Before I say anything else, let me just say that I smile everytime I see the top left corner of the times that says " All the News That's Fit to Print".
I'm gonna skip the hard news front pager stuff real quick and come back to it so I can read an article in Business.
F.D.A Panel Urges Denial of Diet Drug, i guess denying diet drugs is a setback in the efforts to develop treatments for the nation's obesity epidemic. I have to say, we shouldn't have diet pills at all, they're a dangerous money making tool.
Basically the FDA is saying that the risks of this new drug, lorcaserin, outweigh it's benefits...duh. If the FDA thinks aspertame is safe, then this drug is probably really backwards.
Had it passed, it would have been the first new weight loss drug in more than a decade. They shot down even more effective drugs in July for safety reasons, a doctor from the FDA said lorcaserin just wasn't "efficacious". They just split 8 and 8 on a drug that's already been removed from the market in Europe...cool. (sense my sarcasm).
They aren't holding the first drug for the sake of the people, but more the sake of the market. Enough said, front page news pahlease!
RECESSION raises U.S. poverty rate to a 15-year high! ...and it's going to get worse! The country is in it's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, 44 million Americans in counting are living in poverty.
Americans are getting by by sharing homes with siblings, relatives, and even nonrelatives.
Unemployment remains at 10%. 1/7 US adults are on food stamps.
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