of millions of taste buds, a big mystery to the rest of us. And inordinate high salmonella carrier? That's what the Food and Drug Administration is alleging in a letter to the American cilantro industry, in the governmental version of a pimp slap.
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May 17, 2011
[UPDATED with Autopsy Results] Two Teens in Huntington Beach Found Dead Alongside Empty Can of Four Loko
UPDATE, MAY 17, 3:49 A.M.: Autopsy and toxicological reports reveal that the two teens found dead in a Huntington Beach apartment in January overdosed on prescription drugs, with alcohol contributing to one of the deaths, The Orange County Register reports. Aaron Saenz, 15, died from t ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Allergan Wants The FDA To Approve Lap-Bands For Teens
In another attempt to expand the fatty pool for its popular Lap-Band devices, Allergan Inc. is now targeting a younger set. The Irvine-based pharmaceutical company has asked the Food and Drug Administration to allow the weight-loss surgery for those as young as 14, the Los Angeles Times rep ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
San Francisco Health Officials Ban Restaurant from Selling Grasshopper Tacos
Flickr user christine zeninoSan Francisco is going to play quite a role in my coming book on the history of Mexican food in the United States--and that's all I'm going to say about that right now. But Baghdad by the Bay is in the Mexi-food news right now, because pendejo health inspectors have as ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
FDA: Cut Tomatoes Are Potentially Hazardous Food
Flickr user sliceofchicDanger, Will Robinson!Most of the "food police" rules that we occasionally sneer about here at Stick A Fork In It aren't promulgated at the local, county or even state level: the federal Food and Drug Administration's rules reach nationwide, and when they say a food is pote ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
This Week in Food: Wolverine, Dumb Health Inspectors, and Smokers!
Flickr user flavouzYou know what Friday is: summation time! Highlights after the jump!
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October 18, 2011
Greening the Revolution Feeds Your Head About Farming Around the World
Agribusiness reaps record wealth. Starving protesters cry for affordable food. Farmers and farm workers find themselves caught in the middle.But, as the documentary Greening the Revolution shows, farmers and workers are organized, fighting back and implementing their own sustainable alternativ ... More >>
Culture
January 19, 2012
AeroShot Pure Energy: Inhalable Caffeine?
[Trendzilla] The pros and cons of getting your fix via a puff
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