Dental amalgam or silver fillings in our teeth are toxic and harmful to our health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on its website Thursday. The revised federal warning is not aimed at the general public but for pregnant women and young children.

The federal regulatory agency admitted on the website that mercury-containing dental fillings "may have neuro-toxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses

Silver dental fillings containing mercury may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said on its Web site.

The new warning for pregnant women was issued as a part of the settlement with several consumer advocacy groups. The federal agency plans to issue a more specific rule for fillings that contain mercury by July 2009

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday proposed new changes to labels on drugs prescribed to pregnant and breast-feeding women.

If enacted, the new system would replace a 30-year-old system for classifying drugs in favor of labels that provide more detailed information to doctors prescribing the drugs

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Friday about two organ transplant drugs that can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.

Pregnant women who take the immune-suppressing drugs CellCept or Myfortic can cause birth defects in their unborn babies, the FDA said. Manufactured by Roche and Novartis, the two drugs are approved for use by organ transplant patients to prevent organ transplant rejection

Chemicals present in baby bottles or plastic food wraps can lead to problems like obesity in children when they grow up, three new studies have found. Experts believe that the new revelations could change the view how obesity is viewed and dealt with.

The studies from United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Tufts University were presented Wednesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Geneva. Researchers found that when mice were exposed to these chemicals during early development, it lead them to become obese in later life