iPhone and iPod Touch owners will soon be capable of watching their home TV from the comfort of their own hands.  Elgato's EyeTV app will be released in the near future. 

Three Americans won Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine today for their research on telomeres, the endcaps of chromosomes that protect genetic material from being erased.

More evidence that while many economic sectors range between cool and frozen, the nutritional supplement industry remains warm to hot: Quebec City-based Atrium Innovations Inc. (TSX: ATB) announced on Sept.

Let us start by apologizing to the Bard and my 8th grade English teacher for the headline. It's a good way to ask the question of how closely nutritional supplement companies can connect with the fast-moving world of social media.

In the trade, it is called public service journalism, but this may qualify more as a disservice.  In the Sept. 21 issue with Tim Tebow on the cover (again?),

The Federal Trade Commission provides advertising lessons in its proposed settlement with CVS to refund nearly $2.8 million to buyers of the retailer's Air Shield dietary supplement.

We are not sure of the reason, but it seems that every three months or so, a national media outlet weighs in on an old story: tainted nutritional supplements.

He was a professional athlete. He was minding his own business. And he took responsibility for his problem, even if he did not think he caused it.

According to this piece in Electronista, a recent AdMob study estimates Android Market's paid app market is only worth $5 million, and even high-profile, highly rated Android titles generate "much lower" revenue than iPhone equivalents.

This is Part II of the Post that began here in which we discuss the three important suits filed this summer by supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord challenging FDA administrative action on first amendment grounds.

This is a tale of two types of weight-loss products and how the Food and Drug Administration had different responses to similar problems with them. The separate, but not equivalent treatment raises questions about how the FDA operates.

Supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord has filed three important suits this summer challenging FDA administrative action on first amendment grounds.  The suits were all filed on behalf of long-time Emord clients Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, the Alliance for Natural Health, and the Coalition to End FDA and FTC Censorship.

Financiers have discovered what the industry knew all along: Economic hard times have not been bad for makers and sellers of wellness products. People are willing to forgo luxuries, even new cars and homes, but not their health.

A Dallas jury awarded Advocare MLM franchisees Bruce and Teresa Badgett of Arlington, Texas $1.9 million after finding that the company violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by canceling agreements with distributors .

Congratulations and a big "welcome to the blogroll" shout out to the new Customs and International Trade Law Blog recently debuted by Peter Quinter and his crack team of international trade lawyers at the firm of Becker & Poliakoff in Ft.

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.