WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal. That's according to congressional investig
LONDON - Britain is to make online safety lessons for children over 5 compulsory under a new scheme which aims to echo road safety campaigns of the past. The lessons are part of a Click Clever Click Safe strategy which will produce guidelines for
Lessons in using the internet safely are set to become a compulsory part of the curriculum for primary school children in England from 2011.The lessons are one element of a new government strategy being unveiled called Click Clever, Click Safe . Ch
SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer group that reported several of the holiday season's must-have toys are unsafe wants to make a correction. Good Guide says it was wrong to claim in a Saturday statement that Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters and International P
Zhu Zhu Pets, the robotic hamsters that are the must-have holiday toy of 2009, on Monday emerged relatively unscathed from charges that they contained potentially harmful chemical levels, after a nascent US consumer group admitted it had been mistak
Lawmakers on Wednesday said NASA must continue to improve astronaut crew safety on its new shuttle-replacing rocket, as well as on promising commercial vehicles that could ferry crews to orbit. In a House subcommittee hearing, NASA officials told c
Conservative leader David Cameron is to call for an end to the UK's over-the-top health and safety culture.In a speech, he will say this has created a stultifying blanket of bureaucracy, suspicion and fear . In recent years, he will say, children
CHICAGO - Beverage can tops are still finding their way into the stomachs of some children, especially teens, despite being redesigned in the 1970s to keep people from swallowing them, U.S. researchers said on Monday. A 16-year study at the Cincinn
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