Ransom-Note Ads About Childrenâs Health Are Canceled
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N.Y.U. is dropping a controversial ad campaign aimed at raising awareness of childrenâs mental health disorders.
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The Nigerian government on Thursday  canceled an advert it had placed on U.S. television channel CNN  because of a report broadcast last week about militants holding  hostages in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
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Federal health officials on Wednesday said doctors should temporarily stop giving children the final booster shot of the Hib vaccine because of expected shortages caused by a recall.
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China, responding to complaints from  the public, has banned advertisements for medical treatments  and procedures in a bid to halt bogus claims of wonder drugs  and clean up an unregulated health industry.
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Children should be exposed to fewer  television ads for anti-impotence drugs and more for birth  control, and need to be shielded from an advertising onslaught  in general, the leading U.S. pediatricians' group said on  Monday.
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The company will phase out ads aimed at children under 12 unless the products meet nutrition guidelines.
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Call it the heights of irony but where you might have though that insurance agencies would urge their clients to keep away from fattening things like chocolates, they are actually writing letters to their clients to eat a chocolate a day after several
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Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots. The Food and Drug Administration was issuing that warning Thursday to parents of children under 2.
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Some want tighter control of ads, in part to stem overuse of pills.
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The Broward County School System suspended the remainder of its flu-vaccination program for employees on Friday and will turn over the remainder of its vaccine, about 2,500 doses, to the Broward County Health Department, which had none.
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A study aimed at determining whether some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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Lycos Europe has taken down their &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; campaign. After a short but popular campaign the company decided to stop their mission.
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Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration's two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling a $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing.
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Pfizer is stopping TV and print ads for arthritis drug Celebrex now that there is evidence it could lead to heart problems. The FDA is considering warning labels for Celebrex, or taking the drug off the market.
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Kraft Foods Inc. on Wednesday said it would stop advertising products like Oreo cookies and Kool-Aid beverages to children younger than 12 as it works to deflect criticism that such foods contribute to childhood obesity.
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11 big food companies have agreed to stop advertising products that do not meet certain nutritional standards to children under 12.