Editorial pages focus on these health care issues and others. The Hill: Preventing The Next Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak Seven years after Congress passed the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the FDA still hasn’t implemented a number of key reforms required by that law. Among other things, the law required the FDA to… Read More »
An overactive immune system may help explain the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, scientists from King’s College London have suggested. Many sufferers of CFS, or ME, say their condition began with a challenge to their immune system like an infection. The scientists studied 55 patients with Hepatitis C who were given a drug that causes… Read More »
PARIS (Reuters) – French ophthalmology company Nicox and Chinese firm Ocumension Therapeutics said on Monday they had signed an exclusive license agreement to develop and sell a yet-to-be approved Nicox drug to treat glaucoma in China. Glaucoma, which is damage to the optic nerve, is the second leading cause of blindness globally and is likely… Read More »
As many as 1.3 million more teens have tried vaping this year compared to last year, according to the latest government-funded survey on teen nicotine use. The survey, released Monday by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that 37.3 percent of high school seniors reported “any vaping during the past 12 months,” up from… Read More »
After a series of ups and downs in defense of its flagship Johnson’s Baby Powder, Johnson & Johnson hit renewed scrutiny Friday as Reuters reported the drugmaker knew for decades its talc powder contained cancer-causing asbestos. Using court documents in the ongoing legal battle over J&J’s talcum powders, Reuters reported that from 1971 to the early 2000s,… Read More »
When it comes to working, few people can confess that they love their jobs. While Australians are up there with the happiest of the lot – we’re the 11th happiest bunch of workers globally – there are always things that we can be doing to improve workplace conditions for employees so that they can feel… Read More »
Mayara Costa Figueiredo, University of California, Irvine and Yunan Chen, University of California, Irvine Have you ever used a health app to track your personal data, such as diet, exercise, or menstrual cycle? Did seeing the data make you feel excited and empowered? Or stressed and frustrated? With the popularity of self-tracking technologies like apps… Read More »