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The World Population Will Begin to Shrink by 2070
End of the world catastrophe scenes are as silly as they are fascinating. Acid rain was once a concern, but it proved mostly imaginary. The ranges of forests it was supposed to destroy in Germany were...
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Australian Court Allows Patenting of Human Genetic Material
On Friday, an Australian court ruled that genetic material related to cancer can be patented by two technology companies. A similar case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and scheduled for...
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University of Berkeley and Eight Companies Warned by FDA Regarding Flu Medicines
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned several sellers of dietary supplements over claims made by them that their products helped fight the flu. Last Thursday, the FDA posted...
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Healthpoint Ltd to Pay $1 Mln to Massachusetts to Settle Marketing of...
On Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said Massachusetts had reached a settlement with Healthpoint and its general partner DFB Pharmaceuticals Inc as part of a broader national...
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FDA Riled over Approving Glaxo’s Flu Vaccine after EU Reports of Narcolepsy
Though the precise nature of the link between GSK’s Pandemrix vaccine and narcolepsy in children is yet to be proved, numerous studies from Europe seem to indicate that children treated with Glaxo’s...
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Jury Verdict in First of the 11,000 Metal Hip Trials Asks DePuy to Pay up...
On Friday, in the first lawsuit (out of close to 11,000) to complete jury trial over defective metal hips sold by Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit, the jury ordered DePuy pay close to $8.38 million...
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FDA Commissioner Asks For New Regulations to Combat the Growing Menace of...
On Tuesday, the Commissioner of FDA, Margaret Hamburg, stated on the FDA blog, “FDA Voice” that a “new breed of specialty pharmacy compounding has evolved that has outgrown the law, and can pose a...
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Grand Jury Authorization Requested for Investigating Company Linked to...
On Tuesday, the Michigan Attorney General asked the Michigan State Court of Appeals to authorize a grand jury for investigating the role of a company linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012,...
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FDA Changing Labeling Rules for Tobacco Alternatives
On Monday, the Consumer Updates of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed that the labels of nicotine replacement therapy products may soon change. The proposed changes have come in the wake of...
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Tyson Foods Paying $4.25 Million to Settle Toxic Gas Exposure Complaint
Now only if most settlements were so blazing fast, the economy would have rebounded sooner without any doubt. It was only on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint alleging...
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U.S. Sues Novartis Over Medicare Fraud
On Tuesday, the U.S. government filed a civil fraud lawsuit accusing a unit of Novartis AG of orchestrating claims based on fraudulent kickbacks and causing Medicare and Medicaid programs pay tens of...
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All Boston Public High Schools to Receive Free Condoms
On Wednesday, the Boston School Committee approved a policy to distribute free condoms for students to all 32 public high schools and their 17,000 students. Until now, such condoms were available at...
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Hepatitis “A” Outbreak Linked to Pomegranate Shipment from Turkey
While the Hepatitis A outbreak reached 127 cases in 8 states by Friday, the FDA believes it has found the cause and a common shipment of pomegranate seeds from Turkey has caused the outbreak. In an...
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Obama Administration Gives More Time to Employers over HealthCare Law...
On Tuesday, Valerie Jarett, a Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President announced on the White House Blog, the Obama administration’s decision to delay the immediate reporting requirements of...
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U.S. Relaxes Individual Income Verification Duties of HealthCare Exchanges
On Friday, the final regulations regarding the running of insurance marketplaces in states under the new HealthCare law were handed out to the 16 states and the District of Columbia who are setting up...
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Belgian Doctors Claim Super Cheap IVF Techniques Can Begin Fertility Revolution
There’s no doubt that whether for good or ill, total fertility rates have been dropping alarmingly across world populations. In the U.S., while the total fertility rate in 1911 used to be above 3, in...
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Illinois Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Abortion Notification Law
On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a ruling ending a legal battle that would allow a 1995 law to be enforced. The implementation of the law, which requires parents to be notified in cases...
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FDA Gives Go Ahead to Brain Wave Test for Assessing ADHD in Children
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has approved the first brain wave test that would help to assess attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, commonly known as...
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FDA Seeks Input of the Public on Menthol Cigarettes
On Tuesday, the FDA put out a notice seeking public input on menthol cigarettes. The announcement mentioned, “Despite decades of work to reduce tobacco use in the United States, it continues to be the...
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Man Held Guilty and Fined for Feeding the Homeless in City Park
Richard Hopkins was accused of the heinous offense of leading a group of local residents and trying to give food to the homeless at Chapin Park on March 9, Saturday. This Wednesday, he was found...
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