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Airlines Conspiring to Keep Ticket Prices High
Jet fuel prices dropped by 40 percent since last year, but ticket prices have remained high. If you’re wondering why ticket prices haven’t followed the subsequent drop, you’re not alone. Multiple senators have called for an investigation, and the Departmen...
This “Brand New” 70 Year Old Treatment Offers Hope for Hepatitis C Patients
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health believe a common antihistamine may have the potential to treat hepatitis C.The study found that the antihistamine chlorcyclizine treated hepatitis C in petri dishes and in humanized mice.
Chlorocyclizi...
Diabetes Warning: FDA Issues Concerns Over the Popular Drug, Onglyza
This popular drug has raised flags for many in the FDA after disturbing numbers have come forward about the incidence of mortality from those using these drugs. Heart failure is becoming more common in patients who have taken this drug. Onglyz...
The New Flu Drug That Hopes to Save Thousands of Lives
The majority of deaths caused by the flu can be traced back to one simple cause, respiratory failure.Respiratory failure is the common trigger that causes the majority of elderly deaths and the trauma that is seen from rare super strains acting on popu...
New Fracking Study Finds Man-Made Earthquakes
A recent study published in Science has gained significant insight into the ways in which fluid injection processes commonly used in the geothermal, oil, and natural gas industries may induce micro earthquakes. There has been a long debate about the potent...
Study Shows Contaminated Water in Fracking Areas
An incredibly detailed study examining groundwater was published this month in the trade journal Environmental Science and Technology. It found some disturbing and potentially dangerous information about the current state of groundwater and its potential f...
Texans Evacuated Due to Fracking Spill
In April nearly 100 homes in Arlington, Texas were evacuated after fracking fluid leaked from a drilling location nearby. The fluid spread to residential streets and nearby sewers and streams. Nearly two months later, officials in Arlington have determined...
AT&T Fined $100 Million For Misleading “Unlimited” Data Cellphone Customers
The FCC fined AT&T $100 million dollars after it was found that AT&T misled customers regarding the details of its “unlimited” data plans.The FCC received thousands of complaints from AT&T customers about the specifics of these unlimited da...
Pfizer Under Pressure From Zoloft Lawsuits
Pfizer Inc. has recently been cleared in a second lawsuit regarding the risk of one of its leading antidepressants, Zoloft.
A Child Born With Heart Defects
The lawsuit was filed by Rachel Robinson after she took Zoloft during her pregnancy. Her daughter,...
Warning: Proton Pump Inhibitors Increase Risk of Heart Attack
A new study has found a significant correlation between the use of gastric reflux preventive drugs and an increased risk of heart attack. The study analyzed the use of the drugs in healthy people and looked at a sample of more than million users of the dru...