A report from the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR), tasked with providing an account on how federal regulators certified the Boeing 737 Max jet, released a long-awaited report on Friday. The 737 Max was involved in two deadly crashes within five months of each other this past year, one in Indonesia and one in Ethiopia. In both crashes, black box data suggests that the 737’s new MCAS system malfunctioned, causing the pilots to lose control of [...]

Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical company, is back in the news with a voluntary recall of its popular Johnson’s Baby Powder due to low-level asbestos contamination. The recall is limited to one lot containing more than 33,000 bottles that were produced and shipped in the U.S. last year. The company initiated the recall in response to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) test that revealed levels of chrysotile fibers asbestos contamination [...]

Breast implants that have been linked to a rare form of cancer will not be banned for sale in the United States, per a statement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The breast implants, which are textured instead of smooth, have been banned in other countries for causing the rare form of cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (an immune system cancer). The majority of cancer cases found have occurred in women who have the [...]

Asbestos is a dangerous product most often found in construction materials, but a recent discovery in cosmetics sold by Claire’s Stores Inc. by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has led to serious concerns among consumers. The FDA discovered three products sold by Claire’s Stores to contain asbestos and warned the public not to use the products. The FDA also asked Congress to create regulations for modern cosmetics. The current framework to regulate cosmetics [...]

Johnson & Johnson's baby powder is pure white, silky soft and smells like clean babies and springtime, but it could be tainted with carcinogenic asbestos. The problem is, the company has known that its product has been and could be tainted with asbestos, but they have kept this information from consumers. Even as women who had used the product daily for decades as a feminine hygiene product, and inhaled traces of it as they sprinkled baby [...]

A specific class of prescription medications designed to treat high blood sugar levels in those with type 2 diabetes called sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been associated with side effects such as dizziness upon standing, feeling faint or lightheaded, as well as more adverse effects such as lower limb amputations and Fournier's gangrene, which is a necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum. A JAMA Network Journal article found that there is an association between the use of [...]