In this article CNet's Rafe Needleman provides an excellent and comprehensive roundup of the status of publicly available transit information and the apps developers trying, sometimes in vain, to take advantage of it.

Dr. Mehmet Oz may have bid farewell to the Oprah Winfrey Show in May, but the pair are back together again, this time as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York against dozens of companies they claim used their images and false endorsements to market acai supplement products.

GUEST POST by Jennifer Diaz The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authority to put an importer, manufacturer, shipper, grower, geographic area of a country, or an entire country on a “detention without physical examination” (DWPE) list  (a/k/a the FDA’s 'Black List'). 

GUEST POST by David A. Mark Placebos don’t work when you are asleep. Or if you have Alzheimer’s disease. But they do seem to make a difference in research and clinical practice, as I found when preparing a recent article for Nutraceuticals World.

We know what to avoid in our diets: fun foods like ice cream sundaes, chocolate pies and most anything sold at a baseball park. Researchers are now trying a different approach, emphasizing what we should eat.

If you are lucky enough to be a member of USAA like I am and you have a bank account with USAA Federal Savings Bank, then this paradigm shifting app is going to make you say "WOW."

Berlin-based Wooga, a social gaming company, has closed a round of venture funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures. Wooga makes Brain Buddies, a popular Facebook game similar to another game called “Who Has the Biggest Brain?”

Following reports in the Washington Post that standards for classifying foods as organic had been relaxed, the U.S. Agriculture Department is launching an audit of its National Organic Program.

Notice anything different? You should. To celebrate the start of our fifth year, we gave the blog a makeover. Or as they say on the Web, a redesign.

In its reporting, CBS discovered an "F" rating from the same regional Better Business Bureau and a multitude of Web sites that FWM uses, though it is not clear if the faux-TV stations were among them.