Millions of smokers, their families, and public health experts await the FDA's ruling on how they plan to regulate e-cigarettes. If too stringent, the nascent industry will go underground and millions of smokers who switched to vaping will become criminals.
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As the federal government shuts down, some CDC and FDA functions will be compromised, and some threat to public health may arise. A JAMA op-ed piece approves of vaccination OR masks for healthcare workers. We disapprove.
More non-news on arsenic and rice
In today s Let s Worry About Nothing news, there is a story that will either make people feel better, worse, or simply confused about a non-problem tiny amounts of arsenic in rice.
NYTimes article tells us about the vast amount of e-cigarette advertising and marketing funding. The tone is that e-cigs are becoming more like regular cigarettes. But there is a vast difference in health risks, so more power to them.
ACSH staffers met for 2 hours with several representatives of the NYC Council to educate the officials about harm reduction and e-cigarettes. The session went quite well, with much information being exchanged. Stay tuned for the videotape. And the current JAMA has a misleading, useless propaganda piece on e-cigarette regulation.
In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert about products shipped from NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas because of poor sterile production practices.
Toys with lasers have long been one of the coolest options for playtime for young children. They can be used for all sorts of fun activities, such as various imaginative space hero narratives and coveted laser tag outings with friends. But how safe are these lasers?
Josh Bloom in Medical Progress Today, August 6, 2013
As if the FDA doesn't have enough to do.
Yes, they sure do, but this didn't stop them from issuing a warning last week that is so ridiculous that it gave me a headache.
The three million people in the United States who have celiac disease can now rest easy when deciding what food products to buy. The FDA has just issued a rule defining the characteristics necessary to classify a food as gluten-free, without gluten, free of gluten, and no gluten.
Doesn t the FDA have better things to do? Today we saw the mother of all scares, courtesy of Sharon Hertz, deputy director of the FDA s Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Addiction.
Former vice president of infectious disease research at Wyeth and ACSH advisor Dr. David Shlaes knows a thing or two about dealing with the FDA, and its misguided policies regarding approval of new antibiotics.
Plan B becoming available to girls of all ages was a huge victory for contraception availability advocates. However, lifting the age restrictions for Teva s Plan B One-Step