Subject: Food and Drug Administration

• Take a Chill Pill

  December 4, 2006

• Forbidden Fruit

  May 25, 2008

• Diane DeGette Testifies on a Hot Topic

  July 30, 2008

• Milking It: Strawberry Chex

  September 29, 2008

• A Bitter Pill

  Vitamin crusaders burned out of a right-wing radio station find the official version of events tough to swallow.

  January 8, 1998

• Pt Animals

  October 1, 1998

• Missed Diagnosis

  When a doctor makes a rare but horrible mistake, who should bear the scars?

  July 22, 1999

• CU study says decline in depression diagnoses is depressing

  Robert J. Valuck. Picked up the Archives of General Psychiatry issue for June yet? I haven't, because I had no idea the publication existed until a few minutes ago. But WebMD reports that the edition includes an interesting study by University of Colorado academics like Robert J. Valuck and Anne Libby. The report suggests that FDA warnings circa 2003 about the possible side effects of antidepressants (including elevated risk of suicide) has led to a notable decline in depression diagnoses in g

  June 2, 2009

• The Bite

  February 15, 2001

• The Bite

  April 26, 2001

• Check, Please!

  February 28, 2002

• The Beatdown

  February 5, 2004

• Drunk of the Week

  August 19, 2004

• Consumed

  Leg Man

  August 21, 2003

• Ivy Solutions

  Theoretical ways to curb those extracurricular, post-game colloquies.

  December 19, 2002

• Bronze Medal

  These legislators should have their hides tanned!

  January 25, 2007

• Wahoo’s Fish Taco

  High-octane margs fuel enlightenment.

  July 27, 2006

• Chasing the Green Fairy

  Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  June 1, 2006

• Off Limits

  Building for the Future

  April 21, 2005

• Drunk of the Week

  Casey's Bistro and Pub

  April 7, 2005

• Bite Me

  Eyes on the Prize

  April 7, 2005

• Throwing Fitz

  The move to Fitzsimons was supposed to send CU's Health Sciences Center sailing into the 21st century. So why are so many doctors jumping ship?

  September 2, 2004

• For Better or Curse

  An FCC crackdown has radio stations on high alert.

  August 5, 2004

• Off Limits

  Blame Canada

  January 8, 2004

• Consumed

  Pour It On

  August 15, 2002

• Love's Recipe

  Allie’s Cabin offers a meal that arouses several appetites.

  February 14, 2002

• Survival of the Fittest

  Planet Muscle publisher Jeff Everson isn't afraid to tackle the truth about bodybuilding supplements. Sort of.

  November 15, 2001

• Here's the Beef

  We brake for jerky, America's fastest-growing snack food.

  October 11, 2001

• The Strange Case of Dr. Schmidt

  He worked wonders with chronic-pain patients. So why was the university so eager to get rid of him?

  September 20, 2001

• Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

  It's been banned for nearly a hundred years, but the Green Muse still inspires Denver bootleggers.

  December 23, 1999

• The Information Flyway

  August 12, 1999

• King of the Dump

  As the market for recycled materials dries up, King Soopers trashes part of its recycling program.

  February 18, 1999

• Mad All Over

  This family of killer diseases hits close to home. Too close.

  November 12, 1998

• Blood Lines

  August 27, 1998

• The Big Queasy

  The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

  May 15, 1997

• One Bad Turn Deserves Another

  Legislators try to tighten the state's grip on prisoners.

  March 20, 1997

• Letters

  December 5, 1996

• Out for Blood

  It's the most precious fluid on Earth -- and the most feared. Will your next transfusion be a stranger's blood or a solution called Optro?

  February 22, 1996

• MAKING BRAIN WAVES

  A BOULDER BIOTECH FIRM BATTLES THE FDA BUREAUCRACY.

  June 21, 1995

• TAKING STOCK

  SYNERGEN INC. NEVER SUCCEEDED IN MAKING ANYTHING--EXCEPT ITS FORMER EXECUTIVES VERY RICH.

  May 3, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  April 12, 1995

• THIS IS ONLY A TEST

  February 8, 1995

• THE HEP-C GENERATION

  February 8, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  May 11, 1994

• THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

  AN UNSUSPECTING VETERINARIAN AND HIS ANIMALS GET CAUGHT UP IN A BIBLICAL DEBATE.

  March 16, 1994

• Can cannabis cure swine flu?

  Take a hit of this, H1N1 sufferers.​Does cannabis contain the magic ingredient that will keep swine flu from sweeping the planet? A Colorado Springs company has (yes, you knew it was coming) high hopes. Cannabis Science, Inc. is announcing today that it's "made key progress with mapping out its initial cannabis drug medicines for FDA clinical trials." Two "distinct parallel paths" for developing "pharmaceutical products for FDA approval" are being sought, with one directed at post-traumat

  August 12, 2009

• Colorado's share of Pfizer drug-marketing settlement a drop in the bucket

  John Suthers.​Colorado is set to receive more than $3.5 million from drug leviathan Pfizer in relation to two separate settlements. According to the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, the largest of the two deals is related to allegations that the company "improperly marketed four drugs and paid kickbacks to persuade doctors to prescribe them," while the other one involved the selling of Geodon, an "atypical antipsychotic" medication -- presumably made to be taken by atypica

  September 2, 2009

• What's scarier: swine flu or the vaccine to prevent it?

  The virus.​Plenty of parents are terrified to vaccinate their children these days, fearing side effects that are worse than what the vaccine was intended to prevent in the first place. Such concerns are magnified in the case of H1N1, aka the swine flu. After all, as noted in Joel Warner's blog this past April, the feds tried to vaccinate the entire U.S. population in advance of a swine-flu outbreak circa 1976 -- but an epidemic never materialized, and 25 people died from likely vaccine com

  October 6, 2009

• Water 2 Wine uncorks an alternative gift idea

  Water 2 Wine features its low-sulfite wine​ The holidays are enough to drive anyone to drink -- so this year, why not help everyone out by giving wine? For $250, Water 2 Wine will help you craft a case of 28 bottles with custom labels -- which breaks down to about $9 a bottle. "Most of the time, gifts of chocolates and crackers go straight to the office kitchen," says Water 2 Wine general manager Sarah Witte, "but the alcohol always makes it to the right person."

  October 13, 2009

• Marijuana advocate Mason Tvert launches petition targeting drug czar

  SAFER's Mason Tvert thinks drug czar Gil Kerlikowske has some splainin' to do.​

  October 30, 2009