Health

Home Diagnostic Tests : Find a Reputable Source, Follow the Directions
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Those who rely on home tests also miss out on pre- and post-test counseling, which offer information, support, competence, interpretation, and follow-up advice to consumers that only a health-care professional can give.

Home Diagnostic Tests
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Home diagnostic tests offer convenience and privacy. However, health-care professionals warn that the tests have limitations and are not a replacement for regular visits to your health-care provider.

Understanding Full-Body CT Scans
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ads touting full-body CT screening as a tool to detect cancer, heart disease, and other conditions in their earliest stages are becoming more prevalent. But there is no proof that this screening X-ray procedure lives up to the hype.

Flea and Tick Bites
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fleas are truly devoted to their work. In one day, a single flea can bite your cat or dog more than 400 times. During that same day, the flea can consume more than its body weight of your pet's blood.

Pet Food : Keeping Pet Food Fresh, Irradiation
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Recognizing the close link between diet and disease, CVM does allow certain health-related information on labels to help consumers evaluate pet foods. For example, while a product cannot claim to treat feline lower urinary tract disease, a concern

Pet Food : Dietary Supplements, Feeding Guidelines
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Just as dietary supplements for people are growing in popularity, so are animal food supplements for pets. 'Many people treat their dogs and cats like replacement children,' says Jennifer Kvamme, D.V.M., associate editor of Petfood Industry magazine.

Pet Food Labels : Nutritional Adequacy, Ingredients
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The guaranteed analysis specifies the product's minimum percentages of crude protein and crude fat. It also gives the maximum percentages of crude fiber and moisture. 'Crude' refers to a specific method of measuring the nutrient, and is not an indication

Pet Food Labels
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
U.S. consumers spend more than $11 billion a year on cat and dog food. Here are some tips to help you choose pet food that is nutritious and a good value. So how can pet owners choose the right food for their pets?

Medical Devices: Home Is Where the Heart Monitor Is
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Smart products that can think for themselves, customized wearable devices, electronic patient records, and wireless Internet-linked systems someday may make it possible for people to play a greater role in maintaining their health-at home.

Robots Help Surgeons in Surgery
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Doctors use computer-controlled instruments to operate with minimum intrusion into the body. From the console, the surgeon controls three robotic arms holding surgical tools above the operating table.

Prescriptions for Healthier Animals : Distressed Dogs and Separation Anxiety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The only other FDA-approved drug for animal behavioral problems currently on the market is Clomicalm, manufactured by Novartis Animal Health US, Inc., of Greensboro, N.C. Clomicalm is to be used as part of a behavior modification program to treat

Prescriptions for Healthier Animals : Informed Consent
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Much as they do in managing their own health-care, people need to weigh the benefits and risks of a drug prescribed for their pet. It's the veterinarian's responsibility to explain the risks and benefits of each drug to clients, and give them printed

Prescriptions for Healthier Animals
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Increasingly, veterinarians treat animals with the same active ingredients found in drugs for people. Nearly 300 drugs currently on the market have been approved by FDA for dogs, cats, and horses - otherwise known as companion animals.

Human Gene Therapy : Progress, The Gelsinger Case
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The treatment idea was fairly straightforward. OTCD occurs when a baby inherits a broken gene that prevents the liver from making an enzyme needed to break down ammonia. With the OTCD gene isolated, the University of Pennsylvania researchers packaged

Human Gene Therapy : Special Concern
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In addition, FDA launched random inspections of 70 clinical trials in more than two dozen gene therapy programs nationwide and instituted new reporting requirements. 'We see the need to get the concept across that this is for keeps,' says FDA's Noguchi.

Human Gene Therapy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
September marks the 10-year anniversary of the first human gene therapy experiment--and the one-year anniversary of the first death caused by this promising medical treatment.

A Woman's Life's Work in Radiation
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Technician Elizabeth Rodgers plays a key role in making sure x-rays are safe. Radiation has always been a part of Rodgers' 37-year federal career - and it's been a large part of her life.

Reusable Medical Device Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Orthodontics. Adolescent angst. Two seemingly endless years of contorted expressions that ultimately keep many a teen's mouth clamped shut in a perpetual scowl. Some may regard this behavior as a small price to pay for the rite of passage that braces

Medical Errors : Lessons Learned
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Nineteenth-century essayist William Ellery Channing defined error as 'the discipline through which we advance.' Some medical institutions have turned tragic patient safety failures into life-saving lessons.

Medical Errors Can Be Deadly Serious
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Even the seemingly simple process of giving a patient medicine - the right drug, in the right dose, to the right patient, at the right time - is, in reality, teeming with opportunities for error.