The government is warning consumers not to use eight liquid products that claim to provide “safe legal highs” or that are marketed as “street drug alternatives” by Cytotec Solutions Inc., because they may contain high levels of over-the-counter drugs diphenhydramine and dextromethorphan.
Today’s warning expands on a warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration in [...]

A nationwide ban on the sale dietary supplements containing ephedra is effective immediately, the Food and Drug Administration said, following a failed attempt by two manufacturers to get a court order to stop the ban.
“We will take appropriate enforcement actions if needed to stop manufacturers from illegally selling and distributing dietary supplements containing ephedra [...]

The World Privacy Forum and 27 other privacy and civil liberties groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company to suspend its Gmail service until the privacy issues are adequately addressed.
The letter, sent to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, expressed concern over Google’s plan to scan the text of all incoming [...]

American Civil Liberties Union filed today the first nationwide class-action lawsuit against the government over its “No-Fly” list, which bans anyone on the list from flying on a commercial aircraft.
The No-Fly list is compiled by the TSA and distributed to all airlines with instructions to stop or conduct extra searches of people suspected of being [...]

In an effort to curb the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs in Pennsylvania, Attorney General Jerry Pappert sued 13 major pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of unlawful and deceptive pricing and sales practices in a complex scheme to raise drug prices and capture market share by artificially inflating the cost of their drugs, some of which [...]