The U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats most data it gets on the development of new drugs and medical devices as confidential to companies. Critics say making the data public would help patients.
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India Banned E-Cigarettes — But Beedis And Chewing Tobacco Remain Widespread
India is the world’s top consumer of smokeless tobacco — and has the world’s highest number of oral cavity cancers.
Lawmakers Seek Protections For Workers Against Lung Damage Tied To Making Countertops
In a letter, they urge the Labor Department to ensure safe levels of silica dust at workplaces that cut popular “engineered stone.” At least 18 workers have recently suffered severe lung damage.
How Immigrants Use Health Care
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Children and Families about the new rule denying visas to immigrants without health insurance or funds to pay for health care.
Targeting ‘Medicare For All’ Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
Speaking from a retirement community in Florida, the President gave seniors a pep talk about what he wants to do for Medicare, contrasting it with plans of his Democratic rivals.
Targeting ‘Medicare For All’ Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
Speaking from a retirement community in Florida, the President gave seniors a pep talk about what he wants to do for Medicare, contrasting it with plans of his Democratic rivals.
‘Los Angeles Times’ Investigation Shows How Vaping Crisis Could Have Been Prevented
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Emily Baumgaertner about how the FDA tried banning vaping flavors, but the Obama administration rejected it.
Judge Rules Planned Supervised Injection Site Does Not Violate Federal Drug Law
The federal court decision paves the way for the nation’s first supervised injection site to open in Philadelphia. The Justice Department argued that it amounted to “in-your-face illegal activity.”
Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops
Irreversible lung disease has started to show up among young workers who cut, grind and polish countertops made of increasingly popular “engineered” stone. The material is more than 90 percent silica.
Pharmacies Pull Zantac Over Concern That Contaminant Poses Cancer Risk
Major U.S. pharmacies have pulled Zantac and its generic equivalent off the shelves after concern about a contaminant that poses a small cancer risk.
