Meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs, and goats are safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration has declared, setting the United States on course to become the first country to approve such products. The agency’s draft risk assessment says food ...
This past year, several countries and at least 24 states in the United States introduced laws to mandate vaccination against cervical cancer for preteen girls. Although the vaccine was initially hailed as a breakthrough, urgent proposals to make it ...
In October, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisers recommended against the use of most nonprescription cold and cough medicines for children under age 6, citing the lack of evidence of safety or efficacy in this age group. Prior to the ...
Two brain states and the technology that tells the difference12.14.2007 Hormone researchers seek new life for old brains and bones.12.13.2007 New studies highlight the importance of the forgotten vitamin. 12.12.2007 With individual sequencing, medicine ...
Although avian flu made few headlines in 2007, the virus continued to claim lives in Asia, particularly in Indonesia. The good news is that this year the FDA approved the first bird flu vaccine and announced plans to stockpile it for emergency use ...
The accumulation of evidence apparently forced a reckoning in Congress and the White House. On September 27, President Bush signed into law an amendment giving the agency unprecedented new powers to conduct and demand safety studies on approved drugs, ...
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news070611-13 Why are there so many more cases of autism now than there were 30 years ago? It's a question the best scientific minds have been unable to answer. But I'm afraid a US court now looking at that question may settle it on the basis of ...
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Published online: 17 May 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070514-15 Here's a good lesson: before you start pushing for a controversial vaccine to be made compulsory, best wait for the research — and I mean all the research — to come up with results. For ...
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