http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As the summer season kicks into gear, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined Health Center experts today to urge consumers to make smart decisions about sunscreen use. Effective this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is phasing in new requirements about sunscreen labeling requirements, and Blumenthal is leading efforts to ask the FDA to take additional measures to protect consumers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-sunscreen-choices.html Health Fri, 31 May 2013 07:25:03 EST news289203896 Spectator sports and food—often high-calorie or low-nutrition—have long gone hand-in-hand, yet FDA regulations geared toward calorie transparency at restaurant chains ignore this relationship. Popular fast-food restaurants soon will be required to post calorie counts, but concession stands at major sports facilities and many sports bars will not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-expert-sport-food-strong.html Health Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:10:01 EST news279267731 Participants in a "crowdsourcing" challenge in Philadelphia used a smart phone application to locate, photograph and map more than 1,400 automated external defibrillators in public places, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-crowdsourcing-defibrillators-philadelphia.html Cardiology Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:19:36 EST news271228708 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has received a complaint against a company that stored adult stem cells from Texas Governor Rick Perry for use in an experimental procedure to treat his back pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-fda-probe-tx-firm-held.html Other Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:24:23 EST news250968257 (AP) -- Physicians and the federal government cited the case of a San Francisco Bay area man who has fathered 14 children as an example of the risks posed by the informal market for sperm donations, which doctors consider unsafe but some people call a civil liberties issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-fertile-sperm-donor-criticism-fda.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:50:12 EST news243578995 A study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers of 192 pharmaceutical advertisements in biomedical journals found that only 18 percent were compliant with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines, and over half failed to quantify serious risks including death. The study, is published online today in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-majority-pharmaceutical-ads-adhere-fda.html Medications Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:15:28 EST news232877696