Dr. Helen Ge worked for Takeda in the company’s pharmacovigilance division, where she was in charge of reviewing side effects of Actos that were reported by patients and doctors. She then prepared safety reports that were filed with the FDA―reports that Ge says she was ordered to water-down or not report at all, so Actos would look better than it actually was. She believes Actos is even more dangerous than Avandia, a drug that has been removed from pharmacies because of the risk of heart attacks. Dr. Ge says that besides bladder cancer and tumors, Actos is also connected to heart attacks and stroke, suicide, schizophrenia, homicidal ideation, and renal failure. Dr. Ge filed her lawsuit in September 2011. But so far, Actos is still being sold in the U.S.

So, just in case you’d like to know, Time Moneyland has posted a list of 10 recalled products you might still have around. In addition to baby slings and inflatable pool slides they are: LG dehumidifiers, drop-side cribs, Family Dollar Store Toy Dart Guns, Gel Fuel, shades and blinds, Magnetix Building Sets, Macleren Strollers, Maytag Dishwashers, Lasko box fans, and Bumbo Baby Seats.

They’re already using the model to test adjuvants, vaccine components that boost efficacy and immunologic duration. An immunologist at the University of California said he hopes this research will be a way to speed up vaccine development for newborns, possibly cutting trials from eight weeks to just one. “If I want to test 1000 vaccine candidates, I could use this system to do so in a very short period of time,” Sukumar Pal told New Scientist.

When a young women with no other risks for cancer came down with multi-focal breast cancer, her physician concluded there was only one other possibility that could have caused it. “We connected the dots,” the patient said. And the dots―the pattern of the cancer and distribution of the cells―all pointed to her cell phone. It seems the young woman kept her cell phone in a most unusual place: her bra. And the cancer appeared right where she kept the phone.

While her doctor can’t prove the cell phone caused her cancer, it should serve as a warning not only to other women who might keep their phones in their bras, but to males who keep their phones in their front pants pockets.

“With this study as a basis, we can establish that there are other sources that should be taken into consideration in regard to the uptake of banned chemicals and that we do not only ingest them in our food,” says Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, professor of public health at Karlstad University and leader of the study.

The state claims the bees were destroyed because they were infected with a disease called foulbrood. But when the 58-year apiary keeper had his hearing, the state’s “evidence” had disappeared, leaving more questions than answers about the raid on the beekeeper’s hives. Some people, including the beekeeper, Terrence Ingram, suspect the raid has more to do with Ingram’s 15 years of research on Monsanto’s Roundup and his documented evidence that Roundup kills bees than it does about any concerns about his hives. Interestingly, the state’s theft targeted the queen bee and hive he’d been using to conduct the research.

The deed was accomplished by each of the state’s counties banning them on an individual basis. Carlisle’s signature in the last county to ban the bags completed the act of essentially making it a statewide rule without ever having to go before the state legislature. Some of the bans are already in place or scheduled to begin next year, with fines of up to $1,000 for each day of violation.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to ban plastic bags at supermarket checkout lanes. The city gave stores 16 months to phase them out. San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, California have already banned them.

Screening advocates immediately protested, saying the new recommendation will cost lives. But critics of PSA testing responded that, instead, thousands of men will be spared impotence and incontinence that occurs as a result of needless cancer treatment. The PSA is a blood test that measures certain antigens that are specific to the prostate. Radiation oncologist Anthony D’Amico of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston told the news service Reuters that PSA screening does cause overdiagnosis, but he added that he was shocked the task force would “let people die” in order to avoid incontinence and erectile dysfunction in the overdiagnosed cases.

“These large news corporations, they have things they need from the power structure in Washington, whether it’s Republican or Democrat, and of course the people in Washington have things they want the news to be reported. To put it bluntly, very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears, and reads than most people know.”

Other journalists are beginning to blow the whistle on the marriage of press and corporate and political interests too: recently investigative journalist Robert Parry accused the Washington press corps of being wishy-washy when it comes to asking politicians to answer tough questions. Another journalist, columnist Chris Hedges, has written commentaries about what happens when corporations take over and ultimately cause revolutions like the Occupy movement.

It doesn’t matter that the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health recently published “research” to the contrary, the French team says―the world needs to know the truth about who did that “safety-finding” research and who paid for it. And the truth is the very company with the most to lose if its products are found to harm human health―Monsanto―is the one behind the research that voila! found glysphosate safe.

The new Monsanto-paid-for safety research actually used the French team's original research to debunk scientific evidence that Roundup could have human or environmental safety issues. And that didn't sit well with the French team, which was so angered that they wrote a detailed response to Monsanto's article, accusing the new researchers of minimalizing the French group’s work and publishing misleading information in the Monsanto review. One of the Monsanto-backed team’s major flaws was their total disregard for the scientific context within which their glysphosate research was performed―namely, the DNA-damaging and carcinogenic potential of the chemical, according to Green Med Info.

A category of runners who believe barefoot is best may be surprised to learn that a new study shows they’re not getting the boost they thought they were from going sans shoes. Researchers at the University of Colorado say what’s really best is running with cushioned shoes, which do a considerably better job at conserving a runner’s energy. Researchers are still looking at how much cushioning provides the maximum efficiency, as well as what kind of track best serves runners.

For instance, sweet, high-calorie drinks induce desires for salty, fatty foods. But in an observational study of preschool children, researchers found that kids ate more raw vegetables like carrots and red peppers when they were given water as their beverage, as opposed to something sweetened.